This movie has to be the worst example of fake gangster dialogue, at one point the black-criminal even used a metaphor like "the invoice needs to be paid"... because black-criminals in the hood use accounting analogies!
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Now where did I put those receipts ??
shareWhat's wrong with being an intelligent criminal? In Bronx Tale, John was telling Sunny about the books he reads.
shareAnd your point is...?
Where I come from black people go to school as well... And white people become criminals too at times...
Not using a boring stereotype does not make it not good, it gives the script a bit of humor.
And your point is...?
White-nerds writing dialogue for black-criminals.
"the invoice needs to be paid!"
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"the invoice needs to be paid!"
Dialogue is tricky, obviously you don't understand it, and you don't recognize when white-nerds write for black-criminals.
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Dialogue is tricky, obviously you don't understand it, and you don't recognize when white-nerds write for black-criminals
The script has been credited (on imdb) to the American poet Robert Lowell who died in 1977. I'm guessing whoever wrote it wanted their name taken off and someone thought it would be funny to give the credit to a famous dead poet. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6886929/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
So the nerd reference may not be that far off, but the line about the invoice is, for me, a) probably the funniest line in an otherwise unmemorable film and b) if his father is a massively rich kingpin drug dealer/extortionist/whatever then of course he would have grown up surrounded by accountants. Mostly I thought the point was that the hostage was meant to be smarter than his kidnappers so it made sense.
Also, I'm sorry, but repeating the same line over and over on a message board is not the same as having an actual argument.
The script has been credited (on imdb) to the American poet Robert Lowell who died in 1977. I'm guessing whoever wrote it wanted their name taken off and someone thought it would be funny to give the credit to a famous dead poet. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6886929/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
Watching and listening to Edi Gathegi 's performance, which I thought was really good, I have to admit that I was never thinking about "white nerds" writing dialogue for him. May be it was a black nerd?🐭
shareYou're on imdb right now, you can see exactly who the writers were.
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