Top Gun (Maverick)
I feel the need, the need for speed.
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I feel the need, the need for speed.
What difference does it make? What difference does it make where you buy underwear?! What difference does it make?! Underwear is underwear! It is underwear wherever you buy it. Cincinnati or wherever! You know what I think? You know what I think Ray?! I think this autism thing is a bunch of shit because you can’t tell me that you’re not in there somewhere.
Earl. You don’t look that bad. You prick. “Cocksucker.” That’s what you used to like to say, right? “Cocksucker.” But you are a cocksucker, Earl. It hurts, doesn’t it? Huh? You in a lot of pain? She was in a lot of pain. Right to the end, she was in a lot of pain. I know because I, I was there, Earl. You didn’t like illness, though, do you? I was there. She waited for your call. For you to come. I am not going to cry. I am not going to cry for you! You cocksucker, I know you can hear me. I want you to know that I hate your fucking guts. You can just fucking die, you fuck. And I hope it hurts, I fucking hope it hurts. Why didn’t you call? I fucking hate you. Goddamn you, you fucking asshole. Oh, God, you fucking asshole. Don’t go away, you fucking asshole! Oh, God, don’t go away, you fucking asshole!
What can I do for you Rod? You just tell me what can I do for you? … I’m ready. … Show you the money. … Yea yea, no ,no show you the money. … Show me the money … Show me the money … SHOW ME THE MONEY! … SHOW ME THE MONEY! … I love the black man. … Show me the money. … I love black people …. You my motherfucker! … SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Alright so this is the world and there are five billion people on it. When I was a kid there were three. It’s hard to keep up. That’s better. That’s America. See, America still sets the tone for the world… In Indiana, Clark Hodd. 13. The best point guard in the country. Puberty hasn’t been easy. Becky Farling. You’ll see her in the next Olympics. Seattle, Washington. Dallas Malloy. Went to court to be allowed to box professionally. She’s 16. Art Stallings, Indio, California. Check out what pure joy looks like. In Odessa, Texas, the great Frank Cushman. Cush is 20. Quarterback, role model, my client. He’ll probably go number one in the draft this year. There’s genius everywhere, but until they turn pro, it’s like popcorn in the pan. Some pop… some don’t.
Hello? Hello. I’m looking for my wife. … Wait. Okay, okay. Okay. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I’m not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. You know, I was good in the living room. They’d send me in there, I’d do it alone. And now I just… I don’t know. But tonight, our little project, our company, had a very big night. A very, very big night. But it wasn’t complete, it wasn’t nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn’t share it with you. I couldn’t hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. … I missed my wife. … We live in a cynical world, a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors. … I love you. You complete me. And if I just had…
Sometimes I wish, I wish I’d … The first time I got hit, I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I mean, who gives a fuck now if I was a hero or not? I was paralyzed, castrated that day. Why? It was all so stupid! I’d have my dick and my balls now, and some days, Timmy, some days I think I’d give everything I believe in, everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I’m not whole; I never will be, and that’s, that’s the way it is, isn’t it?