Flower Drum Song (1961)

Benson Fong: Wang Chi-Yang

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• Wang Chi-Yang : [to Madame Liang]  For five years you have gone to that Citizenship School and all you have learned is: "This is not China!".

• Wang Ta : This is not China. This is a different world. And here a man has the right to choose his own wife.

  Wang Chi-Yang : And here he also has the right to get divorced every year and pick a new one.

• Wang Chi-Yang : [to Wang Ta]  When that day come when you can think for yourself, I will let you know.

• Madame 'Auntie' Liang : What did he look like?

  Wang Chi-Yang : Who?

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : The robber.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Dont ask me what he looked like! All white men look alike!

• Wang Chi-Yang : [Cursing the newspaper editor for not publishing his "Letter to the Editor"]  Son of a turtle!

• Wang Chi-Yang : [as Wang San runs from his brother's bedroom]  Wait! Why aren't you in school?

  Wang San : It's Saturday!

  Wang Chi-Yang : Always some excuse!

• Wang San : So long, Pop. Don't take any wooden chopsticks!

  Wang Chi-Yang : You! You go right back, and finish your breakfast!... What language is he using? I have a feeling he has been disrespectful, but I am not sure.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : No, no. That is American-style slang.

• Wang Chi-Yang : [singing]  What are we going to do about the other generation? / How will we ever communicate without communication?

• Wang Chi-Yang : It is indeed a sad widower who inherits his wife's sister.

• Wang Chi-Yang : [to Sammy Fong]  You have an unfortunate way of expressing yourself.

• Wang Ta : I need some money.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Money. That is nothing unusual. How much this time?

  Wang Ta : Twenty five bucks.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Bucks?

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : Dollars.

• Bank Manager : No, no, no. Everybody, everybody, back, back. The gentleman made a mistake. Mister.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : My sister's husband.

  Wang Chi-Yang : My congratulations! This is indeed an excellent system!

• Professor : And are you also proud of this fine American citizen in your family, Master Wong?

  Wang Chi-Yang : To become an American citizen it took her five years. She was Chinese in nine months.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : I am happy to be both Chinese and American.

  Wang Chi-Yang : You are like the Chinese dish the Americans invented. What do they call it?

  Wang Ta : Chop Suey.

  Wang Chi-Yang : That is it. Everything is in it. All mixed up.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : I like that.

  [singing] 

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : Chop Suey. Chop Suey. / Living here is very much like Chop Suey. / Hula-hoops and nucelar war, Doctor Salk and Zsa Zsa Gabor, / Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee and Dewey, Chop Suey.

  Chorus : Chop Suey!

• Wang Chi-Yang : Where have you been till this hour?

  Wang Ta : Spending the night...

  Wang Chi-Yang : Stop! Not in front of your aunt.

  Wang Ta : I beg your forgiveness, Father. You were right. I should have listened. I was a fool.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. Now I have my son back.

• Wang Chi-Yang : You are a good, thoughtful girl, Mei Li. Personally, I never fully approved of the old custom of drowning daughters.

• Wang Chi-Yang : What do you know of marriage? What do you know of women?

  Wang Ta : Sir, what did you know of marriage and women when you married my mother?

  Wang Chi-Yang : Nothing. That is why I obeyed my father and married the woman he chose for me.

• Wang Chi-Yang : Money is like a man's wife: strangers should not get their hands on it.

• Wang Chi-Yang : Has a man no privacy even in his own bedroom?

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : At your age, privacy in your bedroom is the last thing you should complain about!