Caroline Kava Biography
Caroline Kava was born on September 25, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Number One (1998) and Year of the Dragon (1985).
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Family Conflict and Strained Relationships
Mrs. Kovic:
What happened in that war? What happened to you? You need help, Ronnie, you need help.
Ron Kovic:
No, you need help! All your God and your bullshit dreams about me!
Mrs. Kovic: [She starts telling the other children to go to bed]
You'll wake the whole neighborhood.
Ron Kovic:
YOU ARE ASHAMED OF ME! You're EMBARRASSED by me.
Tommy Kovic:
Please, Mom, let me talk to him.
Mrs. Kovic:
You go to bed!
Ron Kovic:
FUCK YOU!
Mr. Kovic:
Don't you talk to your mother like that!
Mrs. Kovic: [Comes back to Ron's room, enraged; Smacks Ron's face a couple of times and leaves; Ron strolls after her]
What did you say to me?! WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME??
Ron Kovic:
FUCK YOU!!!
Mr. Kovic:
Ronnie, that's ENOUGH!
Mrs. Kovic:
You're gonna wake the whole neighborhood!
Ron Kovic:
OH, WAKE EM UP! TELL THEM! CUSACKS, CAMELLETTIS, WALSHES!! You tell them all! Tell them what they did to me. What they did to this country.
Mrs. Kovic: [To Mr. Kovic]
They're gonna call the police this time
Ron Kovic:
We went to Vietnam to stop communism!... We shot women and children!
Mrs. Kovic:
You didn't shoot women and children! What are you saying?
Ron Kovic:
That was the war, communism, the insidious evil! They told us to go.
Mrs. Kovic:
Yes, yes that's what they told us.
Ron Kovic:
Thou shalt not kill, Mom. Thou shalt not kill women and children! Thou shalt not kill! Remember? Isn't that what you taught us? Isn't that what they taught us?
Mrs. Kovic:
Stop it! Stop it!
Ron Kovic:
But they're the evil, Mom. They're the ones we should be fighting. They lied to me growing up, they lied to all of us, but it's not gonna work anymore. Not for you... for me... for anybody else.
Mrs. Kovic:
Stop it, stop it! As long as you're in this house, you will not talk that way. Eli, please stop him.
Mr. Kovic:
Ron, come on now... you made your point, now stop.
Ron Kovic:
No, I haven't made my point. Tell her, Dad. They're killing everybody now.
Mrs. Kovic:
I didn't force you to go!!
Ron Kovic:
YES, YOU DID! YES, YOU DID!!! It's all falling apart, Mom! King. Kennedy. Kent State. We all lost the war, Mom. Fucking Communism won! It's all for nothing!
Mrs. Kovic:
That is not true, Ronnie.
Ron Kovic:
What do you know, Ma? WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!?
Tommy Kovic:
Ron.
Ron Kovic: [Unzips his pants and sticks his hand in]
What? Tell her, Tommy. You tell her, Dad! Tell her it's all a lie! It's a fucking lie! Tell her God's as dead as my legs. There's no God and there's no country. It's just me... and this fucking wheelchair for the rest... of my life. It's just me and this... dead... penis.
Mrs. Kovic: [Hysterically disgusted]
OH MY GOD! RONNIE!!
Mr. Kovic:
Don't, Ronnie! Not with the catheter! For God sake!
Ron Kovic:
DEAD... PENIS!
Mrs. Kovic:
Oh, GOD! Eli, I can't take this anymore.
Mr. Kovic: [Notices the children]
Go to your rooms. Go to your ROOMS!
Mrs. Kovic: [To Ron]
THE HELL WITH YOU!!!
Ron Kovic:
In church they said that it's a sin if you play with your penis, I wish I could.
Mrs. Kovic:
Don't say "penis" in this house!
Ron Kovic:
Penis!
Mrs. Kovic:
Stop!
Ron Kovic:
Penis! Big fucking erect penis, MA!
Mrs. Kovic:
STOOOOOOP!!
Ron Kovic:
PENIS! PENIIIIIIIIIS!!!
Mrs. Kovic: [Praying in tears]
Lord, he won't let go, what do I do?
Ron Kovic: [Notices his mother sits down crying, and he, too, is in tears; Softens]
I really don't have time to learn to use it. It's gone in some jungle. Some fucking jungle over there. It's just gone. I'm sorry it happened this way. I'm sorry if you're sad, Mom. I'm so sorry you're sad. I'm sorry.
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