A scene from The King of Staten Island 2020
Security guard

Hey, hey, wait. Hey, hey, guys. Look, look. You can't be here, man. Y-You got to go.

Tara

Why?

Security guard

It's private property, that's why.

Scott

It's an abandoned orphanage. Why can't we be here?

Richie

Who gives a shit, man? What are you doing here? You **** protecting the ghosts of dead orphans?

Security guard

Look, fat Kanye, shut your damn mouth. I'll be back in five minutes [Oscar raises middle finger] for you assholes. If you're still here, I'm calling the cops, period. [Walks away]

Oscar

You better get the cops, man, 'cause you're a fake cop. You need the real ones. Mother****ers.

Scott

**** all of y'all.

Igor

I feel bad. We- we were a little too mean.

Scott

Yeah. He's nice.

Igor

Yeah, he's a really good guy.

Kelsey

See that guy is what is wrong with Staten Island. We don’t get any of the cool people from any of the other boroughs. No one comes here. We’re stuck with the pricks who live here.

Oscar

You’re talking about us, right in front of us.

Kelsey

Kind of. I mean no one comes here! There’s no flow of people. That guy’s like two hundred. We’ve known him since we were six.

Tara

Why can’t this be like Brooklyn?

Kelsey

There’s no reason we shouldn’t be cool like Brooklyn. We’ve got amazing views. It’s close to the city. It’s cheap. Nice people. It makes no sense.

Scott

We’re like the only place New Jersey looks down on. You could see the garbage dump from space. This place is never gonna change.

Kelsey

No. It happened to the Meatpacking District, the Village. Brooklyn used to be a shithole. We’re next. I’m gonna take my civil service test. I’m gonna work for the city in city planning. You watch, this place is going to be **** Williamsburg in ten years.

Richie

Nobody wants that.

Scott

Why do you wanna work in the city and do city planning? That sounds so boring.

Tara

I feel like Brooklyn is better. I dated a guy that lived in Brooklyn. He was a mixologist. He made ice cubes out of milk. He was so classy.

Oscar

Shut up.

Kelsey

I love Staten Island. It’s amazing. And people are gonna see it soon. Trust me.

Scott

If you love it so much, why don’t you let me tattoo it on you?

Kelsey

No, I’m not letting you tattoo me again.

Scott

Well I need somebody to tattoo. Come on Rich, what about you man?

Richie

Don’t even look at me, dude.

Scott

Why?

Richie
[Points to tattoo of Obama tattoo on his arm]

Your work is mad inconsistent. Obama ain’t right.

Scott

I got the eyes wrong, okay?

Richie

He’s not right! This has hurt me. I don’t have any black friends anymore. I can’t go to a barber shop no more. You got Obama wrong. Ain’t nothing worse than that.

Scott

What about you, Igor? You want a dragon or something?

Igor

I love your tattoos. My brother? It’s the spitting image. It’s my favorite. No this is my favorite. [Lifts his shirt to reveal a tattoo of a cat with his navel implied to be the anus]

Igor

You killed that.

Scott

I really worked hard on the eyes.

Igor

He’s so cute. I love his butthole. It reminds me that I have a belly button. So I’m good.

Kelsey

I gotta go. Watching you beg to give tattoos is too sad. And that’s freaking me out.

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