American.Splendor.2003.720p.WEBRip.x264.AAC-[YTS.MX] Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,917 ( doorbell rings ) 4 00:00:39,417 --> 00:00:41,125 All: Trick or treat. 5 00:00:41,125 --> 00:00:43,500 Well, look at this. 6 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:45,583 All the superheroes on our porch. 7 00:00:45,583 --> 00:00:47,125 Ain't that cute? 8 00:00:47,125 --> 00:00:50,000 We g***t Superman here. 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,875 And Batman. And his sidekick Robin. 10 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:56,291 ( gasps ) The Green Lantern. 11 00:00:56,291 --> 00:00:59,625 And what about you, young man? 12 00:00:59,625 --> 00:01:00,917 What about what? 13 00:01:00,917 --> 00:01:03,291 Who are you supposed to be? 14 00:01:03,291 --> 00:01:04,458 I'm Harvey Pekar. 15 00:01:04,458 --> 00:01:06,458 ( murmuring ) "Pecker, Pecker..." 16 00:01:06,458 --> 00:01:08,166 Harvey Pekar? 17 00:01:08,166 --> 00:01:10,458 That doesn't sound like a superhero to me. 18 00:01:10,458 --> 00:01:13,208 ( boys murmuring ) 19 00:01:13,208 --> 00:01:15,208 I ain't no superhero, lady. 20 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:18,000 I'm just a kid from the neighborhood, all right? 21 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:22,625 Oh, forget this. 22 00:01:29,792 --> 00:01:33,208 Why does everybody have to be so stupid? 23 00:03:52,458 --> 00:03:57,000 Harvey Pekar: Okay, this guy here, he's our man. 24 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,708 All grown up and goin' nowhere. 25 00:04:00,708 --> 00:04:02,708 Although he's a pretty scholarly cat, 26 00:04:02,708 --> 00:04:05,417 he never g***t much of a formal education. 27 00:04:05,417 --> 00:04:08,166 For the most part he's lived in s***t neighborhoods, 28 00:04:08,166 --> 00:04:10,917 held s***t jobs, and is now knee-deep 29 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,333 into a disastrous second marriage. 30 00:04:13,333 --> 00:04:15,166 So if you're the kind of person looking 31 00:04:15,166 --> 00:04:16,667 for romance or escapism 32 00:04:16,667 --> 00:04:19,250 or some fantasy figure to save the day, 33 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:22,333 guess what? You g***t the wrong movie. 34 00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:23,542 Interviewer: That's great. 35 00:04:23,542 --> 00:04:25,417 Okay, so now you g***t four takes. 36 00:04:25,417 --> 00:04:29,625 You ought to be able to patch one together from there, right? 37 00:04:29,625 --> 00:04:32,583 - Let's go to the next one, all right? - Interviewer: Hold on a second. 38 00:04:32,583 --> 00:04:34,000 Do you want some water or something? 39 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,625 Nah, I g***t lots of orange. 40 00:04:35,625 --> 00:04:37,291 Interviewer: Do you like orange soda? 41 00:04:37,291 --> 00:04:39,500 Pekar: Yeah, orange is all right. 42 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,125 Interviewer: All right, so let's go to the next sequence. 43 00:04:42,125 --> 00:04:45,125 Did you actually read the script? 44 00:04:45,125 --> 00:04:47,166 No. A little bit. 45 00:04:47,166 --> 00:04:50,708 Just to check the construction, 46 00:04:50,708 --> 00:04:54,375 you know, of how the piece was constructed. 47 00:04:54,375 --> 00:04:56,333 I didn't read it word for word. 48 00:04:56,333 --> 00:04:58,083 Interviewer: Do you feel weird saying that stuff? 49 00:04:58,083 --> 00:05:01,166 No, I don't feel weird saying it. 50 00:05:01,166 --> 00:05:04,708 I don't know how long my voice is gonna hold on, but... 51 00:05:04,708 --> 00:05:07,250 ( raspily ) Doc, you gotta help me, man. 52 00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:11,542 My old lady's dumping me 'cause I can't talk. 53 00:05:11,542 --> 00:05:13,917 She says I'm a "social embarrassment." 54 00:05:15,542 --> 00:05:16,959 Now that she's g***t a PhD, 55 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:20,000 she's some hot-s***t academic star 56 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,875 and I'm nothin' but a file clerk. 57 00:05:22,875 --> 00:05:25,208 You know, me being a file clerk was fine when I was signing 58 00:05:25,208 --> 00:05:27,000 the d***n checks for her tuition, man. 59 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,041 Harvey, stop talking, please, and open wide. 60 00:05:30,041 --> 00:05:33,041 I started worrying my voice would never come back, you know? 61 00:05:33,041 --> 00:05:34,750 Say "ah," Mr. Pekar. 62 00:05:34,750 --> 00:05:37,250 - I mean, it's torture, I'm telling ya. - Shh. 63 00:05:37,250 --> 00:05:39,083 Ah. 64 00:05:40,333 --> 00:05:43,792 Ah-hh... 65 00:05:43,792 --> 00:05:47,917 - Doctor: Mm-hmm. - What? 66 00:05:47,917 --> 00:05:49,708 Is it bad, Doc? 67 00:05:49,708 --> 00:05:52,208 Not good. 68 00:05:52,208 --> 00:05:53,417 It's cancer. 69 00:05:53,417 --> 00:05:55,667 First I g***t marital problems, 70 00:05:55,667 --> 00:05:57,708 and now you're telling me I g***t throat cancer? 71 00:05:57,708 --> 00:05:59,291 For Christ's sake, man. 72 00:05:59,291 --> 00:06:03,083 Harvey, calm down. It's not cancer. 73 00:06:03,083 --> 00:06:05,250 You have a nodule on your vocal cords, 74 00:06:05,250 --> 00:06:07,083 probably from screaming and yelling so much. 75 00:06:07,083 --> 00:06:08,583 And if you don't give it a rest, 76 00:06:08,583 --> 00:06:10,834 you're gonna lose your voice completely. 77 00:06:10,834 --> 00:06:13,333 Okay, okay. 78 00:06:13,333 --> 00:06:15,750 But for how long? 79 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:17,083 A few months. 80 00:06:17,083 --> 00:06:18,959 ( squeaks ) Months?! 81 00:06:18,959 --> 00:06:20,166 Ugh-hh! 82 00:07:00,417 --> 00:07:04,667 ( raspily ) Hey. Hey, come on, what is this? 83 00:07:04,667 --> 00:07:07,583 It's exactly what it looks like. 84 00:07:07,583 --> 00:07:10,041 What do you mean? You mean you're dumping me? 85 00:07:10,041 --> 00:07:11,708 ( screeches ) For what? 86 00:07:15,542 --> 00:07:19,417 Look, this plebeian lifestyle 87 00:07:19,417 --> 00:07:22,959 just isn't working for me anymore, okay? 88 00:07:24,750 --> 00:07:27,500 I gotta get out of here before I kill myself. 89 00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:35,000 ( wheezing ) Wait a minute. 90 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,458 ( faintly ) Just listen to what I have to say, please. 91 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,041 ( coughs ) 92 00:07:46,750 --> 00:07:49,875 ( wheezes ) Don't go. 93 00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:51,959 ( squeaking ) I need you, baby. Please-- 94 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:56,041 please don't go, okay? ( squeaking ) 95 00:08:15,583 --> 00:08:17,375 Pekar: Here's our man. 96 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,041 Yeah, all right. Here's me-- 97 00:08:20,041 --> 00:08:22,250 or the guy playing me, anyway, 98 00:08:22,250 --> 00:08:25,166 though he don't look nothin' like me, but whatever. 99 00:08:25,166 --> 00:08:27,083 So it's a few months later 100 00:08:27,083 --> 00:08:29,917 and I'm workin' my flunky, file-clerk gig 101 00:08:29,917 --> 00:08:31,625 at the VA hospital. 102 00:08:31,625 --> 00:08:34,583 My voice still ain't back yet. 103 00:08:34,583 --> 00:08:36,417 Thank you, Harvey, dear. 104 00:08:36,417 --> 00:08:39,250 Things seem like they can't get any worse. 105 00:08:39,250 --> 00:08:42,583 ( raspily ) "Plebeian"? 106 00:08:42,583 --> 00:08:45,291 Where the hell did she get that s***t, man? 107 00:08:49,417 --> 00:08:51,708 ( sighs ) 108 00:08:56,041 --> 00:08:58,250 Man: "Avoid the reeking herd. 109 00:08:59,834 --> 00:09:01,792 Shun the polluted flock. 110 00:09:01,792 --> 00:09:04,083 Live like that stoic bird, 111 00:09:04,083 --> 00:09:06,125 the eagle of the rock." 112 00:09:06,125 --> 00:09:08,166 Hey, Mr. Boats. 113 00:09:08,166 --> 00:09:10,083 You know what that means, son? 114 00:09:10,083 --> 00:09:14,542 Yup, it's from an Elinor Hoyt Wylie poem. 115 00:09:14,542 --> 00:09:19,375 It means-- excuse me. It means stay away 116 00:09:19,375 --> 00:09:21,667 from the crowds of common, ordinary people 117 00:09:21,667 --> 00:09:24,417 and do your own thing. 118 00:09:24,417 --> 00:09:28,917 No, it means don't compromise yourself for women. 119 00:09:28,917 --> 00:09:30,625 Ain't gonna do you no good. 120 00:09:30,625 --> 00:09:32,959 Get away from 'em as soon as you can. 121 00:09:32,959 --> 00:09:35,291 Yup, well, I ain't g***t no woman now, 122 00:09:35,291 --> 00:09:38,792 so I'm livin' like "the stoic bird," man. 123 00:09:38,792 --> 00:09:41,708 It's the only way to live, son. 124 00:09:41,708 --> 00:09:44,708 - ( music in headset ) - Harvey: Yeah, man. 125 00:09:44,708 --> 00:09:46,375 Mr. Boats: Look at that fool there. 126 00:09:46,375 --> 00:09:49,000 Probably listening to that loud rock stuff. 127 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,875 Junk. Junk. It's all junk. 128 00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:54,125 I don't know. You know, I mean... 129 00:09:54,125 --> 00:09:57,000 rock music's g***t some good qualities. 130 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,333 It isn't jazz or nothin', but, you know. 131 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:03,667 Say, when you gonna bring me in 132 00:10:03,667 --> 00:10:05,542 some of those good records? 133 00:10:05,542 --> 00:10:08,166 Some Nat King Cole with strings? 134 00:10:08,166 --> 00:10:10,041 I don't g***t any of that, Mr. Boats. 135 00:10:10,041 --> 00:10:13,500 Yeah, you g***t that. You keep 'em at home, though. 136 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,166 You won't turn loose the good stuff, 137 00:10:15,166 --> 00:10:17,500 you just sell the junk. 138 00:10:19,834 --> 00:10:21,875 - You know, I... I just-- - ( jazz music playing ) 139 00:10:21,875 --> 00:10:24,500 I, you know, keep the stuff I want to keep. 140 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,875 I don't-- I sold a lot of good material 141 00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:30,542 by people that he didn't like. 142 00:10:32,542 --> 00:10:35,041 And Mr. Boats, he didn't like any blues 143 00:10:35,041 --> 00:10:37,041 or anything like that. 144 00:10:37,041 --> 00:10:40,166 And he played classical violin. 145 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:45,041 I started record collecting 146 00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:48,208 when I was 15 or 16 years old. 147 00:10:48,208 --> 00:10:50,500 I started getting interested in jazz. 148 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:53,458...