Hard Luck (2006 Video)

Wesley Snipes: Lucky

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• [first lines] 

  Lucky : Some people say luck ain't nothing but karma in work clothes. Cause and effect.

• Lucky : Maybe Mother Nature was trying to give us one last wake-up call. Or, maybe it's like my grandpa said, "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all."

• Lucky : At first, I thought the rapture had come and - and - like those end-of-the-days preachers are always talking about. And J.C., he had come down and taken everybody except me.

• Lucky : Yeah, you're wondering, how the fuck did I get here? I made some bad choices.

• Lucky : All I could do was read and watch movies. *Anything* but gangsta flicks. This shit reminded me too much of my past. And I was determined to make sure my past would not be my future.

• Lucky : I got that holiday cheer, right here. I got what you need. Look, a black reindeer. I got that for you. I've got watches. I've got your Kwanzaa needs. I've got your Hanukkah needs. I've got what you need. I've got the ties. I've got the coats. I've got some panties. Anybody need panties?

• Lucky : It ain't easy being king of the city.

• Cobb : You'd think by now that people would understand that you reap what you sow. Would you rather have your kids in a dance group or a gang?

  Lucky : Dance group. Without question.

  Cobb : Well, it seems the government's more interested in building prisons than investing in the kids. This is gonna be our last show. They've taken away our funding, so we've gotta close the place down.

  [Lucky shakes his head] 

  Cobb : Yeah, I know. But don't you let this unravel all the good work you've done. For this place, for these kids. Most of all, for yourself. You've turned your life around. You stayed on the path.

• Cobb : Good luck to you, young brother.

  Lucky : Hey, you know how we do. We're in the trenches, baby. In the trenches.

• Sol Rosenbaum : Oh, shit! Yeah. What's up, dog? Come on, come on, you gotta admit it. I'm as pretty as new money, right?

  Lucky : You look like Tony Montana on crack.

• Sol Rosenbaum : So, basically, what's your flavor? You know, you like vanilla, chocolate, mocha? Some swirl?

  Lucky : No plastic.

  Sol Rosenbaum : No plastic. Oh, okay. All right. Brothers like some genuine junk in the trunk. I know, I know.

• Lucky : You should be a nurse, girl.

  Angela : What? And leave my good-paying job as a stripper?

• Lucky : Come lay down next to me. Look. As much shit as I've done in my life I've never housed a woman for some pussy. And I don't plan on starting now. Just lay down.

• Lucky : Okay. Take your clothes off.

  Angela : Are you fucking nuts?

  Lucky : It ain't like I ain't already seen you naked. Take your shit off. Look, this way I know you're less likely to bounce. Take your shit off. What, what, do you need a beat?

  [Angela strips] 

  Angela : Happy?

• Lucky : Don't make me get stupid, all right? Just be cool, do what I say, everything will be all right. You feel me?

  Angela : Yeah, I feel you.

• Lucky : [after bandaging Lucky, Angela speaks in Spanish]  Translation?

  Angela : "Heal, heal, by the butt of a frog. If it doesn't heal today, it'll heal tomorrow." Try it. It's good luck.

• Angela : Are we dead?

  Lucky : Yes.

• Lucky : I don't believe in all of that, like, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and all that.

  Angela : Hey. I know a guy who died of that.

  Lucky : Yeah, right. Nobody's ever died of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

  Angela : He couldn't even get out of bed to eat. It was really sad.

  Lucky : Must have been a white guy.

  Angela : Yeah, so what?

  Lucky : White people got a lot of free time on their hands. Black people, we ain't got time for all that shit.

  Angela : Okay, Dr. Phil, so, what about Latinos?

• Million Dollar Mendez : America's so fucked up racially, right? Latinos are the new exotic. I mean, look at some of the Hollywood pictures. The dirty cop one, "Training Day." They put Denzel with, um...

  Lucky : Eva Mendes.

  Million Dollar Mendez : Oh, my God. Gorgeous Latina. And then - and then the one with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air kid. What's his name?

  Lucky : Will Smith.

  Million Dollar Mendez : Yes, yes, yes. They put in the same Latina with him. And then the Catwoman with I know this one. I know this one. Benjamin Bratt. He put fine in fine. You put a black guy with a black girl, what you got? Black movie. White with white? Been there, done that. You gotta mix it up. Make it sexy. You know, we all fantasize about the other, right?

• Lucky : No more cellphone.

  Angela : What the fuck?

  Lucky : GPS. Could be tracking us. From now on, we going off grid.

• Angela : I think I better change your bandage, Kojak.

  Lucky : Bandage is fine. You was fucking Sol, wasn't you?

  Angela : Say what?

  Lucky : You was boning him, right?

• Angela : I gotta pee.

  Lucky : Well, I guess you better roll the window down...... and back your ass up to the crack and piss out the window. I don't see any toilets, and I ain't stopping.

• Lucky : The whole scenario was a setup. Sol was a fink. Gino was in with the cops and they was running the shake-and-take.

• Angela : To tell the truth, he was more intent on impressing you. He used to say that you were a true player. You know, an original gangsta.

  Lucky : Original gangsta. Player. Well, the frog's in a well, and rat's in a cage.

  Angela : What does that mean?

  Lucky : It means all of these player gangstas out here they get so caught up in their own fantasy that they can't see the real picture. See, they think they running shit. They ain't running shit. More likely they running *in* shit. They just can't smell it though. Look, I did things. I was grimy. I hustled, I scrambled, I did all of that. At one point I thought the world was mine. And then I realized, oh, man, I got caught in a trick. Trick had me killing my own people, killing myself. Probably killed more black people than the Ku Klux Klan.

  Angela : So you're trying to find your way out of hell.

• Angela : I always wanted to go sledding as a kid.

  Lucky : Rosebud. Like in "Citizen Kane"?

  Angela : Who?

• Angela : Don't go acting all high and mighty just because you saw a couple of films. I'm bilingual. You're just uno Ebonical.

  Lucky : Okay. See, keep it up, I'm not gonna let you sleep with me tonight.

  Angela : That's fucked up. You're trying to scare your way into some pussy.

  Lucky : On the contrary, baby. I don't want none.

  Angela : Oh, really?

  Lucky : Oh, really. Yeah. Because you way too much drama.

  [Angela kisses Lucky] 

• Chang : Ignore him, babe.

  Lucky : Yeah, yeah. Why don't you let Bruce Lee Light call all the shots?

  Cass : Do not provoke me.