Joy Ride (2023)

Sabrina Wu: Deadeye

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Quotes 

• Deadeye : My legal name is Vanessa. Call me Deadeye.

  Kat : Oh, where did that... come from?

  [Deadeye stares at Kat, dead-eyed] 

  Kat : You know, I think I get it.

• Lolo : [chuckles]  Yeah. Um... so, when we get to Beijing, you're gonna meet up with your BTS friends, right?

  Audrey : Yeah, awesome.

  Deadeye : Yes. @Jinderalla88, @JHopesGirl, @SugaIsMyDaddy.

  Audrey : Oh, online people?

  Deadeye : Yeah, they're my best friends. I went to @Jinderalla88's wedding on Zoom.

  Audrey : Awesome.

  Deadeye : He married a pillow.

• [after learning Audrey is actually Korean and not Chinese] 

  Nai Nai Chen : [in English]  I want my dress back.

  Grandpa Chen : [in Mandarin]  I knew she was Korean. Just look at her big round face.

  [all sighing] 

  Nai Nai Chen : [in Cantonese]  At least she's not Japanese.

  Deadeye : [in English]  Stop being so racist!

• Lolo : Her address is on there. She lives in Haiching, which is super close to Nai Nai's. And we'll just stay with them.

  Deadeye : Oh, no, no, no. She can't handle it!

  Audrey : Wait, no. Why not? I can handle it.

  Lolo : Nai Nai's like, Chinese-Chinese. Like, "super long hair coming out of a mole and refuses to pluck it 'cause it's bad luck" Chinese.

  Kat : "Forces you to overeat, and then comments on your weight later" Chinese.

  Lolo : Like, literally, "take her bra off, wipe her under-boob sweat in the middle of a Buddhist temple and make you sniff it" Chinese.

  Kat : "Has a plastic bag full of other plastic bags" Chinese.

• Helen : [in English]  You, Korea girl.

  Audrey : Uh...

  [Helen motions at adoption papers] 

  Kat : [reading papers]  Your mom's name is Min Park.

  Audrey : That... That's a mistake. I'm... I'm Chinese. I... I went to Chinese school for a year. I... I... We... We celebrated Chinese New Year's. I...

  Deadeye : But Korea's great. I mean, there's... There's mukbang, soju, Hyundai, Gangnam Style, half of Hines Ward, half of Charles Melton, all of Randall Park.

• Kat : [in Mandarin]  A native speaker is better than a brainless foreigner.

  [all laugh] 

  Lolo : [in Mandarin]  Why don't you eat a dick? Eat a big one or a small one. Whatever you like.

  Audrey : [laughs along]  What is that?

  Deadeye : [in Mandarin]  I also speak Chinese!

  [all laughing] 

• Lolo : [rapping a K-pop version of WAP]  Wet ass pussy/beat it up, Lolo/catch a charge/Kumon smart and Kumon hard/Put this pussy/on a girl named Grace/Who got them A's/on a report card

  Kat , Audrey : Hop on top, I wanna ride/In a rice rocket/that's a Hyundai/Cut up that duck/don't cut up the eyes/This pussy is wet/we know how to dive

  Deadeye : [background]  Olympics

  Lolo : Thai me up

  Kat : Like I'm tea iced

  Lolo : Let's go play

  Audrey : Just not on the slide

  Lolo , Kat , Audrey : I want you to park/that plastic couch

  Lolo : Right in this dusty garage

• Audrey : We don't need fuckin' passports. Let's go. Let's think. No bad ideas. Let's go.

  Lolo : We could flash our titties and just hitchhike the whole way.

  Audrey : That's a bad idea.

  Deadeye : We could take a rocket to space and then try to land in Korea. No customs in the atmosphere.

  Audrey : I feel like that's worse.

  Deadeye : Okay, uh, we become mail-order brides, uh, and then we... We find a really big envelope and then we could just...

  [makes whoosh noise] 

  Audrey : I fuckin' love that spirit, Deadeye. Just keep thinking.

  Deadeye : We take coke again and we just sprint.

  Audrey : [Tuts]  No more coke!