Jackie Brown (1997)

Robert Forster: Max Cherry

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Quotes 

• Max Cherry : I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29.

  Jackie Brown : Well, my ass ain't the same.

  Max Cherry : Bigger?

  Jackie Brown : Yeah.

  Max Cherry : Ain't nothin' wrong with that!

• Max Cherry : Half a million dollars will always be missed.

• Ordell Robbie : How'd you find me?

  Max Cherry : Winston found you.

  Ordell Robbie : How the fuck did he find me?

  Max Cherry : That's what Winston does. He finds people who don't want to be found.

  Ordell Robbie : Well bully for that nigga!

• Ordell Robbie : What the fuck you doin' knockin on the door like the goddamn police? You wanna die?

  Max Cherry : I thought you might be asleep.

  Ordell Robbie : You keep fuckin' with me, you're gonna be asleep forever.

• Max Cherry : You know, a good cop will never let you know he knows you're full of shit.

• Jackie Brown : Aw, the milk went bad while I was in jail.

  Max Cherry : Black's fine.

  Jackie Brown : Cool.

• Max Cherry : I'm 56 years old. I can't blame anybody for anything I do.

• Jackie Brown : What's the matter, haven't ever borrowed someone's car before?

  Max Cherry : Not after they're dead.

• Ordell Robbie : This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?

  Max Cherry : You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out.

  Ordell Robbie : Well, if we ain't got no - what's that shit called? - confidentiality, why should I tell you a thing?

  Max Cherry : Because you want me to know what a slick guy you are. You got stewardesses bringing you fifty grand.

  Ordell Robbie : Now why would a stewardess be bringing me fifty grand?

  Max Cherry : Now you want me to speculate on what you do. My guess is you're in the drug business, except the money's moving the wrong way. Whatever you're into, you seem to be getting away with it, so more power to you.

• Max Cherry : Jackie wants to give it to you herself, she wants to collect her ten percent. She also wants to explain why she had to hang on to it.

  Ordell Robbie : Oh, and I want to hear that shit!

• Winston : I don't have to know what I'm doing, just so long as you know.

  Max Cherry : I think I do. Good enough?

  Winston : You bet.

• Max Cherry : If you've got time, you think you can find out where he's staying?

  Winston : Cops can't locate him, huh?

  Max Cherry : They don't have your winning personality.

• Max Cherry : I'd say you're in the drug business, except the money's moving in the wrong direction.

• Max Cherry : Is white guilt supposed to make me forget I'm running a business?

  Ordell Robbie : [pause]  Oh, it's like that, huh?

  [pause] 

  Ordell Robbie : Alright, I got your little thousand bucks.

  [Ordell pulls large wad of cash out of waist pouch] 

• [last lines] 

  Jackie Brown : I'll send you a postcard.

  Max Cherry : Will you?

  Jackie Brown : I sure will partner.

  [They kiss. Both are silent for a moment after, then the phone begins to ring. Max hesitates to answer it] 

  Jackie Brown : You're running a business Max.

  Max Cherry : [answers phone]  Cherry Bail Bonds. Uh, What is it your son's charged with?

  [Jackie leaves the office, Max watches her go] 

  Max Cherry : Yes, that's a very serious offense. Is your son still in school? Does his father still live in the house? Could I excuse myself? Would you call me back in about half an hour? Yes, thank you.

  [Hangs up the phone and watches Jackie drive off out the window] 

• Max Cherry : Ordell, this isn't a bar. You don't have a tab.

• Max Cherry : Beaumont Livingston.

  Ordell Robbie : Livingston, huh?

  Max Cherry : On his prior, he served nine months, he's working on four years probation.

  Ordell Robbie : You don't say.

  Max Cherry : You know what he's on probation for?

  Ordell Robbie : Ain't got a clue.

  Max Cherry : Possession of unregistered machine guns.

  Ordell Robbie : Damn. Now, they gonna consider that a violation of his probation?

  Max Cherry : They *do* consider this a violation of his probation. Your boy's looking at ten years, plus the concealed weapon.

  Ordell Robbie : He ain't gonna like that. Beaumont ain't got a doin' time kind of disposition.

• Jackie Brown : ...the money won't convict him, guns will.

  Max Cherry : You're rationalizing.

  Jackie Brown : Well that's what you do to go through with the shit you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can't do it without you.

• Ordell Robbie : Who's that big, Mandingo-lookin' nigger you got up there on that picture with you?

  Max Cherry : That's Winston. He works here.

  Ordell Robbie : Damn!. He's a big 'un, ain't he?

• Max Cherry : So you need a ten thousand dollar bond. What do you have for collateral?

  Ordell Robbie : Gonna have to use cash.

  Max Cherry : You have it with you?

  Ordell Robbie : Got it right here in my Raptor bag.

  Max Cherry : You have cash. What do you need me for?

  Ordell Robbie : Come on, man, you know how they do. Black man shows up with ten thousand in cash, the first thing they want to know is where I got it. Then they're gonna want to keep a big chunk of it, start talking that court cost shit. Fuck that noise, Jack. I go through you.

  Max Cherry : It'll cost you a thousand for the bond.

  Ordell Robbie : I can do that.

  Max Cherry : Who's it for, a relative?

  Ordell Robbie : Fellow named Beaumont. He got arrested for drunk driving, they wrote it up as possession of a concealed weapon. Dumb monkey-ass had a pistol on him.

• Max Cherry : You never got into the whole CD revolution?

  Jackie Brown : Oh, I got a few, but I can't afford to start all over again. I mean, I've invested too much time and money in my albums.

  Max Cherry : Yeah, but you can't get new stuff on records.

  Jackie Brown : I don't get new stuff that often.

  [puts on an LP] 

  Max Cherry : Its pretty. Who is this?

  Jackie Brown : The Delfonics.

  Max Cherry : Its nice.

  Jackie Brown : Mmm-hmm.

• Max Cherry : Bail Bonds. Is this your way of getting out of your responsibilities? Is this the way you act?

• Max Cherry : Yeah.

  Ordell Robbie : There ain't nothing you want to tell me before we get out of this car, is there?

  Max Cherry : No.

  Ordell Robbie : Last chance, motherfucker. You sure?

  [Max nods] 

  Ordell Robbie : You better be, motherfucker. All right, let's roll.

• Max Cherry : [Jackie offers a cigarette]  No, thanks. I quit three years ago.

  Jackie Brown : Gain weight?

  Max Cherry : Ten pounds. Take it off and put it back on.

  Jackie Brown : That's why I don't quit.

• Max Cherry : This stewardess - you know her last name?

  Ordell Robbie : Brown. Jackie Brown.

• Max Cherry : is White Guilt supposed to make me forget that I'm running a business