Ma Flodder Quotes in Flodder (1986)

Johnnie: [showing a portrait to Ma Flodder] Mom, must he be taken with us as well?

Ma Flodder: Where did you find that? That face I haven't seen for ten years.

Johnnie: It was under your bed.

Ma Flodder: Away with that. I don't want to be involved with your father.

Dochter Kees: [approaches Ma Flodder and looks at the picture] Is that my father?

Ma Flodder: His father, not yours.

Journalist: Could we take a photo?

Ma Flodder: A photo? Of what?

Journalist: Of the whole family? For the newspaper.

Henkie: How much money is that?

Ma Flodder: Yeah... how much is that?

Journalist: About paying, that is...

Henkie: 100 bucks.

Journalist: 100 guilders?

Ma Flodder: No, 100 bucks, otherwise no photo!

Ma Flodder: [throwing rubbish in the bin, but a toy train does not land in the bin but on the floor near the bin. The toy train breaks and something falls out. It seems to be a lot of bank notes held together with an elastic] Now what the heck?

[literally: now get the tuberculosis!]

Ma Flodder: Ma Flodder:

[takes more toy trains out of the bin, drops them on the floor so that they break. More banknotes falling out]

Ma Flodder: Now what the heck is this?

[later in the living room]

Johnnie: What the heck is this?

Ma Flodder: 825.000 guilders!

Johnnie: [amazed] In his little toy trains?

Ma Flodder: A nice piece of inheritance!

Jacques 'Sjakie' van Kooten: [emotional, slightly upset] Deep in their heart, they are... they are very sensitive people!

[On Flodder's old location a lamp falls down and crashes on the floor]

Ma Flodder: [furious] You dirty bitch, can't you look out, damnit?

[hits Toet]

Whisky: [barks] Grrrr

Ma Flodder: [yelling to Whisky] And you, you have to get lost, you shitbag.

[kicks Whisky in the pink car]

Whisky: [howling]

Johnny Flodder: [seeing three black men beating up someone] Quite an unbalance, don't you think?

[the gang stops the beating]

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): Check this up, fellows! Who the fuck you think you are, the Partridge Family?

Johnny Flodder: Leave that man alone!

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): Who the fuck are you?

Johnny Flodder: I am Johnnie, this is my family and we're from Holland!

[Gang is laughing out loud]

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): Well, well, well, you check this out, Johnnie! You don't see fucking Holland again!

Negro gang #2 (with a cap): Yo... where's Holland?

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): It is in the Bronx, don't you know what I think?

Negro gang #2 (with a cap): Cut him, Leroy.

Leroy: Yeah... I wanna cut him.

[gets his knife]

Johnny Flodder: [is faster though, and kicks Leroy on the ground]

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): Yeah, get some fuckin' ass!

[gets his baseball club]

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): Let's get them...

[swings but misses]

Negro gang #2 (with a cap): [gets a chain and wants to hit Ma Flodder]

Ma Flodder: [wraps the chain around him, and takes some liquid, and spits in his face]

Negro gang #2 (with a cap): My eyes! I can't see!

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): [tries to hit with the club but hits one of his fellows] Fuck!

Toet Flodder, Henkie Flodder: [get a bin, turn it upside down and cover Gang #2 with it, kick him at the legs]

Negro gang #2 (with a cap): [falls]

Johnny Flodder: [hits gang #1]

Negro gang #1 (with a bandana): [gets disoriented and hits Kees's boobs and then falls down]

Ma Flodder: [laughs]