The Hurricane Page #3

You gon' call me

tomorrow?

I'm gon' call you tonight.

You can't call me tonight.

I'll call you tomorrow

then.

Shh!

That your father? No. My father's asleep.

Your name

Rubin Carter?

Yeah.

You're coming with us. For what?

You heard the man.

What'd you think,

we weren't gonna find you?

You still owe me time.

104, meet Vice officers

at Glory Park.

All right, get out.

This way now.

Okay.

From that moment on,

I decided to take control

of my life.

I made up my mind

to turn my body...

into a weapon.

I would be

a warrior-scholar.

I boxed.

I went to school.

I began reading-

W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright.

Move, tier one!

So I gave up

all the worthless luxury...

that most inmates crave.

The girlie books, fags,

cigarettes, the movies-

I hated them.

In fact,

I hated everyone.

I didn't even speak English.

I spoke hate.

And its verbs were fists.

I made up my mind...

to turn my body

into a weapon...

that would eventually

set me free...

or kill anyone who sought

to keep me in prison.

On September 21, 1961,

I was released,

and I vowed upon

everything holy...

never to come back

to prison again.

I had spent almost

half my time on this Earth...

in jail.

Hey, come on, Lesra. Time

to get up. Breakfast, buddy.

Yeah. All right.

I'm up. I'm up.

Did you get any sleep?

Your light's been on all night.

I can't stop reading.

This book's

about my life.

Jeez, Lisa, you gotta smoke

for breakfast?

Whew.

Do you know

when we met in Brooklyn?

Yeah.

Why'd you take me home?

You know,

you met my folks, man,

you brought me up here, you

did all this stuff for me.

Yeah?

No, I mean why?

Why'd you

do all that?

'Cause you were smart

and funny.

And short.

We figured

it'd be good for you...

to spend a little time

with some tall white people.

Yeah, absolutely.

What, did you do it

'cause I'm black?

You thought I couldn't

do it myself?

'Cause Rubin,

Rubin did it all himself,

you know.

Hey, Les, we didn't

feel sorry for you.

We met you, got to know you and realized

you could accomplish some things...

and, like a lot of us,

you could use some help.

I'm sure that Hurricane Carter

had some help along the way.

None of us does it alone. Hey.

As far as doing it for yourself goes,

nobody can learn anything for you.

Trust me.

Everything you're doing now,

you're doing for yourself.

I'll get it.

You know, I been thinkin'. Yeah?

About what?

No, no, he's here.

He just-

Think I wanna put up a heavy bag.

You know, like a big punching bag.

Uh, those renovations?

The end of the month.

Any special reason?

- No, man. I just feel like

punchin' somethin', you know.

That's it.

It's set.

Whoo! Whoo!

Oh! Oh!

A little low.

Keep the left down.

Straight out of prison,

I was a fighting machine.

One thing I could do-

the only thing- was box.

I had tasted my own blood,

and I loved it.

This is

your ringside commentator.

Tonight's fight brings together Rubin...

..."Hurricane" Carter from Paterson,

New Jersey,

and Joey Cooper,

who is currently undefeated.

Yeah!

Way to go, Hurricane!

And the champion, Joey Cooper,

seems to be helpless...

against Rubin Carter,

the challenger.

You got him!

Aah!

Things have taken

a surprising turn...

in this middleweight fight

tonight.

Joey Cooper in big trouble,

Rubin Carter pouring it on.

Left hooks, right hooks,

uppercuts- Oh!

He did it!

Oh, look at this!

What a disaster

for Cooper!

Carter is punishing him.

He's gonna-

Oh, he is down, folks! He is down for

the count, and he is not getting up!

Five, six, Come on! Get up!

seven, eight, nine

- Get up now! Right now!

You're out!

Unbelievable!

Rubin Carter comes on

like a hurricane...

and defeats the undefeated

Joey Cooper in round one...

of this middleweight fight!

I don't believe it!

Unbelievable upset tonight!

Have you ever seen anything

like it?

And the crowd

is going wild here...

in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Rubin Carter took this fight right

away from him here this evening.

Mrs. Carter, what do you

think it's going to be like...

being married to such

a ferocious fighter?

It's gon' be a little scary,

but I'll try my best.

Can you believe

that black son of a b*tch?

He thinks

he's champion of the world.

Fighter of the year, my ass.

A low-life criminal.

My mother told me

'Fore she passed away

Said Son, when I'm gone

Don't forget to pray

'Cause there'll be

hard times

What do they expect? Of course

a riot broke out. Hard times

Every time we try to defend

our own neighborhoods,

they send the cops in

to bust us in our heads.

If you feel so strongly about all this,

Hurricane, why aren't you out there...

in stead of sittin' in here

drinkin'?

I'm drinking club soda,

first of all,

and I'm in here because

you asked me to be here.

But you're right. Maybe

I should go down there.

Maybe I should grab my gun, shoot me

half a dozen of them n*gger-hatin' cops.

What you think, Bucky?

I know I can get me about

five of 'em before they get me.

Ed? Huh?

How about you?

You wanna come?

Sh*t. That's off the record, by the way.

Oh, he knows that.

Don't you?

Sure, champ, sure.

You betcha.

Take that, champ!

Get down.

Ohh!

Right here.

Rubin!

Get down! Stay down!

Oh, Lord, what is it?

Let's get outta here!

You all right, T?

Shh, it's okay. It's okay.

Shh.

It's okay.

All right, all right.

You all right?

You know

why they did this.

Shh. All right.

Come on, come on.

I told you it was

off the record.

Nothin' with you is "off the

record. " I don't wanna go into it-

You never talk

to them people.

All right, all right

- Everything you say, they gon'

make up somethin' different.

Why do you say these things? You tryin' to

get us killed? I know what they're doin'-

So what you want me

to do, huh?

You want me to roll over

and just lay dead?

Pride.

It ain't nothin' but pride.

Damn right it's pride. I'm

guilty. Give me my baby.

You will not be able

to stay home, brother.

You will not be able to plug

in, turn on and drop out.

You will not be able

to lose yourself on skag,

and skip out for beer

during commercials...

because the revolution

will not be televised.

The revolution

will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought

to you by Xerox and ballparks...

without commercial

interruptions.

The revolution will not be right back

after a message about a white tornado,

white lightning

or white people.

You will not have to worry about a dove

in your bedroom, the tiger in your tank...

or the giant

in your toilet bowl.

The revolution will not

go better with Coke.

The revolution will not fight

germs that may cause bad breath.

The revolution will put you in the

driver's seat. Break it up! Break it up!

The revolution will not be

televised- will not be televised-

will not be televised-

will not be televised-

The revolution won't be

no rerun, brothers.

The revolution will be live.

Champion of the world!

Champion of the world!

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