Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

Julian Dennison: Ricky Baker

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• Ricky Baker : [reading wanted poster]  "Faulkner is cauc-asian" - well, they got that wrong because you're obviously white.

• Ricky Baker : Trees. Birds. Rivers. Sky. / Running with my Uncle Hec / Living forever.

• Ricky Baker : [Reciting a haiku he wrote]  Kingi you wanker / You arsehole, I hate you heaps / Please die soon, in pain.

• Ricky Baker : I didn't choose the skuxx life, the skuxx life chose me.

• Ricky Baker : I'll never stop running!

  Paula : Yeah, and I'll never stop chasing you - I'm relentless, I'm like the Terminator.

  Ricky Baker : I'm more like the Terminator than you!

  Paula : I said it first, you're more like Sarah Connor, and in the first movie too, before she could do chinups.

• Hec : Pretty majestical, aye?

  Ricky Baker : I don't think that's a word.

  Hec : Majestical? Sure it is.

  Ricky Baker : Nah, it's not real.

  Hec : What would you know?

  Ricky Baker : It's majestic.

  Hec : That doesn't sound very special, majestical's way better.

• Hec : Sam, what's the fastest way out of here?

  Psycho Sam : Jetpack.

  Ricky Baker : [excited]  Do you actually have a jetpack?

• [Last lines] 

  Ricky Baker : Here we go. Reckon you can handle it?

  Hec : What do you think? Reckon you can find that bird?

  Ricky Baker : Yeah, I think I know where it is.

  Hec : Seem to remember it was a pretty beautiful place.

  Ricky Baker : Yeah, majestical. Come on, let's go. Don't slow me down, old fella.

  Hec : You keep up with yourself, young player. Get in my way I'll have your guts for garters.

  Ricky Baker : I honestly don't know what "guts for garters" is, so...

  Hec : Those gangster talk.

  Ricky Baker : Yeah, we didn't choose the Skux life.

  Hec : The Skux life chose us.

  Ricky Baker : Yeah.

• Ricky Baker : Uncle, you're basically a criminal now. But on the bright side, you're famous.

• Ricky Baker : Shit just got real! Back up, homies, and let go of my uncle!

• Ricky Baker : We'll just tell them you were looking after me.

  Hec : Doesn't matter what you tell them, they won't believe you. They'll think I made you do it. I'm not going back to jail, I'm better off up here. This is no place for a kid. You're gonna have to go back, Ricky.

  Ricky Baker : To what?

  Hec : To the welfare people.

  Ricky Baker : No!

  Hec : They'll look after you.

  Ricky Baker : No, they won't!

  Hec : They'll find you another home, you'll be fine.

  Ricky Baker : You're not listening! Nobody listens! There's no more homes, just juvy!

  Hec : What's juvy?

  Ricky Baker : Juvenile prison. They don't care about kids like me, they just keep moving us around until something happens like... Amber.

  Hec : Oh no, bugger then. Okay, okay. We're in about a million hectares of bush, that's big, it's big enough to hide in for a while, anyway.

  Ricky Baker : Good enough for me.

  Hec : But we're heading into winter. It's gonna be rough, no huts, no tents, real bush life. Can you handle that?

  Ricky Baker : I can handle it.

  Hec : Yeah. And if you play up, I dump you.

  Ricky Baker : Okay, Uncle.

  Hec : I'd still prefer if you don't call me Uncle.

  Ricky Baker : Okay, Hec. So what do we do now?

  Hec : We run.

  [They run for a few seconds, then stop out of breathe] 

  Hec : Wait, wait wait. Maybe we don't need to run.

  Ricky Baker : Oh yeah, let's just fast walk.

• Hec : You can take him, but I'm staying here.

  Hugh : Like hell. People want answers.

  Ron : Yeah, answers.

  Hec : Look, we got lost, I got injured, he's fine, it was basically a holiday.

  Ricky Baker : Not a real holiday because he made me do stuff.

  Hugh : Like what?

  Ricky Baker : Just stuff. He had a sore leg so he made me do things for him. It was hard at first because my hands are so soft, but I got used to it. I didn't really wanna do it, but it was the only way to survive. It wasn't always hard, sometimes I got to do my own thing. He pretty much never joined in with me though. I asked if he wanted to play with me, but he would just make me play with myself.

  Ron : I feel sick.

• Ricky Baker : It was a relaxing song... and a relaxing sausage.

• Ricky Baker : Ricky town, population... Ricky

• Ricky Baker : That's not very fair. Some people can't even have babies, and the ones who can, they don't even want them.

• Hec : I've been to prison.

  Ricky Baker : Gangster! For what?

  Hec : Manslaughter.

  Ricky Baker : Double gangster! You need a teardrop tattoo!

• Ricky Baker : He's molestering me!

• Ricky Baker : I ran out of toilet paper, give me some of yours.

  Hec : Eh?

  Ricky Baker : I've gotta poop. I need to poop, you need to poop, we all poop.

  Hec : Use a leaf.

  Ricky Baker : A leaf? Ugh! I hate you.

  [Ricky walks away] 

  Hec : And bury it!

  Ricky Baker : I'll bury you.

• Ricky Baker : Why do you reckon he calls himself "Psycho Sam?"

  [Psycho Sam puts kitchen pots on Ricky and Hec's head] 

  Joe : Here you go. Put these on, to stop the government from tracking you.

  Ricky Baker : Never mind.

• Ricky Baker : Shit just got real

  Hec : Yeah shit just got real

• [last lines] 

  Ricky Baker : We didn't choose the skux life.

  [last lines] 

  Hec : The skux life chose us.

• Bella : [after Ricky gets a dog]  What are you gonna call him?

  Ricky Baker : I'm still thinking. Something fierce to reflect its true nature. Either Psycho, Megatron or Tupac.

  Bella : What's a Tupac?