Paterson

Paterson is a 2016 drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and Golshifteh Farahani as his wife, who dreams of being a country music star and opening a cupcake business. Paterson was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palm Dog Award. It was released in Germany on November 17, 2016, by K5 International; in France on December 21, 2016, by Le Pacte; and in the United States on December 28, 2016, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street.

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- Yeah, it's very interesting. - How was your day?

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Eh, the usual.

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Get any writing done? I did, a little, yeah.

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I'm working on a poem for you.

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A love poem? Yeah, I guess if it's for you, it's a love poem. It's kind of inspired by our, uh, Ohio Blue Tip Matches. Really? Does it mention the little megaphone shape the letters make? Y-Yeah. Actually, it does. How beautiful. I can't wait to read it when it's done.

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I also painted new shower curtains. You should see them. Oh, OK.

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You know what else I did today? You, uh, planted an unusual vegetable garden in the back yard? No, silly! That you have to do in the spring. - Oh. - No, I ordered my present that's from you. P-present that's from me? What? The guitar! The Esteban Harlequin model. - Oh. - I'm so excited. It comes in two days. I didn't get to speak to Esteban on the phone, though. Well, I'm sure he's really busy, honey. Don't make fun of me. Hey, look out, though, cos Nashville, here I come! Look out, Nashville! I'll get dinner ready! We're having something new! - What is it? - Quinoa! It's like a grain, sort of like couscous, but different. I read that it came from the ancient Incas. A-And it's really good for you. Oh.

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We're having quinoa, Marvin.

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♪ They call me Paul Laurence Dunbar ♪ Huh, no, they call me Paul Lawrence Dunbar ♪ I wear the mask ♪ Hmm. No ideas but in things. ♪ They call me Paul Lawrence Dunbar ♪ A paradox of stray shots and gun bars ♪ I shoot the gift, no gun charge, I run yard ♪ You millionaires get killed here, I'm slum, dawg ♪ Who wanna squab? Well, then, en garde ♪ Just one God ♪ And I don't spar with the sub-human or sub-par ♪ Mmm, see I go hard when it jump off ♪ KO rappers, a slow rapper get bumped off ♪ I'm proactive. Them bad habits done rubbed off ♪ Now y'all have 'em ♪ Negroes with attitude, whole squad is all Madden ♪ All Madden... ♪ So Staten ♪ So... ♪

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Hey, pugsley. What're you lookin' at?

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Ah, I'm guessin' this is your human ball-and-chain, right, pimpin'? Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I think it's something really interesting that you're working on. Yeah. I'm still workin' on it, you know. I'm trying to figure out how... how to spit it out. But thanks, I really appreciate that. Your laboratory? Wherever it hits me is where it's gonna be. Ah, well, good luck. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. Later, pimpin'! A'ight! Peace!

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♪ Just call me Paul Lawrence Dunbar ♪

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All right, sit.

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...he comes back with a shotgun. Now the bear comes over, taps him on the shoulder, knocks the shotgun out the way, and does the same thing. So he's sittin' like this, look at this bear. - He does not go back. - Well, he goes back. First, he goes out and gets a bazooka, puts the bazooka on his shoulder. He walks out there, the bear comes up, taps him on the shoulders and says... you don't come here.

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I like how you smell when you come home at night.

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- What do I smell like? - Mmm.

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You smell faintly of... of beer.

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Mmm.

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How do you say his name again? It's like Gae-tan... - It's Gaetano Bresci. - That sounds interesting. Yeah, he, um, he co-founded this anarchist newspaper here in Paterson, but it was in Italian, um, called La Questione Sociale. - La Questione Sociale. - Yeah. He was born in Italy, but he lived here. He was a weaver, an anarchist weaver. This was in the 1890s. And at that time in Italy, people were starving. When they demonstrated, this Italian general had them fired upon with, like, muskets and cannons, which, of course, resulted in a bloody massacre with, like, a hundred people dead. Was Gaetano Bresci there? No, he was here in Paterson. But when he heard that the King of Italy, King Umberto the First, decorated this fucking general for bravely defending his royal house, Gaetano Bresci went over to Italy somehow and he shot Umberto the First four times with a revolver. Whoa. Did they kill Bresci? No, they captured him and they put him on trial with, like, a famous anarchist lawyer and everything. But since there was no capital punishment in Italy at that time, like 1900, I mean... nor is there now. You can't be a member of the European Union if you practise capital punishment, of course. - Yeah, not like here. - Yeah. Anyway, they sent Gaetano Bresci to, like, this prison island where they put all the other anarchists, and after, like, a year, he was found dead in his prison cell. Murdered? Well, yeah, most likely by the guards. But, there's a possibility that he committed suicide. Whoa, Gaetano Bresci.

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Do you think there are any other anarchists still around in Paterson? You mean besides us? Not likely. Hey, what time is your first class? It's at 10:00. - Wanna grab a coffee? - Sure.

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