{"id":75,"date":"2008-06-20T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?p=75"},"modified":"2008-06-20T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T01:06:00","slug":"action-movie-one-liners-don%e2%80%99t-work-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Action Movie One-Liners Don\u2019t Work In Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Wesley Snipes talks on an airplane phone to hijacker and terrorist mastermind Charles Rane.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><u>In \u201cPassenger 57\u201d<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>You ever play roulette?<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>On occasion.<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Well let me give you a word of advice: always bet on black.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>In Real Life<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>You ever play roulette?<\/p>\n<p><i>(pause)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Do I what?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Ever play roulette.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Why?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Just answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>No, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever played roulette.<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Okay.<\/p>\n<p><i>(pause)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Why do you ask?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>No reason.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>No, tell me why you asked me that!<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>It\u2019s stupid.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>What\u2019s stupid?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES <i>(sighs)<\/i><br \/>If you had said \u201cyes,\u201d I was going to tell you to always bet on black.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Why would I do that? That\u2019s not a good strategy at all.<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Look, just drop it.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>I mean, more than half of the pockets on a roulette wheel are not black. They\u2019re just as likely to be red. What the hell are you talking about?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>I\u2019m black.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Sorry, you cut out for a second.<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>I\u2019m black.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>Oh.<\/p>\n<p><i>(pause)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>So, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>So it was a joke?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Kind of.<\/p>\n<p><i>(pause)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>We\u2019re on the phone, how would I know you were black?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Just drop it.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>And what color do you think I am? Red?<\/p>\n<p>SNIPES<br \/>Look, the point is, I\u2019m going to need you to land the plane and let all the passengers go.<\/p>\n<p>RANE<br \/>No!<\/p>\n<p><i>(RANE hangs up)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wesley Snipes talks on an airplane phone to hijacker and terrorist mastermind Charles Rane.) In \u201cPassenger 57\u201d SNIPESYou ever play roulette? RANEOn occasion. SNIPESWell let me give you a word of advice: always bet on black. In Real Life SNIPESYou ever play roulette? (pause) RANEDo I what? SNIPESEver play roulette. RANEWhy? SNIPESJust answer the question. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketches","tag-dave-stinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}