CARLITO

Sample dialogue

• Look, when I was a kid, for example, the wops said no spics could go east of Park Avenue. And the spooks said no Ricans west of Fifth Avenue. That don’t leave you a lot of room to (X) maneuver. If you wanna go to Central Park, for example, you shit out of luck. But you go anyway. Now, if you get caught, what happens to you ain’t so bad when you eight or nine years old, but you get a little older -- that’s when you notice them rumbles are gettin’ a little meaner. The Copiens, the Socialistics, the Comanches -- all them bad motherfucker gangs are startin’ to use hardware now. If they catch you, they gonna stick you. That’s a fact. And what you gonna do? You gonna start carryin’ a blade, that’s what. But then the zip guns come out. - One time I got caught by the Copiens in Central Park by the lake near 106th Street -- my blood was up, I said "T’11 take any one of you motherfuckers." But they said "No, man, we gonna kill yo’ ass," and they started pulling the rubber bands on them zip guns. That ain’t good. They catch one of them bullets square, it hits you in the head, you got some serious problems. That was the last chase on me like that. I always carried a piece from then on. Guys went down, yeah, sure, but it ain’t like you just decide one day and that’s that. You just do what you gotta do, every day, and that’s how you end up where you are.

  scene 46, source scene 47 — INT GAIL’S HALLWAY NIGHT 59

• SHUT UP! KLEINFELD

  scene 2, source scene 3 — INT A COURTROOM DAY 2

• How ya doin’, Saso?

  scene 14, source scene 15 — INT CLUB NIGHT 22

• Will you give me a chance to talk?

  scene 39, source scene 40 — INT DIAMOND ROOM LATER 52

• He don’t go for you, Pachanga.

  scene 54, source scene 55 — INT CARLITO’S CLUB DAWN 77

Bookends

Often appears with

• KLEINFELD16 scenes
• GAIL12 scenes
• PACHANGA9 scenes
• BLANCO4 scenes
• SASO4 scenes
• AMADESSO3 scenes