Night on Earth Page #3

Synopsis: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
1991
129 min
4,200 Views


- Put it in "D." "D" is for drive.

- Ja.

Just -Just chill out, all right?

Damn, man!

It's nice.

It's New York. It's cool.

Ja. It's cold. It's cool.

Nah, nah, nah. You know,

it's hip. It's cool. It's happening.

Ah, I understand.

"It's cool is good.

Right.

Goes good. Goes good.

Yeah. Yeah. Goes good.

In English we say, "It's good to go."

- It's good to go.

- Yeah.

It's good to go. That's good.

It's good to go. It's good.

- Good to go.

- Yeah. Yeah, man. Just chill, all right?

We have the same

- We have the same hat.

- What?

- The same hat.

- No. No, no. Mine's different.

- Oh, no. It's the same hat.

- Mine's different, man. -

This is different here. This -

Mine's

- Mine's the newest, latest. Mine's fresh.

No. The ear things here. The same.

- Ear. This - - No, man.

Look, mine is the - the hype.

- What is this? Hype?

- The hype.

- What's a hype?

- It's fresh.

- Fresh. Fresh hat.

- It's the jammy. The newest, latest.

Fresh hat. It sounds good.

- Fresh hat.

- Right.

So where you from anyway?

From, uh, Germany.

Eastern Germany.

- Eastern Germany?

- Yeah.

From the city of Dresden, which

is close to Czechoslovakia. Uh -

Close to what?

Czechoslovakia.

Prague.

- Main town. Prague.

- Hmm.

Huh. What, you -you escape from there?

No, no. I was free to go.

You got a family over there?

I have no family.

So, uh...

what'd you do over there

before you came over here...

'cause I know you sure

didn't drive no cab!

I was a circus clown.

Get the f*** outta here.

No, no, no. I

- Wait. I'll show you.

Here.

Oh, sh*t.

That's some bugged-out sh*t, man.

What's your name, man?

Helmut Grokenberger. Here.

There. You can read it. That's me.

Helmet?

Helmut.

- That's your name?

- Yeah.

That's a f***ed-up name to

be naming your kid. Helmet.

See, 'cause in English,

a helmet would be, like -

you know, like something you

wear on your head, you know?

You know. A -A helmet.

In English, that'd be

like calling your kid, uh -

Oh, sh*t. Uh -

"Lampshade." Some sh*t like that.

No, but -

"Hey, Lampshade! Come here

and clean up your room!"

So, what's your name?

Yo Yo.

What?

Yo Yo. It's my name.

- Yo Yo?

- What? Yo Yo.

Yo Yo. Yo Yo.

Yo Yo.

Yo Yo. It's, uh

No, it - it ain't got nothing to do

with that. It's my name. Yo Yo.

It's a toy for ki -Yo Yo.

- Ain't got nothin' to do with that, man.

- Okay. Okay.

Your name Yo Yo. My name Helmut.

Yo Yo, Helmut.

- It's good.

- Helmet.

What?

What the f*** is she doin' out here?

- Goddamn it!

- What has happened?

Damn.

There she goes again, man.

F***in' up again as usual.

What has happened?

Sh*t.

Just be cool, Helmet.

I'll be right back.

Angela! Angela!

Where the f*** are you goin', man?

Where you goin'? What are you doin'?

What are you doing,

Yo Yo? Get the f*** off me!

- Hey, don't be grabbing my clothes, man!

- Then get the f*** off me, man!

Ain't nobody on the street. Where

you goin'? Where you steppin' to?

- What are you so concerned about what

the f*** am I doing? - I'm concerned!

- Why you so f***in' stupid?

- Party here. Party there. Always partyin'.

- It's none of your f***in' business.

- It is my business. I'm family.

- You're not my family!

- You're supposed to be home with your husband.

- He knows where I'm at!

- I doubt if he knows where you're at.

He's

- Don't be touchin' me no more.

- I'm not touchin' you. Angela, listen

to me. All right? - What? What?

What's up with you? It's a

family thing, all right? Step off.

- Angela, come on.

- Oh, man.

- No, man. I don't -What

are you - - Come on.

- Don't be hittin' on me.

- Then get the f*** off me, man!

Get in the car, Angela.

- Get in the f***in' car. Come on.

- Who the f*** are you - Get off!.

Get the f*** off of me, man!

- Get the f*** off of me!

- Get in the car. Get in the car.

Angela, just calm down. Just calm down.

- Get the f*** off of me!

- Get in the car. Angela, get in the car.

Don't make me have to hurt you.

Don't be kickin' me. Don't be kickin'.

- Sh*t.

- What the f*** are you doin'?

What you doin'?

Let me out of this car!

What the f*** is your problem, man?

- What the f*** is your f***in'

problem, man? - You're my problem!

- No, you're my f***in' problem.

- Angela, don't be cursin' me out.

- Well, f*** you, f*** you and f*** you!

- Look, Angela. Just shut up!

No, you shut up. Don't

be telling me to shut up.

- Shut up!

- You shut up!

- No, you shut up!

- Sh*t.

You know what your

f***in' problem is, Yo Yo?

You don't realize that you're

wearing your ass on your head.

Oh, hey, don't worry, Helmet,

man. It's just a family thing.

- You're not my f***in' family.

- Look, I am your family.

- You ain't sh*t to me. - I'm

your brother-in-law, all right?

- Angela, just calm down!

- Don't tell me to calm down!

She's really beautiful. She's beautiful.

- Yeah, you think so, huh?

- Yes.

- Thanks.

- You're welcome.

- What's your name?

- Helmet.

- His name is Helmet Lampshade or some

sh*t like that. - Oh, f*** you, all right?

- Don't f*** with me.

- No, no. My name is Helmut Grokenberger.

Here. You can read it.

Helmut Grokenberger.

Great.

I'm driving with a f***in'

idiot and some clown.

Oh, yes. I am a clown.

Yeah, Angela. It's true.

- Shut up!

- No, it's true. Check it out.

- Shut up.

- Hey. Come on, Helmet. Show her.

- Do that horn thing you did, man.

- Ah, yes.

Yes.

That sh*t is so bugged, man!

What the hell are you doing?

- Thank you.

- See, what'd I tell you, Angela?

Helmet, man. Forget about her.

Check it out, man. Brooklyn

Bridge. Right over there.

Oh, that's -

That's

- That's beautiful.

All the lights.

Oh!

Like.

You got it, man.

- I'm the driver.

- Yeah.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Is somebody gonna tell me what

the f*** is goin' on around here?

- What you mean?

- What do I mean?

What the f*** are you driving

this cab for, Yo Yo, huh?

And what's up with the f***in' hats?

What is this, the f***in'

Rocky and Bullwinkle show?

Yes, yes. We -We have

the same hats. Both.

Look. Just forget about

the hats. All right?

Look. It was Helmet's first day drivin'. He

drive like sh*t. All right? So I took over.

- Oh, you took over.

- Yeah.

You know, you're a f***in' typical

control freak. You know that?

- Man! Sh*t.

- Look. Angela, just shut up, all right?

Don't tell me to shut up. I

already told you about that sh*t.

- I'm telling you to shut up.

- You shut up!

- Shut up!

- You shut up!

- Shut the f*** up!

- You shut the f*** up, all right?

Damn.

You're a f***in' idiot,

Yo Yo. You know that?

Yo, you see the sign? It says,

"Sit back in case of short stops."

You never know. I might stop real short.

You better be careful, because if I get

hurt, I'm gonna kick your f***in' ass.

- Always got to have the last word, right?

- That's right.

- Right.

- That's right.

- Right.

- Right.

Damn!

Go ahead. Go ahead.

Say somethin'. Go ahead.

If you f***in' stop talkin' to me, then

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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