Repo Man (1984)

Emilio Estevez: Otto

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• Miller : A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

  Otto : You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?

  Miller : I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...

• Bud : Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?

  Otto : They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free.

  Bud : All free? Free my ass. What are you, a fuckin' commie? Huh?

  Otto : No, I ain't no commie.

  Bud : Well, you better not be. I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

• Duke : The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.

  Otto : That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.

  Duke : Yeah, but it still hurts.

• Oly : You want some help with that beer, kid?

  Otto : You're all repo men.

  Oly : What if we are?

  [Otto pours his entire beer on the floor] 

  Bud : [standing up]  You know, kid, uh, usually when when someone pulls shit like that, my first reaction is, I wanna punch his fuckin' lights out. But you know something?

  Bud and Oly : YOU'RE ALL RIGHT.

• Bud : Wanna make ten bucks?

  Otto : Fuck you, queer.

• J. Frank Parnell : Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.

  Otto : Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?

  Parnell : Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.

• Mrs. Maddox : [Otto is eating out of a can labeled "FOOD"]  Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more.

  Otto Maddox : Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm.

• Otto : What happened to your old lady?

  Bud : My old lady? Oh, shit, I forgot all about her. Well, she'll take the bus. She's a rock.

• Leila : What about our relationship?

  Otto : What?

  Leila : Our relationship!

  Otto : Fuck that!

  Leila : You SHITHEAD! I'm glad I tortured you!

• Oly : What's your name, kid?

  Otto : Otto.

  Oly : Otto parts?

• Bud : It helps if you dress like a detective. Detective dress kinda square. If you look like a detective people are gonna think you're packing something.

  Otto : Are you?

  Bud : Am I what?

  Otto : Packing something?

  Bud : Only an asshole gets killed for a car.

• Kevin : [singing]  ... feelin' 7-Up, I'm feelin' 7-up. Feelin' 7-up, I'm feelin' 7-up...

  Otto : Kevin, stop singing!

  Kevin : What? I wasn't singing, guy.

  Otto : [Stamping a price tag on Kevin's glasses]  I'm standin' right next to you and you're fuckin' singing, cut it out.

  Kevin : Why so tense, guy?

• Leila : Charming friends you've got there, Otto.

  Otto : Thanks, I made 'em myself.

• Otto : I ain't gonna be no repo man. No way.

  Marlene : It's too late.

  [hands him $25] 

  Marlene : You already are.

• Otto : Bud, listen to me, you're sitting in a car worth $20,0000 dollars. Look, if we turn it in, we'll split the money, 60/40, you and me.

  Bud : [laughs]  Who gets the 60 kid?

  Otto : Well, I was figuring, since I found the car first that...

  Otto : [Bud pulls out a gun]  That you get it.

• Otto : You repo men, you're all out to fuckin' lunch.

• Otto : I'm a repo man.

  Leila : What's that?

  Otto : It's a repossessor, I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool, huh?

  Leila : No.

• Otto Plettschner, Rent-A-Cop : Don't you say fuck you to me! Don't you know who I am?

  Otto : Yeah, you're Plettschner.

  Otto Plettschner, Rent-A-Cop : You're fuckin' right I'm Plettschner! Arnold Plettschner! Three times decorated in two world wars! I was killing people while you were still swimming around in your father's balls! You little scumbag! I worked five years in a slaughterhouse, and ten years as a prison guard in Attica!

  Otto : So what?

  Otto Plettschner, Rent-A-Cop : So what? So never say fuck you to me! Because you haven't earned the right yet!

  Oly : Shut up, Plettschner.

  Otto Plettschner, Rent-A-Cop : Don't you say shut up to me!

• Otto : Some weird fuckin' shit, eh, Bud?

• Bud : The guys that make it are the guys that get in their cars at any time. Get in at 3am, get up at 4. That's why there aint a repo man I know that don't take speed.

  Otto : Speed huh?

  Bud : [snorts line of speed]  Jesus Christ!

  Otto : [watches, grinning]  Hehe.

• Otto : Excuse me while I fold my pants.

• Otto : [to Bud]  Stop fuckin' around, man! Only an asshole gets killed over a car!

• Otto : You know, Kevin, I had this wild fucking dream last night.

  Kevin : I bet.

  Otto : It was with you and me, and we were working in this sleazy shithole motel down in Miami, Florida. And we were bellhops. Sixty-five years old... so real... really realistic... you know?

  Kevin : And then what? You woke up in a puddle?

• Otto : Scumbags.

  Lite : They ain't scumbags. They're car thieves just like us. There's Ms. Magruder. You wanna go for it?

  [He hands Otto a paper bag] 

  Otto : Good gag. You pull this one a lot?

  Lite : Only on the women. It never fails.

  Otto : Excuse me! Ms. Magruder? I have something here for you.

  [He takes a dead rat out of the bag and drops it in her car] 

  Ms. Magruder : Mmm, how utterly charming.

  [She pepper-sprays him in the face and drives off] 

  Otto : Ah! Motherfucker!

  [Lite drives off]