Lord of the Flies (1990)
Danuel Pipoly: Piggy
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Quotes
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Ralph : Okay, listen up. Whoever holds the conch gets to speak. That's the rule.
Larry : Is this like assembly, sir?
Ralph : Yeah. Except anybody who wants to speak gets to
Piggy : But not before they get the conch
Ralph : Right. There doesn't seem to be anybody here except us
Jack Merridew : And a pig
Pablo : It was a wild boar!
Rapper : No! It was a regular pig! Big, but regular!
Piggy : If it was a regular pig then it must have got here from people
Rapper : Yeah, if there's pigs, there's people!
[Rapper snorts, and the other boys laugh]
Ralph : Ok, cadets, like I said, this island's probably uninhabited
Jack Merridew : But we don't know, we've gotta explore more
Ralph : Right, there's a lot of things we gotta do. But the main thing is we're not by ourselves, we've got Captain Benson
Piggy : Can I speak?
[Takes the conch from Ralph]
Piggy : The most important thing is who knows we're here? Nobody knows we're here. They know where we were going, but they don't know where we are because we never got where we were going
Larry : Where were we going?
Piggy : We were going home
Ralph : I'm sure they're out looking for us. We should set up some kind of steady signal like a fire and keep it going all the time. And we're gonna have to have rules
Jack Merridew : Can I have the conch?
[Takes the conch from Ralph]
Jack Merridew : Yes, Ralph's right, we've definitely gotta make a fire
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Piggy : We might have to live here for a long time! Maybe the rest of our lives! If we are stuck here until we get old, then we can't go on acting like kids! We've gotta be sensible and make things work!
Ralph : [looking up at Roger pushing a boulder off the cliff] NOOOOO!
[the rock smacks Piggy's forehead, killing him, with blood all over his face]
Ralph : [to Jack] You're not gonna get away with this.
Jack Merridew : Yeah? And what are you gonna do, huh? What are you gonna do about it? You're out of it pal, you're on your own.
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Piggy : We did everything just the way grownups would have. Why didn't it work? Things would be much better here if it wasn't for him. I wish he was dead.
Ralph : No, you don't.
Piggy : I do! We could just give up and join his tribe. Then we'd at least be with the others.
Ralph : No, Piggy.
Piggy : Ralph... I can't see.
Ralph : I know.
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Piggy : What good is that gonna do? They can't cook pigs without a fire. They'll get trichinosis.
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Jack Merridew : What won't matter?
Piggy : Whether we get rescued
Jack Merridew : You better start learning to live with yourself, because we ain't gonna get rescued
Piggy : What are you talking about?
Jack Merridew : Just being logical, a plane goes down in the middle of the ocean, there's no wreckage, who's gonna find us?
Piggy : Why don't you just shut up!
Jack Merridew : Are you telling me to shut up?
Piggy : What we need around here is positive people, not people trying to scare people!
Jack Merridew : What we don't need around here is you shitbrain!
Sam, Twin #1 : His name's not shitbrain, It's Piggy!
Jack Merridew : Yeah Piggy!
Ralph : Shut up! Everybody just shut up!
[to Piggy]
Ralph : It's just 'cause you're new
Piggy : No, it's not. It's always this way
[the other boys continue laughing]
Ralph : [to Jack] Just cut it out, ok!
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Ralph : [Frustrated] If you guys hadn't let the goddamn fire go out, they woulda seen it
Jack Merridew : Hey man, we were hunting
Ralph : Great, killed a pig. Face it Jack, you fucked up! We could've been rescued!
Jack Merridew : Back off man! I'm sick of your shit and so's my gang!
Ralph : *Your* gang? What's that supposed to mean?
Jack Merridew : What it means colonel, is that if you know what's good for you, you'll stop trying to run everything!
[Jack pushes Ralph, who pushes back. Piggy then steps in to protect Ralph]
Piggy : [to Jack] Stop it!
[Jack pushes Piggy over. The hunters laugh]
Jack Merridew : I'm sick of all this shit! I'm gonna make another camp for hunters! Guys who wanna have a little fun!
Hunters : Yeah!
Ralph : Come on, Jack, that's crazy! We've gotta work together. Come on, what do you say?
Jack Merridew : I say fuck you! And that goes for you too, Miss Piggy.
[to his gang]
Jack Merridew : Come on, let's get out of this kindergarten
[Jack, Roger, Andy, Will, Rapper and Luke pick up the pig they hunted, on a stick, and walk away. John jumps off a tree to join them. Larry and Steve join them too]
Larry : I'm with you Jack
Jack Merridew : Right on, Larry.
[to Ralph's gang]
Jack Merridew : When you other brats get older or get hungry enough, you can come join us too!
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Ralph : We came here to try and talk some sense to you!
Sheraton : You don't have the conch, doesn't matter what you say!
Piggy : The conch is in our camp where it belongs!
Jack Merridew : What's the matter, tits? Were you afraid to bring it with you? Anyway the conch doesn't count anymore, Miss Piggy-tits!
[Shoves Piggy]
Ralph : Stop that!
Jack Merridew : [Shoves Ralph] Nobody's interested in you and your fucking conch!
[Shoves Ralph again]
Jack Merridew : Why don't you take your fat friend and shove off! You've had all the meat you can eat. Come on, hunters! Roger's the pig!
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Piggy : [crying] Oh, God! They broke my Glasses!
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Ralph : [Crying throughout scene] What are we gonna do? Piggy, that was Simon
Piggy : What good are you doing talking about it? It was dark, we were scared
Ralph : I wasn't scared
Piggy : You were scared. Anything could have happened. It wasn't our fault
Ralph : It was. We were there, we didn't do anything about it
Piggy : There was nothing we could do, there was too many of them
Ralph : That's not the point
Piggy : It was an accident, that's what it was, a terrible accident
[the Twins arrive]
Eric, Twin #2 : Hi
Piggy : Hi
Sam, Twin #1 : We came to see if you guys have any fire
Eric, Twin #2 : Our's is out
Sam, Twin #1 : Everything's out
Eric, Twin #2 : On account of the storm. We gotta get back
Ralph : Hold on a minute, I wanna talk to you about last night
Piggy : [Sympathetically] Ralph...
Eric, Twin #2 : We left early
Eric, Twin #2 , Sam, Twin #1 : We were real tired
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[Steve and Rapper are at Ralph's camp]
Piggy : So what do you want?
Steve : Jack wants the survival knife
Piggy : It's not his, it belongs to the camp!
Rapper : Yeah? Well there's a new camp now, and he wants it!
Steve : Yeah, and Tony wants his shoes and socks and all his junk
Ralph : Take Tony's stuff but you can't have the survival knife!
Piggy : He's a defector, just another damn defector
Tex : It's because of the monster
Ralph : [Angrily] I told you there's no monster! Tony knows there's no monster! Tony just wants to be a hunter is all and he's too chickenshit to come down and get his stuff himself!
Sheraton : But what if there *is* some kind of big animal?
Tex : Yeah
[Steve and Rapper walk away. Sheraton, Patterson and Tex follow them]
Piggy : [Sarcastically] Oh, great. Two more traitors!
Tex : Sorry, Ralph
Piggy : Good riddance!
[Ralph walks past Pablo and sits down, crying between his knees]
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Piggy : Be careful. There's probably a lot of berries that seem to look ok, but are really poison
Tony : I know what's poisonous or not. My brother did Outward Bound, learned how to survive; he taught me
Piggy : Did he do Outward Bound in the tropics?
Tony : Not exactly
Piggy : Then where?
Tony : Colorado
Piggy : There are totally different poison plants in Colorado than this place, so we better take precautions, or it won't matter
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Piggy : Maybe we should just build a raft and row off
Ralph : I will if you will. Well?
Piggy : We don't really know what's out there
Ralph : I bet you out past the reef lots of boats come by every day, and one of them could rescue us
Piggy : Yeah? Well, suppose it didn't, suppose it was Russian, then what? We'd be taken prisoner
Ralph : The Russians wouldn't take us prisoner
Piggy : I don't know. Major Dingledine, my new Dad told me...
Ralph : Major Dingledine?
Piggy : Yeah. He said if the Russians invaded the U.S., they would take the kids, and separate us from our parents. And I know it sounds weird, but they might make us go into the Olympics or something like that
[Ralph laughs]
Piggy : I don't see what's so funny
Ralph : Piggy, I don't think you have to worry about the Russians forcing you into the Olympics
[Ralph continues laughing, Piggy now laughs as well]
Ralph : [Points ahead] Hey, what's that?
[They see an accordion washing upon shore. Ralph and Piggy takes it to the sand. Ralph pretends to play it, making sounds with his mouth]
Piggy : Where do you think it comes from?
Ralph : [Excited] A Russian submarine... full of Olympic athletes!
[Piggy smiles then makes sounds with his mouth]
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[At nighttime, the boys are around the fire. Jack is telling a ghost story]
Jack Merridew : The forest was totally dark, but he had to keep going because the "thing" was behind him. The pus was everywhere. He could feel it, and all while the thing behind him kept coming closer. And then, suddenly he realized it wasn't any normal plants or bushes he was trying to run through. It wasn't the leaves or plants that were brushing up against him, touching his arms and face. It was thousands of claws, long claws grasping at him, trying to stop him and hold him for the thing. And he tried to get away, but they held on choking him! He tries to scream!
[Jack screams, then so does Rapper. Simon hears it from another part of the island. Greg cries]
Piggy : [to Greg] It's only a story. It's not real
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[the boys are trying to make the first signal fire. Jack is trying to use sticks]
Ralph : Here, let me try
Jack Merridew : I got it, I got it. Shit! Damn! Mother...
Piggy : Swearing won't help
Jack Merridew : [Shoves Piggy] Listen Piggy! Shut your fat ass!
Ralph : Hold it! Hold it! Hey, wait a minute. Piggy give me your glasses
[Ralph takes the glasses off of Piggy's face]
Piggy : Hey, give 'em back!
Ralph : Trust me
Piggy : What are you doing?
[Ralph uses the lens to focus the sunlight on the wood. Moments later a fire starts, but it goes out of control]
