Shaft Page #9

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
2,535 Views


749

01:
14:12,400 -- 01:14:14,914

Do you understand me?

750

01:
14:23,440 -- 01:14:26,955

I don't remember going back inside.

751

01:
14:27,640 -- 01:14:33,078

I remember talklng to you,

ducklng out the back and golng home.

752

01:
14:34,720 -- 01:14:37,553

I got a call, ilke he sald i would.

753

01:
14:37,760 -- 01:14:42,436

Some guy.

Very smooth. Very...

754

01:
14:45,160 -- 01:14:48,630

and the next day,

i just started runnlng.

755

01:
14:51,280 -- 01:14:54,397

I've been klnd of runnlng ever slnce.

756

01:
14:56,400 -- 01:14:57,674

Okay.

757

01:
15:02,240 -- 01:15:05,471

Now, here's the good news.

758

01:
15:05,680 -- 01:15:10,356

- You're about to stop runnlng...

- you don't get it, do you?

759

01:
15:14,360 -- 01:15:16,794

I took money.

760

01:
15:18,960 -- 01:15:22,396

The man who called me that nlght,

he offered me $100,000 to get lost.

761

01:
15:22,600 -- 01:15:27,355

Half rlght then and half after the

dlsposition of the case. And i sald yes.

762

01:
15:28,360 -- 01:15:31,352

I took $ 50,000 and i dlsappeared.

763

01:
15:34,320 -- 01:15:37,437

See, i told myself,

i polnted hlm out to you...

764

01:
15:37,640 -- 01:15:41,110

i flngered that son of a bltch,

and i got hlm arrested!

765

01:
15:41,760 -- 01:15:46,038

I told myself that was enough.

But obviously, it wasn't.

766

01:
15:46,600 -- 01:15:49,114

I mean, obviously.

767

01:
15:56,560 -- 01:15:58,516

I'm so sorry.

768

01:
16:06,520 -- 01:16:11,514

These last two years...

they must have been hell on you.

769

01:
16:12,360 -- 01:16:14,351

What?

770

01:
16:17,800 -- 01:16:19,392

I could be home

tradlng stocks on the internet.

771

01:
16:19,600 -- 01:16:22,637

I could be home

watchlng the nlcks.

772

01:
16:24,800 -- 01:16:27,155

Oh, shlt!

773

01:
16:28,960 -- 01:16:31,633

- Could she know about us?

- How do i know?

774

01:
16:40,360 -- 01:16:45,388

She's comlng thls way.

Play it easy. Stay wlth me on thls.

775

01:
16:47,360 -- 01:16:50,193

- How are you dolng?

- What are you guys dolng here?

776

01:
16:50,400 -- 01:16:52,755

Watchlng your back.

777

01:
16:52,960 -- 01:16:55,110

I just got here. My back?

778

01:
16:55,320 -- 01:16:57,754

Your back, shaft's back.

779

01:
16:58,200 -- 01:17:01,431

He never sald

where he was golng to be.

780

01:
17:01,640 -- 01:17:04,552

The drums. You hear thlngs.

781

01:
17:05,360 -- 01:17:06,998

Drums?

782

01:
17:07,640 -- 01:17:11,713

He plcked a tough nelghbourhood

to lay low in. You wearlng your vest?

783

01:
17:13,040 -- 01:17:14,871

No.

784

01:
17:17,840 -- 01:17:20,274

Jesus chrlst!

785

01:
17:23,640 -- 01:17:25,710

Pollce business...

786

01:
17:25,920 -- 01:17:29,515

- what are you shooting at now?

- You, if you don't get off my face.

787

01:
17:29,720 -- 01:17:31,836

- F*** you!

- Get a ilfe, glrls.

788

01:
17:32,040 -- 01:17:36,079

- Get these nuts, cop!

- Go plss in the bed, boy.

789

01:
17:36,880 -- 01:17:38,950

Yeah. Keep walklng.

790

01:
17:56,040 -- 01:17:57,758

Oh, shlt!

791

01:
18:09,120 -- 01:18:12,749

- What next, maestro?

- We flnlsh what we started.

792

01:
18:29,120 -- 01:18:34,114

What dld i do wlth these keys?

I'll be rlght there. Don't rush me!

793

01:
18:34,320 -- 01:18:37,517

You ready? Come on, dlane.

Let's go see the d.a.

794

01:
18:47,560 -- 01:18:49,391

Get out the wlndow now!

795

01:
18:56,280 -- 01:18:57,554

Out! Go!

796

01:
19:00,120 -- 01:19:02,156

You got my house f***ed up!

797

01:
19:05,360 -- 01:19:07,157

Stay behlnd me.

798

01:
19:10,480 -- 01:19:12,755

- Come on, dlane.

- Get in there!

799

01:
19:27,160 -- 01:19:29,310

- They went out the wlndow!

- Let's go!

800

01:
19:35,320 -- 01:19:37,595

Hurry the f*** up!

801

01:
19:38,280 -- 01:19:39,952

Come on.

802

01:
19:50,560 -- 01:19:53,916

Go to the car. Go to the car!

803

01:
20:04,800 -- 01:20:07,268

- Why?

- My klds.

804

01:
20:07,480 -- 01:20:11,758

You can't belleve what prlvate schools

are charglng nowadays.

805

01:
20:12,320 -- 01:20:15,118

Thls is breaklng my heart.

806

01:
20:17,640 -- 01:20:19,073

Shoot hlm.

807

01:
20:28,080 -- 01:20:30,719

It's glullanl tlme.

808

01:
20:30,920 -- 01:20:32,751

Styllsh.

809

01:
20:49,040 -- 01:20:53,431

On the corner! Get in the car!

Come on! Drlve!

810

01:
20:53,640 -- 01:20:57,076

Yo, shaft!

Get the f*** in the car!

811

01:
20:57,520 -- 01:21:00,273

I'm about to leave

all you motherfuckers.

812

01:
21:00,480 -- 01:21:03,517

- What the f*** are you dolng?

- Shut up and drlve.

813

01:
21:17,520 -- 01:21:18,794

Hold on.

814

01:
21:23,960 -- 01:21:26,269

Shoot hls ass!

815

01:
21:29,960 -- 01:21:31,678

Oh, shlt!

816

01:
21:33,680 -- 01:21:35,716

Watch that shlt!

817

01:
21:41,520 -- 01:21:45,752

- You're fucklng up my car, p*ssy!

- Drlve, goddamnlt. Drlve.

818

01:
22:20,440 -- 01:22:23,716

Yeah. Shoot all

thelr motherfucklng asses!

819

01:
22:25,760 -- 01:22:28,672

It's okay. Calm down.

820

01:
22:28,880 -- 01:22:31,872

They can't f*** wlth us!

They can't f*** wlth us!

821

01:
22:32,080 -- 01:22:35,789

You know how i own it behlnd

the wheel. They can't f*** wlth me.

822

01:
23:50,640 -- 01:23:53,234

Hey, shaft!

823

01:
23:55,600 -- 01:23:58,239

No more teflon don!

824

01:
23:58,440 -- 01:24:00,829

No more shlt!

825

01:
24:01,320 -- 01:24:04,949

I'm a motherfucklng dead man,

flrst to admlt it.

826

01:
24:06,000 -- 01:24:10,835

Maybe you klll me, maybe i

klll myself. What do you thlnk?

827

01:
24:11,040 -- 01:24:14,271

Look, thls is between you and me.

828

01:
24:14,480 -- 01:24:18,678

- Let her go.

- Funny thlng is, i'm not your enemy.

829

01:
24:18,880 -- 01:24:21,713

I'm peoples.

They are your enemy.

830

01:
24:21,920 -- 01:24:25,196

I'm not your enemy.

831

01:
24:25,400 -- 01:24:28,392

- They are your enemy.

- You're dolng wade's dlrty work?

832

01:
24:28,600 -- 01:24:32,388

Are you golng to shoot me?

All i got is thls. Let's go, man.

833

01:
24:33,080 -- 01:24:34,718

Okay.

834

01:
24:34,920 -- 01:24:37,354

I'm puttlng the gun down.

835

01:
24:39,200 -- 01:24:42,351

Hand to hand.

Come on. Let's go.

836

01:
24:46,360 -- 01:24:49,079

That's good.

837

01:
24:49,280 -- 01:24:50,872

Let's flght.

838

01:
24:52,560 -- 01:24:54,755

Take your woman!

839

01:
25:00,800 -- 01:25:04,395

I'm not your enemy.

I'm peoples.

840

01:
25:06,680 -- 01:25:08,238

I'm peoples.

841

01:
25:08,960 -- 01:25:12,077

- Motherf***er, come on!

- Are you through?

842

01:
25:12,280 -- 01:25:15,909

Let's go, old man.

Let's get it on.

843

01:
25:16,120 -- 01:25:18,395

I'm peoples.

844

01:
25:39,280 -- 01:25:41,236

It's okay.

845

01:
25:53,320 -- 01:25:56,517

Walter wade, who fled the country

more than two years ago -

846

01:
25:56,720 -- 01:25:59,393

- has been out on bail,

awaiting this day-

847

01:
25:59,600 -- 01:26:03,354

- to finally convince a jury

of his innocence...

848

01:
26:15,360 -- 01:26:18,397

she passes through. Let her pass.

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Richard Price

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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