Colors Page #8

Synopsis: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Dennis Hopper
Production: Orion Home Video
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
1988
120 min
2,837 Views


When I die, homes,...

...l'm gonna die like that.

Con mi ruca, homes.

Relax, homie.

You did good.

Te aventaste, homes.

You got big balls, little brother.

(helicopter engine)

Police!

- What do you want, eh?

- Stand up! Hands on top of your head!

- Get your hands up now!

- Drop that shotgun!

(pilot) Air Two. I have 20 suspects with

automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns.

I repeat.this is Air Two.

I have 20 suspects...

...with automatic rifles,

shotguns and handguns.

Put your hands behind your head!

Get down on your knees!

Down on your knees.

Down on your knees!

- Been lookin' for you, Frog.

- Are we gonna have a rapport, Hodges?

- Who'd you tell?

- Huh?

- Who'd you tell?

- Nobody.

You're a f***in' liar.

I go and do a favour

for your lousy partner.

(cop) Get that cigarette

out of your mouth. Get up!

- This guy's got a gun.

- Gimme another set of cuffs.

Get down. Get down! Get down.

- Hey, turn the f*** around.

- No future in it, vato!

Oh, sh*t!

Air Two requesting

four additional units for shots fired.

(Hodges) Oh, Gosh. Oh.

- Officer down! Call an RA unit!

- (dispatcher) Officer requesting backup.

Four units. 20 suspects. Armed.

Jesus f***ing Christ, man!

(groans)

It's OK.

It's just... I can't feel my legs.

- OK. It's OK.

- I just wanna lay here for a minute.

- Stay calm. Stay calm.

- Just call my wife.

OK. Somebody get an ambulance!

Have somebody call my wife

and tell her to come get me.

Go get my w... Get my wife.

OK. I just wanna rest my head a minute.

I gotta catch my breath.

I'm gonna catch my breath.

OK.

I'm gonna catch my breath.

Gonna catch my breath.

(gasps) Catch my breath.

OK. Now, after just a little rest I...

I'll be ready to roll in a minute.

- (moans) My wife...

- Stay calm. Stay calm.

OK.

(gasps) Gotta catch my breath.

(chokes)

Breathe. Breathe.

Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.

Let me catch my breath.

Where's my wife?

OK, I'll be ready to roll in a minute. OK.

It's all right. Call my wife.

- Catch my breath.

- (McGavin) Breathe. Breathe.

Breathe.

Bob, breathe. Breathe!

Air Two. We have a possible 187.

(cries out)

(helicopter pilot, distorted) Air Two...

So you know, I keep my backup

on my inside left ankle.

If we ever get into any hostage situation,

I call you by my name...

Hey, hey, you ain't got to worry

about no hostage situation, partner,...

...cos now, see, you got yourself

a bad, black, kick-ass cop for a sidekick.

What's this, man?

Looks like we got us a deal.

(girl shouts)

They toss it?

You're all fired up, man.

- Let me tell you about workin' the ghetto.

- Hey, I grew up in this neighbourhood.

I don't need no lecture from no white cop

about how to get on here.

Hey, what you gettin' moody for? I grew

up here. I know what the f*** I'm doin'.

Just shut up, all right? Listen.

There were these two, uh, bulls...

...and they're standin'

on top of a mountain.

And, uh... um...

...they're lookin' down at a bunch of cows.

And then, uh, the older one

says to the younger one...

No! The younger one...

The younger one says...

"Hey, Pop."

"What do you say we run down

and f*** one of them cows?" And, uh...

And then the older one says "No, son."

"Let's walk down and f*** 'em all."

(partner laughs)

( "Colors" by Ice-T)

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors

I am a nightmare walkin'

Psychopath talkin'

King of my jungle

Just a gangster stalkin'

Livin' life like a firecracker

Quick is my fuse

Vendettas of death

back the colors I choose

Red or blue, Cuz or Blood

It just don't matter

Sucker, dive for your life

When my shotgun scatters

Colors

The gangs of LA will never die

Just multiply

Colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors

You don't know me, fool

You disown me, cool

I don't need your assistance

Social persistence

Any problem I got

I just put my fist in

My life is violent

But violent is life

Peace is a dream

Reality is a knife

My color's my honor

My color's my all

With my colors upon me

One soldier stands tall

Tell me, what have you left me?

What have I got?

Last night in cold blood

My young brother got shot

My homeboy got jacked

My mother's on crack

My sister can't work

Cos her arms show tracks

Madness, insanity

Livin' profanity

Then some punk claimin'

They understandin' me?

Gimme a break

What world do you live in?

Death is my set

Guess my religion

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

My pants are saggin'

Braided hair

Suckers stare

But I don't care

My game ain't knowledge

My game's fear

I've no remorse

So squares beware

But my true mission

Is just revenge

You ain't in my set

You ain't my friend

Wear the wrong color

Your life could end

Homicide's my favourite binge

Colors

Colors, co-colors, colors, colors

Colors, co-co-colors, colors

Colors, co-co-co-colors

Colors, co-co-co-colors

Colors, co-co-co-colors

Colors

Colors, colors

Colors, colors

So I just walk like a giant

Police defiant

You'll say to stop

But I'll say that I can't

My gang's my family

It's all that I have

I'm a star

On the wall's my autograph

You don't like it so

You know where you can go

Cos the streets are my stage

And terror's my show

Psychoanalyse, try

Diagnose me, why?

It wasn't your brother

Who brutally died

But it was mine

So let me define

My territory

Don't cross the line

Don't try to act crazy

Cos that sh*t don't faze me

If you ran like a punk

It wouldn't amaze me

Cos my color's death

Though we all want peace

But our war won't end

Till all wars cease

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

Colors, colors, colors

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Michael Schiffer

Michael Schiffer is an American screenwriter, video game writer and film producer. Schiffer is known for such films and video games as Colors, Lean on Me, Crimson Tide, The Four Feathers, The Peacemaker and Call of Duty. more…

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