Psst - This section contains some inside trivia about the film
Quotes - Good One Liners from the movie
Oops - Goofs from the movie
Director – Paul Haggis
Screenplay – Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco.
Jean(Sandra Bulloxk) and Rick(Brendan Fraser) are a rich couple who have just got their car stolen by Anthony(Ludacris) and Peter(Lrenz Tate). Both have one thing in common. They are racisits in their own way. Graham(Don Cheadle) is a detective who is fighting his against the whole corrupt system and has a slightly pessimistic view towards life and his only sole support his partner Ria(Jennifer Esposito). Ryan(Matt Dillon) is a racist cop who is also struggling to take care of the health of his dad(Bruce Kirby). He also has a colleague Hanson(Ryan Phillippe) who is the total opposite of him. Christine(Thandie Newton) is married to successful director Cameron(Terrence Howard). Daniel(Michael Pana) is an Hispanic who shares a wonderful relationship with his daughter Lara(Ashlyn Sanchez). Shereen (Marina Sirtis) is struggling to keep control of her father’s store and her loony father (Shaun Toub) who feels the whole world is against him. Crash is the story of how these several people from Different Races Collide with each other in a space of two days. Its about how racism has been embedded in to everyone’s blood in some way or the other. Its also about how people aren’t really who we think they are. Wonderful Movie. Great acting by everyone. Matt Dillon is a sure shot oscar winner for the best supporting actor at the Oscars.
A must watch. Largely reminds you of such movies Like Love Actually and Pulp Fiction. Watch out for the scene where Ryan saves Christine from the car crash.
Psst -
1) Heath Leadger was considered for the role of Hansen, Forest Whitaker was considered for the role of Cameron and John Cusack was considered for the role of Rick.
2) Paul Higgis was inspired to make this movie after his own car was stolen.
3) Forest
Quotes
1) “It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
2) “Why do these guys have to be black? No matter how we spin this thing, I’m either gonna lose the black vote or I’m gonna lose the law and order vote.”
3) I wanna speak to your supervisor; I am my supervisor; All right well, what’s your name? Shaniqua Johnson; Shaniqua. Big fing surprise that is; Oh.”
4) “F you very much. Thanks for thinking of me.”
5) “and it was my fault because I knew it was gonna happen. But if a white person sees two black men walking towards her and she turns and walks away, she’s a racist, right? Well I got scared and I didn’t do anything and ten seconds later I had a gun in my face. Now I am telling you, your amigo in there is going to sell our key to one of his homies and this time it would be really fing great if you acted like you gave a sh.”
6) “Look around! You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better lit part of this city. But this white 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! Are we dressed like gangbangers? Do we look threatening? No. Fact, if anybody should be scared, it’s us: the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people, patrolled by the triggerhappy LAPD. So, why aren’t we scared?”
7) “Mom, I can’t talk right now, I’m having sex with a white woman.”
8) “Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?”
9) “That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We’re black and black people don’t tip. So she wasn’t gonna waste her time. Now somebody like that? Nothing you can do to change their mind; So, how much did you leave? You expect me to pay for that kind of service?”
10) “Every night there is a show with somebody shining a blue light and finding tiny specks of blood splattered on carpets and walls and ceiling fans, bathroom fixtures and special-edition plastic Burger King tray cups. The next thing they show is some stupid redneck in handcuffs who looks absolutely stunned that this is happening to him. Sometimes the redneck is actually WATCHING the Discovery Channel when they break in to arrest him. And he still can’t figure out how on earth they could’ve caught him.”
11) “You think you know who you are? You have no idea.”
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