Blue Hawaii (1961)

Elvis Presley: Chad Gates

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• Maile Duval : My French blood tells me to argue with you and my Hawaiian blood tells me not to mind - they're battling it out in front of me.

  Chad Gates : I've never seen such a beautiful battleground.

• Chad Gates : You wanna know something - on you, wet is my favourite colour.

• Maile Duval : How could you kiss that girl?

  Chad Gates : It was easy.

• Chad Gates : I like my job, mum. It's fun, it's interesting and I meet a lot of nice people.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Nonsense. Tourists aren't people. They're... They're tourists.

• Abigail Prentice : Mr Gates, do you think you can satisfy a school teacher and 4 teenage girls?

  Chad Gates : Oh, I'll sure try, ma'am. I-I'll do all I can.

• Maile Duval : You can't spend the rest of your life on a surf board.

  Chad Gates : Oh yes, I can. The G.I. bill of rights says I get my old job back. This is my old job.

• Chad Gates : It's a music box, it plays European love songs, but they're the same in any language.

• Ellie Corbett : Nobody cares about me, whether I live or die.

  Chad Gates : Nobody seems to care because you don't seem to care about yourself. You have to care first, if you like yourself others will like you too.

  Ellie Corbett : There's nothing to like.

  Chad Gates : There's a lot to like if you wouldn't try to be something you're not. It don't work. I know. You're gonna find out now and save yourself a lot of grieve.

• Kid on beach : [Seeing Chad and Maile kissing on beach]  Can I play?

  Chad Gates : I think you're a little young for this game.

  Kid on beach : If I get a girl can I play with you?

• Chad Gates : [after giving Maile a new racy bikini]  Don't you like it?

  Maile Duval : Oh, I love it! And I thank you for thinking of me.

  Chad Gates : Oh, I wasn't thinking of you. I was thinking of me!

• Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick think of who you are. Remember you come from a fine family.

  Chad Gates : You'll do enough remembering for both of us, ma.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh Daddy, what did we do wrong?

  Fred Gates : Offhand I'd say we got married.

• Chad Gates : You sure kept them both in good shape.

  Maile Duval : Both?

  Chad Gates : Hmm hmm. Your body and my car.

• Chad Gates : Are you always so bored or is it me?

  Ellie Corbett : Life is a bore I always say.

  Chad Gates : Oh already?

  Ellie Corbett : I've had 17 years of it.

  Chad Gates : That's the fun part. Wait till the next seventeen.

• Ellie Corbett : Don't start that child psychology bit, I'm no child.

  Chad Gates : I'm no psychologist.

• Maile Duval : Gates and Duval travel service. Has a nice ring to it.

  Chad Gates : It's too long. Simple. Gates of Hawaii.

  Maile Duval : Don't I get any billing?

  Chad Gates : Sure. Gates is plural. In case you didn't recognize it, that's a proposal. That has a better ring.

  Maile Duval : You're sure?

  Chad Gates : Well, I suppose I could be romantic about it but you'll say yes anyway.

• Chad Gates : [singing in jail]  I'm a poor Hawaiian beach boy/A long way from the beach/'Cause someone shoved his face against my hand/Now I'm a kissin' cousin to a ripe pineapple/ I'm in the can.

• Chad Gates : [singing]  I was always, Baby, I was always, Well, almost, always true to you...

• Sarah Lee Gates : You're up early this morning son.

  Chad Gates : I have to, I've got a job.

  Sarah Lee Gates : A job? Working?

• Ellie Corbett : Well at least we have 5 minutes.

  Chad Gates : I have 5 minutes Miss over-sexed and under-aged.

• Maile Duval : You're pretty sure of yourself.

  Chad Gates : Isn't it about time?

• Maile Duval : What were you doing all that time while I was missing you?

  Chad Gates : Uhm, being true to you.

  Maile Duval : Always?

  Chad Gates : Almost always.

• Chad Gates : Shall we start our tour with the pineapple fields?

  Ellie Corbett : I hate pineapples.

  Chad Gates : Well, then let's go there first and get it over with.

• Maile Duval : Please don't take too much time.

  [kiss] 

  Maile Duval : I don't know how long I can wait for you to grow up.

  Chad Gates : Oh, you're a pretty fresh kid. I think I'll let you have one.

  [kiss] 

• Chad Gates : Well, what are we waitin' for? You got your bathing suit?

  Maile Duval : Uh-hu.

  Chad Gates : Don't worry about it. I brought you one from Paris.

  Maile Duval : But, I've got a job, remember.

  Chad Gates : Not today. It's a Hawaiian holiday.

  Maile Duval : It is?

  Chad Gates : Sure! Didn't your mother ever tell you about Hooky-Hooky Day?

  Maile Duval : Hooky-Hooky.

• Maile Duval : [to Abigail Prentice]  I'm afraid he's a little rusty.

  Chad Gates : I'm afraid Miss Duval doesn't realize how well oiled I kept my machinery.

• Chad Gates : [singing]  Like a river flows, Surely to the sea, Darling, so it goes, Some things are meant to be...

• Ellie Corbett : Do you want to kiss me again?

  Chad Gates : I want you to go back to the others and behave yourself.

  Ellie Corbett : Why? Afraid you might like it?

  Chad Gates : I don't rob cradles.

• Chad Gates : Maile, you're a wonderful girl.

  Maile Duval : I am?

  Chad Gates : And you're pretty too! Not only wonderful pretty, you got a brain.

• Sarah Lee Gates : Chadwick, I think it would be much impressier if you wore your uniform with all the medals you won.

  Chad Gates : Oh I didn't win any medals, Mom.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Of course you won medals. What were all those on your soldier suit?

  Chad Gates : Just marksmanship and good conduct.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, you see there.

  Chad Gates : Every soldier wins one if he hits the target instead of an officer.

• Chad Gates : I think you're a mixed-up kid that's too big for her breeches.

  Ellie Corbett : I don't wear breeches.

  Chad Gates : You're getting out of here right now, Miss No-Breeches Bardot!

  Ellie Corbett : Chad, do you think I'm pretty?

  Chad Gates : I think you're pretty forward and pretty stupid.

  Ellie Corbett : Wouldn't you rather hold me than Abigail?

  Chad Gates : I'd like to hold you over a barbecue pit!

• Chad Gates : You know what you need? A good old-fashioned spanking.

  Ellie Corbett : M-Maybe I do. Nobody ever cared enough about me. Even for that.

  Chad Gates : Alright, Eleanor. I better prove that somebody does care.

  [He pulls her over his lap] 

  Ellie Corbett : You wouldn't dare.

  Chad Gates : Oh wouldn't I dare? Wouldn't I?

  [He spanks her, and Ellie begins to cry out] 

  Chad Gates : I got a feeling that this is gonna make both of us an awful lot better.

• Carl Tanami : This is crazy seaweed.

  Chad Gates : That's no seaweed, that's the top of Maile's bathing suit.

• Maile Duval : You can't spend the rest of your life on a surfboard.

  Chad Gates : Oh, yes I can. The GI Bill of Rights says I get my old job back. This is my old job.

• Chad Gates : Miss Prentice, as part of the service I'll promise to get a little older every day.

• Chad Gates : What's your idea of action?

  Ellie Corbett : [blows cigarette smoke in Chad's face]  What's yours?

  Chad Gates : You're a very funny girl. Just wait and see.

• Chad Gates : Back to your room!

  Ellie Corbett : I couldn't sleep there.

  Chad Gates : Well you sure can't sleep here. Perhaps you should take a bath - on second thoughts make that a cold shower!

• Abigail Prentice : Moonlight in Hawaii can be rather intoxicating.

  Chad Gates : I know, that's why I never touch the stuff.

• Chad Gates : Miss Prentice I'm not the guy you think I am, I snore and everything.

• Ito O'Hara : Hey, Chad, why don't you go get some firewood for dinner?

  Chad Gates : Firewood? Man you'll eat anything!

• Chad Gates : Oh, I get along very well with teenagers. I used to be one myself.

  Abigail Prentice : And not too long ago.

• Chad Gates : And what's your name, little girl?

  Ellie Corbett : You may call me Miss Corbett.

• Fred Gates : Who is this character anyway?

  Chad Gates : This is my boss, dad.

  Mr. Chapman : Your ex- you're fired young man.

  Maile Duval : Mr. Chapman, he was only protecting your clients. You can't fire him.

  Mr. Chapman : Oh yes I can, I'll do it again,too. Just watch me.

  [turns to Chad and points a finger at him] 

  Mr. Chapman : You're fired. You see?

• Maile Duval : Men, you can have them.

  Chad Gates : I don't want em.

  Maile Duval : Get out!

  [Maile slams the door] 

  Chad Gates : I want you!

• Chad Gates : I could try to explain what happened, Maile but nobody would believe me. Not even me. Will you just believe this- I love you and there's nothing between Miss Prentice and me.

  Maile Duval : Well of course you deny it. But I know that look and she's got it.

  Chad Gates : That look is for Jack. He's got it, too.

  Maile Duval : Mr. Kellman and Miss Prentice?

  [Chad nods, smiling] 

  Maile Duval : Oh, you can do better than that. You must think I'm a fool.

• Chad Gates : Mom, I'm sorry, honestly. But it wasn't my fault.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Oh, I know that, dear. It's your friends. Mostly that Duval girl. She's the one to blame.

  Chad Gates : Maile had nothing to do with it.

  Sarah Lee Gates : Well she was there, wasn't she? And you got that job working in her tourist place. Well, who else can we blame? She's pulling you down to her level.

• Tucker Garvey : [stands up and glares at Chad after Chad sings, yells]  Hey you, cork up the wailing!

  [pauses, then yells louder] 

  Tucker Garvey : I SAID CORK IT UP!

  Prison Inmate : [grabs Tucker and punches him in the face, knocking Tucker out] 

  [turns to Chad and the other Beach Boys, tears in his eyes as he puts his harmonica away] 

  Prison Inmate : Beautiful! You boys sing beautiful, I hope we get life together!

  [is hopeful because of how lonely he was before Chad and The Beach Boys were arrested] 

  Chad Gates : [glances up at the inmate with a raised eyebrow, surprised and definitely does not want to be in jail for life] 

• Ping Pong : Hello, Mr. Chadwick. Did you have a swingin' time in Europe?

  Chad Gates : Pingo, the swingingest, boy.

• Chad Gates : [singing]  The way she moves her hips to her fingertips, I feel I'm heaven bound, And when she starts to sway, I've gotta say, She really moves the grass around, Rock-a-hula baby, Rock-a-hula baby, Got a hula lulu from Honolulu. That rock-a-hula baby of mine...

• Chad Gates : [singing]  Wise men say, Only fools rush in, But I can't help falling in love with you...

• Ellie Corbett : I believe you're being paid to show us a good time. When does it start?

  Chad Gates : The others seem to be enjoying themselves.

  Ellie Corbett : They're a bunch of drips!

• Chad Gates : [singing]  Let's go on a moonlight swim, Far away from the crowd, All alone upon the beach, Our lips and our arms close within each others reach...

• Chad Gates : [singing]  I love you, Less today, Less than I will tomorrow...

• Chad Gates : [singing]  I want a taste of honey, From my wahine's lips, I want to be her ever loving man...

• Chad Gates : [singing]  Got those beach boy blues, Don't the time go slow, Lonely beach boy blues...