The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Christina Ricci: Dedee Truitt
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Quotes
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Dedee : My mother was the kind of mother who always said she was her daughter's best friend. Whenever she did, I thought, "Great! Not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend's a loser bitch!"
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Dedee : I'd like a Long Island iced tea, please.
Bill Truitt : Is that a good idea, for the baby?
Dedee : Oh, please. This baby owes its life to Long Island iced teas, if you know what I mean.
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Dedee Truitt : What'd you think, *I'd* be the dead one? I'm the fucking narrator, guys! Keep up!
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Dedee : [as Dedee is walking away from Bill's, looking for a ride and stopping under a tree, she narrates:] Seems like everybody's having sex but me. Good for them. It's not that I'm against sex. I mean, it was clever of God or evolution or whatever to hook the survival of the species to it because we're gonna screw around no what. It was a smarter thing to pick than say... the instinct to share your toys or return phone calls. We'd have died out like eons ago. But on the minus side, god... all the *attachment* that goes with it. It's like this net. Sex always ends in kids or disease, or like, you know, relationships. That's exactly what I don't want. I want the opposite of all that. Because it's not worth it, not really, is it? When you think about it?
Dedee : [cut to montage of memories of heart-warming relationship scenes with Tom, Bill, and Lucia together, then with other cast characters, and ending with one of Dedee and Randy together back in Louisiana. Back to Dedee smoking with narration continuing:] OK, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's not all shit. Maybe...
Dedee : God damn it.
Dedee : [Frustrated, she sits down on street curb, smoking and thinking. She continues narrating:] I thought the whole idea was I know what happens next. I'll tell you one thing... I'm not gonna go back to Bill's house and be this big changed person for you. I told you right off I don't grow a heart of gold. And if I do, which is, like, *so unlikely*... give me a break and don't make me do it in front of you. Come on, guys, go, okay?
Dedee : [looking at the camera angrily and violently shooing us away with her left hand] GO!
Dedee : [fade to black and narration continues:] I'll give you this much, though... I never was the same again after that summer.
[credits roll]
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Randy : I'm just askin' that you stand by your man, like I'm standin' next to you! You know, a lot of guys, man, they woulda said that, "Shucks, man, she took up with them homosexuals. You know, she turned her back on righteousness."
Dedee : Oh, yeah, but blowing you in the backseat of your car every day after band, that was a stairway to heaven, right?
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Dedee : If you think I'm just plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in over your heads. I don't have a heart of gold and I *don't* grow one later, OK? But relax. There's other people a lot nicer coming up - we call them "losers."
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Dedee Truitt : Lucia and Carl had their baby. You can imagine the pick of that litter. It was the kind of kid that if you played with it too much after a feeding, you threw up.
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[Why sex is the opposite of what she wants]
Dedee : Sex always ends in kids or disease or like, you know, relationships.
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Dedee Truitt : Bill's kind of cute. I mean, even though he's old.
Lucia : He's 35!
Dedee Truitt : Yeah but he's still kind of cute. Too bad he's a fairy, right?
Lucia : [huffily] That is not how I would put it.
Dedee Truitt : Well, then too bad he's however *you'd* put it.
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Dedee Truitt : My name is Dedee Truitt. I'm 16, and this is Creve Coeur, Louisiana. Which is French, I think, for, like, "fucked heart".
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Dedee Truitt : Les was a real asshole. To get cancer of the ass was, like, poetic. Almost as good as cancer of the dick, if they have that.
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Dedee : This part where I take the gun is like, duh, important.
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Dedee Truitt : Rule 1 about sex: If you don't breathe in, a person can do anything for 10 minutes.
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Dedee Truitt : [narrating over a flashback of ugly duckling Lucia sitting at a table alone at a wedding] I know in movies you kind of feel sorry for girls like this, but in real life, you wouldn't be sitting next to her either.
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Dedee : He was like a blind person you know, they can't see but they hear real well. Matt couldn't think at all, but he looked great.
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Dedee : If there have to be gay people, at least it's nice there's enough of them to go around.
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[Trying to calm Randy down]
Dedee : Randy, be Christlike!
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Bill Truitt : You're gonna have a baby.
Dedee : Yeah, lucky me!
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Dedee Truitt : [about gay men] I know AIDS is, like, awful and stuff, and that guy who got all those boys up to his room and ate them and froze them and then got killed in prison, like we cared... I mean, all that is disgusting. But they do look better than straight people. And smell better. They're cleaner, if you don't count viruses. And there's not all that hair in their ears and noses and stuff. So it evens out.
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Dedee Truitt : Plus, I'd clean for them. Or tell the maid places she missed.
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[old home movie footage of Lucia, her sisters and her gay brother Tom as children is shown. Her sisters have put makeup, a wig and a dress on little Lucia... and also on Tom. Their father pulls the wig off Tom and gives him a spanking]
Dedee Truitt : [narrating] If you ask me, it was a giveaway he liked the spanking.
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Bill Truitt : Who's the father? He has rights and responsibilities.
Dedee Truitt : My stepfather, if you want to know. And the only responsibility he has is to rot in his grave, which I hope he's living up to.
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Dedee Truitt : [about Bill, who is 9 years older than Matt] He could be your father. Basically, you're blowing your father. That can't feel right.
Matt Mateo : I never knew my father.
Dedee Truitt : And you really think this is a good way to make up for it?
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Dedee Truitt : Too bad he's a fairy, right?
Lucia DeLury : That's not how I would put it.
Dedee Truitt : Well, then too bad he's however you'd put it.
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[Dedee gets her brother's boyfriend Matt to put sun tan lotion on her back. Then she takes off her bikini top and faces him with her bare breasts exposed]
Matt Mateo : I think you can reach them yourself.
Dedee Truitt : Scared you'll get a woody?
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Randy : It's not his baby?
Dedee Truitt : Oh, whose do you think it is, Mister "Who needs a rubber, I'll pull out in time"?
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Dedee Truitt : [about Lucia] She had a life once. She just, I don't know, stopped feeding it so after a while it wandered away.
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Dedee Truitt : [narrating as she looks inside the urn containing Bill's late boyfriend's ashes] Gross. But notice how pretty the urn is. That's typical gay.
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Lucia DeLury : I want my brother's ashes back, you heartless little bitch!
Dedee Truitt : Oh yeah, that's me, Lucia, heartless. What body part are you missing?
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[opening narration]
Dedee Truitt : If you're one of those people who don't like movies where some person you can't see talks the whole time and covers up all the holes in the plot and at the end says "I was never the same again after that summer" or whatever, like it was so deep they can't stand it, then you're out of luck. Things get very complicated here very quick. And my guess is you're not going to be up to it without me talking.
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Dedee Truitt : Have you always been a 'mo?
Matt Mateo : Yeah, I guess.
Dedee Truitt : You've never slept with a girl?
Matt Mateo : No. Never came up.
Dedee Truitt : [smiles] So to speak, right?
Matt Mateo : Well, it's just not for me.
Dedee Truitt : How would you know if you've never tried it?
Matt Mateo : Well, I never tried communism but I know I wouldn't like that. Same thing. Or grits.
Dedee Truitt : Have you ever slept with a black person?
Matt Mateo : No. No, I don't think so.
Dedee Truitt : Because you know you wouldn't like it?
Matt Mateo : No! I don't know that, I mean...
Dedee Truitt : So, even though you've never tried either, you'd have sex with a black person but not with me? God, it's like reverse discrimination. Quotas.
Matt Mateo : Is it?
Dedee Truitt : Yeah. It's prejudice.
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Dedee Truitt : [narrating as her gay brother Bill plays with her baby] It spooked me at first, him changing a boy baby and getting good peeks at his little thing. But he said straight dads change girl babies all the time and nothing comes of that. Is he naive or what?
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Dedee Truitt : They started out like a typical American family. And you know how that ends up, they typically went to shit pretty quick.
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Dedee Truitt : [narrating as Lucia and Carl go inside her hotel room while kissing] We're not going inside. It's too... gross. She turned out to be one of those "talkers". You know what I mean? "Do it to me, yeah, oh there, take me home, oh baby." Sickening.
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Dedee Truitt : [about Matt] It's survival. Cute, stupid people survived, have lots of cute, stupid babies who also survive. It was like watching evolution at work. As long as he reproduced.
