美国骗局 American Hustle Movie Script

78 INT. CAMDEN CITY HALL - W.P.A. MURAL ROOM - DAY 78 CARMINE POLITO: (giving speech) The W.P.A. employed craftsmen topaint this during the Depression.

Why can't we employ people today todo work like this in rebuildingAtlantic City?

RICHIE DIMASO (V.O.) He worked with all the unions. He was the leader of the State Assembly. And he had just gottengambling legalized in New Jersey tocreate jobs.

80 -- FLOOR OF STATE ASSEMBLY -- Carmine huddles with other STATE LEGISLATORS, horsetrading and then poses for a picturewith other members of the State Assembly.

80 RICHIE DIMASO (V.O.) But he couldn’t get the funds to rebuild Atlantic City and that was his problem. So with our help, hewas about to have his hand in the wrong pocket at the wrong time.

And to me that meant corrupt 81 BACK TO: 81 STODDARD THORSEN You said grifters and con artists.

We're not going after somepolitician. This is a bad idea, Richard.

RICHIE DIMASO: Shhhh. Look, it's really simple.

All you need is to put two millionin a Chase account -What?!

STODDARD THORSEN RICHIE DIMASO (CONT’D) -- under the Sheik’s name -STODDARD

THORSEN:

Whose two million?!

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RICHIE DIMASO: Shh, just listen. Two million dollars under the Sheik's name, in a Chase account that we control.

Carmine calls up on the telephone - calls the bank -- and he sees that the Sheik is real and he has a real account. Five days.

STODDARD THORSEN I'm not taking two million dollars of the taxpayers' money and putting it anywhere for five days, I don't care if we control it the whole time.

Richie as he stares at Stoddard in frustration.

RICHIE DIMASO: Stoddard, let us do what we need to do to rule out corruption and to get rid of the payoff guys that are ruining this country. That's my dream. Don't smother it, please.

STODDARD THORSEN You know Richard, I understand your eagerness. I really do. You know I'm from Michigan, right? Let me tell you a story about me, and my dad, and my brother. We used to go ice fishing every November. Ice Fishing. That’s what we lived for.

RICHIE DIMASO: Holy sh*t -- STODDARD THORSEN Just listen to me. It's beautiful.

You have a little stove. You huddle around, you keep each other warm.

You drop a line and you just wait.

One year my brother says, “let's go in October." He wants to go ice fishing in October. My dad says, "No, the ice is too thin." My brother says -- I love my brother he says - 48.

RICHIE DIMASO: I understand what's happening.

You're saying your brother went outon the ice, the ice was too thin, he fell through the ice, he went inthe water because he was too eager, and you're saying I'm too eager -- that's what you're saying?

STODDARD THORSEN No, that’s not what I’m saying.