Ke Huy Quan: Short Round
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Short Round : Wow! Holy Smoke! Crash landing!
Indiana Jones : Short Round, step on it.
Short Round : Okey dokey, Dr. Jones.
[turns his cap around]
Short Round : Hold on to your potatoes!
Willie : For crying out loud, there's a *kid* driving the car!
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Indiana Jones : Willie, Willie, Willie. What kind of a name is that? Is it short for something?
Willie : Willie is my professional name, Indiana.
Short Round : Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones!
Indiana Jones : *My* professional name.
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Short Round : What is Sankara?
Indiana Jones : Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
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Willie : THAT'S the maharaja? A *kid*?
Short Round : Maybe he likes *older* women.
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Short Round : I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer!
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Short Round : Indy, I love you.
[burns Indy with a torch]
Short Round : Wake up, Indy! You're my best friend! Wake up, Indy!
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Indiana Jones : [trapped on a rope bridge] Shorty!
[Indy shouts to Shorty in Chinese. Short Round, wide-eyed, nods and wraps a rope around his arm]
Short Round : Hang on lady, we going for a ride!
[Indy raises his sword, and Willie realizes]
Willie : Oh my god! Oh my God... Oh my God... Oh my God!
[wraps a rope around her arm]
Willie : Is he nuts?
Short Round : He no nuts. He's crazy!
Indiana Jones : Mola Ram! Prepare to meet Kali... in hell!
[starts to cut the bridge with his sword]
Mola Ram : NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! YOU FOOL!
[the rope bridge falls apart, sending Thugs to their deaths in the crocodile-infested river below]
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Indiana Jones : [groping desperately down Willie's dress] Where's the antidote?
Willie : Oh, listen, I just met you! Oh, I'm not that kind of girl...
Short Round : Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love. We've got company.
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[Indy and Short Round are trapped in a room]
Indiana Jones : Stop! Look, just - stand against the wall, will ya?
[Short Round stands against the wall, springing a trap]
Short Round : You say to stand against the wall! I listen to what you say! Not my fault! Not my fault!
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[Willie accidentally sets off the same trap she just sprang]
Short Round : It wasn't me! It's her!
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[last lines]
Indiana Jones : Anything can happen. It's a long way to Delhi.
Willie : No, thanks. No more adventures with you, Dr. Jones.
Indiana Jones : Sweetheart, after all the fun we've had together?
Willie : If you think I'm going to Delhi with you, or anyplace else after all the trouble you've gotten me into, think again, buster! I'm going home to Missouri where they never feed you snakes before ripping your heart out and lowering you into hot pits! This is NOT my idea of a swell time!
[to native]
Willie : Excuse me, sir. I need a guide to Delhi. If you could...
[Indy snaps his whip around Willie's waist and pulls her back]
Willie : Oh...
Short Round : Very funny. Very funny.
[Indy and Willie start to kiss]
Short Round : Uh-oh!
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Short Round : Indy! Cover your heart! Cover your heart!
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Willie : Oh, no. Oh, no. Mister! Oh, mister, wake up, please.
Short Round : You call him Dr. Jones, doll.
Willie : Okay. Dr Jones. Dr. Jones. Oh, wake up, please.
Indiana Jones : Are we there already? Good.
Willie : No. No one's flying the plane! They've all gone. You know how to fly, don't you?
Indiana Jones : No. Do you? How hard can it be?
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Indiana Jones : Short Round! Quit fooling around with that kid! Get down in the cart now!
Short Round : Okey-dokey, Indy!
Little Maharaja : [to Shorty] Please listen. To get out you must take the left tunnel.
Short Round : Thank you.
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Indiana Jones : Stay behind me, Short Round. Step where I step, and don't touch anything.
[curious, Short Round touches a lamp. A door falls open, with two dessicated mummies falling out. Short Round yells and backpedals]
Short Round : I step where you step! I touch nothing!
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[Indy and Short Round are exploring a cavern]
Short Round : Feels like I step on fortune cookie!
Indiana Jones : It's not fortune cookies. Let me take a look.
[Indy lights a lighter to find bugs crawling all over the place]
Short Round : That no cookie!
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Short Round : I'm very little! You cheat very big!
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Willie : Give me your hat.
Short Round : [takes his cap off] Why?
Willie : [taking the cap] Because I'm gonna puke in it!
[Short Round quickly tugs the cap off her]
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[after both Indiana Jones and Short Round got badly whipped by the Chief Guard and the possessed Maharaja respectively, Mola Ram comes back towards Indiana with the head filled with the Blood of Kali as the the Guard forces Indiana's mouth open]
Mola Ram : The British in India will be slaughtered, then we will overrun the Muslims. Then the Hebrew God will fall!
[pours the blood into Indiana's mouth and down his throat]
Mola Ram : And then the Christian God will be cast down and forgotten.
[the Guard grabs Indy's nose hard, forcing Indy to swallow the blood]
Mola Ram : Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world.
[Indiana chokes and coughs]
Short Round : [whispers weakly] Dr. Jones...
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Short Round : [repeated line; to Willie] You call him Dr. Jones.
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Short Round : [after almost falling into the gorge] Not very funny.
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Indiana Jones : [on the rope bridge] Let her go, Mola Ram!
Mola Ram : You are in a position unsuitable to give orders.
Willie : Watch your back!
[Indy pulls out his duffle bag filled with the three Sankara stones]
Indiana Jones : You want the stones? Let 'em go!
[Willie smirks at Mola Ram]
Indiana Jones : [screams] LET HER GO!
Mola Ram : [laughs] Drop them, Dr. Jones! They will be found! YOU WON'T!
[laughs again, then yells in Hindi]
Short Round : Indy!
Willie : Behind you!
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Short Round : [in Cantonese] AA! GAU NGO AA! YAO YAN OI SAT NGO AA!
[AH! SAVE ME! SOMEONE WANTS TO KILL ME!]
