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A car ride turns into an argument when the driver gets American history wrong and the passenger corrects him: "Get your facts straight." From there the talk moves to hard times, and the exchange about who ruined the country ends with the couple ordering both ex-presidents out of the car.
Wayne Gets Mount Rushmore Wrong
❝ Monólogo · 7 frases The unemployed family's charge
They stack lost work and a lost house until the presidents cannot joke it off, then the plea cuts short.
The two ex-presidents ride in Wayne's car, and a chat about Mount Rushmore goes badly wrong when Wayne mixes up the presidents and the folk tales. The passenger corrects him, and the talk turns to lost jobs, lost homes and who is to blame. It ends with the couple throwing them out.
The comedy here is that the men who ran the country cannot even agree on its history. Wayne's version of Mount Rushmore is a jumble, and the correction that follows is not gentle: "That kind of ignorance is dangerous" and "Get your facts straight." But the scene is doing more than scoring points. Once the history is cleared up, the argument moves to the present — jobs, homes and the recession — and the ex-presidents answer with the kind of distance that got them into trouble: "There is no such thing" when someone mentions the voice of the people. The couple's patience runs out, and the request to get out of the car lands as a verdict on both of them. The people they governed are not abstract after all; they are sitting in the front seat.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“The only thing you all seem to agree on is you don't want higher taxes.”
It reduces a grand idea of public will to one selfish bottom line.
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“That kind of ignorance is dangerous.”
Calm and short, it turns a small mistake into a public danger.
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“No. The country's fallin' apart. People are losin' their homes.”
Abstract crisis brought down to people losing their homes.
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“There is no such thing.”
Four words erase a whole idea and refuse the argument entirely.
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We lost our jobs because of your budget cuts, President Kramer. And we lost our home because of your economic downturn, President Douglas. All we have now is the slim chance of a job at my uncle's paint factory in Cleveland. So I will ask you once again. Please... Get out of our car.
Siguiente · 10put on a spreadLa escena: Kramer and Douglas Find the FixAfter the history argument turns into a fight about the economy, the husband says they lost jobs to budget cuts and their home to the downturn. The couple's patience snaps, and they order them out.
He says Lincoln chopped down the cherry tree and Roosevelt killed a bear at three. The other passenger points out he has mixed up Lincoln with Washington and Roosevelt with Davy Crockett.
When the husband invokes the voice of the people, one ex-president dismisses it with "There is no such thing," which shows how out of touch the politicians are with the family that gave them a ride.
The two ex-presidents are dependent on a stranger to get to Cleveland. Being trapped in his car means they cannot avoid hearing what ordinary people think of their records.
