Bulworth Page #9

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


You been like a daddy, Tyrone,

but I ain't my mama.

I just hate seeing you

get involved...

in what you gettin'

involved in.

You ain't got no idea

what I'm involved in.

Tonight on American

Politics Election Special...

Bill Clinton, Bob Dole...

Jay Bulworth, Alan Simpson...

Bill Bradley, Pat Buchanan,

and Ross Perot.

All appearing live tonight...

on American Politics

Election Special.

What do you think?

What do I think?

Hey, yo, L.D.,

that motherf***er took your car.

Dude took my car?

That sh*t is gone.

- Y'all go get everybody.

- Come on, brother.

Let's get on the news, baby.

Like I said,

it's a brand-new payback

Now in '91,

let's see who beats the jack

And watch the devil

start kickin'

Run around like a chicken

Grand Dragon, finger-lickin'

Yo, turn him over

with a spatula

Now we got Kentucky-fried

cracker

Mess with the Cube

you get cut quick, pig

'Cause I'm the wrong n*gger

to f*** with

'Cause I'm the wrong n*gger

to f*** with

Uh, excuse me, Bart...

do we have any idea

where Bulworth is?

Give him

two more minutes, Connie.

Irving, do we have

Forbes and Buchanan both?

It's about time that people

started saying "Ebonics. "

All right, great.

'Cause I'm

the wrong n*gger to f*** with

Don't let me catch

Daryl Gates in traffic

I got a habit,

blow his cap backwards

I hope he wears his vest, too

And his dress blue

Goin' up against a Zulu

Make him squirm like a jellyfish

Kick his ass

till I smell his sh*t

Off with their head,

off with their head I say

And watch the devil

start kickin'

'Cause I'm the wrong n*gger

to f*** with

Excuse me, sir?

Senator Bulworth,

is that you, sir?

Senator Bulworth?

Think you want a coat and tie?

Hey, what's happenin', my man?

I'm gonna have to get that tan

.. Strategy is to reflect

every Republican theme...

while opposing

every Republican reform.

And rather than contend

for an agenda of his own...

I think it's important

for you to have longer pants.

As a matter of fact,

the shorter pants...

have a certain, a certain

urban youthful quality, sir.

The glasses are good,

but I don't...

I really wanna see your eyes.

The hat's wonderful.

Like the hat.

Budweiser on the blimp.

They're selling

"get drunk and fly around. "

The people

at Fidelity Providence...

have been helping

support and protect families...

for over 100 years.

Senator, the glasses...

That's the style, isn't it?

That's the style.

.. By providing

a variety of health plans...

life insurance policies...

real estate investments,

not only for families...

but for the changing face

of America.

You can trust Fidelity

Providence with your future.

Welcome back.

In our Los Angeles studio...

we have incumbent

Democratic Senator...

Jay Bulworth of California.

Good evening, Senator.

Senator,

why this new campaign style?

Why this new manner

of dress and speech?

Your ethnic manner

of speech, your... your clothes...

The use of obscenity.

Obscenity?

But, gee, my third cousin?

OK, he was. It's true.

On the playground...

and they're tryin' to get it

above the rim.

I think it's great.

I like it better.

I'm not begrudging him that,

are you?

Of course not.

Of course I'm not.

The rich is gettin'

richer and richer and richer

While the middle class

is gettin' more poor

Just makin' billions

and billions and billions

And billions and billions

and billions of bucks

Well, my friend

If, uh, you weren't

already rich at the start

That... that... that situation sucks

'Cause the... the richest

motherf***er in five of us

Is gettin' ninety-f***in'

eight percent of it

And every other motherf***er

in the world

Is left to wonder where the f***

we went with it

Obscenity?

I'm a senator

I gotta raise $10,000 a day

every day I'm in Washington

I ain't gettin' it

in South Central

I'm gettin' it

in Beverly Hills

So I'm votin' in the Senate

the way they want me to

and... and... and

I'm sendin' them my bills

But we got babies

in South Central

dyin' as young

as they do in Peru

We got public schools

that are nightmares

We got a Congress

that ain't got a clue

We got kids

with submachine guns

We got militias

throwing bombs

We got Bill

just gettin' all weepy

We got Newt blamin' teenage moms

We have factories closin' down

Where the hell

did all the good jobs go?

Well, I'll tell you

where they went

My contributors make more

profits makin', makin', makin'

Hirin' kids in Mexico

Oh, brother can work

in fast food

If he can't invent

computer games

But what we used

to call America

That's goin' down the drains

How's a young man gonna meet

his financial responsibilities

Workin' in a motherfuckin'

Burger King? He ain't!

And please, don't even

start with that school sh*t

There ain't no education

goin' on up in that motherf***er

Obscenity?

We got a million brothers

in prison

I mean,

the walls are really rockin'

But you can bet your ass

they'd all be out

If they could pay

for Johnnie Cochran

The Constitution's supposed

to give them an equal chance

Well, that ain't gonna happen

for sure

Ain't it time to take a little

from the rich motherf***er

And just give a little

to the poor?

I mean, those boys over there

on the monitor

They want a government

smaller and weak

But they be speaking

for the richest 20 percent

When they pretendin'

they defendin' the meek

Now, sh*t, f***, cocksucker

That's the real obscenity

Black folks

livin' with every day

Is tryin' to believe

a motherfuckin' word

Democrats and Republicans say

Obscenity?

I'm Jay Billington Bulworth

And I've come to say

The Democratic party's

Got some sh*t to pay

It's gonna pay it in the ghetto

It's gonna pay it in the...

Senator, are you saying

that the Democratic party...

doesn't care about

the African-American community?

Isn't that obvious?

A lot of people think...

there are no black leaders today

because they all got killed...

but I think it's the decimation

of the manufacturing base...

in the urban centers.

Don't you think so?

What do you think my age is?

He's had his time. Flush 'im.

You know, the guy in the booth

Who's talking to you

in that tiny little earphone?

He's afraid the guys at network

gonna tell him he's through

If he lets a guy keep talking

like I'm talking to you

'Cause the corporations

got the networks

And they get to say who gets

to talk about the country

And who's crazy today

I would cut to a commercial

if you still want this job

Because you may not be back

tomorrow with this corporate mob

- Cut to a commercial

- OK, flush 'em.

Cut to commercial,

cut to commercial

Cut to commercial

OK, OK, I got a simple question

That I'd like to ask

of this network

That pays you

for performing your task

How come they got the airwaves?

They're the people's,

aren't they?

Wouldn't they be worth

70 billion to the public today?

If some money-grubbin' Congress

Didn't give 'em away

for big campaign money?

It's hopeless, you see

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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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