Looper Page #3

Synopsis: Joe is classified as a "looper", a job in which his employers use time travel to send men from the future to be killed into the past, where Joe can properly dispose of their bodies. However, to tie up loose ends and erase the evidence of his ever being a looper, Joe knows that one day his future self will be sent back for him to kill. When this day comes, Joe's future self is prepared and escapes, and the two men struggle separately in the past trying to evade capture and attempting to fulfill their own personal agendas.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rian Johnson
Production: Sony Pictures
  16 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
2012
113 min
$66,305,045
Website
1,541 Views


Write this down:
0, 7, 1, 5, 3,

This is a piece of

identifying information on the Rainmaker.

He's here. He lives here now.

In this county.

And I'm gonna use this to find him.

And I'm gonna kill him.

I'm gonna stop him

from killing my wife.

F*** you. And your wife.

None of this concerns me.

This is gonna happen...

it happened to you.

It doesn't have to happen to me. You got

her picture right there in my watch?

Show me the picture.

As soon as I see her, I walk away.

I'll f***ing marry someone else.

Promise.

When I see that picture, that fog

inside your brain should just

swallow up all the memories,

right? She'll be gone.

If you give her up, she'll be safe.

Give her up?

You're the one that got her killed.

If she never meets you, she's safe.

You don't understand.

We don't have to give her up.

I'm not gonna give her up.

I'm gonna save her.

Get to the fields.

We can lose them in the fields.

Hop a train. Get out of town!

What the hell is everybody doing?

You wait for my signal!

- Out back! He's running!

- He ran out the back!

Sh*t!

Alive!

F***! Sh*t! Come on, come on!

Come on, you piece of sh*t!

Come on!

Get the tracker! The tracker!

Go! Go!

F***! F***!

Sh*t.

Come on, baby. Time to get up.

Listen up, f***er!

I have shot and buried

three vagrants in the past year!

So I don't care

what hobo sob story you've got.

I get a dozen a week, pal.

It cuts no cash with me.

But if you show your face here again,

I will cut you the f*** in half!

Well, you found him.

Tracking Seth's bike,

that was clever.

Then you rustled up a posse

and went out to get him.

I could do it again.

You can f*** up again? Really?

I've got too much riding, Kid.

I can't afford a f***-up

playing cowboy.

Put your gat on the table.

I wanted you to say I did good.

That's all I wanted.

This is all I have.

Please give me one more chance?

I'll bring him here alive and hold him.

And you can put a bullet

in his brain yourself.

No!

Get off me! Get off me!

Hey, who's there?

Stop right there! I will shoot you.

You stop! Stop right there!

I'm telling you to stop! You stop!

Head's splitting apart.

My head.

Hey.

Look up at the light.

Look up at me.

How long since you dropped?

Dropped?

Dropped.

A day.

A day.

I can't feel my legs.

You're going through withdrawal,

you f***ing junkie.

You gotta help me. I'm gonna die.

I'm thirsty.

Water. Water!

Thirsty...

Cid!

Come inside, baby.

Who is that man?

He's just a vagrant.

No, he's not.

Oh, yeah?

His shoes are too shiny.

Aren't you a smart monkey.

Is he sick?

Yup.

Will he get better?

Yeah.

Promise?

Just go to sleep, okay, baby boy?

Night, sweetie.

Night, Sara.

Hey!

The first time I saw her face.

First time I saw her face.

Look at me.

No.

The first time I saw her face.

The first time I saw her face.

The first time I saw your face.

The first time I saw her face.

Morning, monkey.

Do you want something to eat?

The man's up.

Is he staying here now?

No.

Toss it.

I'm about to finish cleaning it.

Put it down.

How are you feeling?

I'd say I'm at 30 percent.

You take it slow,

by the end of the week you'll be at 50.

I took you in so you wouldn't die.

You're not.

Take the morning to rest,

then get off my farm.

I can't do that.

I'm sorry?

I need to stay here for a little while.

I'm not cool with that.

Sorry.

You just lost your

take the morning to rest" privileges.

Get off my farm.

No.

Get off my farm.

You couldn't scare a retarded hobo

with that. Literally.

This is a Remington 870.

One blast could cut you...

In half. That's telling.

You're holding a gun.

I say I'm not afraid,

so you describe the gun to me.

It's not the gun I'm not afraid of.

What are you gonna do,

shoot in the air?

You wouldn't let me die,

you're not gonna kill me.

So that makes me weak?

I'm not a threat to you or your boy.

I need to be on your property.

I'd rather there's no contact at all.

I'm gonna stay in the fields.

There's one thing I need, then you'll

never have to deal with me again.

Verify this is your house

so I'm in the right place.

What's this?

It's a map.

That's my house.

Why is it marked?

Okay, doesn't matter. Look, I'm gonna

be out of the barn in an hour.

If you can spare it,

I'm gonna take this canteen.

Is there somewhere I can fill it?

This number, how did you get this?

That mean something to you?

What? Hey! Hey! Hey!

You're right. I'm not a killer.

But I'm fine with how a blast of rock

salt to your face won't kill you.

Now you're gonna tell me

who you are,

and what the f***

you're doing on my farm.

Okay.

Time travel hasn't been invented yet,

but in 30 years, it will have been.

It's gonna be used by these criminal...

You're a looper?

I can't go back to the city

because Abe, the boss,

his men will be searching for me 24/7

until they find me. Or find him.

All I've got is that map.

He had three houses marked on it,

yours is one of them.

I know he's coming here.

You know about loopers?

You know what we do?

So he's coming here

to murder my son

because he thinks he might be

this Rainmaker?

Once he kills the Rainmaker,

what happens?

I think he thinks if he killed

the Rainmaker,

he never would

have been sent back.

He'd just vanish.

He'd disappear just like he appeared.

He'd be back with his wife.

Who is he, this guy you let run?

Just some random guy

from the future?

He's just somebody.

You know what the numbers mean?

This is Cid's birthday

and this is the med code

of the hospital he was born in.

How many kids were born in that

hospital that day with your son?

- Like, two?

- Sounds right.

Three kids, three houses

marked on his map.

One of them is the Rainmaker.

He doesn't know which.

What's he gonna do?

Oh, God.

Can he really do this?

Think about what doing this would fix.

What he thinks it would fix.

If he comes here, will you stop him?

I'm asking, can I trust you?

I don't care if you trust me.

I don't care about your son.

I lost my life.

I kill this man, I get it back.

He'll kill the other two kids and come here last.

Put off facing me.

All this goddamn cane

leaves us blind.

He can get within 50 yards of this

place without a hawk spotting him.

What makes sense is we burn the fields.

Level them.

How much gas you got

in that barn?

No, you can't burn down my cane fields.

This stuff is half dead anyway.

It's the seed for next year. It's

not gonna happen, you f***ing nut.

Listen, use what you need

and set up anywhere.

But one thing:

I don't want you talking to Cid.

I watch my son, you watch the cane.

That's the deal.

Good by me.

Fine.

Jesus.

All right, hold still.

It's easy for things

to get infected on a farm.

Start falling off.

P*ssy.

I'm out here and you're in the house.

We need a way to communicate.

There's a dinner bell in the barn.

You can ring that if someone's coming.

Dinner bell. We need buzzers

or walkies or something.

I don't know what we've got,

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Rian Johnson

Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker and television director. Johnson is best known for writing and directing the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), the comedy-drama film The Brothers Bloom (2008), the science fiction thriller film Looper (2012), and the epic space opera film Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He is also notable for directing three episodes of the AMC crime drama television series Breaking Bad: "Fly", "Fifty-One" and "Ozymandias". Both "Fifty-One" and "Ozymandias" have received universal praise, and are considered to be among the series' best episodes. For his work on "Fifty-One", Johnson won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series in 2013. more…

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