Clerks (Comedy) (1994) © 1999 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Dante Hicks..................Brian O'Halloran A 22 year old collage drop-out who is a clerk in a convenience store (which is a small food store).Randal Graves...............Jeff Anderson Dante's best friend, who works in the video store right next to Dante's store. Veronica.........................Marilyn Ghigliotti Dante's good-hearted girlfriend who is trying to get him to go back to school and improve his life. Caitin...............................Lisa Spoonhauer Dante's former girlfriend from high school who returns to see him after many years, after he learns that she is going to get married. Plot Summary The story of a single day in the life of Dante Hicks, who finds himself forced to work at his job as a convenience store clerk on his only day off. As a 22 year old collage drop out working for low wages at a store in a mall in Ashbury Park, New Jersey, Dante is the classic underachiever whose life is "going nowhere." There is not that much of a plot, but rather simply a series of things that happen throughout the day: An anti-smoking fanatic disrupts the store for selling cigarettes, Veronica and Dante engage in constant arguments about their relationship, Randal takes Dante to the funeral of an old girlfriend, Veronica returns to ask Dante if she would go out with him, and so on. Ultimately, this movie is simply a portrait of the type of people that work and use these type of stores. But as such, it is an often very funny window into one of the more mundane aspects of American culture. You should also be aware that the language is often very difficult to follow since many of the characters speak extremely colloquial English. Words and Expressions that You may not Know Dante awakes to find that instead of going to play hockey, he must work at the store all day. I'm fucking tired. A very crude but common intensifier (used like "really"). Do you swear you'll be there by 12? Here it means to promise, though it can also mean to use obscene words. Shit! The quintessential English obscenity. Vilification. The act of describing someone as a villain or bad person, even if they aren't. A new customer has a problem with cigarettes, but it appears that his motives are not completely pure. Thanks. Have a good one. A slangy way to say "have a good day." What in the hell is that? A colloquial way to add emphasis or emotion to a "Wh question." You have got to be shitting me! An interesting way to say "You can't be serious!" Note that "have got to"----> "gotta" in rapid speech. Trachea. Part of the body that carries air to the lungs (a "voice box"). Cruddy lungs. A colloquial and dated word f责任编辑:yechenglu
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