While many of the appearances are so quick and random they would fly past the untrained NBA fan’s eye, others are pivotal to the story. But the towering presence of Hernangómez is just the beginning of Hustle’s decorated team, with lots of the NBA’s brightest stars past and present taking part in the film. The role marks the acting debut of Utah Jazz forward Juancho Hernangómez, a 2016 first-round draft pick. Determined to finally get off the road for good, Stanley sees the Spaniard as his ticket to a promotion to assistant coach. The place you’ll find the biggest collection of NBA talent right now is Netflix’s Hustle.Īfter a career-defining performance in Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler returns to the world of professional basketball as Stanley Sugarman, a Philadelphia 76ers scout who makes a game-changing find in the form of raw young big man Bo Cruz. If you got no money on you now, you'll be crying tears as big as October cabbages.Juancho Hernangómez and Adam Sandler in Hustle.įorget the NBA Finals. ‘Too late, too late’ will be the cry when the man with the bargains has passed you by. It's no good coming back later when I've sold out. These are not stolen, they just haven't been paid for, and we can't get them again, they've changed the bloody locks. It's no good standing out there like one o'clock half-struck. You want one as well? Okay, darling, show me a bit of life then. It's a lot more fun if you don't get caught. You want one as well, darling? You do? That's it. Left leg, right leg, your body will follow. The only man who sells empty boxes is the undertaker, and by the look of some of you lot today, I'd make more money with me measuring tape. Don't think because these boxes are sealed up, they're empty. It's as long as my arm – I wish it was as long as something else. Handmade in Italy, hand-stolen in Stepney. Anyone like jewelry? Look at that one there. I took a bag home last night – cost me a lot more than ten pound, I can tell you. You see these goods? Never seen daylight, moonlight, Israelite, Fanny by the gaslight. Let's sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't, because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping – you're up here shoplifting. So pin back your eyelids, and have a read of this little lot: He’s so good, you’re best off reading his words and committing them to memory, such is the power of his pound-shop poetry. Selling stolen goods on street corners is definitely a hustle, and Jason Statham’s Bacon is definitely the best in the business. Movie***: Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1999) Easy-peasy! If only the mark in question didn’t work for Robert Shaw's vicious crime boss, eh? The greedy mark leaves, never intending to do the “injured” stranger a favour, only discovering later he’s been duped. The third man shows him how its done with his own drawers, swapping this new bundle with another handkerchief-parcel full of toilet roll he’d already hidden in his undercrackers. The mark agrees, but before he goes to do this poor so-and-so a favour, the third man offers the mark some advice: wrap up the money in a handkerchief, put your own cash in there just in case, then stuff it down your trousers so no-one will find it. The entirely-not-actually-injured man asks the mark to take a wad of cash to a drop-off point down the road, before it’s too late. Requiring three men in the know, this manoeuvre has a fake assailant “injure” a man who says he works for the local slots racket. To save the big reveal for anyone who hasn’t seen the Oscar-winning Paul Newman and Robert Redford crime caper, let’s put the film’s final sting to one side, and concentrate on the opening hustle. Sometimes, the con is the toughest one of all: being better than anyone else in the world.Įxtra bonus hustle: An older and possibly wiser Fast Eddie in Martin Scorsese’s sequel to The Hustler, The Color Of Money (1986), teaches Tom Cruise’s stick-spinning savant the fine art of pool sharking, notably taking an unsuspecting sucker down a peg or two to the tune of Warren Zevon’s ‘Werewolves Of London’ – the ultimate in humiliating defeat soundtracks. Fast Eddie hustles not to make big money per se, but to make just enough money to get to meet (and play and beat) the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) in New York. You think you’re playing just another Average Joe, and a few seconds later the 8-ball is circling around the far corner pocket. To paraphrase the man himself, he’s the best you’ve ever seen – and even if you beat him, he’s still the best. Making his way across country, pool table to pool table, “Fast" Eddie Felson’s hustling USP is a simple one: he’s the best. The name of the movie is The Hustler, and hustling is what The Hustler does.
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