Review of King of California (2007) by Kris W — 30 Sep 2010

"We're All Searching for Something ...".

"You've got to believe in treasure to find it.".

Slow at first but worth watching for a typically good and original performance from Douglas, as well as The Wrestler's Wood.

Miranda: You don't take anything seriously do you? You think the world is just here for your amusement!

Charlie: But look at the world...

Miranda: I do. But unlike you I have to live in it!

Charlie: Breaking and entering makes everything taste... different. Makes it taste, um, livelier.

Charlie: In questions of science, the analysis of 1000 is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual! Galileo.

Charlie: Catastrophe equals opportunity.

Charlie: So then, it dawned on me one night, while the other patients were watching JAG.

Miranda: They like that in there?

Charlie: They love it.

Miranda: They searched all night, but they never did find Charlie's body. One of the cops asked me why Charlie jumped back into the hole. I told them it was where Charlie wanted to go. It was where he wanted to go all along. The cop looked at me like I was crazy, and stopped asking questions. What I didn't tell them was that if Charlie hadn't of tied me up, I probably would have followed him.

Miranda: You want to know how California got it's name? It's not named after some explorer, or king. Nope. Someone made the name up - a writer. He just pulled it out of his imagination in the 16th century, in Spain. He made up this place where there was unlimited gold, and pearls, and beautiful fierce women who wore gold armor, and rode wild beasts. And he called it California. It's true. It was a best seller back then. Charlie told me that. He said I could like it up if I didn't believe him. But I didn't need to.

Chinese Man: [last lines - something in Chinese] ... is California, ha?

Miranda: Excuse me?

Chinese Man: This place, this California, ha?

Miranda: Oh... Yeah.

Chinese Man: [announces to others in Chinese].

Miranda: Welcome.