Friday, July 10, 2009

these lines, albeit hilarious, really did move me.

Taraji P. Henson as Sharice Watters in "Smokin' Aces"
Alicia Keys as Sykes

WATTERS
You just goin' grin? Y'ain't goin
comment on that, at all? Trampy ass
skeezers, doin' damage they ain't
even smart enough to see. That don't
gall you at all?
(beat, closer)
Bitches like those are the same ones
runnin' feminism right to the brink
girl. Bitches like that the reason
mafuckas don't take our species
seriously. We jus' meat for male
consumption, we jus' pieces a'ass
and pussy, somethin' pretty in
lipstick and eye liner can suck cock.

Sykes, embarrassed, nudging Watters, knock-it-off...

WATTERS
Bitches like that make me weep for
what could be-- if we could all,
sisters everywhere, black, white,
yellow and brown, put our shit down
one time, unified front, the force
of the female race, mobilized, moving
as one...

The woman, smile severely strained, the pro-feminist diatribe falling on decidedly deaf ears. An awkward beat, then;

SYKES
I'm gonna need a mini-bar key too.

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