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I love how Hopper’s character sees the writing on the wall and seemingly shifts into utterly, utterly not giving a fuck and brilliantly kills the power dynamic by reversing the Sicilian’s declaration (and pride) at being able to spot a liar through his heritage by utterly dunking on him with a lesson in history (fyi it is true the Moors did hold the island for a time along with the Vandals, Arabs, Berbers, Greeks, Saracens and about a half dozen other groups through the ages because it was a valuable and strategic location in war and in trade - though I wouldn’t have put it so, uh, ‘bluntly’.) He just sucks all the air out of the room. One of the best ‘Fuck you’ moments in quite a while.
It’s just helped that Walken works that laughter in a way to where you feel the boiling anger.
Man, QT gets ratcheting tension. He’s had so many of these ‘cold pit in the stomach’ moments.
I think its more than that even. I think the character reads and knows what's happening, and having already received some torture, has to figure out a way to entice Walken's character into killing him, instead of putting him through more and increasingly torturous events.
He doesn't need to just keep his mouth shut here. He needs to be killed so that he doesn't get tortured more and/or worse, actually tell them where his boy went.
Oh indeed. It’s a great read on Hopper’s character that he both had enough balls to go for it as well as know exactly what was going to punch Walken’s characters buttons to literally make him kill him after not killing anyone since 1984.
And the funny thing is the mobster knows it too with the ‘egg on his face’ comment. You can tell when he comes in he is one who depends on his demeanor and the threat of violence for his schtick. Never gets his hands dirty and lets his reputation (and his bosses rep) proceed him. And he let this little bug shake him.
He got owned and realizes it after the fact.
I hear people sometimes give QT flack for ‘mindless violence’ but if you really sit down and watch his stuff, he absolutely nails nuance and subtlety as good as Coppola, IMHO.
Great scene/movie but Gary Oldman should've been in more scenes
Sit down boy, grab yourself an eggroll. We got everything here from a diddle eyed Joe to a damned if I know.
Great scene. I think Tarantino did the screen play for this before he was a big director.
I love how they keep giving him their handkerchiefs. Such an odd little detail to throw in there.
It's impressive how a good movie can conceive scenes like this one; this is the perfect example when the script, direction, and a stellar cast give you a masterpiece.
Why does Hollywood think that the Moors were black? Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was another example.
Moor is a somewhat lose term, but at its broadest use it applies to Arabs, Berbers, and Muslim Europeans living in North Africa. It doesn't include any sub-Saharan African peoples.
To be fair, I don't think his character even used the word 'black'.
Is there a way to get Reddit to open this right in YouTube? I’m getting a message saying the video is age restricted. Real dumb.
This video always makes me think of reddit because there isn't one black person in this scene but the nword is said like a bunch of times. It's true to life in that way. Just dudes living in and for the moment. Universally loved.
There is a clip of Tarantino commenting on the movie as it is running saying that he was told the story of the Moors invading Sicily and raping and/or mating with Sicilian women by a black guy who was a friend of his mother's when he was 11 or 12 and then using it for the movie later.. But Hopper is clearly using the story to insult Walken more than he is giving Walken a history lesson, with the end result being that Hopper is murdered upon finishing the story. So, was it a gratuitous inclusion or what?
I feel like his use of the word feels true to him and his audience but I do think it's often gratuitous, yes, but that's just like my opinion.