Man, the more I think about it the whole movie was so great, I mean the Color of Money.
So great.
"It's a wash, you're not in the backroom playing with baby dolls, you're in the big leagues now"
"You go into a shoe store with $180 you come out with one shoe"
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"
"Nine Ball? That's not tough, just some balls and a stick man, you wanna know what's tough? Stocker that's what."
"Can you make any MONEY playing Stocker?"
"You know what I can do with Stocker? In ten years I can get into West Point from Stocker, it's all coming down to video game reflexes, that's what I can do with Stocker."
"Eddie, let me ask you something and I want you to be real honest with me, do you think I need to lose some weight?" After Eddie loses to a hustler.
"Win one more game game and you're gonna be humping your fist for a long time".
I mean seriously, how can anyone watch the Color of Money and not see Scorsese's brilliance as a director. The nuance is just incredible. Just incredible.
They go on the road and Eddie goes to a room that he hasn't been to in so long that he doesn't even know it's closed. Watch the scene. They get in and up the stairs and it's all furniture and junk storage, but the pool table lights are still hanging covered in dust.
This movie was art, as much as Rosen's Hustler was. It's easy to look at Tom Cruise and dismiss the movie outright but he played it perfect. Everyone played their part to absolute perfection.
TCOM and the Hustler can stand shoulder to shoulder as great movies and great pool movies in my opinion. TCOM wasn't just good, it was/is a great piece of cinema.
