Bulworth Page #3

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
1,639 Views


that in 1990 Los Angeles...

churches are burning.

Smell smoke? I don't smell sh*t.

If there's a fire,

I don't know where it is.

We have to be running along.

Coming through. Thank you.

Hey, Senator! Listen, hon.

Like what she said.

We into politics.

We want to work

on your campaign.

We need some jobs volunteering.

I don't mind volunteering.

It's on to Beverly Hills

on our new schedule...

and our friends the Liebowitzes.

We're into

that whole political... Nina.

To prevent any damage

to this wonderful landmark...

- Yo.

- Yo. Yo to you.

- Later.

- I was hoping for sooner.

- What'd you say?

- Later is good.

You tryin' to mack on my sister?

There's no macking

going on here, young man.

I really think

we should be on our way.

We should go.

Feldman, my friends here

would like to volunteer.

What can you help us with?

It's a shame we didn't get

into the heart of your remarks.

You want to volunteer?

You've always had tremendous

support in this district.

Come on, that Nina. Woof!

Oh, yes.

Woof! Woof!

Never underestimate

the value of a frank exchange.

- What does "mack" mean?

- Mack?

Macavoy, what does mack mean?

Gary, do you know?

Like, "You're macking

on my sister"?

For you to be running

against Hugh Weldie...

who has just leapt on

the neoconservative bandwagon...

Uh, is your sciatic nerve

bothering you again?

No, no, no, I'm fine.

Several of our people

find Weldie's duplicity...

particularly, uh...

You've had such a tough day.

What do you say we get you

some downtime?

I could cover for you

at the Liebowitzes'.

- Are you kidding me?

- Absolutely.

After all the money

we've worked these guys for?

We get more money from

these jokers than the Chinese.

I'll tell you what.

I've got an idea. Pull over.

Gary, what do you say you and I

and your colleagues...

head on over to headquarters?

That is a good idea. Great.

Let's do that. Come on, Gar.

And we'll see you

in Beverly Hills.

That is a good idea.

Gary, this is gonna be

much better.

You are gonna get

a behind-the-scenes look...

at how a campaign

actually operates.

You eat on the plane, Senator?

No.

- How long since you ate?

- Wednesday.

Ha ha ha!

Pull in here, will you?

I'm starving.

Let's get some chicken wings.

Frankly, this is getting

uncomfortable for me.

A third of the guests

have left already.

A third of the guests are drunk.

When do you think he'll be here?

I think he'll be here

any second.

You do?

He's had such a day.

The senator is helping

the state department...

work out details

on a new guarantee.

A new guarantee? I'm sorry.

The West Bank.

You didn't hear it from me.

The West Bank.

He'll be here any second.

Yo, Senator Bulworth.

Here we are... volunteer valets.

Manny and Dorothy Liebowitz.

Hello. It's good to see you.

Sid Sheinberg and Lew Wasserman

had to leave...

but I'm sure they'd agree

the security of the West Bank...

is more important

than you being on time.

I was just grabbing a bite.

Come in.

We'll be out shortly.

We can't ask the Liebowitzes

to throw open their doors...

to a national

television audience, can we?

Nonsense.

Mi casa es su casa, huh?

Yes!

Oh, miss, um...

Thank you very much.

Do you think those of us

in the entertainment business...

need government help

in determining limits...

on the amount

of sex and violence...

in today's films

and television programs?

You know, the funny thing

is how, uh...

lousy most of your stuff is.

You make violent films

and dirty films...

and you make family films...

but most of 'em

are not very good, are they?

It's funny

that so many smart people...

could work so hard and

spend all that money...

and make so much money on 'em...

What do you think it is?

It must be the money, huh?

It turns everything to crap.

But how much money

do you guys really need?

I mean...

you be honest with me,

and don't spare my feelings.

Do you have any more

of the crispy crab cakes?

Wait! Just wait a minute.

Aah!

Do you think

it's advisable...

to schedule campaign stops

with industry leaders...

when you have such

a low opinion of their product?

My guys are not stupid.

They always put the big Jews

on my schedule.

You're mostly Jews here, right?

Three out of four anyway.

Excuse me?

I bet Murphy put something bad

about Farrakhan in here for you.

Thank you, Senator.

I know I speak for you

when I say I'm energized...

by your...

this kind of give and take.

Can you play that

crispy crab cakes remark again?

Hey!

Oh, great.

I think everybody

was challenged by your candor.

Let Bob Dole put that

in his pipe and smoke it.

Just get out!

All of you are fired!

F*** you! We are volunteers.

The senator's

gonna go to his hotel and sleep.

We stayed

too long already. We out!

- You girls want a ride?

- Yeah!

Get the stuff.

Get in the limo, big butt.

- That sh*t be awesome!

- Where we going?

Where can we drop

you young women?

Just take us down La Brea.

We'll take a bus.

No. We goin' down to Frankie's.

- Frankie's?

- Yeah.

We'll take you.

I don't want to go down

to no Frankie's.

What's Frankie's?

Are you trippin'?

Let's go, Macavoy.

I can't stand when people

wanna flex their authority.

I can't believe him

tryin' to tell us to...

I don't think you need

to feel badly...

about going to the hotel

and getting some sleep.

You've had a tough day.

Letterman

ain't no Arsenio Hall.

I heard that Arsenio

was a two-minute brother.

You buggin'.

I heard the head of Arsenio's

jimmy big as a apple.

Why don't we take a look

at that new 30-second spot?

My name's Jay Bulworth.

You don't know nothin'

about Arsenio's jimmy.

I got the 411

from Sanequa James.

- She saw it up close.

- You mean his dick?

I really like it

when you serve the potato salad.

It's very dynamic.

She gave him the nappy dugout.

Nappy dugout?

Man got a nine-inch jimmy.

But she booty ugly!

Dugout, do some nappy tricks.

Nappy dugout.

Jimmy and the nappy dugout.

Nappy tricks.

- Some of the Frisbee tricks.

- Yeah.

Our welfare system

is out of control.

Ladies,

we'll just be five minutes...

because the senator is meeting

the cardinal in the morning.

If I have to meet

with the mackerel snappers...

can't I just dump the sultan?

Two seconds.

Let me make a security check.

Bulworth!

Oom boop sheh bam

oh coo-coo mop

Can ya sing, Bulworth?

Rock until you can't be a ghost.

You got to sing.

Be a spirit. That's how

these n*ggers got here.

Ghosts got 'em

when they touched each other.

Be a spirit!

And the spirit will not descend

without song.

You got to sing, fool.

Don't be no ghost, Bulworth!

Not him. No cameras.

That's a tough break.

I thought

they'd let you follow us...

but the camera

must make them nervous.

How disappointing.

- He with you?

- He all right.

Check your weapons.

I don't think we have

any weapons.

- Expecting trouble?

- No.

You can't do nothin'

in five years.

His family owns a pork shop

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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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