Shaft Page #6

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


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So ten mlnutes into it,

i can't walt to come back home.

471

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- I'm ilke a prlsoner, you know.

- Okay.

472

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But you...

473

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i would klll to be you.

474

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Go where you go.

475

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Do what you do.

476

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So thls is what i propose.

477

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The jewellery. Hock the flash, brlng me

the cash. I'm not gonna not take it.

478

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But what i really want...

479

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i want you to start taklng me

downtown wlth you.

480

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I want you to start taklng me

wherever you go.

481

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You mean ilke... hang out together?

482

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Take you to what, the harvard club?

What the hell are you talklng about?

483

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No, no, no...

484

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when i say me...

485

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..."me" is thls.

486

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Hi.

487

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I want you to front for me. Be my face.

488

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Get me some upscale customers.

I would ilke that very much.

489

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If you get me into your world,

i'll do that bltch for you. Word is bond.

490

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You're dolng a ilttle blt too much

of your own product.

491

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What?

492

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Look, it's $ 40,000. i thought it

would be more, but that's what it is.

493

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If it's important to you, tell everybody

you've got a rlch whlte boy on a rope.

494

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But entre nous... no fucklng way.

495

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What's up, peoples?

Let me keep thls.

496

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You know...

497

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you took a blg rlsk

comlng here all by yourself.

498

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- Dld i?

- Peoples, can i keep thls?

499

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- $ 40,000?

- That's what i sald.

500

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But thls other thlng,

you can't do for me?

501

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- Not on your ilfe.

- Not on my ilfe?

502

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- Peoples, let me keep that ice.

- No. He'll need it to ralse money.

503

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You drlve a hard bargaln, whlte boy.

504

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Where the f*** dld he go?

505

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What the f*** is wrong wlth you,

sneaklng up on me. You want to dle?

506

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- Get in the car.

- Take it easy. Shlt!

507

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He had thls... money belt

stuffed wlth rocks.

508

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Peoples told hlm to cash it in,

done deal.

509

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Walter wade, rlght?

510

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Yes, the whlte boy from television.

They're golng to klll that whlte glrl.

511

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Shlt!

512

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- What's up?

- Gettlng to know the lay of the land.

513

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- How are you dolng?

- I'm having a conversation.

514

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- The courthouse. That was rough.

- Rlght. I'm sure you're rlght.

515

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- You sure, you're all rlght?

- Yeah, i'm cool.

516

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Shlt, man! I'm out of here.

517

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Hey, shaft.

I heard, you qult the pollce.

518

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I don't thlnk i should be dolng

thls shlt any more.

519

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Okay, shaft.

520

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You blg fag.

521

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Thls guy comes here. He's got

hls drawers stuffed wlth jewellery -

522

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- and he asks me,

can you locate somebody?

523

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I say yeah,

because he's ilke a celebrlty -

524

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- and you don't want to say no.

He's comlng to me. It's flatterlng.

525

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But the truth of it is, flndlng people

is not really my, as they say, forte.

526

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So thls is what i propose.

527

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You're detectives, rlght?

528

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You detect, so why

don't i subcontract to you?

529

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The guy says, it'll cash out to 20 g's.

He'll brlng it by tonlght.

530

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With you i'll spllt it flfty-flfty.

Easlest money you'll ever make.

531

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You take half. I take half.

532

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Ten large?

533

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Ten thousand.

534

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- Just tell me where she's at.

- Then what happens?

535

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Easlest money you'll ever make.

536

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You want to tell hlm about that, too?

537

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Can i talk to you for a moment?

538

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What?

539

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- I wonder what the market dld today.

- How should i know?

540

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Damn!

541

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I heard, you need a job, but thls?

542

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You know, guys ilke you go down

for good, when they get asplrations.

543

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When they try and rlse

above thelr station.

544

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Llke thls contract kllllng thlng

you got wlth walter, jr.

545

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Do yourself a favour. You're a two-blt

dope dealer. Stick to what you know.

546

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Take it easy.

Stick to what i know?

547

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F*** you, motherf***er. I'm a star.

548

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I am the boss.

549

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You aln't shlt.

You aln't even a plg no more.

550

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You thlnk that makes me

less dangerous or more dangerous?

551

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If i see you somewhere i don't

thlnk you belong... i wlll klll you.

552

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Look, i respect you, i ilke you.

553

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Why you always want to f*** me?

554

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Have a nlce day.

555

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Why dld you fllnch?

556

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Miss palmlerl.

557

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Walt here.

558

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Motherfuckers!

559

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- She is not golng to testlfy.

- Stay the f*** away from my sister!

560

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- Take it easy!

- Your sister, huh?

561

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If she dldn't see anythlng,

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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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