Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Telling Phrase 11: "I killed him Gilbert"

This phrase from "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio was used constantly by the high school youth group that my dad worked with as a minister when I was just a kid. This phrase was used to express confessions of any kind. The context in the movie is when Arnie (DiCaprio) is playing with a grasshopper. He uses the mailbox as a guillotine to behead the grasshopper. At first he thinks that its hilarious, but when he realizes that he had done something mean, he runs to his older brother Gilbert (Depp) and cries. As he cries he confesses over and over again, "I killed him Gilbert."

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