Speaker A
Cuz everything can go downhill after that. You know? That's cool, you know? Mhm. Yeah.
Gran Torino movie clip: Walt confronts a street gang harassing Sue and Thao, with racist slurs and tense standoff escalating into a confrontation with the Hmong community.
Key Takeaways
- The clip shows how the film uses confrontational, slur-laden dialogue to depict racism and tension in a changing neighborhood.
- Walt's intervention marks a turning point where an unlikely protector emerges from a hostile, bigoted persona.
- The conversation with Sue provides historical context on the Hmong diaspora following the Vietnam War.
What the video covers
- A gang harasses a young Hmong woman, Sue, and her companion Trey in a neighborhood, using heavy profanity and racial slurs.
- Walt Kowalski, an aging Korean War veteran, intervenes when the gang confronts him, trading hostile insults with them.
- The scene is built around racially charged dialogue, with characters repeatedly using slurs against Asian, Black, and white people.
- The confrontation escalates into a tense standoff in which Walt threatens the gang members, who retreat to their vehicle.
- After the encounter, Walt and Sue have a conversation about the Hmong people's history, their relocation to the Midwest, and the dangers of the neighborhood.
- Sue explains that the Hmong fought alongside Americans in Vietnam and were persecuted by communists afterward, leading to their resettlement.
- The dialogue includes derogatory remarks about the Hmong, Lutherans, and disability, reflecting the film's depiction of prejudice.
- The clip ends with Walt's sardonic commentary on Sue's brother and broader social commentary about gender outcomes in education and incarceration.
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Man, look at this. Look at this [ __ ]. Look at this out. Oh yeah.
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Bring that little tight ass over here. Come here, girl. Let me try. Hey. You can't say hi?
Speaker A
Why you acting all stuck up and [ __ ]? What you supposed to be, man?
Speaker A
Yeah, it's cool, dog. What? What you doing in my neighborhood, boy? Nothing. Just going down to the corner spot, you know? Get some CDs. It's all good, bro.
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He called you bro. What? Come on, it's all good, bro. It's all good, man.
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Now shut the [ __ ] up. Call me bro again, man. I'll bite your— Now what the [ __ ] y'all come down here for, huh? You— You here to bring me this little present?
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She bringing it to us? 4:00 a.m. of yummy. Oh, don't worry. I'mma take real good care of her.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah. [laughter] Get your ass right here. That's me, man. I'm— Oh, great. Another with the fetish for Asian girls. God, they get so old.
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Oh, [ __ ]. What's your name, girl? My name? What? Get your ass out of here, okay?
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It's Take Your Crude, Overly Obvious Come-ons to Every Woman Who Walks Past and Cram It. That's my name.
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Who you think you're talking to? Who does it look like? You think you're real funny, don't you?
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Oh [ __ ]. Oh, she's tough. What? You going to hit me now? That pretty much completes the picture.
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Hey, you need to keep your [ __ ] on a leash. Put a choke chain on that hoe and yank that [ __ ]. Of course. Right to the Stereotyped-Assaurus.
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Oh, yeah. Call me [ __ ] and a [ __ ] in the same sentence.
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[ __ ] crazy. I like them like that. Let's take this [ __ ]. Oh, [ __ ]. You don't know when to quit, do you, girl?
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I'm going to teach your ass a lesson. That's what I'm going to do. Stop.
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Get your ass over there. What you looking at, old man? Huh? The hell are these spooks up to?
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Spooks? Spooks? You better get your ass on, honky, while I still let you. That's right, dude.
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Better do. Haven't you noticed how you come across somebody once in a while and you shouldn't— That's me.
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What you crazy, man? Get out of here, man. Why don't you get your ass up out of here before I kick your old wrinkly white ass?
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This crazy [ __ ]. What the [ __ ] is wrong with him, man?
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You crazy. [ __ ] this [ __ ]. The hell? Get in the truck.
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This crazy [ __ ]. What the [ __ ] is wrong with him, man?
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You need to put a finger in his— Hell. [ __ ]. Now, hey, pops. Come on now.
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Shut your [ __ ] face. You don't listen, do you? Now, get in the truck.
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I'm going to get in the truck. All right. Where'd it go, old man? Shut up, [ __ ]. What is all this bro [ __ ] anyway?
Speaker A
Want to be super spade or something? These guys don't want to be your bro, and I don't blame them. Now, get your old fat, petty ass on down the road.
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Take care now. Yeah, you too. Oh, yeah. What's the matter with you, for Christ's sake?
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This guy is trying to get yourself killed. I thought you Hmong girls were supposed to be smart.
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Hanging around a neighborhood like that is a fast way to get you in the obituary.
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I— I— I know. I know. Take it easy. And what about that goofball guy you were with?
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Is that a date or something? Yeah, kind of. His name is Trey. Yeah, well, you shouldn't be hanging out with him. You should be hanging out with your own people, the other Hmongs.
Speaker A
You mean Hmong? We're Hmong, not Hmong. Whatever. Where the hell is Hmong? I mean Hmong, anyway.
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[laughter] Wow, you're so enlightened. You know that? No, Hmong isn't a place. It's a people.
Speaker A
Hmong people are coming from different parts of Laos, Thailand, and China. Yeah. Well, how did you end up in my neighborhood, then? Why did you stay there?
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It's the Vietnam thing. We fought on your side, and when the Americans quit, the communists started killing all the Hmong.
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So, we came over here. Yeah. Well, I don't know how you ended up in the Midwest, snow on the ground six months out of the year.
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What is it, jungle people wanting to be in the great frozen tundra? Hill people. We're hill people, not jungle people. Booga booga booga.
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Yeah. Whatever. Blame the Lutherans. They brought us over here. Everybody blames the Lutherans. Well, you'd think the cold would keep all the idiots out.
Speaker A
Thanks for the ride. You know something, kid? You're all right. But what about that dimwit brother of yours? Is he a little slow or something?
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Howie's actually really smart. He just doesn't know which direction to go in. Yeah. The world's a toad.
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It's really common. Mongoloids are here fitting better. The girls go to college and the boys go to jail.
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