Get on the Bus Page #4

Synopsis: Get on the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid off aircraft worker, a former Gang Banger, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a White bus driver, all make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1996
120 min
1,025 Views


- Two long years? Two short years?

- Two short years.

I met her one day

when I was crossing the street.

Don't tell me you

met this beautiful young lady...

...and you did the

"daddy-cool" thing.

Yeah, well,

in my unenlightened days...

...big booty would catch my eye.

You could say I had

"big-booty radar."

Son, you ain't in love.

You're in lust.

No, sir. No, sir.

Far beyond that now.

Since we've been together,

we've never really been together.

- You kidding me?

- No.

We're of the faith.

Living clean, you know?

No shame in that.

Shabuya, sha, sha, shabuya

Roll call

My name is Mike

Representing New York

I'm not a Muslim

Still don't eat pork

Roll call

Don't call me Evan

'Cause I'm on the move

Don't call me Junior

- But you can call me Smooth

- Roll call

My name is Evan

Evan Senior

They got my son

- On a misdemeanour

- Roll call

My name is Gary

I'm down with Shelly

She's got the butter

- I got the jelly, roll call

- Roll call

My name is X

And I'm a Bruin

And blah, blah, blah

My name's Jamal

My mind is free

We need more love

- And unity, roll call

- Roll call

My name is Pop

We're at the top

Now all this shabuya

- Has got to stop

- Roll call

Mike, how come you're going

to the march?

I'm thinking this

could be Black Monday.

- What do you mean?

- This could be a setup.

This could be a conspiracy.

We could be on our way to getting

done, like the trains into Dachau.

- You saying it's a plot?

- It could be, man.

Think of all the planes and cars

filled with black men going to DC.

Thousands, right? Thousands.

If I'm a crazy white man

in the government...

...and want to kill a million black men,

just hit one button, and boom?

When and where would I do it?

At the Million Man March.

The next day, when we're all dead,

who'll fight our battle?

Nothing but black women left.

Some "holocalyptical" sh*t going on.

That's what I'm saying.

- Jay, you going for the same reason?

- No, I'm going to the march for myself.

It's time for us to be responsible,

get out of the beggar mentality...

...to say, "Look out for a brother."

We need to start looking out

for ourselves.

This is a strong black businessman.

- You have a business?

- Yes, I have my own business.

- Ask him what he do.

- I've been in business seven years.

- What kind of business?

- I have a black bubblegum company.

- What's it called?

- Yo Bubba.

- How's business?

- It's blowing up.

I just don't understand.

Sent the girl to private school

her whole life...

...Sunday school,

church every Sunday...

How she gonna come home

with a bun in the oven?

Sixteen frigging years old.

What about that little punk

got her pregnant?

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Reggie Rock Bythewood

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