Shaft Page #5

Synopsis: New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was sprouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he has the id of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
Director(s): John Singleton
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2000
99 min
$70,334,258
Website
2,800 Views


- oh, hello.

- Hello, my darllng.

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- How was your day?

- Flne.

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Is that my mother's choker?

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- You gave her my mother's jeweller?

- Walter...

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walter.

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Walter!

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Hi, mrs palmlerl. Remember me?

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- I really need to talk to dlane.

- She iives in the bronx.

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- I checked the last address i had...

- rlght now she's in europe.

390

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- Where in europe?

- Spaln.

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- I love spaln.

- Maybe italy.

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I never know 'tll i get the postcard.

What can i tell you?

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Okay.

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Thanks.

395

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I'll probably get flred for thls, but i

thought you mlght need some help.

396

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Terr? From metronome, rlght?

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- Remember me?

- Yeah. How dld you flnd me?

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I'm free monday nlghts, tuesday

nlghts and every other wednesday.

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Read my mlnd. Why i am here?

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- Looklng for dlane?

- You got it.

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- What's in it for me?

- What do you need?

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Look down the corner.

See the ilttle nlgger wlth the red hat?

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That's mallk.

404

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My son, tony, is a real good boy,

a good student.

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But he's 12 and i caught hlm twlce

last week runnlng errands for mallk.

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I need for that to stop.

Can you handle that?

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That's monday, tuesday

and every other wednesday, rlght?

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You got it, baby.

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Fucklng haves and the

should-not-haves, motherf***er!

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Anybody looklng to malntaln

thelr employment wlth the nypd...

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...it mlght be in thelr

best interest to leave now.

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Down! Down! Down!

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What's my name?

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- What's my name?

- I don't know.

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- John shaft!

- What?

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- John shaft. Say it!

- John shaft!

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There's a kld up the block about 12

years old, tony. You know hlm?

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- Yeah.

- Wrong answer.

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There's a kld down the block about

12 years old, tony. Do you know hlm?

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I don't know that kld.

I don't know that nlgger no more.

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Thls kld. You see hlm, you run for

your motherfucklng ilfe. You got that?

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Do you ever want to see me agaln?

Do you ever want to see me agaln?!

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- No!

- What's my name?

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- I forgot.

- What's my name?

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John shaft!

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John shaft.

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You ever want to see me agaln?

You answered that, huh? My bad.

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What?

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Hey, you guys. Break it up.

430

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- You're flghting over a blt of rubber?

- He started it.

431

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Jump for it, okay? And behave.

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Get out of the way!

433

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Get out of the road! What are you

fucklng dolng, you crack head?

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Leon, the mlnute she shows up,

you call me, rlght?

435

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Yeah. How can you get me into

the academy after chucklng yourjob?

436

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- Who lost your rap sheet for you?

- You.

437

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- Who got you the tryout wlth the jets?

- You.

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Who got you that glg at the club?

Who dellvers 10 tlmes out of 10?

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All rlght. You.

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So shut the f*** up and call me,

when she shows.

441

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Why do you even want to be a cop?

442

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Forget i asked. Got mllk?

443

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Yeah, you want some mllk?

I've got a bunch of mllk.

444

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I'm telllng you, that jeter hlt

one home run and two doubles -

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- and he walked once.

446

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Listen, he walked once.

Shlt. There's someone here.

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You're dressing down to blend in?

You look ilke a fucklng duck hunter.

448

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- I need someone located.

- Located? Do you mean found?

449

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Located and then what?

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That golng to cost you.

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- What am i? A pawnbroker?

- I had it appralsed. It's worth 40,000.

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- Stolen?

- Inherlted.

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Inherlted?

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- $ 40,000?

- Yo, peoples. Look. It's hlm.

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- That's you!

- Nlce fucklng frlends.

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Hundreds of people were

outside the courthouse monday-

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- protesting thejudge's decision

to grant bail.

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The case continues to arouse

fierce passions in the city.

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The trial is scheduled

to begin in two weeks.

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We are following this case closely

to bring you the latest developments.

461

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Flaco, flaco...

462

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we got hollywood

rlght here in our house!

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I got to tell you somethlng.

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In thls nelghbourhood,

i am the motherfucklng klng snake.

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I do ilke thls on 181,

three people dle on riverside.

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But the thlng of it is, you know...

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i go downtown to take a glrl out,

show her the slghts.

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I walk into a restaurant, my stomach

is in a knot, my teeth are clenched -

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- my hands in flsts. I don't flt in

down there. People slze me up.

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Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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