The Color of Money Page #6

# Don't you tell me nothin' #

Ha ha ha!

# You say it's right,

and you know it's wrong #

# You say it's short,

and you know it's long #

# You say it's low

when you know it's high #

# Tell me the truth

and don't tell no lie #

# Don't tell me nothin' #

# Don't you tell me nothin' #

Play another one?

# Don't you tell me nothin' #

# I can see that rock 'n' roll

is good for me #

Are you sure...

You don't want

to play again?

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Woo! Woo!

# Don't ##

[Music Playing]

Hmm.

Do you smell

what I smell?

Smoke?

Money.

Let's take

a stroll around.

# A starless black sky

revealed #

# Somewhere in America #

# I can feel the tears,

all lost and alone #

# And I feel... ##

Hey.

Check out that guy

that's playing back there.

That guy?

Yeah. This is

a golden opportunity.

You know

who that is?

That's Grady Seasons...

the best money player

in the world.

That's Grady Seasons?

You want me to play him.

You bet.

And you are

going to dump.

You are going to

lose something fierce.

You'll ask for the spot

and the break.

It'll be humiliating.

This is beautiful.

What do you mean, dump?

If you lose bad now

to this guy...

you'll be a super nobody

in Atlantic City...

and the odds on you

will drop to nothing.

- See? She learns.

- Let me ask you.

These guys hustle,

and they win.

How come I always

got to play the jerk?

Why can't we hustle

where I win?

Because

there's something...

at the end of this.

I wouldn't

have you do it...

unless the payoff

was phenomenal.

Look, do whatever you want to do.

Do whatever you want.

I'll play.

I ask a question, he panics.

It's like a nightmare,

isn't it?

It just keeps getting

worse and worse...

Doesn't it?

# Are you going to

fall for this? #

# We're gonna pay

hell for this #

# And now we can

move through it #

Oh. The impossible dream.

# Let ourselves

in for it... #

Don't choke now.

It's not

that hard a shot.

Did you just say,

"don't choke now"?

You heard me.

Yeah. Yeah,

I heard you.

# Let ourselves in for it #

Oh!

# Let yourself in #

# Any way that you figure it #

# It's down here

at our fingertips #

# Back again, again... ##

Hey, Grady.

Up your ass with the spot,

okay with you?

Fine with me.

[Applause]

How you doing?

Hmm?

Carmen, I'm playing

here now.

I know.

Vincent,

you win one more game...

you're gonna be humping

your fist for a long time.

You got that,

Vincent?

What are you doing,

meditating?

Yeah?

Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Yeah?

Ha ha ha!

Can I have

the Balabushka?

Yeah.

Ha ha ha!

Are you going

to play, Eddie?

Yeah, maybe.

Where?

I don't know.

Gunther's.

Are you mad at me

about last night?

No. You done good.

Where's he going?

He's going to

Gunther's, ja.

Hey, Bill.

Why don't you

call Dud?

# Just about

to lose my mind #

# Never gonna let

your love... ##

Thank you.

I'll have another Drambuie

and potato salad.

Give my friend

another J.T.S. Brown.

One more time?

Absolutely.

You remind me a lot...

of a guy I played

about 20 years ago.

After that, five of us

went on a road trip...

to San Antonio.

We didn't get any action.

The windup was we ended up

playing each other.

That's all she wrote.

Nice book, though.

Buy you one?

No, I'll buy you one.

I'm going to play

for a while.

It's crazy, you know.

I was working at this job

busting my butt.

They didn't

give me a raise.

My old lady,

she leaves me...

because

she says I'm a bum...

because I quit.

Then after, I start

working at the university...

strictly

for the experience.

Guess what I was.

What were you?

I was a subject.

A what?

A subject

in the psych department.

I was a subject

for experiments...

reflexes, memory things.

I didn't do anything...

when it got

to electric shock.

I did just once,

but it don't count.

Oh!

Okay.

That's 80.

- Do it again?

- Yeah, sure, I don't care.

- Double or nothing?

- Double or nothing.

Is there an echo?

Let's play.

Eddie, how you doing?

Holding my own

and a little bit of his.

Good man.

Here.

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go!

Fall!

Is that it?

Do it again.

Double or nothing?

What else?

All right.

Ha ha ha!

That is bullshit.

I never did that.

That is luck, man!

I'm really sorry.

There's nothing I can do.

The 9-ball fell.

I can't believe that.

Are you

a hustler, Amos?

Come on, Eddie, man.

Luck.

Are you a hustler?

Hey, you don't

want to pay me?

Keep it.

Forget it.

I don't want

no bad feelings.

When the

big guy loses.

I lost, I paid.

I don't...

Are you

a hustler, Amos?

What?

You want to quit?

F*** you, kid.

Double it again.

# Don't bother #

# Sure enough I do #

# Oh, well #

Hey, I want to

ask you something.

I want you

to be honest.

You think I need

to lose some weight?

#... All of my life #

# Well, I sure

don't remember ##

How could I

get suckered like that?

You got to

work hard.

That takes a real gift

to show your ass like that.

Everything in a stack.

Everything... just probably

a little too much booze...

a little too cocky...

right amount of jerk...

to miss all those

f***in' signals.

Hey.

Eddie, you'll

get him next time.

How much would you need

to go it on your own...

from here

to Atlantic City?

What?

Should have wiped

the floor with that guy.

Yeah? So?

How much would you need

to go to Atlantic City?

A couple thousand?

Come on, Eddie.

You had too much

to drink.

Let's forget

about it.

I got nothing

left to teach.

That was

the last lesson.

Take the money.

Front for yourself.

You'll do fine.

You're walking off?

Dumping us.

Dumping you?

I'm giving you

a stake.

I showed you

all I got.

What the hell else

you want?

That's it!

That's all!

What are we

supposed to do?

Where we supposed

to go from here?

Here's you, see?

Between you

and Atlantic City...

there's about 27

pool halls.

Three weeks, a couple

thousand dollars.

Why you talking

this way?

You're played for a chump,

so you walk out?

We'll get this guy

next time...

Eddie.

Hey, hey!

You do this

to some guy on the street...

not to me.

What about the stuff

you told me?

You're going to

ruin everything.

Carmen and me,

you told me about that.

Okay, look, Eddie.

Hey, it's

my attitude, right?

From now on...

Attitude, bullshit.

You always do

what you want to do!

Don't tell me that!

I'm tired!

I try

to do everything!

Take the money.

It's the last thing

I can give you.

Let it go, Vincent.

You give me money

to get rid of me.

You got

a long way to go.

This is

nickel-and-dime sh*t.

Shut up

and give me money.

Make it 3,000.

I'll give you

what I got!

You know something?

Just keep your

f***in' money, pal.

Here.

F*** it.

F***.

Feel good, don't it?

I'm blind.

You're cool.

Better?

The same? Worse?

Better.

Better?

Same? Worse?

Better.

Better?

Same? Worse?

I like

the glasses.

Fast Eddie,

this here's Moselle.

He plays pool.

No kidding.

That's a nice stick.

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