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After glorifying the status a gun grants a person, Josh asks his parents for a rifle so that he can go hunting with his grandfather. This scene happens in the first part of Bang Bang You’re Dead, after the audience has learned that Josh used this rifle to kill his parents and five students at his school. In asking them for the rifle, Josh reveal himself to be manipulative and shrewd in dealing with his parents, able to coax and con them into doing whatever he wants.
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ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) Josh, there's no way we're buying you a rifle.
JOSH Mom, will you listen to me?
ACTOR 1 (AS JOSH'S DAD) First you had to have a p.c., then every video game ever made, then a laptop--
JOSH For school, dad.
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ACTOR 1 (AS JOSH'S DAD) At least that showed an interest in music.
ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) Yeah, and now it's collecting dust in the closet.
(Actors 1 and 3 walk off arguing.)
JOSH Divide and conquer. Works every time. So don't blame me. Blame my folks, okay? They didn't have to buy me a rifle.
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