Shaft Page #8

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
2,801 Views


653

01:
04:01,040 -- 01:04:02,871

- What?

- I saw shaft. He drove off.

654

01:
04:03,080 -- 01:04:05,753

- Shaft?

- Who the f*** is that?

655

01:
04:05,960 -- 01:04:08,997

Go see if that stupld monkey is there.

656

01:
04:15,200 -- 01:04:16,474

What?

657

01:
04:19,400 -- 01:04:21,994

He's playlng us.

Shaft is playlng us!

658

01:
04:30,760 -- 01:04:32,796

- You got it, rlght?

- Yeah, baby.

659

01:
04:33,000 -- 01:04:36,913

Hello, can i speak

to dlane palmarl, please?

660

01:
04:37,120 -- 01:04:39,190

No, rasaan, palmlerl.

661

01:
04:39,400 -- 01:04:43,188

Palmlerl! I sald i got it, dude!

662

01:
04:43,400 -- 01:04:46,915

What are you looklng at me

ilke that for anyway?

663

01:
04:53,080 -- 01:04:55,753

Good mornlng.

I'm from publlsher's clearlng house.

664

01:
04:55,960 -- 01:05:01,034

- Dlane palmlrl home at the moment?

- I don't know who you mean.

665

01:
05:01,240 -- 01:05:04,755

Wait a second!

You got some dough coming.

666

01:
05:04,960 -- 01:05:06,791

Go, go, go.

667

01:
05:08,960 -- 01:05:11,997

I wlsh he'd hurry up,

so we can get out of here.

668

01:
05:17,120 -- 01:05:18,553

It's okay!

669

01:
05:20,680 -- 01:05:23,911

Mlkey, get your brother

and get over here now!

670

01:
05:24,120 -- 01:05:25,872

Yo, shaft!

671

01:
05:29,720 -- 01:05:31,312

Go through the front and the back.

672

01:
05:31,520 -- 01:05:35,593

Shlt! Motherf***er brlng me

out here for thls bullshlt!

673

01:
05:39,760 -- 01:05:43,070

Kill them!

Let me in there, man.

674

01:
05:46,160 -- 01:05:48,435

- F*** thls shlt!

- I sald stay!

675

01:
06:09,960 -- 01:06:13,714

- Yo, shaft!

- Start the fucklng car!

676

01:
06:13,920 -- 01:06:15,512

Come on!

677

01:
06:25,560 -- 01:06:27,516

No...

678

01:
06:27,720 -- 01:06:30,359

- get the broad in the car!

- Open the door.

679

01:
06:30,560 -- 01:06:34,553

No! You kllled my ilttle brother!

680

01:
06:34,760 -- 01:06:38,514

You best klll me, motherf***er!

681

01:
06:38,720 -- 01:06:41,553

You best klll me, motherf***er!

682

01:
06:41,760 -- 01:06:44,752

- Get in the car.

- You best klll me, motherf***er!

683

01:
06:49,600 -- 01:06:52,751

- Let my sister go!

- Dlane! Dlane!

684

01:
06:53,960 -- 01:06:56,190

Get out of here, rasaan. Hurry up.

685

01:
06:59,360 -- 01:07:02,272

- F*** you, motherf***er!

- Calm down!

686

01:
07:02,480 -- 01:07:05,313

- Choke that motherf***er!

- What dld you do to her?!

687

01:
07:05,520 -- 01:07:09,115

- Go, goddamnlt!

- You got me out here.

688

01:
07:09,320 -- 01:07:10,719

Mlkey!

689

01:
07:17,560 -- 01:07:21,109

- Damn it!

- Motherf***er, i'm...

690

01:
07:21,320 -- 01:07:22,594

mlkey!

691

01:
07:25,560 -- 01:07:27,790

Thls is f***ed.

692

01:
07:34,800 -- 01:07:37,837

Llttle brother, ilttle brother...

693

01:
07:38,040 -- 01:07:40,873

oh, my god!

694

01:
07:48,760 -- 01:07:52,639

You follow them...

look at my ilttle brother!

695

01:
07:52,840 -- 01:07:56,958

You follow them, you flnd out

where they go and you call me.

696

01:
07:57,160 -- 01:08:01,153

I'll take it from there.

Don't worry about it, you dlrty plg.

697

01:
08:07,800 -- 01:08:11,395

You owe me now, mr blg-tlme shaft!

698

01:
08:37,280 -- 01:08:40,716

Before we get up in here,

i have to warn you all.

699

01:
08:41,560 -- 01:08:44,950

I gave the cleanlng lady

a few years off.

700

01:
08:48,120 -- 01:08:51,157

You know, let her

get her shlt together.

701

01:
08:51,360 -- 01:08:54,397

I'll plck some of thls shlt up

and ilght candles and incense.

702

01:
08:54,600 -- 01:08:57,910

- Everythlng wlll be cool.

- Goddamn, rasaan.

703

01:
08:58,120 -- 01:09:03,831

- It's ilke a blohazard in here.

- You're welcome. Sit down and relax.

704

01:
09:05,320 -- 01:09:09,632

- You flrst. That's nasty.

- What? Sit down!

705

01:
09:09,840 -- 01:09:11,796

Go ahead. Sit down.

706

01:
09:12,840 -- 01:09:16,469

Thls is some repugnant shlt.

707

01:
10:01,600 -- 01:10:03,955

- What do you want?

- Whlte boy...

708

01:
10:04,160 -- 01:10:07,675

you come into my ilfe, next thlng

i know, shaft kllls my ilttle brother.

709

01:
10:07,880 -- 01:10:11,270

Snatched that bltch from under me

and put my ilttle brother in a box.

710

01:
10:11,480 -- 01:10:15,189

You can't hear me?

You got somethlng in your ear?!

711

01:
10:25,560 -- 01:10:29,872

I'll come back later

and put thls in your ass!

712

01:
10:41,800 -- 01:10:45,076

Hey, carmen.

I got john shaft on the line.

713

01:
10:45,280 -- 01:10:47,236

Yeah, peoples.

714

01:
10:48,840 -- 01:10:53,914

6850 nllston avenue, between

prospect place and park place.

715

01:
10:54,120 -- 01:10:57,032

We'll sit tlght,

in case he makes a move.

716

01:
11:17,600 -- 01:11:19,397

Yo, ras.

717

01:
11:25,720 -- 01:11:30,669

Blg man, what are you dolng?

Come on. Let's get golng over there.

718

01:
11:30,880 -- 01:11:33,348

You're real funny.

719

01:
11:33,560 -- 01:11:35,994

Let me use your phone.

I want to check on my brother.

720

01:
11:36,200 -- 01:11:39,636

All rlght, comrade.

Check on your brother.

721

01:
11:50,560 -- 01:11:54,314

Look, it's just the two of us here.

722

01:
11:56,840 -- 01:11:59,718

You saw it, dldn't you?

723

01:
11:59,920 -- 01:12:04,038

And it's ilke a blg flat stone

laylng on your chest.

724

01:
12:07,040 -- 01:12:09,634

You've got to let go of it.

725

01:
12:09,840 -- 01:12:12,115

Trust me on thls.

726

01:
12:12,320 -- 01:12:15,278

Just let it go.

727

01:
12:20,560 -- 01:12:22,312

I was on my break.

728

01:
12:23,320 -- 01:12:26,198

I went out front to have a cigarette.

729

01:
12:27,080 -- 01:12:30,038

I was out there about 10 minutes.

730

01:
12:31,120 -- 01:12:35,272

I see the black kid, trey, coming out.

He was pissed.

731

01:
12:35,480 -- 01:12:40,235

Talking to himself,

pacing and cursing.

732

01:
12:41,400 -- 01:12:43,550

He didn't see me.

733

01:
12:43,760 -- 01:12:50,029

Then about a minute later

that wade guy comes out.

734

01:
12:51,120 -- 01:12:57,195

He doesn't even break stride.

He snatches up this silver pole.

735

01:
12:57,400 -- 01:13:01,075

Trey turns to him, and he saw him.

He saw it coming.

736

01:
13:01,760 -- 01:13:03,876

Hejust bashes him.

737

01:
13:06,560 -- 01:13:10,394

And the spray... you know?

738

01:
13:11,480 -- 01:13:13,675

Blood.

739

01:
13:29,600 -- 01:13:32,956

And he sees me. Wade.

740

01:
13:36,280 -- 01:13:41,070

I wanted to run, but my legs

wouldn't move. He comes over...

741

01:
13:41,280 -- 01:13:42,633

...and pushes me.

742

01:
13:42,840 -- 01:13:44,114

Give me your wallet.

743

01:
13:44,320 -- 01:13:46,276

I didn't understand.

744

01:
13:51,520 -- 01:13:53,476

Dlane palmlerl?

745

01:
13:55,440 -- 01:13:57,874

You see that, huh?

746

01:
13:58,080 -- 01:14:01,914

You want a taste of that?

You want a taste?

747

01:
14:02,120 -- 01:14:08,434

You go back inside, flnlsh your shlft

and then you go home.

748

01:
14:08,640 -- 01:14:12,189

Somebody wlll call you later tonlght.

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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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