L.A. Confidential
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L.A. Confidential (1997) Screenplay by Brian Helgeland & Curits Hanson based on the novel by James Ellroy; Directed by Curtis Hanson
- SID: Come to Los Angeles…
- DUDLEY: Go back to Jersey, Sonny. This is the City of the Angels and you haven't got any wings.
- DUDLEY: Don't start tryin' to do the right thing, boy-o. You haven't the practice.
- SID: Remember dear readers, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very Hush-Hush.
- WIFE-BEATER: Who in the hell are you?
BUD: The ghost of Christmas past.
- DUDLEY: Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment?
ED: Dudley, we've been over this.
DUDLEY: Yes or no, Edmund?
ED: No.
DUDLEY: Would you be willing to beat a confession out of a suspect you knew to be guilty?
ED: No.
DUDLEY: Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back, in order to offset the chance that some...lawyer...
ED: No.
DUDLEY: Then, for the love of God, don't be a detective. Stick to assignments where you don't have to make those kinds of choices.
- LYNN: Merry Christmas to you, officer.
- LYNN: It's not what you think… but it's nice to know you care.
- Fleur - de - Lis : Whatever you desire.
- DUDLEY: You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?
- LYNN: You have a thing for helping women, don't you Officer White?
- LYNN: You're different Officer White. Your the first man in five years who didn't tell me I look like Veronica Lake inside of a minute.
BUD: You look better than Veronica Lake.
- LYNN: Are you asking me for a date or an appointment?
- I ain't killed nobody!
- DUDLEY: It's best to stay away from a man when his blood is up.
ED: His blood's always up.
DUDLEY: Then it's best to stay away from him altogether.
- DUDLEY: Who'd have thought? Shotgun Eddie.
- BUD: Hey. All they get is Veronica Lake. I get Lynn Margaret Bracken.
- BUD: He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron... and he left me there... three days before a truant officer found us.
- BUD: I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
LYNN: You're wrong. You found Patchett. You found me. You're smart enough.
- JACK: Why in the world do you want to go digging any deeper into the Nite Owl Killings, Lieutenant?
ED: Rollo Tomasi.
JACK: Is there more to that, or am I supposed to guess?
ED: Rollo… was a purse snatcher. My father ran into him off duty, and he shot my father six times and got away clean. No one even knew who he was. I just made the name up to give him some personality. Rollo Tomasi's the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It was supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way I lost sight of that. Why'd you become a cop?
Long pause
JACK: I don't remember.
- JACK: All right, college boy, I'll help — but there's a case your boys in Homicide don't care about. They think its just another Hollywood Homo-cide, but I don't. You help me with mine, I'll help you with yours. Deal?
- ED: A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker, she just looks like Lana Turner.
JACK: She is Lana Turner.
- JACK: Oh great, you get the girl, I get the coroner.
- CORONER: Stomach of the week. Unemployed actor had frankenfurters, french fies, alcohol, and sperm. Hell of a last supper, don't you think?
- LYNN: It would be easier for you if there was an angle wouldn't it? You're afraid of Bud because you can't figure out how to play him. He doesn't follow the same rules of politics as you do. It makes him dangerous.
- LYNN: I see Bud because I want to. I see Bud because he can't hide the good inside of him. I see Bud because he makes me feel like Lynn Bracken and not some Veronica Lake look-alike who fucks for money. I see Bud because he doesn't know how to disguise who he is. I see Bud for all the ways he's different from you.
- DUDLEY: Have you a valediction, boyo?
JACK: Rollo… Tomasi.
- Keep your eyes open, hey boyo.
- DUDLEY: I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland.
- BUD: Why are you doing this? The Nite Owl made you. You want to tear all that down?
ED: With a wrecking ball. You want to help me swing it?
- BUD: Is that how you used to run the good cop, bad cop?
- DEPUTY: Somebody worked her over. She wouldn't say who.
- ED: Bud hates himself for what he did.
LYNN: I know how he feels.
- DETECTIVE: Must have dug up garbage on the wrong guy. Got it narrowed down to a thousand suspects.
- ED: You figured this was a set up and you showed up anyway?
- ED: All I ever wanted was to measure up to my father.
BUD: Here's your chance. He died in the line of duty, didn't he?
- DUDLEY: Good lad. Always the politician. But let me do the talking. After I've done they'll make you Chief of Detectives.
- DUDLEY: Hold up your badge — so they know your a policeman.
- DETECTIVE: You think you can talk your way out of this Lieutenant?
ED: No... but I think I can tell the truth.
- ED: They're using me — so for a little while I'm using them.
- ED: Thanks for the push.
- LYNN: Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.
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Cast
- Kevin Spacey - Jack Vincennes
- Russell Crowe - Bud White
- Guy Pearce - Det. Lt. Edmund Exley
- James Cromwell - Capt. Dudley Smith
- Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
- Danny DeVito - Sid Hudgens
- David Strathairn - Pierce Patchett
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