The Gambler

471 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,720 to a classroom full of students who don't give a fuck. 472 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:10,280 You know 473 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,480 you really should have gone for American Realism. 474 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,280 I mean, let's have more fucking realism. 475 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,440 I mean, shouldn't I be teaching you things? 476 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,880 Nah, I should. 477 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,760 I mean, I know all you're here for is a sufficiency of English credits 478 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,360 but, Jesus, if I'm here, I ought to be doing better, right? 479 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,200 I could stand here stark naked 480 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,280 and I could yell as loud as I want, and nobody cares. 481 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,480 When you leave here today, call your parents 482 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,760 and tell them you apologize for wasting their time 483 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,136 and more importantly, wasting their money 484 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,120 sitting in this classroom, learning absolutely nothing. 485 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,200 Let's start fresh. Let's clean the slate right now. 486 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,240 Let me introduce myself. 487 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:00,320 My name is James Bennett. 488 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,240 I'm here pretending to teach. 489 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,800 And you've been here pretending to learn. 490 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:09,360 This is what I want you to do. 491 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,120 Write down that he saves the sixth shot 492 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,560 symbolically for himself. 493 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,296 You're not going to find a reference anywhere, okay? 494 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,256 Because I am the only one who thought of it, all right? 495 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,760 It's in a monograph somewhere that got me into this situation 496 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,840 where I can't, so I pretend to teach. 497 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,280 And you pretend to learn. 498 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,080 Lamar! The fucking phone! 499 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,240 You stay after. Everybody else, just go. 500 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:36,840 Go. 501 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:38,360 Go! 502 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,400 I guess, we should go. 503 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:43,320 Coming? 504 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,880 What do I have to do? 505 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:53,080 What do I do? Get ten guys 506 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,576 some weapons, take out a life insurance policy 507 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,720 and try to put that phone up your ass? Because I will. 508 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,280 I need you to pay attention. 509 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,520 Is that too much to ask for, huh? You come into this class 510 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,400 and you pay attention for a fucking hour? 511 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,040 You know, they expect me to pass you, regardless. 512 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,360 Regardless! They want me to give you a passing grade 513 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,200 so you can keep going out there and bouncing that basketball around. 514 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,600 I need you to put the phone down for a second. 515 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,360 You're not the only one losing his shit. 516 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,120 I was going to talk to you anyway. 517 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,480 Because I can't talk to anybody over there. 518 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:25,736 'Cause all they going to say is what keeps me in line 519 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:26,880 for what they want me to be. 520 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,400 Which is "Lamar," but I don't want to be "Lamar." 521 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:30,480 I done all that. 522 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,720 I just want to be another fucking dude in the universe 523 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,240 or do more than just being "Lamar." 524 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:37,840 Yeah, I know all about it. 525 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,560 But the fucking coach don't know about it. 526 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,360 There's more than being "Lamar." 527 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,680 I stick with this shit, man, I'll go out of my mind. 528 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:45,816 Probably be one of those brothers 529 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,960 that talks to himself in, like, third person and shit. 530 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,040 Talk about how, "Lamar is at ease with his celebrity." 531 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,160 They got me in a box where they want me. 532 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,240 Trapped by talent. Imagine that. 533 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,640 You know, man, in here, it's all existential situations and shit. 534 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:01,760 No matter what you start talking about 535 00:42:01,840