Travolta, the cool bad guy

Camylle 2022-04-21 09:01:37

When introducing John Woo's film in Central 6, he said that Travolta had hesitated to play a bad guy when he took up the drama of changing his face, which has changed his positive image. I was very surprised when I heard it. I thought Travolta was born to play a bad guy. His face was full of flesh, his wicked smile, coupled with the unscrupulous beating of the hostages. He plays a positive role, I don't know what it will be like, is it a funny movie? It seems that he has never played a positive role since he played a face-changing role.

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  • Walter Garber: What's her name?

    Ryder: Lavitca, she was Lithuanian... she was an ASS-model.

    Walter Garber: She asked you what?

    Ryder: You heard of hand-models, right? Advertisements?

    Walter Garber: Right.

    Ryder: She was an ass-model... she did jeans and uh you know, magazines and shit. Anyway, it was fashion week in New York and uh... I took her to Iceland.

    Walter Garber: Lavitca, Lithuanian, Ass model, Iceland, you took her to the ice...

    Ryder: So, for five-hundred bucks they'll take you on a dog-sled ride on a glacier.

    Walter Garber: Dog-sled?

    Ryder: Yeah... and you know that whole saying that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes?

    Walter Garber: Right, otherwise you're always looking at the asshole of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: That'll be funny in a minute when I get to that part.

    Walter Garber: It's funny now.

    Ryder: [next scene] And it's eight in the morning, we haven't been to bed yet... and we're tooling across this glacier and I got this hangover that's creeping up the back of my neck... and guess what I'm looking at?

    Walter Garber: You're obviously you're staring at... the ass of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: You got it! So this dog... out of nowhere just lifts his hind-legs up and puts them in the, you know the harness there... and just takes a shit, while he's running on his front paws. So he's dumping and running, all at the same time... now that's multi-fucking-tasking if you ask me.

    Walter Garber: Get outta here, did it hit you?

    Ryder: Shit always hits you man.

    [next scene]

    Ryder: I didn't know it at the time, but it was profound.

    Walter Garber: Profound?

    Ryder: Yeah.

    Walter Garber: Why? Uh, you lost me.

    Ryder: Well, you know uh... when I went to prison later on, what you called. Uh, I had trouble going to the toilet... you know, a privacy thing. And I... couldn't take a shit. I was scared shitless... literally. So, you know what I thought of?

    Walter Garber: You thought of the dog.

    Ryder: That's right... I thought of that dog. If it could do what it needed to do... so could I. It saved my fucking live.

    Walter Garber: Wow, that is profound.

  • Ryder: Ok... now somebody else has to die. Two people, maybe all of us! Did you hear me?

    Walter Garber: I heard you, but you gotta understand that the circumstances they're different now for you. You gotta rethink this, you... you gotta adapt.

    Ryder: No, I gave you instructions and you know the consequences.

    Walter Garber: I mean don't you have a plan B?

    Ryder: No, plan B is enforcing plan A... and the minute you stop believing me mother fucker, that's it!