BlacKkKlansman (2018)

John David Washington: Ron Stallworth

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• Ron Stallworth : [answering a phone call from Duke]  Mr. Duke, I'm so sorry we didn't get to spend more one-on-one time together.

  David Duke : Well, that was a just a tragedy. I had just met those heroic brothers in the cause.

  Flip Zimmerman : Heroic.

  Ron Stallworth : Yeah. And the chapter is just shaken at the core.

  David Duke : Oh.

  Ron Stallworth : Yeah. And poor Connie, right? I mean, not only does she lose her husband, but...

  Flip Zimmerman : Poor Connie.

  Jimmy Creek : Connie's going away.

  Flip Zimmerman : We feel bad for Connie.

  Ron Stallworth : [continuing]  ... she's looking at serious prison time.

  David Duke : My God. And then there was that Nigger detective. Basically...

  [the officers laugh] 

  Ron Stallworth : [to the other officers]  Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut up, shut up.

  Ron Stallworth : Those goddamn coloreds they sure know how to spoil a celebration.

  Jimmy Creek : [to Flip]  Hey, you're getting me in trouble.

  David Duke : [to Ron]  Christ, you can say that again.

  Ron Stallworth : Those goddamn coloreds sure know how to spoil a celebration. Can I ask you a question, sir?

  David Duke : Shoot.

  Ron Stallworth : That Nigger detective, did you ever did you ever get his name?

  David Duke : No. I don't think I...

  Ron Stallworth : Are-uh you sure you don't know who he is? Are-uh you absolutely sure? 'Cause that Nigga, coon, gator bait, spade, spook, Sambo, spear-chucking jungle bunny, Mississippi wind chime...

  David Duke : Wind chime?

  Ron Stallworth : [continuing]  ... detective is Ron Stallworth, you racist, peckerwood, redneck, inch worm, needle-dick motherfucker!

  [Ron hangs up, leaving Duke bewildered] 

• Ron Stallworth : [asking Flip to help take a photo of him with David and another Klansman]  Can you take this picture of us, please?

  Flip Zimmerman : All right, don't touch me.

  Ron Stallworth : Great. All right, all right, thank you so much. Thank you. Here we go. One, two, three!

  [just before Flip takes the picture, Ron puts his arms around Duke and the other Klansman] 

  David Duke : Jesus H. Christ! What did you just do, boy? I mean, what the hell did you just do?

  Ron Stallworth : Sir, if you lay a finger on me, I'll arrest your ass for assaulting a police officer. That's worth about five years in prison. Try me. See if I'm playing.

  David Duke : Why don't you come down to Louisiana sometime? See how we play.

  Flip Zimmerman : Boy, you better get your Nigger ass out of here now.

  Ron Stallworth : Mm-hmm, America first.

• Flip Zimmerman : For you it's a crusade. For me it's a job.

  Ron Stallworth : You're Jewish. They hate you. Doesn't that piss you off? Why are you acting like you don't got skin in the game?

• Patrice Dumas : Are you down for the liberation of black people?

  Ron Stallworth : Power to the people.

  Patrice Dumas : All power to all the people.

  Ron Stallworth : That's right, Sista.

• Ron Stallworth : God bless white America.

• Ron Stallworth : Hello, this is Ron Stallworth calling. Who am I speaking with?

  David Duke : This is David Duke.

  Ron Stallworth : The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, *that* David Duke?

  David Duke : The last time I checked. What can I do you for?

  Ron Stallworth : Well, since you asked, I hate Niggers, I hate Jews. Spics and Mexs. Italians and Chinks. But my mouth to God's ears, I really hate those black rats, and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white Aryan blood running through their veins!

  David Duke : I'm happy to be talking to a true white American.

  Ron Stallworth : God bless white America.

• Ron Stallworth : With the right white man, we can do anything.

• Chief Bridges : What was the room like?

  Ron Stallworth : Folks were hanging on every word.

  Jimmy Creek : Like a Baptist church on Christmas Sunday morning.

• Ron Stallworth : Any chance this thing fucks up?

  Flip Zimmerman : Oh, fuck yeah.

  Ron Stallworth : Then what?

  Jimmy Creek : Just stick to the game plan.

  Ron Stallworth : Which is?

  Flip Zimmerman : Improvise. Like jazz.

  Jimmy Creek : Like be-bop!

• Ron Stallworth , Flip Zimmerman , Jimmy Creek : Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud! Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!

• Sergeant Trapp : I've got a friend, he keeps up with these groups. He says they're moving away from the old violent racist styles. That's what Duke is peddling now, it's become mainstream.

  Ron Stallworth : Duke?

  Sergeant Trapp : David Duke, current Grand Wizard of The Klan, but, he's always in a three piece suit. He's never seen in a hood or a robe in public. And he now goes by National Director. So, he's clearly got his sights on higher office.

  Ron Stallworth : Politics? How so?

  Sergeant Trapp : I think it's another way to sell hate. Think about it: Affirmative Action, Immigration, Crime, Tax Reform. He says no one wants to be called a bigot anymore. Because, Archie Bunker made that too un-cool. So, the idea is under all these issues, everyday Americans can accept it, support it, until eventually, one day, you get somebody in the White House that embodies it.

  Ron Stallworth : Huh, sorry. Come on. America would never elect somebody like David Duke, President of the United States of America.

  Sergeant Trapp : Coming from a black man, that's pretty naive. Why don't you wake up?

• Sgt. Morris : Need a file on a toad.

  [Ron doesn't respond] 

  Sgt. Morris : You deaf? I said I need information on a toad.

  Ron Stallworth : No toads here.

  Sgt. Morris : Excuse me?

  Ron Stallworth : I said, I don't have any Toads. I do have human beings and if you give me their names I can pull the files.

  Sgt. Morris : [Sgt. Morris scowls. Ron stares back at him. Eye to eye]  Heard you think you hot shit but you ain't nuthin' but a cold fart. Name's Maurice, Maurice Smalls... That respectful enough for you, Officer Toad?

  Ron Stallworth : [Ron pulls the file, throws it down on the counter. As Sgt. Morris takes the file, Ron puts his hand on it, stopping him]  Let me tell you something sergeant. The day of the Toads in The Records Room is over. You want to find a Toad... go look in the water out at Rainbow Falls. They got them there.

  [Sgt. Morris snatches the file from the counter and storms off as Ron watches him go] 

• Jimmy Creek : What if someone offers you a marijuana cigarette?

  Ron Stallworth : You mean a joint?

  Jimmy Creek : Yeah. Mary Jane. Excuse me.

  Ron Stallworth : "Soul Brotha, I'm already high on life. Can you dig it?"

• Ron Stallworth : Why haven't you bought into this?

  Flip Zimmerman : Why should I?

  Ron Stallworth : Because you're Jewish, Brother. The so-called Chosen People. You've been passing for a WASP. White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Cherry pie, hot dog, white boy. It's what some light-skinned black folks do, they pass for white.

• Patrice Dumas : You jive turkey.

  Ron Stallworth : Who you callin' jive turkey? Jive?

  Patrice Dumas : I'm callin' *you* a jive turkey!

• Officer Clay Mulaney : Wow! Cybil Shepard.

  Ron Stallworth : I loved her in "The Last Picture Show."

  Officer Clay Mulaney : Never saw it. I don't like black and white movies. So, what do you think?

  Ron Stallworth : I think she's a really good actress.

  Officer Clay Mulaney : [picks a "Life" magazine with photo of Cybil Shepard on the cover]  Oh, come on, you know you want some of that.

• Chief Bridges : We've got limited time so I'll be quick. The black radical Stokely Carmichael is giving a speech tonight at Bell's Nightingale.

  Ron Stallworth : Yep.

  Chief Bridges : Carmichael is a former high muckity-muck with The Black Panthers and as far as I'm concerned, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was dead right when he said the Black Panthers are the greatest internal threat to the security of these United States. This Carmichael joker, former Panther or not, well they say he is a damn good speaker and so we don't want this Carmichael getting into the minds of the good black people here in Colorado Springs and stirring them up. Ron, your assignment is to go to this speech tonight, infiltrate these bunch of subversives and just monitor the audience reaction to Carmichael's speech. You ready?

  Ron Stallworth : Born ready!

• Ron Stallworth : All power to all the people.

• Chief Bridges : Gettin' pretty chummy with her, huh?

  Ron Stallworth : No. Just doin' my job, Chief. Undercover.

  Chief Bridges : Well, let's just make sure it ain't undercover of the sheets.

• Chief Bridges : Thank goodness Carmichael has left Colorado Springs.

  Ron Stallworth : Kwame Ture.

  Chief Bridges : What?

  Ron Stallworth : He changed his name from Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture.

  Chief Bridges : I don't care if he changed his name to that draft dodger Muhammad Ali. He's still dangerous.

• Ron Stallworth , Patrice Dumas : [singing]  It's too late to turn back now, I believe, I believe, I believe I'm falling in love...

• Flip Zimmerman : What do we listen to?

  Ron Stallworth : KWYD. Christian Talk in The Morning, although the signal starts to cut out near Pueblo. On the way back, I like to turn it to 102.7 to get my Allman Brothers fix. Only, I have to change it every time that British fag David Bowie pipes on.

  Jimmy Creek : Oh-oh-oh, I love Bowie.

  Ron Stallworth : Who doesn't, right? Remember you have to retain the information you share with these guys so I can be white Ron Stallworth.

• Chief Bridges : Ron, I'm transferring you to Intelligence.

  Ron Stallworth : What will I be doing there?

  Chief Bridges : Intelligence. Against my better judgement.

• Ron Stallworth : Chief, some of us can speak the King's English and other's speak jive. Ron Stallworth, here, happens to be fluent in both.

• Chief Bridges : Can you do that?

  Ron Stallworth : I believe we can. With the right white man, we can do anything.

• Ron Stallworth : They want a black man to join the Ku Klux Klan. I'd say that's Mission Impossible. Double Success! We're in!

• Patrice Dumas : Cleopatra Jones is the one. It's about time we started seeing a strong Sista like that.

  Ron Stallworth : Well, Tamara Dobson did play a cop. Right?

  Patrice Dumas : That was a Black Exploitation film, which is a fantasy. Real life's not like that. Real life there's no Cleopatra Jones or Coffy.

  Ron Stallworth : You don't dig Pam Grier? She's fine as red wine and twice as mellow!

  Patrice Dumas : Pam Grier is doing her thing; but, in real life it's just Pigs killing black folks.

• Ron Stallworth : I got a serious question for you.

  Patrice Dumas : Oh, yeah? What?

  Ron Stallworth : Very serious.

  Patrice Dumas : Uh-huh?

  Ron Stallworth : Shaft or Superfly?

• Ron Stallworth : They're just trying to get to you. Intimidate, like you said. Fear tactics. If you don't let 'em scare you, they got nothing. But keep your eyes open. Be Cool. Okay?

  Odetta : That's the damn problem. We always too cool!

  Hakeem : Way too cool!

• Ron Stallworth : You're coming to Colorado Springs, sir?

  David Duke : You bet your Mayflower Society ass, I am. You're darn tootin'!

• Chief Bridges : All good things must come to an end.

  Ron Stallworth : What does that mean?

  Chief Bridges : Budget cuts.

  Flip Zimmerman : Budget cuts?

  Jimmy Creek : And when did this happen? Last night?

  Chief Bridges : I wish I had a choice; but, my hands are tied with this inflation. Besides, there no longer appears to be any credible threats.

• Ron Stallworth : You know, they say, two afros that touch together, it's good luck.

  Patrice Dumas : Who said that?

  Ron Stallworth : I read it somewhere.

• Walter Breachway : [on the phone]  Well we appreciate your interest. What's your story?

  Ron Stallworth : Well, since you asked, since you asked I hate Niggers. I hate Jews, Spics and Mexs, Dagos and Chinks; but, my mouth to God's ears, I really hate those Nigger Rats - and anyone else, really, that does not have pure White Aryan Blood running through their veins. My sister, Pamela, she was just recently accosted by one of those black coons.

  Walter Breachway : Is that so?

  Ron Stallworth : Yeah. Every time I think about that black baboon putting his filthy black hands on her purest white driven snow body, I mean pure, Walter, she's a saint, she's an angel, it makes me wanna puke!

  Walter Breachway : You are just the kind of guy we are looking for.

• Patrice Dumas : You can't change things from the inside. It's a Racist System.

  Ron Stallworth : Just give up, like that?

  Patrice Dumas : No! We fight for what black people really need: Black Liberation.

  Ron Stallworth : Right! Right! Can't you do that from the inside?

  Patrice Dumas : No! You can't! The white man won't give up his position in power without a struggle. What did Du Bois say about "Double Consciousness"? "Twoness". Being an American and a Negro? Two warring ideals in one dark body?

  Ron Stallworth : That's heavy, Patrice. I feel that. Like I'm two people all the time.

  Patrice Dumas : But you shouldn't have to be. We shouldn't have a war going on inside ourselves. Why should just: be black.

• David Duke : A lot of people think I hate Negroes; but, I don't. The Organization doesn't either. They just need to be with their own. That's what Pinky would say. Pinky didn't mind Segregation one bit. She just wanted to be with her own kind.

  Ron Stallworth : Sounds like she was a Mammy to you.

  David Duke : You ever see "Gone with the Wind"? Pinky was my Hattie McDaniel. She won the Oscar for that role: Best Supporting Actress.

  Ron Stallworth : You were Scarlett and she was Mammy.

  David Duke : That's right. That's funny, when she passed, it was like - ah, it was like we lost a member of the family.

  Ron Stallworth : A good nigger is funny like that. In that sense, they're like a good dog. They get real close to you and as soon as you lose em', it just breaks your heart.

  David Duke : That's well said, Ron.

  Ron Stallworth : I knew a coon once.

• Ron Stallworth : Don't think just because I don't not wear a black beret or a black leather jacket, black Ray Bans, screaming "Kill Whitey," that I don't care about my people!

• Ron Stallworth : I'm a undercover detective for the Colorado Springs Police. It's my J-O-B. That's the truth.

  Patrice Dumas : House Niggas said they had a J-O-B too. You disgust me. My Brotha, you need to wake up!