Blindspotting (2018)
Daveed Diggs: Collin
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Quotes
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Collin : You monsters got me feeling like a monster in my own town!
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Collin : [Pointing his gun at Officer Molina] Does this scare you, huh? Fuck you know about being scared? Were you afraid someone was gonna come find you? Huh?
Miles : Bruh.
Collin : What, Nigga? I'm just... I'm just talking to him! Ha! You said make it pretty, right? It's the bounce of it. They like the bounce of it. Like a tree on a sign, nigga, we cut right down. Paul Bunyan-ass cops come to chop me at the knees and search the trunk in my own town. Did you count his rings when you bled him? Huh? When you dead him? Do you understand? How old was he? Nigga, how old was he?
Officer Molina : He was 26.
Collin : 26? That's how many years you decided didn't mean shit. All this talking don't mean shit. I mean, shit! I been in my element, eloquent, spitting hella developin'. I been tellin', shellin' and not to walk like a felon and fucking flippin' the middle finger to feelin' irrelevant. Reveling in my freedom till you turned heaven to hell and hello, sir? I'ma need you to open your fucking eyes now and look and see. You might think you know what's happening, but you don't feel it like we do! To feel it, it has to be you! Cut you, but you don't know what the cut do! You are reflex, but when reflux bleeds the gut, then you see the faces! Leave the vases. Moving people in and out for a fee. Feeding this town decay and appetite of me. An appetizer, huh? I must be tasty, but I stay angry, 'cause y'all get hazy! I'm the one out here stuck on a clock, loving the curfew to keep me off the block! Fuck, what time is it? What time? What Time? Nope, fuck it, I did my time. How come every time you come around you monsters got me feeling like a monster in my own town? I say it while I'm rapping, nigga, 'cause everyone conditioned to listen to a rapping nigga. But I'm rapping to the active nigga, you the one cappin' niggas! So quit the flash and feel like your passion, nigga! Hittin' us till our headstones stuck in the mud! We stuck it out, it turned us into some thugs! Got a whole city brand-new and they kickin' out us! Maybe we should both break shit, make a fuss! I am both pictures! See both pictures! Don't be blindspotting me, nigga! See both pictures! Guess I'm just a little bigger than a picture playin' chicken with a cliff, but I ain't never been a flincher. Block is getting hotter, I'ma be the one to bring the winter fuckin' everybody on the body of a cop, the splinter. I mean, why wouldn't I dead him? He's splittin' wigs for 80k a year and ain't from here, who'll miss him if he disappear? Fillin' up with fear, I know you feel it. I've been feeling it for years, in fact, I don't remember ever never feeling it! The one that going dummy never felt the need to run, but I've been sprintin' till I limp across the finish with a gun! Up in my blind spot, really! Ain't to hard to figure that you probably never really felt the pressure of a nigga, but you know what? I ain't never felt the pressures of a trigger! The difference between me and you is... I ain't no killer. I ain't no killer.
Officer Molina : I didn't mean to.
Miles : Are you sure?
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Collin : You're the nigga they're out here looking for
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Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Hey, Cuttie! What that boat do?
Miles : Hey!
Collin : No way...
Miles : Shit man, I got that joog for sailing, fishing, floating or fucking, get you a flight to Boston at a private function, perfect for getting into some. Let me put you in that water world, bruh.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Bruh, is it hot or cold, though?
Miles : Warm to the touch, no burn.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : What's the intel on the Vin Diesel?
Miles : No fingerprints, bruh.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Dusty trail?
Miles : Very. It's Gucci.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Cuz cuz, I can't be around the way way with something outta pocket, ya underdig? Get blurped and I gotta peel out for the Daytona five double-O 'cause I got a few hammers tucked. Niggas got laundry, no bleach.
Miles : On mamas, this was in the cut.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Three bill joog though? What's the part two?
Miles : No sequel bruh. Pockets is touching so we trying to get it off and do a moving.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Uh cuz, I might have to let that marinate one time.
Miles : Bruh, if you really about that life this is the come-up right here, plus three bills ain't nothing but a small thing to a giant like yourself. I say let's make moves, you throw me that three hundo right there, I'ma clip the woo wop to the rear-view and less is more, ya dig?
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Clip the wop to the rear-view?
Miles : By far.
Curtis 'Cuttie' Cutworth : Fast!
Miles : Fast!
Collin : What'd he say?
Miles : Oh, I have no idea but he gave me $300 for this boat. Sold! Sold motherfucka, sold!
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Val : [answers phone] Hi...
Collin : Hi.
Val : Um...
Collin : How's the... how's the memorizing coming?
Val : Yeah, just trying to learn these psych terms.
Collin : What did you come up with for the... the double picture one? The face and the vase one?
Val : Oh, I like that one. It was... "blindspotting."
Collin : Why "blindspotting?"
Val : 'Cause it's all about how you can look at something and there can be another thing there that you aren't seeing so you got a blind spot.
Collin : But if somebody points out the other picture to you, doesn't it make it not a blind spot anymore?
Val : No, 'cause you can't go against what your brain wants to see first unless you spend the time to retrain your brain, which is hella hard, so you're always gonna be instinctually blind to the spot you weren't seeing.
Val : [there's a long silence between them] Collin?
Collin : When you look at me now... do you always see the fight first?
Collin : [there's another long silence between them] Good night Valerie.
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Miles : [panting] Give me my fucking gun, bruh.
Collin : What in the hell? Fucking no!
Miles : [shouting] Give me my fucking gun!
Collin : Are you fucking crazy? It really had to go down like that Miles? Tonight? What the fuck man! And then what? Then they gonna call the fucking cops and they gonna shoot my black ass and not you!
Miles : What the fuck is wrong with you? You didn't do shit back there!
Collin : That...
[gets pushed by Miles]
Miles : You didn't do shit, bruh!
Collin : That is Nak's partner!
Miles : I don't give a fuck who the fuck it is! Nak's partner, is that yo' partner? No! Is that yo' partner? No! You know how many times I'da have yo' back out here? How many fucking times I'da stepped up for yo' ass? Huh? And you didn't do shit to help me!
Collin : Because...
Miles : Look at my face, bruh!
Collin : [shouting] Because it was fucking stupid, Miles!
Miles : Look who the fuck I am! Where the fuck I am, Collin? That's how the fuck I survive out here! You wanna act brand-new? Then fine, go ahead, be a hipster. Get a tech job or some shit, and go act like you don't know where the fuck you from!
Collin : I ain't got to prove to nobody where the fuck I'm from!
Miles : [shouts] Oh, good for you!
Collin : Nigga, you got something to prove to everybody!
Miles : Yeah? That's 'cause I'm livin' somewhere where now everybody got me fucked up! You ain't gotta do shit! You ain't gotta... you ain't gotta worry about you changing up your clothes or your lifestyle. You ain't gotta worry about none of that shit! You're a big black dude with fucking braids in Oakland! *Nobody* is misreading you, Collin.
Collin : Yeah... Yeah, I know.
Miles : Yeah?
Collin : Yeah...
Miles : [shouts] Yeah?
Collin : Yeah, my nigga...
