![]() Napoleon: Whatever I feel like I want to do. Kid on the school bus: What are you going to do today, Napoleon? We, too, want to do whatever we feel like. This line is our introduction to Napoleon, and right out of the blocks, our hero gives us wise words to live by. ‘People are either laughing or they’re not': An oral history of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ (Part 2)ġ. ‘Gosh!’ An oral history of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ (Part 1) I don’t have a fishing license, says the woman. A game warden walks up and asks to see her fishing license. Then he opens his tackle box, pulls out a stick of dynamite, lights it and drops it into the lake. The old man relents and rows out to the middle of the lake. ![]() Deseret News writer Court Mann interviewed just about everyone (more or less) involved with the creation of the film for our "Napoleon Dynamite" oral histories part one and two, but to celebrate the actual anniversary Tuesday, we turn to a few of the movie's most quotable lines. A woman is walking on a beach in Texas carrying two Redfish in a bucket. A game warden sees an old man going out fishing alone and asks if he can go along. SALT LAKE CITY - Fifteen years ago Tuesday, on June 11, 2004, Utah filmmakers, BYU graduates and married couple Jerusha and Jared Hess gave the world "Napoleon Dynamite." What started as a $400,000 indie film shot in Jared Hess's Preston, Idaho, hometown turned into a national movie phenomenon that eventually made over $44 million at the domestic box office and another $130 million in DVD sales. ![]()
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