Barfly Page #5

Synopsis: Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some clothes throwi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Barbet Schroeder
Production: Cannon Releasing
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
R
Year:
1987
100 min
1,885 Views


comes and takes you away.

You crazy ass.

How about a refill?

Ooh.

Hey, what're you doin'?

Dressing.

I know, but why?

I just can't stand lying under that

cover of money. I feel so dumb.

Hey, money isn't dumb.

They say it talks, you know.

By the way, cops came by.

- Came by where? Here?

- No, not here.

It was next door 308, two ambulance

guys carried him out.

He've been knifed.

Was he alive?

He must have been,he smoked on his cigarette.

Oh, great.

Henry, I didn't get the job.

That's ok.

We're gonna take that money and

we're gonna go to the bar.

- And we're gonna celebrate. Ok?

- All right.

Hey, Henry!

Yeah?

- Scotch on the rocks.

- Oh, the same and I'm buying for the house.

Look, your credit's no good here.

You've got to have the green.

This can't be true.

Start ? ?, my friends are thirsty.

- ? ? Henry.

- Friday night.

Eddie's gonna jab you tonight. ? ?

It's too late for that.

Eddie would think I was ? running ?.

You care what he thinks? Huh?

Hey, if Eddie whips me, you're goin'

home with him tonight?

One mistake is enough for me.

It's you and me.

But, I'll tell you something.

If I find that one you went to bed with,

I'll rip all her parts of.

Oh, honey it wasn't me.

Hello my friends!

Eddie, you're in too. Pour youself a drink.

Listen, you owe me forty bucks.

Here, keep the change. Pour yourself a drink.

Go buy yourself some bubblegum.

Give everybody a new round. Yeah.

Listen punk, I'm gonna tell you something.

Last time I fought you I had the flu.

What's it gonna be this time, the hayhays?

Now come on, start trotting, boy.

I'll f***ing pour you. I'm making a phone call.

Hey, let me get you a hamburger. Huh?

Aaah. I want a steak. Stuffed with whiskey.

Look Henry. Henry, get some sleep. Fight him

tomorrow after a couple of meals.

Heeey. Hey! I can't back down now.

It's not fair he's pouring those drinks.

He's ready for ya Henry.

Hey. His kind is no problem. One good punch

and he's bursting up looking for the exit.

You owe me 42.50.

Here baby, keep the change. Maybe you get a

taxi back to your room tonight.

To all my friends. To all my friends.

Henry. Thank you, Henry. Thank you.

Oh, all my friends.

- What is this, take out service now?

- Yeah.

- Oh, sh*t.

- What?

I mean, drink up.

Come on in boys.

Henry, I want to talk to you.

hey. I told you, I didnt want that

cage with the golden bars.

Who is this?

Wanda, this is Tally. Tally, this is Wanda.

Henry, I'm gonna scurry on over there for a few minutes.

Hey, Eddie. Drink for the lady.

Vodka, Eddie.

- Tally is a publisher, she took

one of my short stories. - Yeah?

What else did she take?

Excuse me, I don't want to be rude,

but haven't I seen you before?

- Are you a friend of Henry's?

- Yeah, I'm a real good friend of Henry's.

How about you?

Well. Henry and I are quite...

I'll say you are.

That's the parfume.

Hey. Look girls, there's realy nothing to get upset about.

Let's have a few drinks and listen to some jukebox music.

Who's gonna pay for that drink?

- I'm gonna separate you from your parts you westside b*tch!

- You get away from me!

I just want to talk to Henry for a minute.

I asked, who's gonna pay for that goddamned drink?

- Here.

- Thank you.

Now look girls. Be realistic.

None of us hardly know one another.

Basically, strangers to each other.

Heh, we've passed one night and

Wanda and me met in a bar.

Be realistic, there's no way,

there's no reality to any of this.

Another round of the drinks.

If you don't get out of here, I'm gonna

peel you away from your parfume.

- I have a drink and I attempt to sit here and drink it.

- Really?

Just get out of here now, before I finish you off.

All right. I know you need this.

Good luck. Goodbye.

To all my friends!

Come on my friends.

Let's drink up!

You're gonna fight him again? Hahaha, that's a laugh!

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA underground newspaper Open City.Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. As noted by one reviewer, "Bukowski continued to be, thanks to his antics and deliberate clownish performances, the king of the underground and the epitome of the littles in the ensuing decades, stressing his loyalty to those small press editors who had first championed his work and consolidating his presence in new ventures such as the New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, or Slipstream." Some of these works include his Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and better known works such as Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame. These poems and stories were later republished by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/Ecco Press) as collected volumes of his work. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, despite his work having received relatively little attention from academic critics during his lifetime. more…

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