1. - We're about ready to go here.
- Good.Copy !req
2. I'm looking for James.
Has anybody seen James Ballard?Copy !req
3. - You know... the producer of this epic.
- I think I saw him in the camera room.Copy !req
4. James?Copy !req
5. Are you in there?Copy !req
6. Could we please get your approval
on our Steadicam shot?Copy !req
7. Of course.Copy !req
8. Be there in a minute.Copy !req
9. Where were you?Copy !req
10. In a private aircraft hangar.Copy !req
11. Anyone could have walked in.Copy !req
12. Did you come?Copy !req
13. No.Copy !req
14. What about your camera girl?Copy !req
15. Did she come?Copy !req
16. We were interrupted.Copy !req
17. I had to get back to the set.Copy !req
18. Poor darling.Copy !req
19. Maybe the next one.Copy !req
20. Shit.Copy !req
21. Not a lot of action here.Copy !req
22. They consider this
to be the airport hospital.Copy !req
23. This ward is reserved
for air crash victims.Copy !req
24. The beds are kept waiting.Copy !req
25. Well, if I ground up
during my flying lesson Saturday...Copy !req
26. you might find me next to you.Copy !req
27. You're getting out of bed soon.Copy !req
28. They want you to walk.Copy !req
29. The other man...
the dead man...Copy !req
30. his wife's a doctor.Copy !req
31. Dr Helen Remington.Copy !req
32. She's here somewhere,
as a patient, of course.Copy !req
33. Maybe you'll find her in the hallway
during one of your walks.Copy !req
34. What was her husband?Copy !req
35. A chemical engineer
for a food company.Copy !req
36. Where's the car?Copy !req
37. Outside,
in the visitors car park.Copy !req
38. What?Copy !req
39. - They brought the car here?
- My car, not yours.Copy !req
40. Oh.Copy !req
41. Yours is a complete wreck.Copy !req
42. The police had to drag it
to the pound.Copy !req
43. It's behind the station.Copy !req
44. After being bombarded endlessly
by road safety propaganda...Copy !req
45. I'm almost relieved to have...Copy !req
46. found myself
in an actual accident.Copy !req
47. Dr Remington.Copy !req
48. - James Ballard?
- Yes.Copy !req
49. - Crash victim?
- Yes.Copy !req
50. We'll deal with these later.Copy !req
51. Both of the front wheels of their car
and the engine...Copy !req
52. were driven back
into the driver's section.Copy !req
53. Oh, and the floor.Copy !req
54. Blood still marked the hood
like little streamers of black lace...Copy !req
55. running toward
the windshield wiper cutters.Copy !req
56. Tiny flecks were spattered
across the seat and steering wheel...Copy !req
57. and the instrument panel was...Copy !req
58. buckled inwards...Copy !req
59. cracking the clock
and speedometer dials.Copy !req
60. The cabin was deformed.Copy !req
61. There was dust, glass...Copy !req
62. plastic flakes everywhere inside.Copy !req
63. The carpeting...Copy !req
64. was damp.Copy !req
65. It stank of blood
and other body and machine fluids.Copy !req
66. I should've gone to the funeral.Copy !req
67. I wish I had.Copy !req
68. They bury the dead so quickly.Copy !req
69. They should leave them
lying around for months.Copy !req
70. What about his wife, the woman doctor?
Have you been to visit her yet?Copy !req
71. I couldn't.Copy !req
72. I feel too close to her.Copy !req
73. I don't like the idea
of you getting into a car so soon.Copy !req
74. I can't sit on this balcony forever.
I feel like a potted plant.Copy !req
75. How can you drive, James?Copy !req
76. You can barely walk.Copy !req
77. Is traffic heavier now?Copy !req
78. There seem to be three times as many
cars as there were before the accident.Copy !req
79. I have to leave for work.Copy !req
80. After this sort of thing how can people
even look at a car, let alone drive one?Copy !req
81. I'm trying to find Charles' car.Copy !req
82. It's not here.Copy !req
83. Maybe the police
are still holding it.Copy !req
84. They said it was here
this morning.Copy !req
85. This is your car?Copy !req
86. You might tear your glove.Copy !req
87. I never should have come here.Copy !req
88. I'm surprised the police
don't make it more difficult.Copy !req
89. Were you badly hurt?
We saw each other at the hospital.Copy !req
90. I don't want the car.Copy !req
91. In fact, I was appalled to find
I have to pay to have it scrapped.Copy !req
92. Can I give you a lift?Copy !req
93. I somehow find myself
driving again.Copy !req
94. You haven't told me
where we're going.Copy !req
95. I haven't?Copy !req
96. - To the airport, if you don't mind.
- The airport?Copy !req
97. - Why? Are you leaving?
- Not yet.Copy !req
98. Though not soon enough
for some people.Copy !req
99. A death in the doctor's family
makes the patients uneasy.Copy !req
100. I take it you're not wearing white
to reassure them.Copy !req
101. I'll wear a fucking kimono
if I want to.Copy !req
102. So, why the airport?Copy !req
103. I work in
the immigration department.Copy !req
104. - Do you want a cigarette?
- No.Copy !req
105. I started to smoke
at the hospital.Copy !req
106. Kind of stupid.Copy !req
107. All this traffic...Copy !req
108. - I'm not sure I can deal with it.
- It's much worse now. Have you noticed?Copy !req
109. Yes.Copy !req
110. The day I left the hospital...Copy !req
111. I had the extraordinary feeling
that all these cars...Copy !req
112. were gathering for some special reason
I didn't understand.Copy !req
113. There seemed to be
ten times as much traffic.Copy !req
114. Are we imagining it?Copy !req
115. You've bought yourself
exactly the same car again.Copy !req
116. It's the same shape and colour.Copy !req
117. We're close to the airport garage.Copy !req
118. It won't be busy
this time of day.Copy !req
119. "Don't worry.
That guy's gotta see us."Copy !req
120. "Don't worry.
That guy's gotta see us."Copy !req
121. These were the confident last words of
the brilliant, young Hollywood star...Copy !req
122. James Dean...Copy !req
123. as he piloted his Porsche
550 Spyder race car...Copy !req
124. toward a date with death...Copy !req
125. along a lonely stretch
of a California two-lane blacktop...Copy !req
126. Route 466.Copy !req
127. "Don't worry.
That guy's gotta see us."Copy !req
128. The year: 1955.Copy !req
129. The day: September 30.Copy !req
130. The time: Now.Copy !req
131. The first star of our show...Copy !req
132. is Little Bastard...Copy !req
133. James Dean's racing Porsche.Copy !req
134. He named it after himself
and had his racing number 130...Copy !req
135. painted on it.Copy !req
136. Who is that, the announcer?
Do I know him?Copy !req
137. That's Vaughan.Copy !req
138. He spoke to you at the hospital.Copy !req
139. I thought he was
a medical photographer...Copy !req
140. doing some sort
of accident research.Copy !req
141. He wanted every conceivable detail
about our crash.Copy !req
142. When I first met Vaughan
he was a specialist...Copy !req
143. in international
computerized traffic systems.Copy !req
144. I don't know what he is now.Copy !req
145. Which brings us to
the second star.Copy !req
146. The stuntman and former race driver
Colin Seagrave.Copy !req
147. Colin Seagrave!Copy !req
148. He will drive our replica
of James Dean's car.Copy !req
149. You up for this?Copy !req
150. You bet.Copy !req
151. I myself shall play the role of James
Dean's racing mechanic Rolf Vudrich...Copy !req
152. sent over from the Porsche factory
in Germany.Copy !req
153. This mechanic was himself fated to die
in a car crash in Germany...Copy !req
154. 26 years later.Copy !req
155. The third, and in some ways...Copy !req
156. most important player...Copy !req
157. the college student,
Donald Turnipseed...Copy !req
158. played by movie stuntman
Brett Trask.Copy !req
159. Turnipseed was on his way back home
to Fresno for the weekend.Copy !req
160. James Dean was on his way
to an automobile race in Salinas.Copy !req
161. Salinas was just a dusty town
in Northern California.Copy !req
162. The two would meet
for one moment...Copy !req
163. but it was a moment...Copy !req
164. that would create
a Hollywood legend.Copy !req
165. You'll notice that we're not wearing
helmets or safety padding of any kind.Copy !req
166. Our cars are not equipped
with roll cages or seat belts.Copy !req
167. We rely solely on the skill
of our drivers for our safety...Copy !req
168. so that we can bring you
the ultimate in authenticity.Copy !req
169. All right.Copy !req
170. Here we go.
The fatal crash of James Dean.Copy !req
171. Okay, let's wind it up.Copy !req
172. Go.Copy !req
173. Is this part of the act,
or are they really hurt?Copy !req
174. I don't know.
You can never be sure with Vaughan.Copy !req
175. This is his show.Copy !req
176. Rolf Vudrich...Copy !req
177. was thrown from the Porsche...Copy !req
178. and spent a year...Copy !req
179. in the hospital...Copy !req
180. recovering from his injuries.Copy !req
181. Donald Turnipseed was found
wandering around in a daze...Copy !req
182. but basically unhurt.Copy !req
183. James Dean died of a broken neck
and became immortal.Copy !req
184. What's the matter?Copy !req
185. Help me up.
I'm dizzy. I can't stand.Copy !req
186. I know that man Seagrave.Copy !req
187. I think he's genuinely hurt.Copy !req
188. You're all liable
for fines and possible arrest.Copy !req
189. Disperse at once.
Disperse at once.Copy !req
190. - How you doin'?
- I'm all right.Copy !req
191. - What's the matter with Seagrave?
- He hit his head, I think.Copy !req
192. His balance is off.Copy !req
193. Why are the police
taking this so seriously?Copy !req
194. It's not the police,
it's the Department of Transport.Copy !req
195. It's a big joke.
They have no idea who we really are.Copy !req
196. Was I glib?Copy !req
197. "James Dean died of a broken neck
and became immortal."Copy !req
198. I couldn't resist.Copy !req
199. Oh, God.Copy !req
200. What happened?Copy !req
201. Here. Lie down.Copy !req
202. They did the James Dean crash.Copy !req
203. It seemed to go perfectly, but then
he was feeling nauseous on the way back.Copy !req
204. I'm sure it's concussion.Copy !req
205. We're familiar enough with that,
aren't we?Copy !req
206. Seagrave.Copy !req
207. Seagrave,
I really would like...Copy !req
208. to work out the details...Copy !req
209. of the Jayne Mansfield crash
with you.Copy !req
210. We could do the decapitation.Copy !req
211. The head embedded
in the windshield.Copy !req
212. And the dead dog thing,
you know.Copy !req
213. You know, the chihuahua
in the back seat.Copy !req
214. I got it all worked out.Copy !req
215. I'll be ready, Vaughan.Copy !req
216. I want really big tits.Copy !req
217. Out to here.Copy !req
218. So the audience can see 'em get
all cut up and crushed on the dashboard.Copy !req
219. Yeah, we'll do that.Copy !req
220. Ballard, I need your help.Copy !req
221. Do you live here with Seagrave?Copy !req
222. No, I live in my car.
This is my workshop.Copy !req
223. This is my new project.Copy !req
224. You recognize her?Copy !req
225. That's Gabrielle.Copy !req
226. She's right outside the door there.Copy !req
227. I thought
you might be missing these.Copy !req
228. Here you are,
at the nerve centre.Copy !req
229. Vaughan makes everything
look like a crime, doesn't he?Copy !req
230. What exactly is your project,
Vaughan?Copy !req
231. A book of car crashes?Copy !req
232. A medical study?Copy !req
233. A sensational documentary?Copy !req
234. Global traffic?Copy !req
235. It's something...Copy !req
236. we are all intimately involved in.Copy !req
237. The reshaping of the human body
by modern technology.Copy !req
238. He must have fucked a lot of women
in that huge car of his.Copy !req
239. It's like a bed on wheels.Copy !req
240. It must smell of semen.Copy !req
241. It does.Copy !req
242. Do you find him attractive?Copy !req
243. He's very pale.Copy !req
244. Covered with scars.Copy !req
245. Would you like to fuck him, though,
in that car?Copy !req
246. No.Copy !req
247. But when he's in that car, he...Copy !req
248. Have you seen his penis?Copy !req
249. Looks like it's badly scarred...Copy !req
250. from a motorcycle accident.Copy !req
251. Is he circumcised?Copy !req
252. Can you imagine
what his anus looks like?Copy !req
253. Describe it to me.Copy !req
254. Would you like to sodomize him?Copy !req
255. Would you like to put your penis
right into his anus?Copy !req
256. Just thrust it up his anus?Copy !req
257. Tell me.
Describe it to me.Copy !req
258. Tell me what you would do.Copy !req
259. How could you just kiss him
in that car?Copy !req
260. Describe how you'd reach over...Copy !req
261. and unzip his greasy jeans...Copy !req
262. take out his penis.Copy !req
263. Would you kiss it
or suck it right away?Copy !req
264. Which hand would you hold it in?Copy !req
265. Have you ever sucked a penis?Copy !req
266. Do you know
what semen tastes like?Copy !req
267. Have you ever tasted semen?Copy !req
268. Some semen
is saltier than others.Copy !req
269. Vaughan's semen
must be very salty.Copy !req
270. Have you come?Copy !req
271. I'm all right.Copy !req
272. Finish your story.Copy !req
273. The junior pathologist
at Ashford Hospital.Copy !req
274. Then the husband
of a colleague of mine.Copy !req
275. Then...Copy !req
276. a trainee radiologist.Copy !req
277. Then the service manager
at my garage.Copy !req
278. You had sex with all those men
in cars?Copy !req
279. Only in cars?Copy !req
280. Yes.
I didn't plan it that way.Copy !req
281. Did you fantasize that Vaughan
was photographing all these sex acts...Copy !req
282. as though they were
traffic accidents?Copy !req
283. Yes.Copy !req
284. They felt like traffic accidents.Copy !req
285. We must accumulate
all the paper we can, Ballard.Copy !req
286. Some of the stuff
that Helen brought back is terrific.Copy !req
287. Tolerances of the human face
in crash impacts.Copy !req
288. Mechanisms of...Copy !req
289. Where is the...Copy !req
290. I'm sure we see this again
in slow motion... closer, I mean.Copy !req
291. In detail.Copy !req
292. We can watch another tape.Copy !req
293. No. I know this tape.Copy !req
294. That tape player's fucked.Copy !req
295. That's what it is.
It always does that.Copy !req
296. It always does that.Copy !req
297. You're upset.Copy !req
298. I'm all right.Copy !req
299. I'm all right now.Copy !req
300. I've always wanted
to drive a crash car.Copy !req
301. You could get your wish
at any moment.Copy !req
302. I mean a crash car
with a history.Copy !req
303. Camus' Vega...Copy !req
304. Nathaniel West's station wagon...Copy !req
305. Grace Kelly's Rover 3500.Copy !req
306. Just fix it enough
to get it rolling.Copy !req
307. Don't clean it.
Don't touch anything else.Copy !req
308. Is that why you drive this car?Copy !req
309. Do you see Kennedy's assassination
as a special kind of car crash?Copy !req
310. The case could be made.Copy !req
311. Here.
Take a look at this.Copy !req
312. Tell me what you think of these.Copy !req
313. Yeah, you recognize this one.
This is James Dean.Copy !req
314. This is the next one Seagrave and I
are gonna do... Jayne Mansfield.Copy !req
315. It's all very satisfying.Copy !req
316. I'm not sure I understand why.Copy !req
317. That's the future, Ballard...Copy !req
318. and you're already
a part of it.Copy !req
319. You're beginning to see that
for the first time...Copy !req
320. there's benevolent psychopathology
that beckons towards us.Copy !req
321. For example, the car crash
is a fertilizing...Copy !req
322. rather than a destructive event...Copy !req
323. a liberation of sexual energy...Copy !req
324. mediating the sexuality
of those who have died...Copy !req
325. with an intensity that's impossible
in any other form.Copy !req
326. To experience that,
to live that, that is...Copy !req
327. that's my project.Copy !req
328. What about the reshaping
of the human body by modern technology?Copy !req
329. I thought that was your project.Copy !req
330. That's just
a crude sci-fi concept.Copy !req
331. It kind of floats on the surface
and doesn't threaten anybody.Copy !req
332. I use it to test the resilience of my
potential partners in psychopathology.Copy !req
333. - What's going on, baby?
- What's going on with you?Copy !req
334. - You wanna go for a ride?
- You and your friend?Copy !req
335. - Just me and my friend here.
- All right, that's cool.Copy !req
336. - Don't go away.
- I'm not. What you got under there?Copy !req
337. - I'm clean.
- You got a place?Copy !req
338. Just right back there,
in the back seat of my car.Copy !req
339. - In your car?
- We'll drive. It'll be nice.Copy !req
340. - You're a good driver?
- Absolutely. Sixty dollars.Copy !req
341. - Sixty dollars?
- You'll get a nice, scenic ride.Copy !req
342. - One-fifty for the two.
- No, it's just me.Copy !req
343. - Just you?
- If he does get involved, 150.Copy !req
344. - Maybe.
- What do you mean?Copy !req
345. I'm saying, is he all right?Copy !req
346. Come here, sweetie.Copy !req
347. - Open your mouth.
- Yes, daddy.Copy !req
348. There you go. Don't want you
blowing it up my urethra.Copy !req
349. James, you drive.Copy !req
350. James, we're leaving now.
You want a lift?Copy !req
351. No, thank you.Copy !req
352. Catherine's coming to pick me up.Copy !req
353. What's going on?Copy !req
354. They've been questioning Vaughan
about an accident at the airport.Copy !req
355. A pedestrian was killed.Copy !req
356. They think he was run over
intentionally.Copy !req
357. Vaughan isn't interested
in pedestrians.Copy !req
358. Don't you think he looks a bit shaky?Copy !req
359. - Maybe I should drive him.
- Where's your car?Copy !req
360. At home.
I couldn't face the traffic.Copy !req
361. Why don't I drive?Copy !req
362. You coming?Copy !req
363. That's it. Yeah.Copy !req
364. Yes.Copy !req
365. Let's record this.Copy !req
366. This is a work of art.Copy !req
367. Absolutely a work of art.Copy !req
368. Oh, yes, yes.Copy !req
369. Slow down. Not so fast.Copy !req
370. Slow down. Stop.Copy !req
371. You couldn't wait for me?Copy !req
372. You did the Jayne Mansfield crash
without me?Copy !req
373. Oh, the dog.
The dog is brilliant.Copy !req
374. I must have driven through something.Copy !req
375. There's some blood on the car.Copy !req
376. Here on the handle,
and on the wheel.Copy !req
377. Also on the wheel well.Copy !req
378. See?Copy !req
379. If the police stop you again,
they may impound the car.Copy !req
380. You're right, Ballard.
You're right.Copy !req
381. There's an all-night car wash
by the airport service area.Copy !req
382. Watch yourself.Copy !req
383. Is there something here
that interests you?Copy !req
384. This interests me.Copy !req
385. I'd like to see if I can fit into a car
designed for a normal body.Copy !req
386. Could you help me into it, please?Copy !req
387. Yeah, sure.Copy !req
388. Are these safe cars?Copy !req
389. Yes, of course.
They're very safe.Copy !req
390. I'm caught.Copy !req
391. Oh, shit.Copy !req
392. Fuck! This is bad.
This is really bad.Copy !req
393. James, somebody named Vaughan.
You want it?Copy !req
394. Hello. Ballard.Copy !req
395. I need to see you.
I need to talk about the project.Copy !req
396. Where are you?Copy !req
397. I think you're making it too clean.Copy !req
398. Medical tattoos
are supposed to be clean.Copy !req
399. This is not a medical tattoo.
This is a prophetic tattoo.Copy !req
400. And prophesies are ragged and dirty.Copy !req
401. So, make it ragged and dirty.Copy !req
402. Prophetic? Is this personal prophecy
or global prophecy?Copy !req
403. There's no difference.Copy !req
404. Let me see here.
Where is it?Copy !req
405. There it is.Copy !req
406. I want you to let her
give you this one.Copy !req
407. Where do you think
that one should go?Copy !req
408. I thought that was you up there.Copy !req
409. My last lesson's next week.Copy !req
410. James, my car is...Copy !req
411. What?Copy !req
412. Could it have been deliberate?Copy !req
413. One of your suitors.Copy !req
414. It was Vaughan.Copy !req
415. The traffic.Copy !req
416. Where is everyone?Copy !req
417. They've all gone away.Copy !req
418. I'd like to go back.Copy !req
419. I'd like to register a claim
for the 1963 black Lincoln.Copy !req
420. Is there a form I should fill out?Copy !req
421. I can give you the forms now,
but you'll have to come back...Copy !req
422. between 7:30 and 4:30
to register a claim.Copy !req
423. What's your attachment
to that thing?Copy !req
424. A close friend owned it.Copy !req
425. It's gotta be a total write-off. I don't
see what you could possibly do with it.Copy !req
426. Are you all right?Copy !req
427. I don't know.Copy !req
428. Are you hurt?Copy !req
429. I think I'm all right.Copy !req
430. I think I'm all right.Copy !req
431. Maybe the next one, darling.Copy !req
432. Maybe the next one.Copy !req