I could watch this scene for eternity and never grow old of it. What Hopper does to protect his son is not only heroic but it also is self serving as he goads Walken into killing him faster as opposed to a dragged out torture for information. Well played sir!
Yes, that is indeed the point of antagonising his armed-n-dangerous captor/ tormentor. What I like about the scene is that Tarantino doesn't hold our hand and explain to us that _'this' is what Dennis Hopper is doing and here's 'why' he's doing it, too!_ It's rare for film studios these days to want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a movie and then have to leave some (any) aspect of the plot for the audience to understand on their own. They (correctly) assume that people are mostly fucking idiots and that the lowest-common-denominator doesn't understand what isn't spelled out for him (or her, I guess). While it's frustrating for people of average, or above average intellectual capabilities to have to sit through the kind of hand-holding that so many movies force us all to endure, the studios/ producers/ people financially invested in a film are going to *insist* that every detail MUST be explained to the audience, so that no ticket-buying-dunce gets left behind. It's just too much of a gamble for them, otherwise. They don't want to risk having a bunch of idiots attracting an ever-increasing group of idiots, complaining to one and all (and more importantly, to those who haven't bought tickets yet) that the movie doesn't make sense, or that this or that important part of the film doesn't make any sense, that no one would behave that way, etc...
It never gets old ... you are correct. I wonder what it would've looked like if Tarantino directed it ... I'd argue Tony Scott did it perfectly .. and it's fun to see Tarantino's script done by another expert director.
The first Tarantino movie i ever saw was Reservoir Dogs 29 years ago in a cinema in Cape Town. I had heard so much about the movie but missed it's cinema release in the UK. It was banned in the UK for video release and only just been passed by the censor in South Africa for cinema release. We have to remember how attitudes were different at the time. Nelson Mandela had just become President and apartheid was over. I am white and so was my Friend. The majority of the audience that day were Black ot coloured so it added to the atmosphere and shock for us with the profuse use of the N word, spoken by white actors actually saying "Nigger" with no Censorship or disclaimer. The audience fell silent and a sense of unease was clearly obvious. My friend (female) told me after the film, who is South African and understood the subtleties of her fellow countrymen explained how the majority of the audience with the way they appeared to take it was the most volatile situation she'd ever experienced which had nothing to do with anything with the former white South African racially fucked up regime
Christopher Walker's physical acting in this scene is some of the finest acting in the history of movies and Dennis Hopper at the end of it all asking Christopher Walker "am I lyng" after he just talked about being basically a human lie detector was was just so damn perfect
The look on Hoppers face as Walken gets up to get his gun while laughing is some of the best acting you will ever see , he knows he is about to die and hopefully has kept his kid safe.
I literally just said the same thing to my wife and then rewinded it a few times! She didn’t appreciate it like I did though. 😂🤷♂️ Man, Hopper was so awesome
@@mikewallace8087 and... how many people in Hollywood have had multiple wives or husbands? Easy chat 💩 on someone you've never met who's life is under media scrutiny, plus none of us are perfect and have aspects of our own lives people would say " oh he's a difficult person "
@@johncoons1666 i agree he does play similar for every character :) yet sometimes its just 100% fitting .. and here was no different , same in king of new york , and of course pulp fiction :)
Tarantino at his finest!! He considers this his best scene he’s ever written. He didn’t direct the film, but it’s his screenplay! -the eggplant/cantaloupe part was an Improv from the 2 actors. And Tarantino was cool with it…
What makes the scene even sadder is that Clarence establishes that he and his father are estranged, yet his father helps and dies for him anyway to make up for all those years.
....and then they find the address anyways... that's what makes it even worse. It makes the audience debate whether he died in vain, or not. I say no, because he knew he was dead anyways, hence this scene, but still... there are so many little things going on here. An absolute masterpiece of movie writing
@@seeharvester "Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give her dog a bone, the sweet lady bent over, Rover took over, and gave her a bone of his own...oh!" Two of my brothers did the DNA test and found that we are only 78% Italian, the other 22% is mixed including African American, Jewish, Arab, Greek, and one or two others I can't recall. I'm very proud of my heritage, and I know that Northern Italians look down on Sicilians because we are not "pure blood" Italian. In turn, I would look at them and see snooty, arrogant guineas. So, to this day, when someone says, "he's Italian", I say, "no, I'm Sicilian", and a NY City Sicilian is in a class of his own. Reply
@@Pbadome1 It's a good thing to be proud of your heritage. Diceman's nursery rhymes... haha "Little Boy Blue... he needed the money. OH!" "Mary had a little lamb she kept in her backyard..." ua-cam.com/video/19b3N4NuDVg/v-deo.html
Wonderful direction by Tony Scott (R.I.P.), excellent script by Quentin Tarantino, and an epic scene stealing duel between Dennis Hopper (R.I.P.) and Christopher Walken.
What really made this scene great was not only Hopper and Walken's acting, but the ethereal opera music that swells up, like angels gently welcoming Hopper into heaven since he will soon die a hero.
Quentin Tarantino is a genius and a prodigy of a writer and I won’t see otherwise , this scene is one of the best in cinema , Dennis hopper and walken stole this scene and made it pure art !
At 3:56, James Gandolfini knows EXACTLY what Dennis Hopper is doing (and seems to respect him)...pushing Walken to immediately kill him, rather than slowly torture him for information about his son. Hopper knew he was dead, that's why he accepted the cigarette, after refusing it - and why Tarantino began the music behind him. So much in this little scene. And when Walken turns away to get the gun...Hopper knows he has won and the fake smile drops from his face as he prepares to die.
Cantaloupe......mixed fruit lol. Walken cracking up at Hopper makes this scene that much funnier. Hopper almost loses it at some point which, in turn, cracked up Walken. They can say whatever they want, I think they just turned the camera on and told them to have a go at it. I think that 90 percent of the dialogue in this scene was ad-libbed as the interaction between Walken and Hopper is almost childlike.
I even liked the little “no” in acknowledgement from Walken in that moment (3:10). Great table turn from Hopkins character after insulting him to such a degree and spinning it back to “Sicilians are the best liars”
@@geraldbrowder5806 Wasn't racism. He used those words to verbally stab Walken. I'm Sicilian, been hearing about black blood in my veins my whole life.
@@Pbadome1 Here is the racism; if the 'verbal stab' is saying one has black blood, what is the implication that is supposed to offensive? Is being of black heritage a negative trait 🤔 If not then there really is no stab, if so then the stab is implying that you have black descendants which would only be offensive if you were to subscribe to the idea that there's something lesser about being black. Get it?
Being part Sicilian I love the hell out of this scene. I showed it to my 18 y/o daughter. After it was over she asked if that meant she could say the “n-word”
The moors that went to sicily were mainly carthaginians (Tunisians) and they were not black but mediterranean in appearance. Maybe more tanned than the average southern european
@@J2-M172it's wild that you ppl think we don't have the evidence or the internet to prove these things. Look up the term "Blackamoor" look up moorish statues in europe. None of them look pale.
@@knstp04391 well you call them ,,pale“ and idk wtf a ,,blackamoor“ supposed to be but as a north african i can tell you that we were never black. The black people in north africa were slaves brought from sub-sahara to north africa. Nothern Africa is a mediterranean climate zone like southern europe, just a little hotter.. We are more related to southern europeans and middle easterners than we are to sub-saharans (just because of history and geographical proximity)Maybe you are an afrocentrist or something but indigenous north african berbers were not black idc what statue you saw. Lots of people from the afrocentric community tried to claim egyptans to be black, that shiiii*** was also debunked recently cuz they always looked middle eastern. Nothern Africa is different from sub-saharan africa!!!
I beleive Hopper said before he passed that this was his favorite scene he ever played. Think about that for a moment- Easy Rider - Apocalypse Now - Giant - Blue Velvet... True Romance opposite a stone-cold Walken.
They were mediterraneans but more tanned than southern europeans. We can share same looks with southern europeans Karim Benzema is a good Example. He could be a Spaniard or a southern italian
People are discussing whether Sicilian ancestry contains Black African blood , & it's probably more likely it's from North African peoples as can be deduced from the distribution of ancient peoples in antiquity. But I think the scene has more recent resonance than this debate. When poor Italians came to America in the 19th century , they were considered "nonwhite" and found themselves in competition with Blacks & the Irish for the low end jobs available. History details the riots & animosity among the groups at the time. Remnants of the period still exist in social attitudes today. As a Black kid , it was common knowledge that trying to date an Italian girl would probably earn you an ass kicking from some Italian guy. Even today going into Bensonhurst , a tight knit Italian neighborhood here in NY is not the greatest idea for a black person. To accuse an Italian of having Black blood would be one of the worst insults you could deliver. As Hopper is trying to goad Walken into killing him quickly , that's the reason his taunts were effective , even if the historical accuracy is not quite there.
Moors were black in some instances. I just went through Qatar in May and saw some black people, but I think the majority of Moors would've looked like Libyans and others from North Africa. My brother in law is Italian and one niece has dark brown curly hair and the other is blonde like my sister. It's interesting how genetics can last for thousands of years. It's a fantastic scene between 2 legends
The whole monologue here isn't actually historical fact, the Moors aren't actually n-words. And the Silicians never were blonde and blue eyed. Dennis Hopper's character is basically giving the head mafioso guy a 4 minute long insult to his face in an effort to enrage, provoke and humiliate him in front of his men. Calling Silicians n-words is a major insult because it targets their deep seated insecurity, along with of course "your grandma f-ed a n-word". He does this tactically to avoid a long and painful torture he'll face at the hands of the mafia followed by a swift death, he was a cop and knew very well he wasn't making out of this situation alive either way.
when he asks for the ciggerette and he already knows he is a dead man but he had one last pleasure and pushes them to kill him fast and no more torture, masterful by both Hopper steals in but Walken needs props too his movement and glare.
Absolute classic ,before I saw It my bro said wait until you see the scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken , I said don't tell me and he said I'm not but its worth seen that film just for that scene ,He really pissed of Don Vincenzo , "If that's a fact ,tell me am I lying?"
The credit doesn't go to Tarantino..he said..decades ago..that he sold the rights and script of "True Romance "..for 100 thousand dollars...so he can go to Amsterdam for 1 year and write ..HIS.. Citizen Kane.. which was..PULPFICTION...Director Tony Scott (RIP )...and musical producers...Hans Zimmer and Mark Mancina ...who put that song ..specifically..for this scene..for effect...should get the credit..and it works perfectly.. Like a well practiced dance..and thats exactly what the scene is..a dance...!!! Hopper and Walken are dancing...and Hopper is leading..knowing that he's about to be tortured & killed. 😮for information about his son Clarence..so he "gives Walken a history lesson"... and ..BTW.. "You're great, great, great, great grandmother..was fucked..by a #!$$@&...and you..youre part eggplant" ..simply amazing dialog
I read a lot too.And Hannibal was not black.He had black troops in his army but was a small amount.And you know that's not exactly correct?What he's saying but i'm sure there is some north african and sub sahard african and lineage
Duet Flowers as he insults the Mob Boss to his face is my favorite example of a man knowing he's lost so he might as well give them something to remember him by.
I think Christian Slater is Nicholson's kid, or test tube clone ... Too bad he didn't make more movies, because for some reason that guy was in a ton of great ones back in the day. .... "Fair is Fair" ... buy me a new Honda scooter
He insults the entire Sicilian race and gets a quick merciful death, they could have tortured him. But incredibly acted by 2 legends , in my opinion the best film scene ever. This film is brilliant, the other scene with Gary old man as Drexel the pimp is also incredible, “ He must have thought it was whiteboy day, it ain’t whiteboy day is it” brilliant
Mansa Musa, Moors, Egypt....kingdoms rise and eventually fall, America (the melting pot) is the only nation that stood the test of time... Park your racist beliefs. Get educated.
The Emirate that conquered Sicily, were not black. They were Arabs and Berbers and both originated from Middle-East and had a light skin tone. You still see that North Africans today are mostly light skinned like the rest of the Middle-East and Turkey. All prone to skin cancer, seeing they arent the original inhabitants of the area. They were hardly much darker than many people already settled in the Byzantine Empire or Spain etc.
They were Moors....I am a descendant of a Moor and our History proves what you say is not true...I mean this in the most respectful way....Truth is Truth...
@@elibrunson6189 Moor is a term given to a group of Berbers by the Christians. So, please look up your inheritance before you speak. You are a descendant of Berbers. And Berbers where mostly light to bronze skinned, like many middle-easterns today. They were not black and they were Berbers.
@@elibrunson6189 no he's right North Africans were and still are mostly Arabs. The moors never took away control from Byzantine in Sicily they just carried out raids but Sicily was conquered by the Normans in the 11th century since then Sicilians have been mostly from Norman blood.
One of my favorite details in this scene is when Walken calls Hopper a "cantaloupe" -- it's perfect. A cantaloupe is white, it's used for target practice, and it sounds like "can't elope."
Well, it wasn't just the church, it was also the Muslim scholars along the Tigris and Euphrates that preserved a lot of it. And while religious folks preserved the older stuff, the problem was that they didn't produce nearly as much stuff of their own as the ancient Greeks and Romans did.
The only thing I noticed about "wiping the egg off his face was dipping the handkerchief into fish water". I have watched this scene probably 50 times and have passed it along to others. The entire movie is great, lots of cameos.
Eggplants have a puple/black skin, so refering to someone as a moulignon (eggplant) is to call them the n word, as for cantelop, I think that was just a flippent throwaway line .......
The point of the insulting was to anger him enough to kill him before he spilled details on his son's location and/or to get them to kill him quicker as yes, he knew he was going to be killed anyway. A quick death, and the hope that he could protect his son.
Portugese and spanish "nword blood" also...italy siciliy portugal and spain all cohabitated with blax since 900ad but they were asked or forced to leave europe due to a difference in religion.
1. The only took Spain for 700 years and not whole Europe lol 😂 Portugal for example Kicked the Moors in 1200s out of their Land !! And Normans kicked the Moors of sicily in 1040 !!! 2. The Majority of the Moors weren‘t Black either only a few like 5 or 10% !!! The Moors locked like the modern day Morrocoans !! Meaning Brown Skin and not Sub Saharan Black !!
What i like about the whole scene is that Walken proposed a smoke to the guy, but the guy refused. Then at some point, he understood that he wasn't gonna walk away from this, and that he was gonna die. It was only at that point that he said "can you give me that cigarette you were talking about?"
I could watch this scene for eternity and never grow old of it. What Hopper does to protect his son is not only heroic but it also is self serving as he goads Walken into killing him faster as opposed to a dragged out torture for information. Well played sir!
Yes, that is indeed the point of antagonising his armed-n-dangerous captor/ tormentor.
What I like about the scene is that Tarantino doesn't hold our hand and explain to us that _'this' is what Dennis Hopper is doing and here's 'why' he's doing it, too!_
It's rare for film studios these days to want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a movie and then have to leave some (any) aspect of the plot for the audience to understand on their own. They (correctly) assume that people are mostly fucking idiots and that the lowest-common-denominator doesn't understand what isn't spelled out for him (or her, I guess). While it's frustrating for people of average, or above average intellectual capabilities to have to sit through the kind of hand-holding that so many movies force us all to endure, the studios/ producers/ people financially invested in a film are going to *insist* that every detail MUST be explained to the audience, so that no ticket-buying-dunce gets left behind. It's just too much of a gamble for them, otherwise. They don't want to risk having a bunch of idiots attracting an ever-increasing group of idiots, complaining to one and all (and more importantly, to those who haven't bought tickets yet) that the movie doesn't make sense, or that this or that important part of the film doesn't make any sense, that no one would behave that way, etc...
It never gets old ... you are correct. I wonder what it would've looked like if Tarantino directed it ... I'd argue Tony Scott did it perfectly .. and it's fun to see Tarantino's script done by another expert director.
The first Tarantino movie i ever saw was Reservoir Dogs 29 years ago in a cinema in Cape Town. I had heard so much about the movie but missed it's cinema release in the UK.
It was banned in the UK for video release and only just been passed by the censor in South Africa for cinema release.
We have to remember how attitudes were different at the time.
Nelson Mandela had just become President and apartheid was over.
I am white and so was my Friend.
The majority of the audience that day were Black ot coloured so it added to the atmosphere and shock for us with the profuse use of the N word, spoken by white actors actually saying "Nigger" with no Censorship or disclaimer. The audience fell silent and a sense of unease was clearly obvious. My friend (female) told me after the film, who is South African and understood the subtleties of her fellow countrymen explained how the majority of the audience with the way they appeared to take it was the most volatile situation she'd ever experienced which had nothing to do with anything with the former white South African racially fucked up regime
@@Raz.Cthis is bad example of your argument. It’s extremely noticeable that the father did this to save his son.
It's a movie .. Christ .. 😂
Christopher Walker's physical acting in this scene is some of the finest acting in the history of movies and Dennis Hopper at the end of it all asking Christopher Walker "am I lyng" after he just talked about being basically a human lie detector was was just so damn perfect
Some of the finest acting in the history of movies, you say? I mean, I dig the scene too but geez, buddy.
@@adamb.9968 Nothing ridiculous about his statement. One of the best written monologues ever with two fine actors portraying the scene amazingly.
It's hands down one of the most underrated flicks of all time.
@adamb.9968 it's the subtly of his expressions. Robert Duval was a master of this too.
@@adamb.9968It certainly is some of the finest acting, and greatest scenes, in the history. If thats a fact, tell me, am I lying?
He decided to roast this man’s whole lineage
At the expense of black people
just speaking the truth…
There’s a glaring inaccuracy… not actually a man just fractionally
What’s wrong with being of Black descent?
@@omartistry When this movie came out? I'd say not much. But these days? I'd be embarrassed. That "culture" is at odds with the first world
The look on Hoppers face as Walken gets up to get his gun while laughing is some of the best acting you will ever see , he knows he is about to die and hopefully has kept his kid safe.
Like when he asks for the Chesterfield when he figures out it’s going to be his last cigarette. Classic scene from a tremendous movie.
He gave that speech because he knew it would have given him a quick death.
I literally just said the same thing to my wife and then rewinded it a few times! She didn’t appreciate it like I did though. 😂🤷♂️ Man, Hopper was so awesome
He failed to keep his kid safe thanks to the note on the freezer
Yeah, that look down and the smile fades into “here goes”.
Dennis hopper was truly one of the greats.....
He was genuinely a difficult person to get along with .
@mikewallace8087 how do you know were you his dad?
@@starwarsroo2448 Dennis Hopper had five different wives.
@@mikewallace8087 and... how many people in Hollywood have had multiple wives or husbands? Easy chat 💩 on someone you've never met who's life is under media scrutiny, plus none of us are perfect and have aspects of our own lives people would say " oh he's a difficult person "
A.I. search query : Was Dennis Hopper difficult on Easy Rider movie ?
cristopher walken acting ... its something else .. subtle and powerful
2 yrs late but... yup
He’s the same guy in every movie.
@@johncoons1666 i agree he does play similar for every character :) yet sometimes its just 100% fitting .. and here was no different , same in king of new york , and of course pulp fiction :)
He did do Shakespeare, so that probably explains it.
Denzel plays Denzel in every movie🤣
This is some of the best movie dialouge writing. Hopper and walken are superb. One of the best scenes ever
tarantino stuff man he was the writer for this 😂
Tarantino at his finest!! He considers this his best scene he’s ever written. He didn’t direct the film, but it’s his screenplay! -the eggplant/cantaloupe part was an Improv from the 2 actors. And Tarantino was cool with it…
Tarantino loves to drop the n word lol
What makes the scene even sadder is that Clarence establishes that he and his father are estranged, yet his father helps and dies for him anyway to make up for all those years.
....and then they find the address anyways... that's what makes it even worse. It makes the audience debate whether he died in vain, or not. I say no, because he knew he was dead anyways, hence this scene, but still... there are so many little things going on here. An absolute masterpiece of movie writing
@@gyromurphy Yeah the point was that he could die knowing that at least he didn't give in.
the way Walken say "Sicilia" so smooth nearly silent
This scene has some of the best Italian “Oh’s!” In any piece of film.
When I read this I thought of The Diceman. Ohh!
@@seeharvester
"Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give her dog a bone, the sweet lady bent over, Rover took over, and gave her a bone of his own...oh!"
Two of my brothers did the DNA test and found that we are only 78% Italian, the other 22% is mixed including African American, Jewish, Arab, Greek, and one or two others I can't recall.
I'm very proud of my heritage, and I know that Northern Italians look down on Sicilians because we are not "pure blood" Italian. In turn, I would look at them and see snooty, arrogant guineas.
So, to this day, when someone says, "he's Italian", I say, "no, I'm Sicilian", and a NY City Sicilian is in a class of his own.
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It's a good thing to be proud of your heritage.
Diceman's nursery rhymes... haha
"Little Boy Blue... he needed the money. OH!"
"Mary had a little lamb she kept in her backyard..."
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You're part eggplant😂😂@@Pbadome1
@@madgun2134 ...and you're a cantaloupe.
Wonderful direction by Tony Scott (R.I.P.), excellent script by Quentin Tarantino, and an epic scene stealing duel between Dennis Hopper (R.I.P.) and Christopher Walken.
Seriously now, if you haven't watched True Romance, watch it. It's brilliant. Best love story movie ever made
Absolutely!
I’d say it’s the movie that literally has everything.
What really made this scene great was not only Hopper and Walken's acting, but the ethereal opera music that swells up, like angels gently welcoming Hopper into heaven since he will soon die a hero.
The Flower Duet, Lacme.
Dennis Hopper was always a really great actor. One of the best bad guy actors I ever seen. The way he sold am I lying
No more actors like that anymore 😔
I never noticed that Tony Soprano was there too
Quentin Tarantino is a genius and a prodigy of a writer and I won’t see otherwise , this scene is one of the best in cinema , Dennis hopper and walken stole this scene and made it pure art !
At 3:56, James Gandolfini knows EXACTLY what Dennis Hopper is doing (and seems to respect him)...pushing Walken to immediately kill him, rather than slowly torture him for information about his son. Hopper knew he was dead, that's why he accepted the cigarette, after refusing it - and why Tarantino began the music behind him. So much in this little scene. And when Walken turns away to get the gun...Hopper knows he has won and the fake smile drops from his face as he prepares to die.
Well said brother
That was perfect!
Tarantino wrote the script with the background music?
@@petrsimunek3000 Not that I am aware of (I would guess that he certainly didn't). The composer probably added that nice hit.
But Tarantino had the power to keep it (the music) or not.
"You're part...eggplant." 🍆
"You're a cantaloupe." 🍈
😂
That made me laugh more than the family history 😂
Cantaloupe......mixed fruit lol. Walken cracking up at Hopper makes this scene that much funnier. Hopper almost loses it at some point which, in turn, cracked up Walken.
They can say whatever they want, I think they just turned the camera on and told them to have a go at it. I think that 90 percent of the dialogue in this scene was ad-libbed as the interaction between Walken and Hopper is almost childlike.
This scene and tears in the rain from blade runner are my favourite scenes ever
+ 2 scenes with doc holiday and johny ringo in Tombstone :)
Agreed. I would add to that Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue from Jaws.
I even liked the little “no” in acknowledgement from Walken in that moment (3:10). Great table turn from Hopkins character after insulting him to such a degree and spinning it back to “Sicilians are the best liars”
No Hopkins , Is Dennis Hopper
@@lascienziah1601: auto correct on my part more than like. Didn’t even notice it
Never noticed that. Superb
Nobody mentions he gave him the "kiss of death" right before shooting him
Im not very good with word's..but this scene is one of the greatest in the history of cinema on so many levels...pure art❤
Ofcourse, Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper. What else can happen.
Exactly what I said....😄...& chuck in Gandolfini'for icing..the whole scene ...define art.....you can't because words aren't art😅
It’s a great scene, sucks that racism is the thing Hopper uses to goad Walken tho
@@geraldbrowder5806 Wasn't racism. He used those words to verbally stab Walken. I'm Sicilian, been hearing about black blood in my veins my whole life.
@@Pbadome1 Here is the racism; if the 'verbal stab' is saying one has black blood, what is the implication that is supposed to offensive? Is being of black heritage a negative trait 🤔 If not then there really is no stab, if so then the stab is implying that you have black descendants which would only be offensive if you were to subscribe to the idea that there's something lesser about being black. Get it?
Being part Sicilian I love the hell out of this scene. I showed it to my 18 y/o daughter. After it was over she asked if that meant she could say the “n-word”
Why of course she can
She can.
As a matter of fact, you can too!
@@JBrander nincompoop!
@LivingThatHistory Unfortunately we found out our ancestry is of the wops from Northern Italy so I have to be a good little boy and abstain
Yeah right, if you’re gonna say that to a black dude you better be able to handle yourself! And I mean able to fight!
The moors, though from North africa are more semetic middle eastern than black. Theyre more mixed now than ever but theyve never been African black.
Statues and drawings in Europe don’t look middle eastern
The moors that went to sicily were mainly carthaginians (Tunisians) and they were not black but mediterranean in appearance. Maybe more tanned than the average southern european
@@J2-M172it's wild that you ppl think we don't have the evidence or the internet to prove these things. Look up the term "Blackamoor" look up moorish statues in europe. None of them look pale.
@@knstp04391 well you call them ,,pale“ and idk wtf a ,,blackamoor“ supposed to be but as a north african i can tell you that we were never black. The black people in north africa were slaves brought from sub-sahara to north africa. Nothern Africa is a mediterranean climate zone like southern europe, just a little hotter.. We are more related to southern europeans and middle easterners than we are to sub-saharans (just because of history and geographical proximity)Maybe you are an afrocentrist or something but indigenous north african berbers were not black idc what statue you saw. Lots of people from the afrocentric community tried to claim egyptans to be black, that shiiii*** was also debunked recently cuz they always looked middle eastern. Nothern Africa is different from sub-saharan africa!!!
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I wish I could have been there to see them read this script for the first time. They must have been so blown away by this.
the ‘and you are a cantaloupe’ was ad lobbed according to Tarrentino.
Only progressive FAQQET s were raising their plucked eyebrows
FUK WITH ME AND FIND OUT
As we all grew up on these movies. They are not acceptable in this crazy world now. Can you imagine this movie on national TV now. Shit storm!
Tarantino's dialogue is like modern day poetry
I beleive Hopper said before he passed that this was his favorite scene he ever played. Think about that for a moment- Easy Rider - Apocalypse Now - Giant - Blue Velvet... True Romance opposite a stone-cold Walken.
Imagine playing a racist was a person's favorite scene. Now, what does that tell you about that person?
@@joeterra.t I bet you think super heroes are real.
Awesome scene!
Christopher Walken’s mob boss character keeps looking back at his goons after all thw insults is comedic genius.
"Cantaloupe" Some cold foreshadowing.
Probably best scene ever written, filmed 😊
I have to agree with you, it left me speechless.
This is one of the best scenes ever in American cinema !! The truth will prevail !! Thank you Mr Quentin Tarantino
This IS THEE best scene ever in any movie
So so good these two men here
Who spoke of racism ..?
@@Apocabicyclist That’s just your myopic interpretation of his comment. The truth provoked him. The truth isn’t racist. Walken’s character was.
@@The_ZeroLine Please don't talk to me. Is there someway that I can block you
@@ApocabicyclistWow what a fkn snowflake….shouldn’t you be on a rooftop somewhere??
Damn!…The musical score from the moment he lights his chesterfield to the end is epically insane! 🙌👏👌
Hooper was a hapless weakling in that scene, and then he asked for the Chesterfield and lit them all on fire. Amazing! Went out like a champ.
One of my favourite scenes ever.
no but really, moors aren't the same as sub saharan africans
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LOL. Look up blackamoor. Look up moorish statues im europe. You're a massive joke.
They were mediterraneans but more tanned than southern europeans. We can share same looks with southern europeans Karim Benzema is a good Example. He could be a Spaniard or a southern italian
Beautiful scene this was 🤌
The moment he asks for the chesterfield he knows he’s already dead anyway, why not.
The best way to say "F you" before you die.
And the Flower Duet playing in background pretty much gives it away.
I’m embarrassed to say I’ve seen this scene 20 times and still haven’t seen the film, I’m 51 and love my films
You should be embarrassed. Holy smokes. Watch the film!!
Do yourself a favour and watch it mate.
The background music playing went very well with this specific type of scenario and all the actors in this scene are my favorite since childhood
the moors are not black. they are north africans."moroccans"
I think this is the best movie scene ever, greatest scene of all times
Christopher Walken would have made one hell of a joker
Truth hurts
The scene where Gandolfini beats the shit out of Patricia Arquette is a little too real. Incredible movie. Final shoot out is awesome.
Wish it was Rosanna Arquette
People are discussing whether Sicilian ancestry contains Black African blood , & it's probably more likely it's from North African peoples as can be deduced from the distribution of ancient peoples in antiquity. But I think the scene has more recent resonance than this debate. When poor Italians came to America in the 19th century , they were considered "nonwhite" and found themselves in competition with Blacks & the Irish for the low end jobs available. History details the riots & animosity among the groups at the time. Remnants of the period still exist in social attitudes today. As a Black kid , it was common knowledge that trying to date an Italian girl would probably earn you an ass kicking from some Italian guy. Even today going into Bensonhurst , a tight knit Italian neighborhood here in NY is not the greatest idea for a black person. To accuse an Italian of having Black blood would be one of the worst insults you could deliver. As Hopper is trying to goad Walken into killing him quickly , that's the reason his taunts were effective , even if the historical accuracy is not quite there.
Oh it's there.
People tend to get tribal in adversity
Moors were black in some instances. I just went through Qatar in May and saw some black people, but I think the majority of Moors would've looked like Libyans and others from North Africa. My brother in law is Italian and one niece has dark brown curly hair and the other is blonde like my sister. It's interesting how genetics can last for thousands of years. It's a fantastic scene between 2 legends
The whole monologue here isn't actually historical fact, the Moors aren't actually n-words. And the Silicians never were blonde and blue eyed. Dennis Hopper's character is basically giving the head mafioso guy a 4 minute long insult to his face in an effort to enrage, provoke and humiliate him in front of his men. Calling Silicians n-words is a major insult because it targets their deep seated insecurity, along with of course "your grandma f-ed a n-word". He does this tactically to avoid a long and painful torture he'll face at the hands of the mafia followed by a swift death, he was a cop and knew very well he wasn't making out of this situation alive either way.
@@OhNotThat The Moors then, are the “blacks” or “n-words” of today.
when he asks for the ciggerette and he already knows he is a dead man but he had one last pleasure and pushes them to kill him fast and no more torture, masterful by both Hopper steals in but Walken needs props too his movement and glare.
Afrocentrists love this movie.
Extreme racial discrimination aside you gotta admit that this scene is a pure Masterpiece!
Get out of here soy
Christopher Walken is special isn't he? Sometimes he takes roles that are beneath him for a paycheck but he's really a great talent.
"Eh! You're talking to my guy all wrong!"
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Chris Walken is great fvkkn discast as a Scilian of all time))) And it's awesome 😂
Like how he called his bluff on being a human lie detector
3:01 He sounds exactly like Casey Kasem
Absolute classic ,before I saw It my bro said wait until you see the scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken , I said don't tell me and he said I'm not but its worth seen that film just for that scene ,He really pissed of Don Vincenzo , "If that's a fact ,tell me am I lying?"
Scene written by Quentin Tarantino 😊
All of today's men can be traced back to one woman ..look it up
The credit doesn't go to Tarantino..he said..decades ago..that he sold the rights and script of "True Romance "..for 100 thousand dollars...so he can go to Amsterdam for 1 year and write ..HIS.. Citizen Kane.. which was..PULPFICTION...Director Tony Scott (RIP )...and musical producers...Hans Zimmer and Mark Mancina ...who put that song ..specifically..for this scene..for effect...should get the credit..and it works perfectly.. Like a well practiced dance..and thats exactly what the scene is..a dance...!!!
Hopper and Walken are dancing...and Hopper is leading..knowing that he's about to be tortured & killed. 😮for information about his son Clarence..so he "gives Walken a history lesson"... and ..BTW.. "You're great, great, great, great grandmother..was fucked..by a #!$$@&...and you..youre part eggplant" ..simply amazing dialog
You write like a an effin mor*n.
I read a lot too.And Hannibal was not black.He had black troops in his army but was a small amount.And you know that's not exactly correct?What he's saying but i'm sure there is some north african and sub sahard african and lineage
True Romane and Oh Brother where art thou . My desert island movies. Dont need a top 10
He knows all along he’s going to die. Goes out like a champ
Duet Flowers as he insults the Mob Boss to his face is my favorite example of a man knowing he's lost so he might as well give them something to remember him by.
Lacme
Oh they remembered 😂
THE MOORS WASN’T BLACK , The moors were Mix of Arabs and Europeans
no they were a mix of arabs and sub saharan africans, look at spain
its well documented
DEFINITELY NOT TRUE!!!!..They were black as TAR..
I think Christian Slater is Nicholson's kid, or test tube clone ... Too bad he didn't make more movies, because for some reason that guy was in a ton of great ones back in the day. .... "Fair is Fair" ... buy me a new Honda scooter
He insults the entire Sicilian race and gets a quick merciful death, they could have tortured him. But incredibly acted by 2 legends , in my opinion the best film scene ever. This film is brilliant, the other scene with Gary old man as Drexel the pimp is also incredible, “ He must have thought it was whiteboy day, it ain’t whiteboy day is it” brilliant
Its an insult to be black? Next time you have an idea...let it go.
@vandalg282 no bigger insult , just look at any and every black governed nation. Right at the bottom
Mansa Musa, Moors, Egypt....kingdoms rise and eventually fall, America (the melting pot) is the only nation that stood the test of time...
Park your racist beliefs. Get educated.
@@vandalg282 Egypt??? 😆
Point - missed.
The nod when he says “ yeah..!” Hahaha
its truly hilarious :D
excellent scene top to bottom
Even Tony Soprano was shook
Hah!Cop fir talking his final tsoke,and his smoked last s
Cicarette.😅🤣🤣
The Emirate that conquered Sicily, were not black. They were Arabs and Berbers and both originated from Middle-East and had a light skin tone. You still see that North Africans today are mostly light skinned like the rest of the Middle-East and Turkey. All prone to skin cancer, seeing they arent the original inhabitants of the area.
They were hardly much darker than many people already settled in the Byzantine Empire or Spain etc.
They were Moors....I am a descendant of a Moor and our History proves what you say is not true...I mean this in the most respectful way....Truth is Truth...
@@elibrunson6189 Moor is a term given to a group of Berbers by the Christians.
So, please look up your inheritance before you speak. You are a descendant of Berbers. And Berbers where mostly light to bronze skinned, like many middle-easterns today.
They were not black and they were Berbers.
@@elibrunson6189 no he's right North Africans were and still are mostly Arabs. The moors never took away control from Byzantine in Sicily they just carried out raids but Sicily was conquered by the Normans in the 11th century since then Sicilians have been mostly from Norman blood.
So what are Berbers...🤔🤦🏾♂️
Nowadays Berbers are living in western Morocco. Where am I confused, when I think that the emirates are way more east than that?
He knew they would torture him to find the whereabouts of his kid, so he insults the mob boss to get a quick death 😌👍
One of my favorite details in this scene is when Walken calls Hopper a "cantaloupe" -- it's perfect. A cantaloupe is white, it's used for target practice, and it sounds like "can't elope."
according to Tarrentino..Walken ad libbed that line..and he let it stand.
Tarantino's writings...perfection
Well, it wasn't just the church, it was also the Muslim scholars along the Tigris and Euphrates that preserved a lot of it. And while religious folks preserved the older stuff, the problem was that they didn't produce nearly as much stuff of their own as the ancient Greeks and Romans did.
"While I wipe this egg off my face." Perfect, fitting last line.
The only thing I noticed about "wiping the egg off his face was dipping the handkerchief into fish water". I have watched this scene probably 50 times and have passed it along to others. The entire movie is great, lots of cameos.
Can someone clear up the meaning/slur of eggplant and cantelop?
You’re part egg plant pal
@@Sunday_fits awesome
Eggplants have a puple/black skin, so refering to someone as a moulignon (eggplant) is to call them the n word, as for cantelop, I think that was just a flippent throwaway line .......
As soon as that lighter snapped shut. It was on.
I enjoy lettuce ...I make sure I put lettuce in my diet ...I'm not a rabbit 🐇but I enjoy lettuce, and carrots
He knew he was going to die either way so he insulted the shit out of them first. Beautiful .
The insult was saying he had black lineage, kinda weird tbh
During this time there was know race war with Italians and blacks specifically Sicilians ie Bronx tale
@@josephyr You ok bro?
The point of the insulting was to anger him enough to kill him before he spilled details on his son's location and/or to get them to kill him quicker as yes, he knew he was going to be killed anyway. A quick death, and the hope that he could protect his son.
THE MOORS WEW FROM NORTH AFRICA, BERBERS PEOPLE WERE A MIX OF Europeans and Arab like people
Kind of funny considering Christopher Walken's dad was German lol
QT doesnt get the credit he deserves for this gem.
Now that is how you go out!
Absolutely incredible Dennis hopper in this is brilliant & tbh anything Christopher walken is in he's normally the best
Portugese and spanish "nword blood" also...italy siciliy portugal and spain all cohabitated with blax since 900ad but they were asked or forced to leave europe due to a difference in religion.
Only Sicily and not whole of Italy !
@@f.n8581 nnhh shut up
I think it was great great great grandmother part that did it
Quentin Tarantino uses ZIPPO lighters in every movie
What a classic scene, just as good now as before. Maybe better with the way movies are now.
Faaaaaaacts! The moors (BLACKS) took over Europe for 700 years! 😂😂😂😂 Them snowbunnys was loving us brothers out there in Europe 😂 BLACKED
1. The only took Spain for 700 years and not whole Europe lol 😂 Portugal for example Kicked the Moors in 1200s out of their Land !! And Normans kicked the Moors of sicily in 1040 !!!
2. The Majority of the Moors weren‘t Black either only a few like 5 or 10% !!! The Moors locked like the modern day Morrocoans !! Meaning Brown Skin and not Sub Saharan Black !!
And btw Majority of Black People in America have a White Daddy because many White slave Owners manhandled Black Woman/girls 😉 !
Have a nice day 👍😃
@@f.n8581Yes but then Spain ruled South Italy for centuries
that same gene is where the violence comes from
'Come again?' I like how incredulous he is. Its like being told what the Matrix is for the first time.
What i like about the whole scene is that Walken proposed a smoke to the guy, but the guy refused. Then at some point, he understood that he wasn't gonna walk away from this, and that he was gonna die. It was only at that point that he said "can you give me that cigarette you were talking about?"
Whats Tony Soprano doing there
They we're never going to let him leave there alive anyways.
He's right. I probably have Sicilian blood in my lineage. Doesn't bother me.
I truly find this funny. "Part eggplant"!
You're so cool!
THIS IS TRUE STORY
I'm still the confident one no matter what no man can hurt me verbally
Even the devil has a great sense of humor..
This is racist.
Christopher Walken was pretty awesome in this scene :D So was Dennis Hopper :D