Street Kings

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Plot and Summary

Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Crews). Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlo’s supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Evans) to track Washington’s killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down Washington’s murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.

Information

Director: David Ayer
Writer: James Ellroy and Kurt Wimmer
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Released on April 03, 2008

Cast

Keanu Reeves … Detective Tom Ludlow
Forest Whitaker … Captain Jack Wander
Common … Coates
Martha Higareda … Grace Garcia
Cedric the Entertainer … Scribble (as Cedric ‘The Entertainer’ Kyles)
Chris Evans … Detective Paul Diskant
Noel Gugliemi … Quicks (as Noel G.)
Kenneth Choi … Boss Kim
Hugh Laurie … Captain James Biggs

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Trivia

James Ellroy wrote the screenplay in the mid-1990’s inspired by the O.J. Simpson trial. Over the years, Spike Lee, David Fincher, and Oliver Stone were attached to direct the film at various stages of pre-production. Sean Penn was once attached to star. John Ridley contributed to an early version of the screenplay.

Quotes

Boss Kim: Yo dawg.
Tom Ludlow: Konnichiwa.
Boss Kim: What?
Tom Ludlow: Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. It means what’s up. So what the fuck’s up?
Thug Kim: [upon seeing a huge gun in Ludlow's trunk] The fuck is this? We said a machine gun.
Tom Ludlow: It is a machine gun.
Boss Kim: The kind you can carry.
Thug Kim: Konnichiwa is Japanese. It’s insulting to Koreans.
Tom Ludlow: How am I supposed to tell if you can’t?
Thug Kim: Fuck that’s supposed to mean, white boy?
Tom Ludlow: It means you’ve got eyes like apostrophes, you dress white, talk black, and drive Jew. So how am I supposed to know what kind of zipper-head dog-munching dick you are if you don’t?
Detective Paul Diskant: Shouldn’t we roll with back-up?
Tom Ludlow: Fuck back-up.
Tom Ludlow: What do they call you?
Quicks: They call me fucking Quicks, man.
Tom Ludlow: Quicks? Not quick enough.
Tom Ludlow: [to Diskant] Hit me princess.

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