Night on Earth Page #5

Synopsis: A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
1991
129 min
4,043 Views


- No accident.

But don't tell. Don't tell.

- Who am I gonna tell, man? Look- -

- Look, man. Just relax, all right?

- Job. Go.

Just wait a minute, all right? Look at

this. You didn't even turn the meter on.

First thing you gotta do is

turn that f***in' meter on.

See, it turns the light off on

top. That means you're occupied.

I am -Yes, I am oc -

occupied. Occupied. Yes. There.

Then you gotta put it in "D." You see?

I - I know that.

Hey, don't be saying nothing

bad, man. I understand that sh*t.

- Put it in "D." "D" is for drive.

- Ja.

Just -Just chill out, all right?

Damn, man!

It's nice.

It's New York. It's cool.

Ja. It's cold. It's cool.

Nah, nah, nah. You know,

it's hip. It's cool. It's happening.

Ah, I understand.

"It's cool is good.

Right.

Goes good. Goes good.

Yeah. Yeah. Goes good.

In English we say, "It's good to go."

- It's good to go.

- Yeah.

It's good to go. That's good.

It's good to go. It's good.

- Good to go.

- Yeah. Yeah, man. Just chill, all right?

We have the same

- We have the same hat.

- What?

- The same hat.

- No. No, no. Mine's different.

- Oh, no. It's the same hat.

- Mine's different, man. -

This is different here. This -

Mine's

- Mine's the newest, latest. Mine's fresh.

No. The ear things here. The same.

- Ear. This - - No, man.

Look, mine is the - the hype.

- What is this? Hype?

- The hype.

- What's a hype?

- It's fresh.

- Fresh. Fresh hat.

- It's the jammy. The newest, latest.

Fresh hat. It sounds good.

- Fresh hat.

- Right.

So where you from anyway?

From, uh, Germany.

Eastern Germany.

- Eastern Germany?

- Yeah.

From the city of Dresden, which

is close to Czechoslovakia. Uh -

Close to what?

Czechoslovakia.

Prague.

- Main town. Prague.

- Hmm.

Huh. What, you -you escape from there?

No, no. I was free to go.

You got a family over there?

I have no family.

So, uh...

what'd you do over there

before you came over here...

'cause I know you sure

didn't drive no cab!

I was a circus clown.

Get the f*** outta here.

No, no, no. I

- Wait. I'll show you.

Here.

Oh, sh*t.

That's some bugged-out sh*t, man.

What's your name, man?

Helmut Grokenberger. Here.

There. You can read it. That's me.

Helmet?

Helmut.

- That's your name?

- Yeah.

That's a f***ed-up name to

be naming your kid. Helmet.

See, 'cause in English,

a helmet would be, like -

you know, like something you

wear on your head, you know?

You know. A -A helmet.

In English, that'd be

like calling your kid, uh -

Oh, sh*t. Uh -

"Lampshade." Some sh*t like that.

No, but -

"Hey, Lampshade! Come here

and clean up your room!"

So, what's your name?

Yo Yo.

What?

Yo Yo. It's my name.

- Yo Yo?

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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