Bulworth Page #8

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


Hello?

Hello?

Senator Bulworth.

Wait here.

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Come on in. Come in.

Hey, y'all.

Hey!

This is Senator Jay Bulworth.

- Hold on, Steve.

- Hi.

Well,

I'm Governor Tyrone Pickney...

and this here is Osgood,

my Secretary of State...

and my Attorney General,

Denisha.

Hey, Momma Doll...

we're feeding the Senator.

Senator?

You'll have

to take that suit off...

and get it cleaned

before you go back on TV.

Marcus Garvey,

get the man some pants.

Get him some pants.

How you doing?

Bulworth

unveiled a new strategy...

at a fundraising brunch

earlier today...

which sources within

the campaign said...

raised a million and a half

dollars.

Major contributors

were noncommittal when asked...

how they felt about Bulworth's

anti-business remarks.

Later, in a televised...

Momma Doll

is me and Tyrone's mama.

Rafeeq there

is Tyrone's son by Vanetta.

She died in '83.

I am the sheik of Araby

Your love belongs to me

Nina and Darnell's mama passed.

She was the baby.

No, uh-uh.

I'm gonna tell this fool

I'm going to the cleaners.

The lights are low

Between your legs I'll go

Stop playing with that food.

He ain't doing no harm,

Harriet, and if he is...

I'll be the one to tell him.

I'm going to check on the suit.

Taking too long.

Ain't nobody talking to you.

Where you going?

Cleaners.

Oh.

How you like your greens,

General... Senator?

I love collard greens.

Love 'em.

That's kale.

Oh, kale.

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Insane in the membrane

Not a peep.

Doctor says there's no telling.

Davers, just wait there

till he wakes up.

Where'd you say

the cleaners was?

Two blocks down, one block over?

You're going

outside in this neighborhood?

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Insane in the membrane

Went insane, got no brain

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Too much sh*t undercover

Now it's time for the blubber,

blabber

Watch that belly get fatter

Fat boy on a diet

Don't try it,

I'll jack your ass

Like a looter in a riot

My sh*t's phat like a sumo

Slammin' that ass,

leaving your face in the grass

You know I don't take

a chulo lightly

Yo.

Hey, motherf***er,

you buying?

You buying or what?

No. I'm going to the cleaners.

F*** you.

F*** me.

We're doing business here,

cracker.

Wouldn't you rather have

some ice cream?

I'm buying.

You let that man

go out by hisself?

The man is grown.

I go out every day.

If I can go, he can.

A U.S. Senator should be OK...

among his own constituents.

Hey!

You little spooks

find some extra cash today?

F*** you.

You little

black piece of sh*t.

Did you say "f*** you" to me?

No, sir.

I said f*** your mama.

Hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey.

Come on.

Everybody freeze!

Freeze! Freeze!

Nobody move!

Hey, you freeze!

You chicken hawk f*ggot.

Get on the ground...

or I'm going to blow

your brains out!

Could I have

your badge number?

Kiss my ass, badge number!

On the ground, right now!

I think you ought

to give me your name.

My name? Shut up!

Get on the ground

and do it now!

- Mark.

- Get down or you're dead!

Get down or I'm gonna blow

your f***in' brains out!

Mark! No, no, no, Mark!

This is Jay Bulworth.

This is Jay Bulworth, Mark.

It's Senator Jay Bulworth.

- I don't give a...

- Senator?

- Senator Bulworth...

- Sh*t!

This is my partner, Mark.

Hi, Mark.

What the f***

is going on here? Sir.

If you get in your car, I won't

recognize you in a lineup.

And it'd be a good idea

to say, "I'm sorry, " huh?

Oh, man, I waited my whole life

for this moment.

I'm...

sorry.

Say, "No problem, Officer. "

Oh, f*** your mama,

you f***in' pig cocksucker.

That's good enough. Take off.

Stupid ass, huh?

Wha...

Oh, y'all, look. L.D.

L.D.! Kickin' ass, man.

You lookin' for Nina?

Open a can of whup ass!

Insane in the brain

Insane in the membrane

Insane in the brain

Insane in the membrane

Insane, got no brain

Everything's lined up,

all perfect and in sync.

The guy stumbles over his dick

into his greatest opportunity...

then decides

he might not show up.

You might ask,

"Why the f*** not? "

"I don't want to talk about it. "

You don't wanna talk about it?

You were on a f***in' roll.

Our commitment...

to carry those enduring ideals

with us...

will renew their promise

in a new century...

and a new millennium.

We have got...

We've got to balance

the federal budget.

Wanna see me

balance a spoon on my nose?

People who like

government programs that...

Sh*t.

Where's Nina?

Good lookin' out

on the shorties, you know?

It ain't every day

that a white man...

comes to rescue

my little soldiers.

I appreciate it, you know?

Little soldiers?

Uh, what... what exactly

do you know about it?

Your ass live up in

Beverly Hills somewhere, right?

I provide for these

little brothers right here.

These little brothers

is my first line of defense.

They my little eyes and ears.

Where's Nina?

I'm givin' them

entry-level positions...

into the only growth-sector

occupation...

truly open to them right now.

That's the substance

supply industry.

They gonna run this sh*t

someday.

They gonna have

the whole empire.

You don't give a f*** about it.

You greedy-ass politicians.

That's what you tell me...

every time y'all vote

to cut them school programs...

and vote to cut them funds

to the job programs.

F***, how a man gonna handle his

financial responsibilities...

workin' at motherfuckin'

Burger King?

He ain't.

And don't start

with the school sh*t.

They ain't no education goin'

on up in that motherf***er.

Y'all motherfuckin' politicians

done f***ed the sh*t up.

So what they gonna do?

What a man supposed to do, then?

He gonna come to me,

that's what.

Why? 'Cause I'm a businessman.

As a businessman, you gotta

limit your liabilities.

That's what these shorties

offer me... limited liabilities...

because of their limited

vulnerability...

to legal sanctions.

It's the same f***in' thing

in politics, Dog.

You find an edge,

you exploit it.

That's why y'all sent them

motherfuckin' teenagers to Iraq.

Die over some motherfuckin'

oil money.

Send the motherfuckin' CIA

up in the 'hood...

with all the yayos.

Slangin' in the 'hood.

It's the same sh*t in politics.

There's a time when every homie

Got to risk his neck and fight

For the thing that he believe in

And he got to preach it right

If he don't got sh*t to die for

And he's 'fraid

to shed the light

Then he ain't got sh*t

to live for, scumbag

Is that how white people rap?

Goddamn,

it's a brand-new payback

But gangsta Mac,

his drugs tested black

How many motherfuckers

gotta pay?

Make sure before you f*** quick,

duck quick

Dig?

'Cause I'm the wrong n*gger

to f*** with

Last person in the world

you wanna f*** with.

You gonna hang with this man?

After your mama's life

was ruined by a white man?

You know how I feel.

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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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