The Color Of Money - What's your favorite Line?

jay helfert said:
I don't want to throw rain on anyone's parade, but Newman was brilliant in the role of Fast Eddie in The Hustler and should have won the Oscar that year. TCOM was an ego piece for Newman and his opportunity to reprise the Myron McCorminck role of the stake horse (in The Hustler). It should have just been named The Hustler II. After reading the book TCOM, I was disappointed that he and Richard Price, the screenwriter, weren't more faithful to Walter Tevis' story, which had many brilliant lines in it.

By the way, Newman did not do as good a job as McCormick did in the original. I thought McCormick played the part to a 'T'! Watch both movies and compare the parts of the two stake horses and tell me which one is more believable. Newman was a great Fast Eddie but only a fair "Charlie".
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I agree the stake horse in "The Hustler" was played perfectly as was Fast Eddie. The role can't be compared with Newman in TCOM because Charlie was never a big time player, his perspective was entirely different than that of one time great "Fast Eddie" trying to come back via somebody else. His role was more like that of somebody who almost made it to the bigs in baseball driving his kid to fulfill his dreams.
I thought he did a good job as did Cruise, but TCOM was not near the quality movie that "The Hustler" was.

Favorite line has to be McCreedy line though I can remember it well enough to quote it. The nightmare one and it getting worse and worse.
 
BlackJack beat me to it. "You got lucky, you lucky *****." Loved that line. Used it last night playing with some friends.
 
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Warning!!!

Using any of these movie lines in the pool hall may lead to action!!! As you may been viewed as an easy mark. LOL:wink:

Ray
(edited to add; If you twirl your cue while saying them, it's more effective)
 
The Movie is Great, with too many GREAT LINES!!!!
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jay helfert said:
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I'd love to see The Hustler done again with Kevin Spacey as the stake horse and Robert Downey as the hustler. What these two guys could do with such juicy roles. And maybe Drew Barrymore to play the girl. It's a classic play that belongs on Broadway. Why it has never been done is beyond me.
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I don't know how it could get any better than the original...... The writing, and acting. There are so many classic lines and themes in "The Hustler" that transcend pool and cover all of life.

My favorites..... the theme of the loser in all of us and how we want to hang on to the victim role and that excuse to fail....I hope we can all see that in ourselves
.....the speech from Eddie about how deadstroke feels...... I'm just a banger compared to many here, but when I have gone unconscious it was the best experience in all my hours of playing. Time and everything else drifts away....I hope every player feels that at least once....I know I won't ever forget the times I visited 'the zone' :smile:
.....when Eddie talks about doing anything well, 'it doesn't matter if you're laying bricks' ....... no better line I've ever heard......................

JUST TOOO GOOD!!!

td
 
Hey folks, it seems everyone forget the most important line:
(which is my favorite...)
Balls roll funny for everybody, kiddo!
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Isn't it right? ;)
 
YOU OWE ME MONEY!
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Oops, sorry I got confused, wrong movie. Never mind.
 
One of my favorite lines was when Newman was first starting his comeback. He went to break and said something like, "what did somebody chop the legs off this table, or what is this a table for migets?" Johnnyt
 
Coo Coo

CocoboloCowboy said:
Trivia Quest?

Who were all the REAL Pool players in the Movie besides Grady, and Keith?
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Coco,

You're losing it buddy!! This came up about 2-3 pages ago. You really miss a lot when you don't read the entire thread! :wink:

Ray
 
favorite line

My two favorite lines.
"No thunderbolt breaks, no runs over four balls" ...Fast Eddie Felson
"Eddie Felson gave you a Balabushka, that's hell of a gift, do you know what that's worth"... Mark Jarvis
 
Luxury said:
me and millions of others thought forest whitaker's character was referring to a diet when he asked Eddie if he should lose some weight. Perhaps a trimmer actor should have gotten the role.
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The actor was supposed to be overweight. The line was a double entendre that only pool players would understand.

Fred
 
Cornerman said:
The actor was supposed to be overweight. The line was a double entendre that only pool players would understand.

Fred
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Exactly!! I spent more than just a few minutes trying to explain that to my wife before watching it again after probably 200 times.


BEST LINE: "Hey, I wanna ask you somethin'. And I want you to be real honest with me. You think I need to lose some weight??"

ALL TIME BEST LINE FOR ANY MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I get chills everytime I watch that part!!!

Gary
 
Life can be dangerous.....

Cornerman said:
The line was a double entendre
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I used a double entendre once at a the pool room. I barely got out with my life!! :shocked2:

Ray
(Red Necks don't get them):o
 
More real players in TCOM

Cannonball55 said:
I just had an idea for another thread that I'll include here instead - name the players and pool characters that appeared in TCOM - I can think of

McCready ( of course )
Grady Mathews
Jimmy Mataya
Steve Mizerak
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Some additional pool players that were in the movie.

Larry Schwartz - writer for pool mag. "Larry, to the green room"
Joey Gold - Cognescenti Cues
Don Feeny (sp?) - "The Professor"
Harold Simonson - Billiard's Digest owner, owner of Harold's pool room, daughter Sherry married to Ron Griffit (sp?)
Angel Maryrouche - local Chicago pool player
 
kath13 said:
Some additional pool players that were in the movie.

Larry Schwartz - writer for pool mag. "Larry, to the green room"
Joey Gold - Cognescenti Cues
Don Feeny (sp?) - "The Professor"
Harold Simonson - Billiard's Digest owner, owner of Harold's pool room, daughter Sherry married to Ron Griffit (sp?)
Angel Maryrouche - local Chicago pool player
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Dont forget Howard Vickery. :wink:

"It takes brains and it takes balls....... youve got too much of one, and not enough of the other......."
Chuck
 
sorry for being a little off-topic and if this question did arise before, but I wonder if there is some other meaning in the title than "The Color of Money (is green like felt)"? I didn't read a novel by Tevis, I believe the text has an answer, so anyone to describe it (if it really has another meaning)
 
best line....when they walk into the crowded poolroom and eddie says, "you smell that?" and vincent replies, "smoke?" cracks me up every time.
 
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