Bamboozled (2000) movie script - Ringling College of Art and Design

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lind and I'm including 35 million African-Americans. You know and I know "niggers" set the trend, set the styles. This is a golden opportunity now. These idiots have to be led to the water. DELACROIX I'm not sure if I can deliver what you want. DUNWITTY You will or you'll be back at BET so quick you'll never know what hit you. I need a mid-season replacement and pronto. It will be on the fast track. 12. DELACROIX What is it you want from me? Some plantation follies? Some sitcom
that takes place on a watermelon patch? Some show that follows four nigger generations of junkies and crackheads? You want me to go back to the ante bellum days? DUNWITTY Yes! Yes! Yes! I want a show that will make headlines, that will have millions and millions of households tuned in, glued to their televisions every week. I want advertisers dying to buy on this show. I'm gonna squeeze this show out of you if it kills you. EXT. TENEMENT - NIGHT WE SEE a street lamp, and coming out of it are some wires. WE FOLLOW the wires into a tenement building. The residents have tapped into a street light courtesy of
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Page 3 and 4: Monogrammed cuff sleeve - the initi
Page 5 and 6: 3. CHEEBA Yo, let's get to it. You
Page 7 and 8: his thing attention must be paid. A
Page 9 and 10: DELACROIX De-la-croix. CHEEBA Y'kno
Page 11 and 12: again he's the lone person of color
Page 13 and 14: overhead projector. DUNWITTY (CONT'
Page 15 and 16: Sucks. ANGLE ON Conference room. DU
Page 17 and 18: overlooking mid-town Manhattan. DUN
Page 19 and 20: get offended by my use of the quote
Page 21 and 22: class does exist, and it's rich mat
Page 23: man, I'm blacker than you. I'm keep
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Page 29 and 30: DELACROIX (V.O.) I was never good a
Page 31 and 32: INT. TENEMENT BUILDING - NIGHT Manr
Page 33 and 34: The COPS are running up the stairca
Page 35 and 36: same time, the exact same thought.
Page 37 and 38: it's going to be so racist, so nega
Page 39 and 40: CLOSE ON Sloan. DELACROIX (V.O.) (C
Page 41 and 42: Dunwitty. EXT. TENEMENT BUILDING -
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Page 47 and 48: 23. DELACROIX I would like to chang
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Page 55 and 56: BIG BLACK If you were really down y
Page 57 and 58: that's your prerogative. You got yo
Page 59 and 60: DELACROIX We're all happy to be her
Page 61 and 62: entertainment into the 21st century
Page 63 and 64: DELACROIX And Cheeba is Sleep 'n' E
Page 65 and 66: DUNWITTY This could be bigger than
Page 67 and 68: DUNWITTY Ya first bad move. Project
Page 69 and 70: MANTAN As long as the hoofing is re
Page 71 and 72: We think so. DUNWITTY Sleep 'n Eat,
Page 73 and 74: MANTAN I'm not smiling. CHEEBA Naw,
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I want you to start using the name
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this. DELACROIX That can be done. M
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BIG BLACK We should call dis da BLA
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DELACROIX It looks delicious. ORCHI
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types, change your name and all tha
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You okay? DELACROIX I feel like som
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DELACROIX Now I'm privileged?! Why?
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Please, have a seat. MANTAN Sloan n
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Delacroix. He leans against the wal
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DELACROIX Even if money wasn't an i
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terrain. DUNWITTY To hire someone s
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eing a white male and directing a h
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Conference room. Delacroix and Sloa
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successful just as much as you. Ple
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stacked, the fix was in. Could Don
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And for reason. Have you ever seen
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AUDITION MONTAGE WE SEE singers, ma
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SLOAN This is the group I was telli
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BIG BLACK Microphone check. One. Tw
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Needless to say, the Mau-Mau's did
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DELACROIX Finland. JUKKA You know,
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JUKKA My visual style is very eroti
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DELACROIX I don't give a good godda
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Wait a minute. Hold up. They all la
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It's the bone breaking stuff I'm wo
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59. INT. SLEEP 'N EAT'S DRESSING RO
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60. SLOAN I want to apologize about
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Mantan is mashing the corks. SLOAN
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INT. MANTAN'S DRESSING ROOM ON LIPS
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what to think. MANTAN We both left
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drugs, the crack babies born out of
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The WHITE AUDIENCE, of course, has
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the CNS brass. They saw some clips
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DELACROIX I'll be right over. INT.
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DELACROIX I can't go all the way do
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You think that's gonna work, huh? H
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ON SUGAR SHAK Delacroix works himse
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He continues on with his show. ON T
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DELACROIX It's me, Peerless. INT. D
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Just my tonic. He holds up his drin
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hold ya career back? JUNEBUG All I
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question is what are you gonna do,
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DOT The drinking is for the pain. I
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CLOSER DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D) An
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New Millennium Minstrel Show. Audie
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INT. MANTAN'S DRESSING ROOM ON MIRR
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Eat. The audience goes crazy as the
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That'll work. I just bought one for
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SLEEP 'N EAT ...I heard different,
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It's dat mean, evil overseer Massa
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Frankenstein. INT. SLOAN'S STUDIO A
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DA BOMB PRODUCT SHOT AND LOGO HONEY
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scientists developed Da Bomb for yo
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DAWG #2 Timmi's gots all da latest
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87. DUNWITTY I know all of you have
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That this is fun. Nice wholesome fu
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She ignores him. MYRNA Wear Kente c
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A gift. DELACROIX For what? SLOAN N
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DELACROIX How so? SLOAN To me, it s
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DELACROIX Yes. And I say yes becaus
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Are you telling me that nobody can
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Parents are fighting over Beanie Ba
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I'm on it. INT. CAR DEALER - DAY A
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Same thing Giuliani said. DELACROIX
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1/16TH BLACK ...Benedict Arnold...
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97. SLOAN This is a nice place. It
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know that's written in the Constitu
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I slept too near where I fell out.
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my stepdaughter became my mother be
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Porch Monkeys Band. MANTAN I feel a
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take care of dat red/and nobody wou
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The winner is... Pierre Delacroix f
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fool, Hollywood's new favorite Negr
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Meaning? CHEEBA I'm out. MANTAN Goo
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MANTAN For what? He left. Not me. E
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ON BIG BLACK He waves to his sister
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ON STAGE Mantan is moving and groov
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The door crashes open, Mantan rocke
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INT. BET STUDIO - NIGHT Mantan is o
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whatI'mtalkin''bout. Y'knowwhatI'ms
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hear from our proud sponsors, DA BO
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TAVIS SMILEY What do you do? BIG BL
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SLOAN He's just playing big brother
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Delacroix and Sloan are taking off
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over Sloan. MANTAN What you did is
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position as his assistant. MANTAN A
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MANTAN Don't try to change to the s
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ORCHID Of course I'm happy for you.
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He is incredulous. DELACROIX (V.O.)
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can't stand to BLACK UP anymore. IN
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You better talk to him. He won't li
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BUNNING I should notify Dunwitty. D
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you can muster up inside your assau
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EXT. BACKSTAGE The security guards
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124. MANRAY What did I do? BIG BLAC
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MONTAGE Various newsrooms, computer
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DELACROIX (V.O.) Somehow, someway,
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American way of life... INT. DELACR
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It's used to mask the origin of an
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difficulty breathing with her asthm
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SMOOTH BLACK Whereas Mantan is a he
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Each Mau-Mau has a 9mm and is firin
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BIG BLACK (CONT'D) You ain' BLAK. H
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Corleone Dance of Death as bullets
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SLOAN Watch this. This is what you
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extraordinary to her. With Daddy it
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