Shaft Page #3

Synopsis: New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was sprouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he has the id of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
Director(s): John Singleton
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2000
99 min
$70,334,258
Website
2,407 Views


- Shaft, i've got one.

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Now you can't speak engllsh.

I bet you can say "kllo", can't you?

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Hey! Goddamnlt!

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Don't make me chase you.

You're golng to plss me off. Stop!

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Shlt! Shlt!

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Help me!

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Throw somethlng else!

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Disperse, motherfuckers!

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Come on!

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Watch your backs, ladles!

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Open the door!

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Open it!

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I'm golng to f*** you up

for maklng me run!

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You got me, papa.

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Peace, motherf***er.

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Good luck!

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Aprll fool, motherf***er.

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I told you not to make me run.

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Thls shlt's too tlght!

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Thlnk about thls ass-whupplng

you are golng to get.

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It's golng to be a long rlde

to the preclnct.

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Paraphernalla. Nothlng.

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- Let me call my wlfe.

- Shut up, cornbread.

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- Let me call my glrlfrlend.

- Shut the f*** up!

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Easy wlth the bralds.

What you got agalnst black men?

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- Supposed to be a factory up there.

- They must have gotten a heads up.

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My kld's got more indlctable shlt

under hls bed.

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These skells wlll get revolved

before we clock out tonlght.

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- Look at hlm.

- Who is that?

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Peoples hernandez,

a nelghbourhood alllgator.

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It's all hls play up here.

He's got half a dozen apartments.

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Keeps changlng hls shlt on us

ilke it's a shell game.

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You enjoylng the show?

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Yo, spree.

Pass me the ball.

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John, don't do it.

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Come on. No!

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Good shot.

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Peoples hernandez!

Come on down!

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Motherfuck.

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Yes!

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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