Redbelt Page #2

Synopsis: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): David Mamet
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
2008
99 min
$2,278,707
Website
437 Views


before he moved into MMA.

He showed me his secret technique

that his grandfather showed him.

I said we'll be doing that since

I was twelve in High School wrestling.

We have a deal or we don't have a deal?

He's going to have his hands full of

Morisaki, but I think it's going to be a great fight.

I don't know why everybody is not

coming to this fight.

The main event for the IFA..

We got a deal.

What good is a deal,

if nobody is making any money?

Ricardo won't do it.

What? He's to pure?

What, it's not elegant?

That elegant life he lives.

How long is that going to last?

Answer me that.

Morisaki is going to do it?

This bullshit.

Morisaki is a whore, he's going to do

whatever the f*** I tell his people.

If he did this, he'll do anything.

The golden ivory studded belt is

worth 250.000 dollar.

It was presented to Taketa Morisaki

by the emperor of Japan.

Is he on the level?

The belt is a f***ing national treasure,

it's worth 250.000 dollar.

He's going to give it to

Ricardo if he loses?

It's publicity.

It's publicity.

It's something to tell the papers.

It's a story.

I am a samurai. Should this guardian

defeat me, I will surrender my f***ing belt.

And will he?

We're not selling tickets.

Sell the tickets, sell the show.

And we figure that out on the way to the bank.

The point is,

you've got to sell the show.

Ricardo is the biggest thing in Brazil.

Read the street signs,

we're in America..

...Morisaki is doing his part.

You've got to do yours,

Ricardo's got to do his.

Where the f*** is he?

Pay per view is pulling back

on the promotion.

We need a gimmick.

One more time.

Ricardo brings the old man up

from Brazil.

He fights for the honor of his mentor.

Morisaki brings the belt,

he fights for the emperor.

What do you got?

A grouch match.

It's back to the thirties.

Black against white.

Irish against Jew,

a racial grouch match.

Give me some velocity,

velocity.

Or else,

it's just two monkeys in the ring.

Yeah, we will speak English here in front

of my friend.

- Marty Brown, this is my brother in law.

- Mike Terry, can I have a word with you?

We're trying to do business, Mike.

What do you want?

- I got to talk to you about money.

- Money?

- Yeah.

- You want money?

I tell you what.

Fight on the under garden.

I'll put you in the under garden.

Round robin.

Winner takes home 50,000 dollar.

You got a good chance of take

home the money.

Fight on the under garden.

Joe Collins, the cop.

- Joe Collins, the cop?

- Yeah, your bouncer.

- He worked here several months, now he's...

- All right! All right, I got it.

Did you ever pay him?

- Did I pay him?

- Yeah.

What the f*** do you care?

Did you pay him?

No, I heard you but what business

is it of yours?

The guy has got a family.

I know what the f*** you are saying,

this guy has got a family

and I owe him some money.

And what?

- Is this some business of yours?

- Did you pay him?

I told him as I recall.

He would have to wait for his money.

He got hotheaded and quit.

Yeah, this is Bruno Silva.

Put him on.

Chet Frank just walked into the bar,

without his wife,

without his bodyguard.

No, no.

Get a news crew outside and...

Who did they get the tip from?

Some cabby driving by,

what the f*** do I care.

Chet Frank just walked into my bar.

Would you call the newspapers?

Thank you.

Thank you for stopping by.

How's my sister?

- I'll have paparinga.

- I'll have another one too.

- I take care of the ladies drink.

- How you're doing these days, Chet?

- Everything is a f***ing struggle, you know?

- Take the high ground, Chet.

- Yeah, right.

- The lady thanks you.

Anything for beauty.

- Nobody's tough when it comes to beauty.

- Indeed, indeed.

- Excuse me.

- My pleasure.

I'd like to buy that,

she's a friend of mine.

- I admire your taste.

- What?

- I'm sorry, what did you say?

- I said, I admire your taste.

Yeah I heard what you said,

I just don't know what it means.

- All right.

- What does it mean?

Whatever you want it to mean.

- I've had a tough day.

- And what the f*** is that to me!

- F***ing tough guy in the movies.

- Look...

- Hey, where is your protection tough guy?

- I didn't know that you knew the woman.

Well, you insulted me and

then you insulted the young woman

and don't you have a wife?

Yeah, didn't I actually read

that you have a wife?

You come here for fighting or

you come here for a drink?

Maybe you came to the wrong

f***ing place.

- You know what?

- Just calm down.

Let me go, man. I'm calm.

You f***ing calm down.

Just cam down.

Have a seat.

Have some ideas?

- I don't think you do.

- Oh, I don't?

I just want to have a drink.

Come on. How you like that, man?

Come on. Take that!

All right, make a lane.

Hey, baby.

You can hear me.

You can hear me.

I'm all right.

Do you think he's got a guy

or something?

I'm sure they made the call.

Hey pal, why did you come out alone?

- You looking for trouble?

- Huh?

He's ok.

He's all right.

You banished the professor down here?

Here you go.

- I thought Joey was on the door?

- No.

- Hey Mike, what the f*** happened?

- I don't know some kind of bar fight.

Show it to me.

- What we're talking about here?

- A couple of bad boys jumped on a movie star.

How about that?

Loomis says him out of the ambulance.

What happened to them,

they fall down?

Something like that, I think.

Our friend here is all by himself.

Jesus Christ!

You got the tape, I never threw a punch.

I am a stone cold victim.

- What happened to the other guys?

- How would I know?

What about you?

Nobody knows who I am.

- You didn't get the loan?

- Ricardo wasn't there.

Did you ask Bruno for it?

He didn't ask for it.

Are you afraid of money?

You tell me how we can run

the academy without money?

You tell me that, so I can do it.

And not disturb you in your purity.

How am I going to run my business,

all the time you need me.

All the time, all my money

is going to yours.

There are some things,

I don't understand.

My father made money,

my brothers make money

and you are somehow to pure.

You're to pure to compete.

- It weakens the fighter.

- That's right.

- Because the competition is not a fight.

- That's correct.

And what about the fighters family,

Mike?

What are they going to eat?

While he is being so pure.

I have to take money from my business,

which is making money.

If you replace the window,

you can't pay your rent.

The insurance will replace the window.

Do you want to turn your friend in?

- Your precious friend?

- Yeah.

Your proudest student?

The policeman?

The girl tried to kill him,

and he let her go.

The girl, if he turned her in.

The cops would have said it was

attempted murder.

- And wasn't it?

- It was an accidental discharge.

- Was it?

- She is disturbed. All right?

- The girl was disturbed.

- And now well, you adopt her?

She walks into your academy

and so you take responsibility for her crime?

They would have prosecuted her,

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David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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