Color of Money Question - Do I Need To Lose Weight?

[pt109]

Do i need to lose weight?

I see this line as a defusing or a mis-direction.
The victor is implying that it's over,let's change the subject and get
on with our lives.
I've seen it lots around action or bar room scuffles.
....not that i would ever do it.......
...sooo,how about them Saints?

 

[DWoods6354]

Imho

This is an interesting question - and open to many different interpretations. In my opinion the statement "let me ask you something, and I want you to be real honest, do you think I need to lose some weight?" - carries several layers of meaning:

• respect
• gotcha
• you know where to find me, etc.....
• but mostly - I just hustled a hustler.... how did I do?

Early in the movie, Fast Eddie tells Vince - Kid - keep the shirt - it's a nice touch. He also says something to the effect - you are an incredible flake - people will be lining up to play you.

Amos lost all prestense when Eddie asked him the second time " Are you a hustler Amos"? Amos fumbled a bit - then decided to drop the pretense. He gets clear eyed and asks "why -do you want to quit".

Amos knew the act was over. Eddie knew Amos was a hustler and he had been called on the carpet for the end game. Amos recongnized Eddie's kind if not actual persona, a strong game, a wad of cash, a Balabushka. Amos basically told Eddie - yea - you are a hustler - I am a hustler - want it all? ---- Amos made a decision to go for the kill.

Eddie bit the hook ---- and he bit hard.

The statement at the end of the match was basically an honest question - he was saying "Eddie - you knew and you still bit". How was my performance old man?

Just my humble opinion.

 

[Celtic]

I disagree. He was simply making a smart remark to Eddie after he ran over him. It was about his weight, not about a spot. He could have said "Do you think I need to dye my hair." Same effect.

The comment makes no sense in the context of weight as the term is used in pool, and the average movie goer would not understand it in that context.

He was simply being a smart ass to Eddie which reinforced the whole reason for that episode in the movie, which was to piss off Eddie and therefore motivate him to practice diligently and get his game back.

Great sequence in the move, brilliantly written and acted. The "I'm a subject of experiments" thing from Whitaker was beautiful.

I disagree entirely. I do believe it was a tounge in cheek double entendre meant to let Eddie know that Amos was too good for Eddie to beat without a spot. He was not "offering" a spot, he was simply letting Eddie know that he was not good enough to beat him without one.

It was Amos' way of letting Eddie know the answer to his earlier question "are you a hustler Amos?". In effect Amos lets him know with that statement that yes, he is a hustler and that he was too much for Eddie all along and that Eddie would need weight to have a chance.

It fits way too well and is far too slick a thing to say with that meaning behind it to simply brush it off as a random goofball statement.

 

[TATE]

This is an interesting question - and open to many different interpretations. In my opinion the statement "let me ask you something, and I want you to be real honest, do you think I need to lose some weight?" - carries several layers of meaning:

• respect
• gotcha
• you know where to find me, etc.....
• but mostly - I just hustled a hustler.... how did I do?

Early in the movie, Fast Eddie tells Vince - Kid - keep the shirt - it's a nice touch. He also says something to the effect - you are an incredible flake - people will be lining up to play you.

Amos lost all prestense when Eddie asked him the second time " Are you a hustler Amos"? Amos fumbled a bit - then decided to drop the pretense. He gets clear eyed and asks "why -do you want to quit".

Amos knew the act was over. Eddie knew Amos was a hustler and he had been called on the carpet for the end game. Amos recongnized Eddie's kind if not actual persona, a strong game, a wad of cash, a Balabushka. Amos basically told Eddie - yea - you are a hustler - I am a hustler - want it all? ---- Amos made a decision to go for the kill.

Eddie bit the hook ---- and he bit hard.

The statement at the end of the match was basically an honest question - he was saying "Eddie - you knew and you still bit". How was my performance old man?

Just my humble opinion.

Lots of good answers here from a lot of viewpoints, any of which could be the answer, many I never considered.

Kudos to Kevin for asking this interesting question. There is always one good answer - whoever goes home with the cash is right. That night it was Amos.

Chris

 

[markpatrick]

The comment was very obvious

i don't know if i agree with what the guy's saying but i can understand how it could be sarcasm.

he leads into it with the, i want you to be honest with me bit, like he's going to ask something important and maybe meaningful and asks something unrelated and kind of stupid.

it's funny. like asking everyone at a funeral what they thought of "the money pit"

Amos wanted to know if Eddie needed some weight to gamble on.

I did not like at the end where Vince took what he learned from Fast Eddie and applied it and Eddie was taking the morale high ground. Kind of out of line.

I did like the fact that St Louie Louie was announced a couple of times during the end of the movie and that he probably won that tournament in the end. What I did not believe was Tommie Kennedy wearing a bandana?

 

[jimmyg]

You know its a good scene/movie when they leave some stuff to the imagination....:wink:

It could be interpreted different ways.


My call is that the "fat" is part of his hustle....Eddie "thought" he was going to beat up on some dumb fat kid....Forrest is confirming that Eddie got hustled by a "dumb fat kid"

In short he was basically saying a rhetorical question to Eddie...."So what do you think of my hustle"

Exactly!

His physicality was his hustle...and Eddie thought, because of it, that he had an easy game.

Getting your ass kicked, helps keep things in perspective.

Jim

 

[kvinbrwr]

Lots of good answers here from a lot of viewpoints, any of which could be the answer, many I never considered.

Kudos to Kevin for asking this interesting question. There is always one good answer - whoever goes home with the cash is right. That night it was Amos.

Chris

Chris

Amos was a beauty. I love that the electric-shock didn't count, because he did it strictly for the experience.

Thanks

Kevin

 

[junior718]

I think it was him rubbing in the fact he was hustled by asking a completely off the wall question, showing how at ease he was with the whole thing, and to downplay it.

Kind of like someone being terrified to bungy jump, they do it and right afterwards, they downplay the whole thing by saying something like " You know, I was thinking, I will move my couch over by the wall"

It's rubbing it in, by showing the whole thing was so easy for him and he's acting so casual by asking such a off the cuff question

Thats how I always took it. I think possibly also is maybe he was trying to see how Eddie took it also? But for sure he was showing him how easy it was.