The Mosquito Coast

415 00:33:02,564 --> 00:33:05,530 Go to your assigned row according to the colors that... 416 00:33:05,597 --> 00:33:08,654 ...you were told about earlier. These are pumpkin seeds. 417 00:33:08,730 --> 00:33:10,753 About this deep, this far apart. 418 00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:12,791 Jerry, corn for you. 419 00:33:17,429 --> 00:33:20,055 - How are you doing, Charlie? - All right, Dad. 420 00:33:20,130 --> 00:33:23,323 Right now, someone in America is pushing an electric squeezer... 421 00:33:23,396 --> 00:33:25,987 ...down a garbage disposal and saying it's busted. 422 00:33:26,062 --> 00:33:28,892 Someone else is opening a can of chocolate-flavored soup... 423 00:33:28,962 --> 00:33:32,860 ...because the car wouldn't start to eat out. They really wanted a cheeseburger. 424 00:33:32,929 --> 00:33:36,952 - That for true, Father? - That's right, Francis. That's why I'm here. 425 00:33:38,363 --> 00:33:40,022 That's why I came. 426 00:34:05,961 --> 00:34:08,984 It was not an easy life those first weeks in Jeronimo. 427 00:34:09,494 --> 00:34:12,517 It was no coconut kingdom of free food and grass huts... 428 00:34:12,594 --> 00:34:15,059 ...and sunny days "under the bam, under the boo." 429 00:34:15,127 --> 00:34:16,753 Watch the strings, kids. 430 00:34:16,827 --> 00:34:20,590 Good morning, ladies. Let's get up. I need this tent out of the way. 431 00:34:20,727 --> 00:34:22,784 Charlie, help your mother with the tent. 432 00:34:23,727 --> 00:34:28,126 This was work and more work. A routine that took up every daylight hour. 433 00:34:30,326 --> 00:34:33,258 In Hatfield we had done pretty much what we pleased. 434 00:34:33,326 --> 00:34:35,417 Here things were different. 435 00:34:40,826 --> 00:34:42,985 Have you got some flooring up there? 436 00:34:43,426 --> 00:34:46,823 Charlie's supposed to have the flooring up there for the men to work. 437 00:34:46,893 --> 00:34:49,018 Let's get that lumber up here now. 438 00:35:01,726 --> 00:35:04,782 It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence. 439 00:35:04,858 --> 00:35:06,653 Why do things get worse? 440 00:35:06,725 --> 00:35:09,123 They don't have to. They could get better. 441 00:35:09,192 --> 00:35:11,885 We accept that things fall apart, but they don't have to. 442 00:35:11,958 --> 00:35:13,446 Things will last forever. 443 00:35:13,525 --> 00:35:16,457 We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. 444 00:35:16,558 --> 00:35:19,752 We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. 445 00:35:19,825 --> 00:35:22,290 Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. 446 00:35:22,358 --> 00:35:25,256 Pretend he has eight legs, two stomachs and money to burn. 447 00:35:25,324 --> 00:35:27,552 It's wrong. Wrong! Wrong! 448 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:30,557 There are people in New York who'd kill you for a quarter. 449 00:35:30,624 --> 00:35:34,182 You don't dare take a walk for fear somebody'll stick a knife in your ribs. 450 00:35:34,258 --> 00:35:36,587 Stay home and they come in through the windows. 451 00:35:36,657 --> 00:35:39,248 Ten-year-old homicidal maniacs on every corner. 452 00:35:39,323 --> 00:35:40,880 They go to school. 453 00:35:40,957 --> 00:35:42,445 They go to school. 454 00:35:45,457 --> 00:35:48,651 You know what the biggest problem with the 20th century is? 455 00:35:48,724 --> 00:35:50,712 People can't stand to be alone. 456 00:35:52,290 --> 00:35:53,585 Can't stand it. 457 00:36:04,322 --> 00:36:07,117 Double-digit inflation and a $2.00 loaf of bread. 458 00:36:10,389 --> 00:36:11,355 Good. 459 00:36:12,222 --> 00:36:15,052 Great. You're going to be my fish farmer, Mr. McGregor. 460 00:36:15,122 --> 00:36:17,781 - I think about it. - Right. You think about it. 461 00:36:17,855 --> 00:36:22,083 We'll breed all the fish we need to eat right here. It'll be here when we need it. 462 00:36:22,155 --> 00:36:24,279 Just scoop 'em up and put 'em in the pot. 463 00:36:24,355 --> 00:36:28,720 We gotta get this cleared up. Clear all this trash out of the water. 464 00:36:31,221 --> 00:36:32,982 How am I doing, boy? 465 00:36:34,787 --> 00:36:36,014 Fine, Dad. 466 00:36:55,621 --> 00:36:59,451 Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as invention, you know. 467 00:36:59,687 --> 00:37:02,209 It's just magnifying what already exists. 468 00:37:03,553 --> 00:37:06,610 Father often talked of things being revealed. 469 00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:09,349 That was true invention, he said. 470 00:37:09,419 --> 00:37:12,011 Revealing something's use, and magnifying it. 471 00:37:12,453 --> 00:37:15,044 Discovering it's imperfections and proving it... 472 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:17,449 ...and putting it to work for you. 473 00:37:19,486 --> 00:37:22,008 God had left the world incomplete, he said. 474 00:37:22,319 --> 00:37:24,978 And it was man's job to understand how it worked. 475 00:37:25,052 --> 00:37:27,540 To tinker with it and to finish it. 476 00:37:27,619 --> 00:37:30,211 I t