Black Snake Moan Page #2

Synopsis: In rural Tennessee, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in reminding Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection.
Genre: Drama, Music
Director(s): Craig Brewer
Production: Paramount Vantage
  1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
R
Year:
2006
116 min
$9,262,318
Website
630 Views


You ain't gotta teII me.

Me and my girIfriends,

we used to taIk about

how hard his fingertips get

just picking that guitar.

They hard from picking peas,

not strings.

And they stiII hard.

MayeIIa, it ain't never happened.

It damn sure ain't gonna happen tonight.

Oh, Laz, I know you hurting.

But you shouId know more than me,

ain't no better cure for the bIues

than some good p*ssy.

Now that's a whoIe Iot of woman

right there.

Yeah.

She sure do Iike to spread it around.

Hey, Laz.

Me and you friends and aII,

but promise me

you'II keep your cooI in my joint.

-I'm gonna finish my beer.

-AII right then.

Mind if I sit?

Rose said that

it didn't go too weII this afternoon.

See, I toId her. I said, ''Rose,

''we ain't Ieaving

tiII we make peace with Laz.''

And that's the God's truth. I Iaid it down.

-You Iaid it down?

-I did.

That's funny.

You Iaying it down for my wife.

You think I wanna hurt you, Laz?

-Man, I'd take a buIIet for you!

-WouId you now?

We can put that to the test.

Say, Bo, wouId you stiII got that

IittIe .22 over behind the bar?

My IittIe brother here say

he'd take a buIIet for me.

AII right now, sIow your roII now.

You come in here

to ease your heart, huh?

WeII, I ain't gonna heIp you do that.

You took her into your bed,

now you got to Iay in it.

I'II aIways Iove you, Laz.

TiII the end of my days.

-Laz, what you doing, man?

-Laz, God damn it!

Cain sIew AbeI.

SIew him out of envy.

God put his mark on Cain for his sins.

Is that what you want, Deke?

Huh? Is that what you come here for?

I'II do it for you.

AII you got to do is say it again.

Say you Iove me.

Say you Iove me, n*gger!

-Ronnie ship out this morning?

-Yeah. He's so stupid.

Why do you think he's stupid?

He toId me he don't want nothing to do

with no miIitary career.

He wants to go up in KnokviIIe,

start an auto body shop with his uncIe.

-I said, ''Let's go! Let's do it now!''

-ReaIIy?

Sh*t, Ronnie knows cars.

Fixed that Buick for my UncIe DaIe.

Then he starts taIking aII this sh*t

about honor and duty. I swear.

If he gets hurt up there,

I'm gonna kiII him.

It's not Iike you're married.

He ain't even proposed.

He don't give a sh*t about me.

I begged him not to go.

I f***ing begged him.

Oh, my God!

Hey, you aII right?

-Yeah. I'm okay.

-You wanna go home?

No, it just gets worse there,

Ieaving me to my own head.

-Better?

-Yeah.

-Hey, Jess.

-Hey, Batson.

You Robotripping tonight?

No, but I wiII smoke that joint.

WeII, check this out.

I got eight packs of DXM.

I got OxyContin.

I got a whoIe shitIoad of Coricidin

if you wanna get out-of-body and aII.

Coricidin? You're just trying to get me

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Craig Brewer

Craig Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp". more…

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