Bulworth Page #10

Synopsis: Senator Jay Bulworth is facing speculation-induced financial ruin, so he puts out a contract on his own life in order to collect a large, new insurance policy for his family. Living each moment on borrowed time, he suddenly begins spouting raw, unfiltered--and sometimes offensive in word but satirical in spirit -- thoughts to shocked audiences and handlers in the speech of hip-hop music and culture. His newfound uninhibitedness and new relationship with Nina carry him on a journey of political and spiritual renewal.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Warren Beatty
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
1998
108 min
1,641 Views


If you runnin' for office

Without no TV

If you don't get big money

You get a defeat

Corporations and broadcasters

make you dead meat

You been taught in this country

there's speech that is free

But free do not get you

no spots on TV

If you want to have senators

not on the take

Then give them free air time

They won't have to fake

Telecommunications

is the name of the beast

That, that, that, that...

That's eatin' up the world

from the West to the East

The movies, the tabloids,

TV, and magazines

They tell us

what to think and do

And all our hopes and dreams

All this information

makes America phat

But if the company's

out of the country

How American is that?

But we got Americans

with families

Can't even buy a meal

Ask a brother

who's been downsized

If he's gettin' any deal

Or a white boy bustin' ass

till they put him in his grave

He ain't gotta be a black boy

to be livin' like a slave

Rich people have always

stayed on top

By dividing white people

from colored people

But white people got more

in common with colored people

Than they do with rich people

We just got to eliminate them

- Eliminate?

- Eliminate.

- Who, rich people?

- White people.

- Damn!

- Black people, too.

Brown people, yellow people.

Get rid of 'em all.

All we need is a voluntary...

free-spirited,

open-ended program...

of procreative

racial deconstruction.

Everybody just gotta

keep f***in' everybody...

till they're all the same color.

Damn!

I think it... it's gonna

take a while, but, uh...

Thank you, Senator Bulworth.

We'll return with former

Governor Lamar Alexander...

after this message.

Kill 'em live

- Kill

- Kill 'em live

My man hits the body

Bustin' caps and hardly misses

Call the taxi,

makin' sure that it records ya

For my midnight plane to Georgia

Agent double-O player,

the life giver

The name William,

Propaganda can't gas

The last man standing

Assassinate all the planet

Give 'em crack,

what you see is what you get

More stars to truck

21st-century Robin Hood

Against the politics

of robbin' 'hoods

Fought the government

'cause you know I would

'Cause the FBl's up to no good

Power to the people

to cover their own trunk

Don't end up like a street punk

- Kill

- Kill 'em live

Uh, kill 'em live

Bulworth?

I think you should

get some sleep.

He's... You gotta

get away from him.

This guy's a hitman.

He's got a gun.

Shoot 'em together.

Are you shooting them both?

Move over here

and get 'em in a two-shot.

I already got one.

This ain't worth sh*t

without a two-shot.

I got it. I got it. I got one.

Yeah, yeah, like that.

Get back up over here.

Here's the picture. Right here.

You're not getting the shot!

Damn it!

You're not getting the picture!

- She's leaving.

- I got 'em together.

- Stand over here!

- Get off my case!

I'm not on your case.

Did you get the...

Of course I did.

Two people.

I'm concerned

you didn't get the shot.

I got the shot!

Kill 'em live

- Kill

- Kill 'em live

Respect puts kids

without a battle

Politicians assassinated

Rappers get shot

For the haves

and the have-nots

The question we ask

Keeps the haves and

the have-nots guessin'

A new Smith and Wesson,

Wesson, Wesson

It wasn't the guy.

Uh...

A few days ago,

I made a deal with a guy...

for a lot of life insurance...

and then I, uh...

I paid a guy to hire a guy

to get rid of me.

I tried to call it off...

but the guy I paid

had a heart attack.

He's in the hospital

in a coma...

and there's absolutely no way

to contact whoever the guy is...

that he hired to do the job

and tell him it's off.

You know,

there's a lesson here...

which is never try to make

life or death decisions...

when you're...

when you're feelin' suicidal...

because you... you can't...

Vinnie's too cheap

to hire a hitman.

All I had to do

was get you upstairs.

He was the one who was gonna

push you off the balcony.

But I didn't get you up there.

He said if I wanted the money,

I'd have to do it myself.

Here.

I changed my mind.

Huh?

What?

So... you get it?

Ain't nobody gonna kill you.

You get it?

Jay?

Senator Jay Bulworth,

elaborately costumed...

made no explanation

or apologies...

for what seemed a much

more casual and comfortable...

mode of dress and behavior.

How's a man gonna

meet his responsibilities...

workin' in a mother

Burger King?

He ain't! And please don't even

start with that school

Ain't no education going on

up in that mother

Obscenity? I'm a senator.

- You guys shut up.

- Brothers in prisons.

I mean, the walls

are really rockin'

Shut up, Tony!

.. If they could pay

for Johnny Cochran

This morning...

the Senator's conferring

with top advisors.

Yes, I know I'm a top advisor,

and guess what?

I'll be conferring

with him, too. Good morning.

Hi, Sandy. Of course I know

where he is. Advisors.

He's conferring with advisors.

Yeah. OK. Bye.

Where the f*** is he?

And now

the nation's attention...

is focused on California...

with its last day

of heated campaigning...

before going to the polls

tomorrow.

In the Democratic

Senatorial race...

challenger Hugh Weldie began

campaigning early today...

in the San Joaquin Valley.

His opponent,

Senator Jay Bulworth...

is said to be meeting

with top advisors.

Call it

single payer or Canadian way

Only socialized medicine

will ever save the day

Come on now,

let me hear that dirty word

Socialism!

Where is

Senator Jay Bulworth?

Where is Senator Jay Bulworth?

As the Bulworth campaign

heads into its final moments...

before tomorrow's primary...

it appears to have decided to

keep its candidate under wraps.

The real obscenity

Black folks livin' with

every day

Is tryin' to believe

a mother word

Democrats and Republicans say

Obscenity?

I'm Jay Billington Bulworth

Call the police?

Think an APB

on the Senator election night...

is the kind of press

we're looking for?

Where is Senator Jay Bulworth?

That's the question

everybody is asking...

this election day

after the Senator...

astonished the political

establishment yesterday...

by making no appearances.

Bulworth Campaign Chief

Dennis Murphy said...

the Senator was behind

closed doors...

and would probably meet

with the press later today.

Good evening.

It's California primary night.

The polls have closed...

and nobody's seen

anything quite like it.

The big surprise

is Senator Jay Bulworth.

Bulworth appears

not only to have won...

the Democratic

Senatorial nomination...

with a whopping 71%

of the vote...

he's received 15%

of the Democratic vote...

and 8% of the Republican vote

as a write-in for president.

Bear in mind, Bulworth

has never expressed interest...

in running for president.

Political analysts from

the Bay Area to the Beltway...

are scratching

their heads in wonder...

over this unprecedented

turn of events.

No, Nina's no idiot.

If she was tryin'

to hide the Senator...

then she'd just...

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Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Aside from Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds. Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Among his Golden Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), his screen debut, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." more…

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