Sexy Beast

Sexy Beast is a 2000 film about brutal gangster Don Logan, who recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.
 * Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto.

There's a bit of the beast in all of us. (taglines)

Don Logan

 * [to Gal] Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Holdall. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? [He gut-punches Gal] What you think this is the Wheel of Fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce. All right, I'll make it easy for you. God knows you're fucking trying. Are you gonna do the job? It's not a difficult question, are you gonna do the job, yes or no?
 * You're on two per cent, two and a half, maybe even three. Depends on the usual bumflufferies. It's not about the money with you and me is it, Gal? It's the charge, it's the bolt, it's the buzz, it's the sheer fuck off-ness of it all. Am I right?
 * You're the problem! You're the fucking problem you fucking Dr White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm telling you Aitch you keep looking at me I'll put you in the fucking ground, promise you!
 * But quite frankly your attitude appalls me. It's not what you're saying. It's all this stuff you're not saying. Insinnuendos.
 * Yeah, that's what I said. There's me putting my bag up in the cupboard next thing ya know, I feel hands on me. Someone's touched me, touched my front... my front bottom. I can't believe it, I've gone all cold. I look around, he standing there isn't he? That steward with the guilty look on his face. I was shocked, I didn't know what to say. I had to sit down, I was that perturbed. Then his mate, the other one who was giving us all lessons on what we do if we land in the sea. How to wear your life jacket etc; He starts off, he starts looking at my all funny... suggestive. Now I don't know if they're wanting me for a twosome or something, I don't know how they work it. But I'll tell you what, it scared me. I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette to calm me nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, right, press charges... contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke. I don't want to lose the man his job. Man's got to eat. And I'm sure he's not representative of all you Spanish people. But I would appreciate it if you had a word with him, let him know he's been rumbled. The one with the ginger hair.
 * I gotta change my shirt, it's sticking to me. I'm sweating like a cunt.
 * Not this time, Gal. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!
 * I fucked Jackie. Dirty cow. During what we were doing, she tried to stick her finger up my bum. I nearly hit the roof, you can imagine. I mean, what have you got to think of a woman who'd want to do that?

Gary "Gal" Dove

 * People say, "Don't you miss it, Gal?" I say, "What, England? Nah. Fucking place. It's a dump. Don't make me laugh. Grey, grimy, sooty. What a shit hole. What a toilet. Every cunt with a long face shuffling about, moaning, all worried. No thanks, not for me." They say, "What's it like, then, Spain?" And I'll say, "It's hot. Hot. Oh, it's fucking hot. Too hot? Not for me, I love it."
 * You were right Don. Technically speaking, you were right. But you're dead. So shut up.

Teddy Bass

 * Where there's a will - and there is a fucking will - there's a way - and there is a fucking way.
 * [raising his glass] Gentlemen! You're all cunts.

Dialogue

 * Gal: No!
 * Don: Yes!
 * Gal: No!
 * Don: Yes!
 * Gal: No!
 * Don: Fat cunt!
 * Gal: No, No, No!
 * Don: Yes, Yes, Yes!


 * Gal: I'd be useless.
 * Don: Useless?
 * Gal: I would be.
 * Don: In what way?
 * Gal: In every fucking way.
 * Don: Why are you swearing? I'm not swearing.


 * Don: Talk to me, Gal. I'm here for you. I'm a good listener.
 * Gal: What can I say, Don? I've said it all. I'm retired.
 * Don: Shut up.


 * Aitch: Look, with this pill, they say you take it and that's it. Your hair don't grow, you don't go bald, it stays the same. You have your hair cut once, in whatever style you want, and it stays like that for the rest of your natural life. It's completely revolutionary.
 * Jackie: What if you get fed up with your style, you berk?
 * Aitch: Ahh... Well, that's where the antidote comes in. The whole process is reversible. You just take a different pill. Now, I'm not saying this is gonna happen next year but it will happen, it's definitely coming. Hairdressers are shitting themselves.
 * Jackie: [cracking up laughing] Shut up!
 * Aitch: They did a test with three monkeys, right? Gave 'em all a Beatles-style haircut. They've been living with that cut for the past two years. And apparently, they're very happy with it.


 * Don: [Barely alive] I fucked Jackie. Fucked her. Ask her, she'll tell you. I fucked her.
 * Aitch: Yeah, well I've fucked you now, haven't I?
 * [crushes Don's head with a television set]

Taglines

 * There's a bit of the beast in all of us.
 * Sometimes It's Hard To Say No.
 * Yes or Yes?
 * In the Underworld, you never turn down a job.

About

 * Sexy Beast was the beginning of a new phase for me of working with first time filmmakers. Jonathan Glazer was a television commercials director in the UK, and a wonderful talent. We were sent this script which he was attached to, and out came this wonderful film. It was very stimulating having a first time talent... The dialogue as you see in this film is exceptional. I had never read a script like it, and I thought, this has got to be made. It was very difficult to get insurance on the film actually. When the American studio bought the film, their legal department said: "You cannot make this." It has something like 300 uses of the word "cunt", and 400 "fucks", but somehow it passed the censorship and got out there.
 * Jeremy Thomas, source.

Cast

 * Ray Winstone - Gary "Gal" Dove
 * Ben Kingsley - Don Logan
 * Ian McShane - Teddy Bass
 * Amanda Redman - DeeDee Dove
 * James Fox - Harry
 * Cavan Kendall - Aitch (final film role)
 * Julianne White - Jackie
 * Álvaro Monje - Enrique