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9.<br />

FERRIS (CONT'D)<br />

"I don't believe in Beatles, I just<br />

believe in me." A good point there.<br />

Afterall, he was the Walrus.<br />

He opens a linen closet and tosses the towel in it.<br />

FERRIS (CONT'D)<br />

I could be the Walrus and I'd still<br />

have to bum rides off people.<br />

He passes CAMERA and goes into his room.<br />

INT. BEDROOM<br />

FERRIS (O.S.) (CONT'D)<br />

I'm not very political? Let me put<br />

that into perspective...<br />

<strong>Ferris</strong> tosses the towel he's dried hair with on the bed.<br />

He opens his door.<br />

INT. CLOSET<br />

FERRIS<br />

My uncle went to Canada to protest<br />

the war, right? On the Fourth of<br />

July he was down with my aunt and he<br />

got drunk and told my Dad he felt<br />

guilty he didn't fight in Viet Nam.<br />

So I said, "What's the deal, Uncle<br />

Jeff? In wartime you want to be a<br />

pacifist and in peacetime you want<br />

to be a soldier. It took you twenty<br />

years to find out you don't believe<br />

in anything?"<br />

(snaps his fingers)<br />

Grounded. Just like that. Two weeks.<br />

(pause)<br />

Be careful when you deal with old<br />

hippies. They can be real touchy.<br />

The door opens and <strong>Ferris</strong> rifles through his shirts.<br />

FERRIS<br />

My mother was a hippie. But she lost<br />

it. She got old. If she listens to<br />

the White Album now? She doesn't<br />

hear music, she hears memories.<br />

Nostalgia is her favorite drug. It'll<br />

probably be mine, too. I hope not.<br />

He finds a shirt he likes. He steps back from the closet and<br />

puts it on. He drops the towel.

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