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Cool Runnings Page #3
- PG
- Year:
- 1993
- 98 min
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beat both your butts anyway.
- What are you talking about?
How 'bout I beat your butt
right now?
How 'bout I draw a line down the middle
of your head so it looks like a butt?
Forget it, man. I'm gone.
Fine. Stay here on the island.
We're going to Canada.
All right.
I'll do it.
But you'd better tell
this mama's boy...
to stay the hell
away from me.
You understand?
No problem.
Hey, Irv...
say hello to the first
Jamaican bobsled team.
Oh, goody.
Gentlemen, this is a bobsled.
Sort of.
- All right, here's what
we're going to do. Yul...
- Don't touch me.
Of course. Sorry. You're going
You're strong, you're fast, and
you're going to love that seat.
Junior, you're the first
middle man.
You're quick, you're sharp.
Hop in.
- Sanka...
- I know... I'm the driver, right?
- No, you're the brake man.
- No... No, I'm the driver.
No, you're not.
You're the brake man.
- I'm the driver.
- You're not! You're the brake man.
See, you don't understand!
I am Sanka Coffie!
I'm the best pushcart driver
in all ofJamaica!
I must drive! Do you dig
where I'm coming from?
- Yeah, I dig where you're coming from.
- Good.
Now dig where I'm coming from.
I'm coming from two gold medals.
I'm coming from nine world records
in both the two and four-man events.
intense competition with the
best athletes in the world.
That's a hell of a place
to be coming from.
You see, Sanka, the driver
has to work harder than anyone.
He's the first to show up
and the last to leave.
When his teammates are all out
drinking beer, he's up in his
room studying pictures of turns.
You see, a driver must remain focused
one hundred percent at all times.
Not only is he responsible for knowing
every inch of every course he races...
he's also responsible for the lives
of the other three people in his sled.
Now, do you want
that responsibility?
I say we make Derice
the driver.
So do l, Sanka, so do I.
Oh, the back is nice.
All right, Father, listen here.
You see, I've made up my mind.
I'm going to be a bobsledder.
That's right. A bobsledder.
Oh, really?
Well, I'm sorry
you feel that way.
Fine. Cut off my allowance.
Because you see, Father...
a man has got to do
what a man has got to do.
Just who I wanted to see.
- M-M-Me?
- You know where I just came from?
- W-Where?
- I got you a job...
with Webster, Webster and Cohen,
the biggest brokerage house in Miami!
- Oh, right. Webster, Webster and Cohen.
- Yes! That's right.
And you start end of the month.
- Yes, but I thought that I would...
- Look...
we went along with this
track nonsense long enough.
And we agreed that it's time to
get on with your real future. Right?
- I know...
- Right?
- Yes, sir.
- Good.
I'm going to tell your mother.
I guess we sure told him.
Winning a bobsled race
is about one thing: the push start.
Now, I know you dainty little
track stars think you're fast.
Well, heh, let's see
how fast you are...
when you push
a 600-pound sled.
Now, a respectable start time
is 5.7 seconds.
whip off an even six-flat...
becoming a barbershop quartet.
Derice, come on! Hey!
Junior, get in! Never mind!
We'll have to move it back.
Let's go!
- Here on this mountain top Whoa-oh
- Slow down! What are you
doing to me? Slow down!
- I got some wild, wild life
- 14.3. No good.
- I've got some bills
to pay, whoa-oh
- 13.5. 11.7.
This is what it's all about!
This is where you win or lose the race!
Right here in the pushcart! This
is where you're gonna practice!
Right here! Right here in the
Volkswagen, you're gonna practice!
No, Junior, quit falling down!
Come on, hustle!
Catch up to them!
There you go!
Junior! No! Do it again!
Whoa, whoa! Stop! Stop, Derice!
Stop! Wait! Wait for me!
Wait! I'm in! Stop!
Slow down!
- Great. Very good. Try it again.
- Wild, wild life
If I've said it once,
I've said it 46 times.
Cold weather endurance is vital
to building a successful sled team.
- Cold enough?
- Wild, wild life
- You got to live your life
You got to live your life
- One, two, three!
Wild, wild life
- Wild, wild life
- Go! Go! Go!
- Here on this mountain top Whoa-oh
- Whoa! Slow down!
- Sanka, hit the brakes!
Hit the brakes, man!
- I can't! It's stuck!
Hold on!
About some wild, wild life
Sanka, you dead?
Yeah, man.
What have you done to the
police unit? I shall arrest you!
- Who owns this thing?
- We do, sir.
- And who are you?
- TheJamaican bobsled team, sir.
Don't give me that business.
I wasn't born yesterday.
You did it! You did it!
We did it! 5.9!
Get out of the way. Get out
of the way. 5.9, guys. What?
- Who are you?
- I'm their coach! You guys okay?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- How's the sled?
- Yeah, man, we're fine.
- Sled's okay?
Well, it's in the wrong place!
Get it back to the top of the hill!
Let's move it right now, you slackers!
Move it! Let's hustle! Come on!
Let's move it!
Come on, you guys! Move it!
I'm not asking for
All I need is a lousy 20 grand so I can
get us to the Olympics. That's all.
How in God's name are you
going to get to the Olympics?
These boys have never even
seen a sled race before!
Mr. Coolidge, I have been looking at
sledders since I was 12 years old.
If I say these kids can make it
to the Olympics, they can make
it to the Olympics.
Okay. Well, I'll tell you
what we'll do.
Practice down here with
the boys a bit more, and when
you're a little further along...
- I'll come along and see you...
- No! No! No!
Now, just a minute,
Mr. Blitzer.
This country enjoys
a fine athletic tradition...
and if you think I'm going to give you
so that you can parade us around in
front of the world like a freak show...
you've got another thing coming.
It's bad enough how you
embarrassed your own country.
allow you to embarrass ours.
No go, kid.
That's okay, Coach.
We'll get the money.
- Do the words "give up"
mean anything to you?
- Not a thing.
Some people say you know
they can't believe
Jamaica
We have a bobsled team
'Nuff people say you know
they can't believe
Jamaica
We have a bobsled team
Hi. I'm here to offer you an
opportunity of a lifetime.
We're looking for a sponsor
for the firstJamaican bobsled team.
Oh!
We have the one Derice
and the oneJunior
I'll pay you a dollar
to shut up!
We got nine dollars and fifty-two cents
from Yul Brenner, thank you.
We got a hundred and eighty-four
dollars from Derice and me.
Sanka, how did your singing
on the street go?
How did it go?
It went like this:
'Nuff people say you know
they can't believe
- Sanka, we know.
- Jamaica, we have a bobsled team
- Sanka.
- We have the one Derice...
How much?
- I made a dollar and sixteen cents.
- Oh, that's great.
We're only short about
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