A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Wise Blood is a Comedy, Drama film released in 1979.
5 subtitle releases available in English. 3 releases include Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
00:38:52,597 --> 00:38:56,658
Protestant... or-or somethin' foreign?
402
00:38:56,765 --> 00:38:58,926
Oh, no, ma'am. It's Protestant.
403
00:39:01,432 --> 00:39:03,400
You can look at the room.
404
00:39:09,034 --> 00:39:12,094
It's $20 a week, in advance.
405
00:39:15,368 --> 00:39:18,599
Man named Hawks lives here,
don't he?
406
00:39:18,702 --> 00:39:21,637
Downstairs in the front room... -
him and his child.
407
00:39:42,106 --> 00:39:46,941
It used to be a fire escape there,
but I don't know what happened to it.
408
00:39:48,207 --> 00:39:51,768
Well, I'll take the room.
409
00:39:56,842 --> 00:39:59,242
<i>[Knocking]</i>
410
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:06,078
<i>[Lock Turning]</i>
411
00:40:09,044 --> 00:40:13,413
It's that boy, Papa... -
that one that keeps follerin' me.
412
00:40:19,513 --> 00:40:21,208
Get away.
413
00:40:21,313 --> 00:40:23,281
What do you want?
414
00:40:23,381 --> 00:40:24,871
I live here now.
415
00:40:24,980 --> 00:40:28,472
I thought if your girl
give me so much eye back there...
416
00:40:28,581 --> 00:40:30,776
I just might return some of it.
417
00:40:30,882 --> 00:40:33,783
What I give you the other day
was of a look of indignation...
418
00:40:33,882 --> 00:40:35,782
for what I seen you do.
419
00:40:35,882 --> 00:40:38,112
<i>It was you give me the eye.</i>
420
00:40:38,217 --> 00:40:41,311
You should've seen him, Papa.
He looked me up and down.
421
00:40:41,417 --> 00:40:44,580
<i>I started my own church.</i>
422
00:40:44,684 --> 00:40:47,812
I'm gonna be preachin' it
on the streets.
423
00:40:47,918 --> 00:40:50,546
You can't leave me alone,
can you, boy?
424
00:40:50,652 --> 00:40:53,553
I didn't ask you to come here,
and I ain't askin' you to hann around.
425
00:40:56,020 --> 00:41:01,583
What the hell kind of-of a preacher are you
not to see if you can save my soul?
426
00:41:13,089 --> 00:41:15,717
Goddamn Jesus hon.
427
00:41:15,823 --> 00:41:17,723
Well, look what you used to be.
428
00:41:17,823 --> 00:41:21,486
<i>Look what you tried to do.</i>
<i>You got over it.</i>
429
00:41:21,591 --> 00:41:24,116
- <i>[Engine Sputtering]</i>
- So will he.
430
00:41:27,392 --> 00:41:29,826
I don't want him around here.
He makes me nervous.
431
00:41:29,925 --> 00:41:32,723
Listen here. You help me to get him.
432
00:41:32,826 --> 00:41:35,522
Then you go away and do what you please,
and I can live with him.
433
00:41:37,694 --> 00:41:39,594
He don't even know you exist.
434
00:41:39,694 --> 00:41:42,162
Even if he don't, that's all right.
435
00:41:42,261 --> 00:41:45,424
That's how come
I can get him easy.
436
00:41:45,528 --> 00:41:49,020
I want him, and you oughta help.
Then you can go off like you want to.
437
00:41:50,863 --> 00:41:55,800
All right, but you better make it work
if you want to eat after I'm gone.
438
00:41:55,897 --> 00:41:58,730
- I'll get him.
- [Chuckles]
439
00:41:58,830 --> 00:42:01,025
That might be just fine.
440
00:42:01,132 --> 00:42:03,828
Might be the oil on Aaron's beard.
441
00:42:03,931 --> 00:42:07,128
[Laughing]
Listen here. It would be the nuts.
442
00:42:07,233 --> 00:42:09,292
I'm just crazy about him.
443
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,563
I never seen a boy
I liked the looks of any better.
444
00:42:12,667 --> 00:42:15,363
<i>Don't run him off.</i>
445
00:42:15,467 --> 00:42:19,198
Tell him how you blinded yourself for Jesus
and show him that clipping you not.
446
00:42:19,302 --> 00:42:21,202
The clipping.
447
00:42:25,935 --> 00:42:27,835
<i>[Vehicles Passing]</i>
448
00:42:27,936 --> 00:42:31,428
<i>My church is the Church Without Christ.</i>
449
00:42:31,537 --> 00:42:34,438
I am a member
and a preacher to that church...
450
00:42:34,537 --> 00:42:39,372
where the blind don't see
and the lame don't walk...
451
00:42:39,471 --> 00:42:42,201
and what's dead stays that way.
452
00:42:43,406 --> 00:42:45,806
What church you belonn to?
You, boy. There.
453
00:42:45,906 --> 00:42:49,000
- <i>I said, what church you belong to?</i>
- Church of Christ.
454
00:42:49,106 --> 00:42:51,939
Well, ask me about my church,
and I'll tell you...
455
00:42:52,041 --> 00:42:57,673
it's the church that the blood of Jesus
don't foul with redemption.
456
00:42:57,775 --> 00:43:01,472
<i>Listen here. I'm gonna take the truth</i>
<i>with me wherever I go.</i>
457
00:43:01,575 --> 00:43:03,873
<i>I'm gonna preach it</i>
<i>to whoever will listen.</i>
458
00:43:03,976 --> 00:43:06,342
<i>I'm gonna preach</i>
<i>that there was no fall...</i>
459
00:43:06,443 --> 00:43:09,708
'cause there was nothin'
to fall from.
460
00:43:09,810 --> 00:43:12,574
No redemption
'cause there was no Fall...
461
00:43:12,678 --> 00:43:16,444
<i>and noJudgment</i>
<i>because there wasn't the first two.</i>
462
00:43:16,545 --> 00:43:20,345
Nothin' matters
but that Jesus Ch
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