Name: Collateral
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: 2004-08-06
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

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Consequences of Attracting Unwanted Attention

Vincent You attract attention, you're going to get people killed who didn't need to be.

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The Overlooked Presence of Life and Death

Vincent Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

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A Discussion on Taking a Cab

Vincent Let's go.

[after Vincent and Max load a corpse into the cab's trunk]

Max Hey, why don't you just take the cab?

Vincent Take the cab?

Max Yeah, you take it. I'll - I'll chill. I'll - I'll just chill. They don't even know who's driving these things half the time anyway. They never check or anything. Okay... so... just - just take it. You, me...

Vincent You promise not to tell anybody right?

Max Yeah... yeah... yeah... Promise.

Vincent Get in the fucking car.

Max If you just...

Vincent Get in the car.

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Inquiry About a Briefcase

Vincent Yo, homie. Is that my briefcase?

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Unexpected Encounters in Los Angeles

Airport Man / Frank Martin Enjoy L.A.

Daniel I mean, everybody and their momma knew you don't just come up and talk to Miles Davis. I mean, he may have looked like he was chilling, but he was absorbed. This one hip couple, one of them tried to shake his hand one day. And the guy says, "Hi, my name is..." Miles said, "Get the fuck outta my face, you jive motherfucker, and take your silly bitch with you.

Traffic Cop Hey, man, what did you do, have a food fight in here?

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Indifference to Life in Urban Society

Vincent Hey, Max, a guy gets on the MTA here in L.A. and dies. Think anybody will notice?

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Focus on the Job and Move Forward

Vincent Lady Macbeth, we're sitting here and the light's green. Leave the seats.

Max Asshole!

Vincent You no longer have the cleanest cab in ]. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive.

[[:w:Los Angeles|La-La Land]

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A Moment of Unfiltered Praise

Vincent Well, that was brilliant...

[''after Max crashes the cab'']

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The Absence of the Polish Cavalry

Vincent Only thing that didn't show up is the Polish cavalry.

[''after the nightclub shootout'']

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Inquiry About Blood on Windshield

Traffic Cop #2 Hey, is this blood up here on your windshield?

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Adapting to Challenges in Unforeseen Circumstances

Max That's why I tossed the list -- the work ups, all of that shit. To protect, in part, your... Hermes, Facconable ass. What, do you think I like coming in here? But hey. Shit happens. Gotta roll with it. Adapt. Darwin, I Ching.

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Max's Conditional Apology for a Mistake

Max If I'm wrong you get an apology, I already used up my free ride for tonight.

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A Statement of Professional Identity

Vincent Max, I do ] for a living!

[[:w:Contract killing|this]

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Duty and Morality in Unlikely Circumstances

Max I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!

Vincent Tonight it is.

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A Warning About the Trunk's Contents

Vincent If you open that trunk, ] go inside.

[[:w:Police officer|they]

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Frustration Over Disrupted Preparation

Vincent All my prep was in there! You are screwing with my work! Let's see what else you can do.

[''after Max destroys his briefcase'']

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Embracing Uncertainty in Life's Routine

Vincent Most people, ten years from now, same job, same place, same routine. Everything the same. Just keeping it safe over and over and over. Ten years from now. Man, you don’t know where you’ll be ten minutes from now . . .

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A Warning Against Being Cornered

Vincent Don't get me cornered. You don't have the trunk space.

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The Indifference of Life and Death

Vincent There's no good reason, there's no bad ] or to die.

[[:w:Meaning of life|reason to live]

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Concern for a Friend's Well-Being

Max My man, you all right?

[after seeing the guy fall on his cab's roof]

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Introduction of Characters in Los Angeles

Vincent What's your name?

Max Max.

Vincent Max. I'm Vincent.

Max First time in L.A.?

Vincent No. Tell you the truth, whenever I'm here I can't wait to leave. It's too sprawled out, disconnected. You know? That's me. You like it?

Max It's my home.

Vincent 17 million people. This is got to be the fifth biggest economy in the world and nobody knows each other. I read about this guy who gets on the MTA here, dies.

Max Oh.

Vincent Six hours he's riding the subway before anybody notices his corpse doing laps around L.A., people on and off sitting next to him. Nobody notices.

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A Defiant Response to Provocation

Max Go fuck yourself.

[right before he crashes the cab, to Vincent]

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The Illusion of Unfulfilled Dreams

Vincent Someday, someday my dream will come?" One night you'll wake up and you'll discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you, and it never will. Suddenly you are old. It didn't happen, and it never will because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory, then zone out in your barcalounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln Town Car, and that girl... you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?

[''Mockingly'']

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Detective Skills and Observations in Conversation

Max How do you like being a lawyer?

Annie What are you, psychic?

Max Little bit. There's the dark pin-stripe suit, elegant, not too flashy, that rules out advertising, plus a top-drawer briefcase that you live out of. And the purse. A Bottega. Anyway, a man gets in my cab with a sword, I figure he's a sushi chef. You: ].

[[Clarence Darrow]

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Adapting to Unexpected Circumstances

Vincent Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.

Max I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.

Vincent I didn't throw him. He fell.

Max Well what did he do to you?

Vincent What?

Max What did he do to you?

Vincent Nothing. I only met him tonight.

Max You just met him once and you killed him like that?

Vincent What? I should only kill people after I get to know them? Max, six billion people on the planet, you're getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.

Max Well, who was he?

Vincent What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

Max Yes, I know Rwanda.

Vincent Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?

Max What?

Vincent Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.

Max Man, I don't know any Rwandans.

Vincent You don't know the guy in the trunk, either.

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Cabbie Competition and Money-Saving Tactics

Annie Well, how many cabbies do you know get you into an argument to save you money?

Max If there were two of us I'd have to kill the other one. I don't like competition.

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Max asserts his identity as a cab driver

Max I'm not Vincent, my name is Max! I'm a goddamn cab driver!

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Consequences of Violence and Miscommunication

Max Hey. He, he, he fell on the cab. He fell, he fell from up there on the motherfucking cab. Shit. I think he's dead.

Vincent Good guess.

Max You killed him?

Vincent No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall killed him.

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Max's Observation of a Stranger

Max Definitely not from around here.

[about Vincent]

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Confidence in Professionalism

Vincent I am a cool guy, with ] I contracted to do.

[[:w:Contract killing|a job]

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The Vastness of Existence and Human Perspective

Vincent Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, and a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?

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The Significance of the Red Light

Vincent Red light, Max.

[''aims a handgun at Max'']

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