Blast from the Past
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Blast from the Past is a 1999 film where a college professor and his pregnant wife take refuge in their fallout shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During their time in the shelter, a son named Adam is born. 35 years later, Adam goes to surface under the impression he is dealing with a post-nuclear apolcalypse.
Calvin Webber [edit]
- A duck goes into a pharmacy wanting some lip balm. The druggist asks if that will be cash or credit, and the duck replies "Put it on my bill!"
Dialogue [edit]
- Child Adam is being homeschooled
- Calvin: These are stock certificates. They denote ownership in a company.
- Adam: Those look pretty. May I see them?
- Calvin: Sure. They are yours. Your mother and I bought these for you before you were born to give you some money to help you out in your adult years. Unfortunately, they are all worthless now.
- 1965. Mom's Malt Shop has been built on the land where the destroyed Webber residence was and the fallout shelter lies underneath. It is a cheery malt shop full of clean-cut teenagers and "Surf City" by Jan & Dean is playing.
- Archbishop Melcher{to owner}: Thank you for giving me this job.
- Archbishop Melcher{to two girls at bar}: $1.15 an hour!
- 1975. Mom's Malt Shop has been converted into a bar. Cheery atmosphere now seem darker
- Mom: I miss those flower children, how about you?
- Archbishop Melcher, drinking a beer, makes no remark. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" by Barry White begins to play
- Mom: What is this newfangled junk?
- Archbishop Melcher: Oh no, I do not think I will like this.
- Female customer gives look of love to Archbishop Melcher, and both start dancing to song, cheering up both
- 1991. Mom's Malt Shop has been converted into a rave, and its neighborhood is surrounded by rundown buildings. Soundgarden is playing. A tattooed and stoned Archbishop Melcher tends bar
- Mom: That does it! For years this neighborhood has done nothing except go downhill! I WANT OUT!
- Archbishop Melcher: If you sell, may I...uh?
- Mom: What?
- Archbishop Melcher: If you sell...uh?
- Mom: You want to buy this place from me?
- Archbishop Melcher: Yes, that is it.
- Mom: I will give it to you! No money down.
- Mom departs building
- Archbishop Melcher: YES! At long last, I am master of all I survey!
- Archbishop Melcher: All of these things, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Heroin Anonymous..
- Drunk: There is a Heroin Anonymous?
- Archbishop Melcher: Will you please...shut up?
- Drunk: Sorry.
- Archbishop Melcher: All of these things ask you to believe in something greater than yourself. Well, I have turned my eyes skyward a time or two, and I have seen nothing, except an airplane or two, which I cannot afford to get on!
- Ground rumbles
- Drunk: Earthquake!
- Archbishop Melcher: Let it be.
- Drunk runs for cover. Floor breaks and Calvin, wearing a radiation suit rises
- Calvin: Welcome!
- Archbishop Melcher cowers in corner, thinking a miracle has happened. Calvin shines flashlight towards him
- Calvin: Leave my elevator alone.
- Calvin explores the world outside fallout shelter, anticipating either a world of radioactive waste or a Soviet conquest. Even that attitude has not prepared him for 1997 Los Angeles, as there are drive-by shootings
- Transvestite hooker: Got a light, honey?
- Calvin: Were you a victim of the blast?
- Transvestite hooker: Honey, I have been a victim of the blast, the clap, you name it. As the song goes, a country boy can survive.
- Calvin: Did you say you were a country boy?
- Transvestite hooker: Cute little old man, if you want a boy I can be a boy. If you want a girl I can be a girl.
- Calvin is horrifed to what he thinks is a mutant
- Calvin: No thank you, good day.
- Calvin enters adult bookstore
- Calvin{offscreen}: AAAUGH!
- Calvin: Son, stay out of the adult bookstore.
- Adam: How come?
- Calvin: Poison gas is in there.
- Eve: I made some champagne cocktails, like you requested. Funny, I only thought hookers drank these things.
- Adam: I know Mom sure likes them.
