Captain Fantastic (2016)

Annalise Basso: Vespyr

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• Kielyr : Okay, you can think that, but we don't make fun of people. Right, Dad?

  Ben : That's right. We don't make fun of people.

  Vespyr : Except Christians.

• Vespyr : Yes, thank you, Zaj.

  Ben : Can unique be modified?

  Kids : [in unison]  No.

  Nai : [in his froggy costume]  We don't hate Nana and Grandpa, but the rest of their tribe are fascist capitalists.

  Kielyr : You're just repeating whatever dad says.

  Nai : [squinty-eyed]  I'm writing down everything you say - in my mind.

  Kielyr : Do you even know what a fascist is?

  Nai : Violent nationalist militants, supported by big business, and they're totalitarian single-party dictators.

• Ben : Mom needs to be in the hospital right now.

  Vespyr : But you said hospitals are a great place to go if you're a healthy person and you want to die.

  Zaja : You said Americans are under-educated and over-medicated.

  Kielyr : You said the AMA are avaricious whores only too willing to spread their fat legs for big pharma.

  Ben : All those things are true. But mom does not have enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin to conduct electrical signals in her brain.

• Ben : [walking to picnic benches after shoplifting]  Where else can we improve?

  Bo : Flawed exit strategy. Everyone went out the same doors. No one utilized the loading dock area at all. If it got blocked, we'd all be trapped.

  Ben : Mm-hmm.

  Vespyr : Inadequately planned extraction point. We probably shouldn't have all gone directly to the bus.

  Kielyr : Predetermined pickups would have been much less risky.

  Ben : On the plus side, mission: Free the food accomplished.

• Rellian : We want to complete the mission.

  Ben : No. There is no mission.

  Nai : Mission: Rescue dad and mommy.

  Vespyr : Mom wanted to be cremated.

  Rellian : And we want to honor her wishes.

  Nai : And flush her down the toilet.

• Ben : [as kids study around the campfire]  Vesp? How you getting along?

  Vespyr : I just finished chapter 12, "The World on a String."

  Ben : [wrestless look of uncertainty] 

  Vespyr : What?

  Ben : Are you having any trouble with Quantum Entanglement? Planck length versus Planck time?

  Vespyr : I'm fine.

  Ben : Good. Then tomorrow after lunch, you can give a brief presentation on M-theory. Argue counterpoints with Bo and Rell vis-a-vis Witten and Dirac.

• [Ben takes his money from the teller and returns to his children; observing the confused and concerned looks on the children's faces] 

  Ben : Okay. Now what?

  Nai : What's wrong with everyone?

  Kielyr : Are they sick?

  Ben : What do you mean?

  Zaja : Everyone's so fat.

  [quick cut to obese patrons and bank employees] 

  Ben : Yeah, they are.

  Zaja : Fat like hippos.

  Nai : That's not nice to say.

  Zaja : But look!

  [emphatically] 

  Zaja : [quick cut to obese patrons and bank employees] 

  Kielyr : Okay, you can think that, but we don't make fun of people. Right, dad?

  Ben : That's right... we don't make fun of people.

  Vespyr : Except Christians.