From Paris with Love
From Paris with Love is a 2010 action film about a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador who hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in Paris.
- Directed by Pierre Morel. Written by Adi Hasak, based on a story by Luc Besson.
Charlie Wax
[edit]- This motherfucker hates Americans so much, even though we saved his country's ass in not only one world war but two, he still won't let me through with my cans!
- Checkmate, motherfucker!
Dialogue
[edit]- James Reece: [accepts printout] Thank you, Cindy.
- Secretary: Welcome...
- James Reece: [reading] African Aid Summit prep meeting with the Foreign Minister tomorrow at noon, Summit Conference on Wednesday, G8 Undersecretary conference dinner on Thursday, and a reception for the Secretary of State Friday, sir.
- Ambassador Bennington: Can't you see we have more urgent matters to consider, Reece? [moves his queen]
- James Reece: Of course, sir. [counter moves his queen]
- James Reece: Check.
- Ambassador Bennington: Must you always be so methodical?
- James Reece: Well that's what you pay me for, sir.
- Ambassador Bennington: And you're worth every penny. But that doesn't mean I'm just going to sit here and watch you copy Fischer's ambush on Spassky back in '72.
- Charlie Wax: Shoot the fucker.
- James Reece: I'm not gonna shoot him, Wax.
- [two men come in and start beating up Reece, Wax shakes his head and continues looking out the window with binoculars. Finally he pulls out a gun and shoots the two men]
- Charlie Wax: Next time I tell you to shoot the fucker, shoot the fucker!
- James Reece: I don't know where the fuck we're going, or what the fuck this is about!
- Charlie Wax: What the fuck do you think this is about? It's about terrorists! It's about terrorists, man, converting their finances into drugs so they can move it around without being detected.
- James Reece: I'm not your driver. I'm your partner.
- Charlie Wax: Yeah, you're the chess player. I read your file.
- James Reece: You play?
- Charlie Wax: Do I look like I play board games?
- Charlie Wax: Nice work Reece.
- James Reece: [splattered in blood] What's so nice about it?
- Charlie Wax: How 'bout the fact that he's dead and you're alive.
- James Reece: [Mocking Wax's earlier statement] Wax on, Wax off.
- Charlie Wax: What about it?
- James Reece: I don't get it. Are you The Karate Kid or something?
- Charlie Wax: If you wanna be a secret agent man, you have to roll like a secret agent man. It's code.
- James Reece: Code?
- Charlie Wax: Yeah. Code. Wax is on, he's gonna take you off. Gives them something to think about, throws them off balance. Got it?
- James Reece: Got it.
- Charlie Wax: Good.
- Charlie Wax: [after buying 5 grams of cocaine] All right, give me a kilo.
- The Thug: A kilo? You think this is Bogota?
- Charlie Wax: What the fuck am I gonna do with five grams?
- The Thug: [pulling out a gun] Maybe you can sniff it off of your homeboy's ass.
- James Reece: [points a gun at a man] Stop! Give me your charger!
- Charlie Wax: Yeah! That's the big boss shit I'm looking for
- James Reece: [pulls hammer on gun] Give me your charger! [the man gives Reece his charger]
- Charlie Wax: What the fuck are you doing man?
- James Reece: What the fuck does it look like I'm doing? I'm charging my fucking cell.
Cast
[edit]- John Travolta - Charlie Wax
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers - James Reese
- Kasia Smutniak - Caroline
- David Gasman - German Tourist/The Voice
- Richard Durden - Ambassador Bennington
- Yin Bing - M. Wong
- Amber Rose Revah - Nichole
- Eric Godon - Foreign Minister
- Francois Bredon - The Thug
- Chems Dahmani - Rashid
