Redbelt Page #5

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
438 Views


Hey Joe, thanks for coming in.

I want you to take the evening class.

White belts.

Hit escape, escape the mount,

pass the board, arm ball.

- What time you go on your shift?

- I've been suspended.

The wristwatch was hot.

- The wristwatch?

- The gold watch.

The guy gave you, you gave me.

- I pound it, it was hot.

- It was hot?

- Two dollar pistol.

- You pound it?

- I did.

- The pound shop called it in.

The captain wants to know what I am

doing with a hot $20.000 dollar watch.

- What did you tell him?

- I told him..

I told him, I got to tell him tomorrow.

He suspended me.

You told him where you got the watch?

I didn't want to hurt the academy.

I couldn't tell him you gave me a hot watch.

No, no.

Let me clean it up, it's easy.

It's easy.

- It's easy?

- Yeah, these guys..

.. these guys. I'm sure, the guy who gave

me the watch. He got stiffed, it's easy.

I'm sure he want to know.

Take the class, sweat it out.

Sweat it out.

It's ok, Joe.

It's easy.

Sorry, I'm late.

Chet might be shooting till down.

If he raps early, he will come down.

He sent his regrets.

Here's what he wanted to talk to you about.

And you should get a lawyer because he wants

to make a business arrangement with you.

He's got some big ideas.

Some of them might be even be mine.

Here's one of them.

This could be money.

What would you like to drink?

Wine?

- No, I'm good.

- You don't drink?

- I used to.

- You don't anymore?

Jerry.

There's a problem and

I need you to help me to work it out.

Of course.

It's eh...

Its difficult for me to say.

That's way I know.

Spit it out.

Chet gave me a lavish gift.

- A lavish gift.

- All right.

There was a money issue and

I asked a friend of mine to pound it.

- To pound it?

- Yeah, I'm sorry.

Chet sends you a wristwatch

and you pound it?

Hey, look...

He gave it to you. It's yours to

do with it as you want.

- Hey.

- How you're doing?

You got a minute?

- I catch up with you.

- I got something, I think Chet might like.

- Well, I'm coming right over.

- I'm going to call you about it.

Ok.

Somebody pound the watch

that Chet gave you?

- And he was told the watch was stolen.

- Stolen?

Yeah.

Son of a b*tch.

Some motherf***er sold..

Someone sold Chet Frank a hot watch.

I can't use the cell phone in here.

I'm going to use the phone in the front.

I'm going to clean this up right now.

But she gave me this number.

Mrs. Frank gave me this number.

I called the other number

and it's out of service.

It's out of service.

Thanks.

Their numbers are all out of service.

How come it's out of service

if they gave it to me yesterday?

- Who?

- Zena Frank.

I had a meeting with Jerry.

They've changed the number.

I've ordered $30.000 dollar of the fabric.

I placed an order to Brazil for

$30.000 dollar of the fabric.

Lucy Wise, please.

She's on vacation?

She won't take my call.

I had a meeting with Jerry.

What did you do to screw this up?

- You placed an order to Brazil.

- What did you do to make them act this way?

You placed an order to Brazil

for $30.000 dollar.

- Yes.

- Why?

Zena told me it was a done deal.

Their were going to use

my fabric in their shop.

Where did you get the credit?

- What?

- Where did you get $30.000 dollar credit?

I paid cash.

- What?

- I paid cash.

Are you deaf?

Do you know what's happening to my life, Mike?

Where did you get the cash?

I took out a personal loan for two weeks.

I was going to get the fabric..

We...

I was going to be a part of their company.

You took out a personal loan

for $30.000 dollar for two weeks.

From whom?

It was a done deal.

Yes, but now it's not a done deal.

I wasn't even going to need it

for two weeks, Mike.

They told me, they were writing their cheque.

Who gave you the loan?

Richard gave me the loan.

You borrowed $30.0000 dollar

from a loan shop?

Are you crazy?

She spent it.

She spent it?

- She spent the $30.000 dollar I gave her.

- That's right.

She said she wanted

the money for two weeks.

She spent it.

What the f*** am I going to do?

What can you give me?

How soon could you get it to me?

Richie.

If you could carry me?

The money isnt mine, Mike.

The money isnt mine...

I gave it out of my word. But I owe

that money to my guys, you understand?

It isnt mine.

What do you own that you could turn to cash?

What do you got what you could liquidate?

Something for you?

It's an Asian-samurai training technique

going back to the 17th century.

Every fighter in the tournament,

each match, each fighter

will pick a marble.

Should he pick a white marble,

he'll be giving a pass.

Should he pick a black marble,

he'll be given a handicap.

So the fighters on the Undercard, each one

could get a handicap? - That's right.

The samurai say that's this..

What do you got what's worth money?

.. where one can never tell

if they might become disabled.

So there you have the Under card,

in the main event we have bad blood..

evidentially between Morisaki and your

brother Ricardo Silva.

Morisaki feels like he's been insulted.

- That is correct, it is.

Unfortunate, but this competition has start into

a grouch match between my brother and Morisaki.

Under the laws of intellectual property,

the copyright

that is the possession of the idea and all

profits from its exploitation belongs to Mr. Terry.

The three marbles.

You can't copyright an idea?

You can't copyright an idea but you can

copyright a particular expression,

which my client has done through use

to exploitation of his system

in order to earn his living.

Into historical form.

- Which idea...

- It's a historical form.

- It's not a historical form. That's nonsense.

- The Japanese..

The idea was discovered in a Japanese

training manual of the 19th century.

You show it to me in one historical document,

we'll pack up and go home.

And you show me were your client

never transcribed ancient...

He has a document of his training regime

that he used for many years in his academy.

So he says,

and I'll give you that.

Who has ever seen this form

outside of his academy?

We can assume that the Silva's

and your client had access.

- The presumption of access.

- You can assume whatever you want.

I believe the courts will conquer the

relationship between the parties being so close.

Is that your case?

Is that you want to roll the dice on?

Are you sure you want to play in this league?

What do they want?

Let's financesialize the problem.

No, no.

Please ask him to wait.

However...

My client is prepared to relinquish.

Today.

To relinquish all rights to his creation.

- In return for what?

- In return for a payment of $200.000 dollar.

- Payable today.

- That's a lot of money.

- It's a great idea.

- It's a good idea.

It's a great idea or why would

you promoting it?

No, ask him to wait.

He's got to wait.

Your name could be here.

You want to make some money?

Fight on the under card. $50.000 dollar.

I saw you fight.

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David Mamet

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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