The End of Violence Page #4

Synopsis: Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Production: MGM
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
R
Year:
1997
122 min
141 Views


F-16 fighters shot 'em, huh?

Like I said,

only in Hollywood.

Can't be coffee

and Danish.

Has to be cappuccino or that thick,

creamy stuff, that italian thing...

what is that?

Tiramisu.

- Tiramisu.

- Well, whatever.

Anyway,

this Michael Max,

he looks to me like one of these guys

that'd have his own murder catered...

gentlemen, Michael Max

is a very innovative guy.

If he's gonna do something,

he's gonna do it first,

and he's gonna do it big,

he's gonna do it right.

That's exactly why somebody

probably wanted him dead.

I'd say someone very

professional, obviously...

and very paranoid.

I don't exactly understand

what I just did for you.

It's okay. I'm just trying

to debug a little number here.

So, uh...

so, thanks.

You're the wizard.

Well, I guess I'd better

head back to the shop.

Okay. See you.

See you.

Look. Two more.

They gotta be feds. Still

waiting for me to come home.

Yeah? Maybe you should

turn yourself in, eh?

You're wasting

my tax dollars, hombre.

Hey, hey.

Come through for me, baby.

Yes, baby.

Yes.

Come through for me.

There they are.

Yes.

F***ing clouds.

Progress...

twenty seconds.

Oh, my god.

Do you think

they're watching us?

What?

Do you think

they're watching us?

It'll be all right, hombre. Yeah?

We'll feed you good.

We'll feed you cocido,

menudo, carnitas, pozole.

Sounds good.

Wait.

Wait.

I never...

I never noticed.

Hey.

Two questions.

Are you here to do something

bad with our father?

No.

Are you the guy

in the newspapers?

Yeah, I am.

But don't tell anybody.

I told you.

Now pay up.

Yeah!

Some friend.

Sorry about that.

It's okay.

Good night.

Yeah.

Good night.

I still love my wife...

so much.

Senora, there are

three gentlemens.

Let them wait.

I always did,

even when I made her suffer,

on purpose,

for long periods of time,

and enjoyed it perversely.

"Perversely."

That's one thing

I think I can define now.

It's when things are upside-down

and you start to like 'em that way.

Oh.

Hey,

you got your phone?

You talk to him.

Six. What's up?

He's got to change.

You have to change.

What? Who this?

I'm a friend

who you don't know yet.

Oh, sh*t.

I know all my friends.

Oh, I'm an amigo,

closer than you think.

There's a message I must

give you. There's no time.

You must change.

"Gangsta" rap is dying.

What the f***

are you talking about?

- Violence is dead.

- No, no, no, no, no.

Let me tell you something, friend.

Violence is bigger than ever.

You see, little baby white girls be piercing

every floppy piece of skin they got,

creaming to every flavor

of gangsta.

Pretty soon records just gonna

have the sound of gunshots on 'em.

Everywhere you look, billboards got

some movie star holding some big-ass gun.

Let me tell you something,

motherf***er.

Violence rules, man.

Violence is flip.

You don't like it, run with

the nuns, but it is here,

it is now,

and Six is on it.

Brian.

Hello, Paige.

This is Terry Gromer, president,

music and movies divisions.

And Ian Whitley,

your head of business affairs.

Hello, gentlemen.

You can smoke, Brian.

Thanks.

Champagne? Coffee?

I feel like I've grown very

close to you in this short time.

But now I'm about to do something

that I think is important...

but it is risky.

Just in case

anything happens to me,

I just wanted to say

thank you and adios.

Que?

Que?

Si, vamos!

"Vamos."

- How you doing?

- Hi, Ramon. Take any station.

Maybe it'll look better with

colored paper. Yeah, I guess.

Hi.

Hi.

Do you have any work

station that's available?

Did you check in? Got a

friend taking care of it.

Great.

How about this one?

Okay.

Excuse me. Can you

help me? Just a second.

In a minute. He's fine. He

can take care of himself.

The thing about

sudden attack is...

you never know

where it's coming from.

But it's usually not

from where you expect it,

unless you expect it

from everywhere,

which makes you paranoid.

Mike, you'll probably

never get this.

The FBI's

been all over everything.

But if you're out there...

this is very strange.

A guy called you. He wanted

to talk to you very urgently.

He asked me whether you'd had a chance

to read the file he sent you on e-mail.

He sounded scared. He didn't

want to leave his name or number.

He insisted that you would

know how to reach him.

Apparently you met at the

technology fair in Florida last year.

He said

you liked each other.

I hope this means something to

you, and I hope you're alive.

Ramon, Jose.

Let's go.

Let's just

get out of here.

Okay, amigo.

Come on.

- Out of the way, ma'am.

- What?

Oh, sh*t.

Ramon's got the keys.

That's all the locks.

Securing the back entrance?

Is that all you need?

Gracias.

Vamanos, vamanos, vamanos.

Under control.

All right,

let's get outta here.

What are we looking for?

I don't know.

That was...

that was Orion.

This one is Taurus.

If you look really close, you

can see the shape of a bull.

Wow. Which one

did you go to?

I didn't go

to the stars.

I just helped build one

of these big telescopes...

so we can

see them better.

My daddy's up there.

It'd be nice

if we could see him.

But I guess we can't

always have what we want.

Hey, Paige.

Hi, Six.

Bad time?

No, I was just reading.

I thought I heard something. It

gets kinda spooky up here sometimes.

You seem tense. Oh,

no, I'm fine, I'm fine.

I'll check on that contract

tomorrow. You shouldn't be alone.

No, I'm doing all right.

Well, I'll see you

at the studio.

Yeah, on thursday.

I'll see you

thursday evening.

Right. Yeah.

No, I like poetry.

Yeah.

I'm doing a lot of things

I've never done before.

I guess it's exciting,

yeah.

So I'll see you

thursday night.

Pretty small.

Hmm.

Big memory though.

- A man I met once chose me to

reveal a secret to. - Yeah?

He'd been working on a

government project. I guess he...

doesn't believe in it anymore and

needed somebody on the outside.

Why did he pick you? Weren't you a

big-shot movie producer or something?

I thought everybody

hated you guys.

They do, but for some reason,

I guess... he liked me.

Don't like us too much.

I try not to.

Good.

Just let us like you.

That's less dangerous.

Hmm.

I hope so.

You're doing great, Ray.

They're getting it all going.

That, uh, maid

working out okay?

Yeah, fine.

It's hard to get good help these days.

Your part should be done

in a couple of months.

Then the operators will

take over. That will be good.

Just wanted to touch base, tell you

we're all very happy with your work.

Country's grateful

and all that.

If we can get this thing

fully operational soon...

it'll be

an awesome tool.

Cut down on crime response

time by 200 percent.

Accuracy,

eyewitness evidence.

Could mean the end of

violence as we know it.

That would be good.

Of course if there was just one

little, tiny, infinitesimal leak...

before congress

approved it,

we'd have to wipe

the whole thing out.

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Nicholas Klein was an American labor union advocate, and attorney who is best known for his speech to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1918. more…

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