Cocktail
- R
- Year:
- 1988
- 104 min
- 4,670 Views
A diamond sun cuts down
As the world and I go screaming
Into the phantom night
I got nowhere else to go
If there's any chance at all
- It's somewhere down this road
- Come on! Put it to the floor! Come on!
- To be wild again
- Let's go!
No one's child again
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Full of fire again
Oh, to be wild again
Here we go.
Here we go.
Pull over! Pull over!
Pull over!
Pull over!
- Get over!
- Slow down, slow down! Slow down!
Slow down. Slow down.
Slow down.
And I never felt so free
Oh, there had to be a crossroad
- Hey!
- A place to draw the line
- Come on, come on.
- And it came down to the question
- Open up.
- Is this life I'm livin' mine
Defenders of the nation,
I bid thee a fond farewell.
Make a million.
Make a million, buddy.
I wanna find the edge
Risk it all to win
in the mirror
Full of fire again
I wanna be wild again
Wild again
Mike! Mike, looky there.
Mike, look at that.
Look at that.
You see that city out there, kid?
See that big town? One day,
we're gonna own that town, you and me.
What do you think of that?
Yeah.
Smart kid.
There has to be a crossroad
A place to draw the line
And it comes down to the question
What is theirs and what is mine
Wild again
Next stop, Barton Boulevard.
Hey!
Uncle Pat, you'd better be careful or
you're gonna throw that back out again.
I can handle it.
So, home from the wars, huh?
- How you doing?
- Oh, I'm doing fine.
Servicing all the widows
in the neighbourhood now.
Same old Uncle Pat.
Flat beer from rusty pipes.
If you only knew
how I missed it.
but they sure didn't beat
the wise guy out of you.
- Not a chance of that.
- I saved the apartment for you.
I sublet it to a couple of yuppies.
They loved your mother's furniture.
They said it was quaint.
they came to repossess it.
Yeah, well...
So what are you gonna do now?
Make a million.
Well, in the meantime,
I'll ask McDougal to give you a job
while you're waiting.
No way!
- It was good enough for your old man.
- So was arthritis.
He supported a family,
just like you're gonna have to do.
No, not me. I am not
falling into that trap.
Every man wakes up one fine
morning with a wife and kids.
"Where'd they come from?
They weren't there last time I looked."
That's 'cause most things
in life, good and bad...
just kind of happen to you.
Well, I'm gonna make
things happen for me.
Sure you will.
That'll be a buck
for the beer.
What?
from serving his country...
and he doesn't even rate
a beer on the house?
- You don't get rich giving things away.
- Oh, how do you get rich?
I'm gonna give you
your first lesson on the house.
I've been here 25 years.
Never bought a drink.
Right, Eddie?
I can testify to that!
In 1969, the Mets
won the World Series.
Eddie here starts pounding on the bar,
demanding a round on the house.
"Drinks for everybody," he says.
Tell him what I did, Eddie.
He whacked me with a club.
Almost knocked the eye out of my head!
That's your way of making money?
You outwork, outthink,
outscheme and outmanoeuvre.
You make no friends
and trust nobody.
And you make damn sure
you're the smartest guy in the room...
whenever the subject
I don't know, Uncle Pat.
Doesn't sound like too much fun to me.
Fun? You want fun,
you go play at the beach.
Think I'll try the city first.
Well, here.
This'll get you there in style.
Ooh! Ten dollars. Uncle Pat!
Why don't you buy Eddie
a binge on me, huh?
Eddie, you gotta be
quicker than that, man.
I've always wanted
to work on Wall Street.
I read the Journal.
I know what's going on today...
and I'm willing to do
whatever it takes to succeed.
I appreciate that, Flanagan, but all
our professionals have college degrees.
- You're wasting your time.
- Just forget the Street.
- No.
- We're not interested.
- A guy like you: advertising.
I have a feel for advertising.
I mean, I can look at an ad
and tell you what's wrong with it.
Mr Flanagan,
we need solid credentials.
- A marketing degree is a prerequisite.
- Try the networks.
In the army, I spent a lot of time
in communications.
I think I can help you.
Well, we need somebody
who can hit the ground running.
Maybe in six or
eight months, but...
You should pursue
other avenues.
- I believe in positive thinking.
Never quit. Never say "die."
I want to be part of the team.
- So, what do you think?
- Your rsum is completely inadequate.
- I'm willing to start at the bottom.
- You're aiming too high.
- I'll do anything.
- You don't have enough experience.
- No, I need a job.
- We value education.
- We require a degree.
- You should go to college.
- The bar's closed, pal.
- I know. I'm looking for the manager.
What's the matter?
Find a hair in your quiche?
No. I'm looking for a job.
I see. You want to put a hair
in somebody else's quiche.
- Just get canned?
- I'm looking...
Looking for
something better.
Coughlin's Law:
"Anything else
Coughlin's Law?
Douglas Coughlin,
logical negativist.
Flourished in the last part
of the 20th century.
Propounded a set of laws that
the world generally ignored...
to its detriment.
Me.
- Ever work behind the bar?
- My uncle's in the business.
You know how to make a "Red Eye,"
mister... What's your name?
Brian Flanagan.
No, I'm...
sorry I haven't had
the pleasure as yet.
with a Pernod float?
I'm a fast learner.
Ever throw a 400-pound
psychopath out of a bar?
What about a 100-pound ballerina
that's been speeding for three days?
Just open the door and let her
pirouette out in the street?
Well, these are just some of the tasks
you'll be asked to perform,
young Flanagan.
This is the Upper East Side,
the saloon capital of the world.
The big time.
Are you ready for the big time,
young Mr Flanagan?
- Get your act together!
- Vodka and Rose's, please!
Hey, come on, man!
I got four people waiting for me!
I'm not going back there
with three drinks!
I know! It's coming!
Absolut on the rocks,
Gilbey's and tonic, and a Velvet Hammer.
- This isn't what I ordered!
- A Molson and a Cuba Libre!
- What was that?
- A Molson and a Cuba Libre!
What is this,
"hire the handicapped" week?
If you're gonna sit in the water,
go to Coney Island!
You want me
to bite the top off this?
Here. This has got recipes.
- Ordering a Cuba Libre!
- Could I please have a glass of water?
- He doesn't know how to make it!
- Where's my Jim Beam on the rocks?
It's coming!
I'm not leaving
until I get my Cuba Libre!
Excuse me.
Could I have an Orgasm?
- This isn't what I ordered!
- A white wine.
You b*tch!
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