She's looking at old photos of them and trying to use them as evidence for her point, but Charlie isn't really having any of it.CHARLIE: Tenth grade, I'm sixteen years old, and for once, I bring home a report card, and it's almost all A's. [repeated line]
[smiling]
RAYMOND: Thirteen minutes to Judge Wapner and The People's Court.
As you might imagine, Charlie is super annoyed at his father's will. Ray had previously liked to spell out the name of a guy at Wallbrook named Vern, whom he called his "main man." And being raised without a mother, the hardness of your heart is understandable as well. [Pulls out red book and writes in it] Again: a big sign of growth in Charlie's character. I got a little carried away. Then, he's even more confused by the fact that Ray doesn't seem to SUSANNA: Charlie, you're his brother! What are you writing?
What the f*** is this?
An angry driver is yelling at him] But at the end of the movie, he's started doing that same ritual with his brother's name. [to Charlie] Apparently, Ray also remembers the bad stuff he's done to others—and he was involved in some kind of accident/incident that almost hurt Charlie when Charlie was a baby. He uses the spelling to show a connection to/affection for a person, and it's about as close to saying "I love you" as Ray seems to get. Joseph Albert Wapner (November 15, 1919 – February 26, 2017) was an American judge and television personality. Rain Man is a 1988 film about abrasive Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to an autistic savant brother, Raymond.
[Charlie is pulling Raymond's books off the shelves, leaving Raymond nervous]
I think you're exaggerating. I take it anyway, I steal the keys, I sneak it out.
[Raymond is about to go back to Walbrook on a train.
Here, Charlie is explaining some of the sad backstory to his family. Naturally, instead of feeling guilty/apologizing, Charlie just becomes enraged. As you might imagine, the very money-focused Charlie is not happy.CHARLIE: He got $3 million, but he didn't get the rose bushes. They tell you today for the first time that you have a brother, and I don't see in your face one little reaction. My father cut me out of his will.
I hereby bequeath to my son, Charles Sanford Babbitt, that certain Buick convertible, the very car that, unfortunately, brought our relationship to an end.Despite supposedly "forgiving" his son in the letter read with his will, the elder Babbitt certainly throws in a lot of digs in there… and leaving Charlie the car that broke up their relationship reeks more of "slap in the face" than "Hey, son, wish we could have worked things out."
And if you understood that—if you understood that it's funny—you know, you might get better.
I got a little greedy. [Ray and Charlie are sitting at a duck pond.
Charlie and Ray end up bonding eventually, and Charlie finally gets how to relate to/communicate with Ray and address his needs (in terms of communication and everything else).
SUSANNA: You were his only child.