October 29, 2003

The Unquiet American

Overheard at The Globe Cafe, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 Oct. 03, 4 p.m.:

Several American guys in their mid-20s are talking about recent movies.

#1: Did you see Bowling for Columbine?
#2: Yeah, man. Good film.
#3: Yeah, but that thing with Charlton Heston at the end? Man, I don’t know why he just took it like he did.
#2: What do you mean?
#3: Well, he let the guy in his house, and he interviewed him and started giving him shit, and he just got up and walked away, in his own house, man.
#1: Yeah, but what was he gonna do?
#3: Oh, man, see, I would have loved it if Heston were like, "Get the fuck outta my house, motherfucker." Like with a shotgun in his face and everything. [makes sound of pumping shotgun] "What the fuck did you say to me? Get the fuck outta my house." That’s what I woulda loved to see, man. That woulda been awesome.

Posted by wildsoda at October 29, 2003 05:57 AM
Comments


I enjoy it when people express their opinions but yet totaly miss the point of what they are talking about.

It makes me smirk.

Posted by: Nomadic* at October 29, 2003 08:07 AM

You should come hang out in most any bar or cafe in Prague's Old Town area, then. You'll hear loads of loud, drunken English and American tourists going on about something or other...

Posted by: wildsoda at October 29, 2003 02:49 PM

that movie was absolutely fantastic.

Posted by: miko at October 30, 2003 12:57 AM

Isn't it kind of amazing that people like that can actually find their way to Prague? I mean, it's not like they would have ever heard of it before. 'Merkins don't teach their tots geography, cuz they might get ideas, y'know.

Posted by: kath at November 2, 2003 07:24 PM

Kath: never underestimate the power of the words "cheap beer"...

Posted by: wildsoda at November 2, 2003 09:20 PM

Exactly when did travel cease broadening minds? Oh. Never mind. I seem to have forgotten that boys who make shotgun-cocking sounds do not have minds.

As you were.

Posted by: V. at November 3, 2003 05:50 PM

Great anecdote. I just happened to watch BfC last Sunday, and got into a long multilink argument on a message board with a gun-nut friend of mine who's otherwise liberal. I wished these cold-dead-handers cared half as much about the vital First Amendment as they do about the trivial Second.

Posted by: joseph at November 4, 2003 11:40 PM