刘志存

故事是发生在洛杉矶——这个多民族、多文化聚集的大城市。影片的开始就是一起看似普通的撞车事件，以及几个与这个事件有关的人。然后，镜头将我们带到这次撞车事件发生的前一天，并分别向我们展示了这几个主要人物在这几十个小时中所发生的事情。

Movie Script I 电影对白一：

Boy 1:Did you see any white people in there waiting an hour and 32 minutes for a plate of spaghetti?And how many cups of coffee did we get?

Boy 2:You dont drink coffee and I dont want any.

Boy 1:Man,that woman in there poured cup after cup to every single white person around us. But did she even ask you if you wanted any?

Boy 2:We didnt get any coffee that you didnt want and I didnt order and thats evidence of racial discrimination?Did you notice that our waitress was black?

Boy 1:And black women dont think in stereotypes? You tell some,man,when is the last time you met one who didnt think she knew every about your little lazy ass before you even opened your mouth,huh?That waitress sized us up in two seconds. Were black and black people dont tip. So she wasnt gonna waste her time.Somebody like that?Nothing you can do to change their mind.

Boy 2: How much do we leave?

Boy 1:You expect me to pay that kind of service? What? What the fuck are you laughing at, man?

Boy 1:为了吃米粉白人需要等待1小时 32分钟吗? 我们喝了多少杯咖啡?

Boy 2:你没有喝咖啡，我也不喜欢喝。

Boy 1:那倒咖啡的女人给我们周围的白人都提供服务了。他有没有问过，我们是否也来一杯呢？

Boy 2: 我们不喜欢咖啡，也没有点。这不能成为种族歧视的证据吧。你注意到了吗？那位服务员也是黑人啊。

Boy 1:难道黑人就没有成见吗？你见过的黑人服务员当中，即使你不开口，他们也对你这贱骨头了如指掌。她只花了两秒来打量咱们。我们是黑人，肯定不给小费的，她何必浪费时间。无论你做什么，都不能改变她们的思想。

Boy 2: 你会给多少小费呢？

Boy 1:这样的服务，还期望我给小费？你在笑什么？

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Boy 1:Wait, wait, wait...See what that woman just did? You see that?

Boy 2:Why, shes cold.

Boy 1:She got colder as soon as she saw us now.

Boy 2:Oh, man, come on, dont start.

Boy 1:Man,look around you,man. You couldnt find a whiter, safer or better-lit part of this city right now. But yet this woman sees two black guys who look like UCLA students,strolling down the sidewalk,and her reaction is blind fear?I mean look at us,Doug,are we dressed like gangbangers? Huh? No.Do we look threatening? No.In fact,if anybody should be scared around here,its us!Were the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people patrolled by the trigger—happy L.A.P.D. So you tell me,why arent we scared?

Boy 2:Cause we got guns?

Boy 1:You could be right.

Boy 1:Get fuck outta the car!

Boy 2:Give me the keys! Hurry up! Get down!

Jean:OK!OK!OK!

Rick:No,please!

Boy 2:Dont look at me, turn around.

Boy 1:Come on. Go.

Rick: OK, were good, were fine, just keep moving.

Boy 1:等等，看到那女人都干什么了吗？看到了吗？

Boy 2:她觉得冷啊！

Boy 1:她看到我们所以觉得心寒。

Boy 2:不要唠叨了。

Boy 1:瞧瞧你身边，在这座城市里面，全部都是白人，这是他们的地盘。那位白人女性看到了两名黑人，宛似加州大学学生在街上走路，她的反应是什么，单纯的害怕吗？再来瞧瞧我们，我们像黑社会吗？不是的，我们给人威胁着，也不是，实际上要感到害怕的人是咱们。在这个白人的海洋里面，只有我们两颗黑色的沙子还经常被警方监视呢，我们为何不需要害怕呢？

Boy 2:因为我们有枪。

Boy 1:说得对。

Boy 1:下车，把钥匙给我。

Boy 2:快点，趴下。

Jean:好，好，好！

Rick:不要啊。

Boy 2:转身，不要望着我。

Boy 1:来吧，上。

Rick:没事了，继续吧。

Movie Script II 电影对白二：

Shaniqua:Good morning, Carol. Who do I have?

Carol:Hold a moment,please.Mr.Trujillo called and cancelled,but you have a walk-in,Mr.Ryan.

Shaniqua:Send him in.

Shaniqua:Mr. Ryan?

Ryan:Yeah.

Shaniqua:My name is Shaniqua Johnson. I believe we spoke last night.

Ryan:Oh yeah,I wanted to apologize about that.I havent been getting too much sleep. My fathers in a lot of pain.

Shaniqua: Im sorry to hear that.

Ryan:And this doctor hes been seeing says hes got a urinary tract infection. But hes been taking this medicine for a month now,and he keeps getting worse.

Shaniqua:And hes been back to see Dr. Robertson?

Ryan:Yeah.Between you and me,the mans an idiot.

Shaniqua:Really?

Ryan:No offense. But the guy sees a hundred patients an hour and I think his nurses are doing most of the work.

Shaniqua:Mmm. If youre unhappy, your fathers welcome to see a doctor outside the network.

Ryan:And if this new doctor says its not an infection,says its a prostate and it needs to be operated on,is that gonna be covered?

Shaniqua:Not unless Dr. Robertson authorizes...

Ryan:And what good is that gonna do?

Shaniqua:Im sorry, theres nothing else I can do.

Ryan:All right, you know what I cant do? I cant look at you without thinking about the five or six more qualified men who didnt get your job.

Shaniqua:Its time for you to go.

Ryan:Im saying this because Im hoping that Im wrong about you. Im hoping that someone like yourself,someone who may have been given a helping hand,might have a little compassion for someone in a similar situation.

Shaniqua:Carol,I need security in my office.

Ryan:You dont like me, thats fine. Im a prick. My father doesnt deserve to suffer like this. He was a janitor.He struggled his whole life.Saved enough to start his own company. Twenty-three employees,all of them black. Paid-em equal wages when no one else was doing that. For thirty years he worked side by side with those men,sweeping and carrying garbage. And then the city council decides to give minority-owned companies preference in city contracts. And overnight my father loses everything. His business,his home,his wife, and everything. Not once does he blame your people. Now Im not asking you to help me. Im asking that you do this small thing for a man who lost everything,so people like yourself could reap the benefits. And you know what its gonna cost you? Nothing. Just a flick of your pen.

Shaniqua:Your father sounds like a good man. And if hed come in here today,I probably wouldve approved this request. But he didnt come in. You did. And for his sake, its a real shame. Get him the hell outta my office.

辛妮卡：早上好，卡罗尔，有谁找我？

卡罗尔：请稍等。特鲁希略先生来电取消了预约，但刚来了一位赖安先生。

辛妮卡：让他进来。

辛妮卡：赖安先生？

赖安：是的。

辛妮卡：我是辛妮卡·约翰森，我记得昨晚我们谈过了。

赖安：是的，我想为昨晚道歉。我没有睡好，我父亲夜里很痛苦。

辛妮卡：是吗？很抱歉听到这消息。

赖安：他的先生说是尿道感染，但我父亲服药一个月了，却每况愈下。

辛妮卡：他回来找罗伯特森医生了吗？

赖安：是的，告诉你一个秘密，那个人是个笨蛋。

辛妮卡：真的？

赖安：我无意冒犯。但他每小时治疗100个病人我想大多都是他的护士处理的。

辛妮卡：如果你不高兴，你父亲可以到外面看医生。

赖安：如果这位新任医生说，这不是传染病，说是他犯了前列腺炎，需要动手术，那会得到赔偿吗？

辛妮卡：除非罗伯特森先生批准……

赖安：那有什么用？

辛妮卡：对不起，我没有别的办法了。

赖安：好的，你知道我不能做什么吗？我不能不看着你想到那五六个……更有资历的白种男人却得不到你的工作。

辛妮卡：你该走了。

赖安：我这样说，是因为我希望错怪了你。我希望像你自己这样的人……曾得到别人帮助的人……也许会对有困难的人同病相怜。

辛妮卡：卡罗尔，让保安来我办公室。

赖安：你不喜欢我，没关系，我是个混蛋。我父亲不该得到这种下场，他是个管理员，他奋斗了一辈子才存到足够的钱开自己的公司，雇了23人，全是黑人，给他们与白人同等的工资别人都不会这样做。30年来他一直与那些黑人并肩工作，艰苦与共，后来市政府决定……优先与少数族裔的公司签订合同，一夜之间，我父亲失去了一切，他失去生意、家园和妻子。他从没责怪你们，我不是要你帮助，我只要你为一个失去一切的人，做一件小事，使得像你自己一样的人能受益，你将付出什么？一点都不用，只需动一下笔。

辛妮卡：你父亲像是个好人，如果他今天来这里，我可能会批准他的请求，但他没来，你来了，对他来说这很丢脸，把他赶出我的办公室。