Zabriskie Point (1970)
Daria Halprin: Daria
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Daria : What do you mean, reality trip? Oh, yeah, they can't imagine things. Were you in with that group? Why didn't you get out?
Mark : I wasn't really in a group. I just couldn't stand their bullshit talk. It really bored the hell out of me. But when it gets down to it, you have to choose one side or the other.
Daria : There's a thousand sides--not just heroes and villains.
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Kid : [Daria walks onto a large wooden platform to question a group of kids. The elementary-school-aged kids quickly surround her. One of the boys, about 10 years old, asks Daria a question] Can we have a piece of ass?
Daria : Are you sure you'd know what to do with it?
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Daria : What do you do besides fly airplanes?
Mark : Only yesterday I drove a forklift truck at a warehouse. I've done other things.
Daria : Been to college?
Mark : Some.
Daria : Why'd you leave? Grades?
Mark : Extracurricular activities.
Daria : Like what?
Mark : Like stealing hardcover books instead of paperbacks, making phone calls on the Chancellor's stolen credit-card number, whistling in class--and bringing illegal things on campus, like a dog, a bike, and a woman.
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Daria : It would be nice if they could plant thoughts in our head so, nobody would have bad memories. We could plant, you know, wonderful things we did--like a happy childhood, real groovy parents, only good things.
Mark : Yeah, and make out and forget how terrible it really was.
Daria : That's the point! Nothing's terrible!
Mark : Far out.
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Daria : I'm looking for a little town that sounds like Glenville or Ballyville or something like that. Something with a "ville" in it. You know the desert. Does that ring a bell?
Lee Allen : A vi, a ville? What a minute. Hold on. A ville? What do you mean? Like a Danville?
Daria : Somewhere in the desert, man. Danville's in Connecticut. Or, maybe it's "hill".
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Daria : [reading the information marker at "Zabriskie Point"] "This is an area of ancient lake beds deposited five to ten million years ago. These beds have been tilted and pushed upward by Earth forces, and eroded by wind and water. They contain borates and gypsum." Borates and gypsum?
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Mark : Hear any news about the strike?
Daria : Not much. I prefer music.
Mark : It's getting like they don't even report it unless two or three hundred people get hurt.
Daria : Yeah, some kind of record.
Mark : Or a cop.
Daria : Oh, a cop did get killed and some bushes were trampled. I was trying to find a rock station. I think they said the guy who killed the cop was white.
Mark : Oo, white man takin' up arms for Bhe blacks, huh? Just like old John Brown.