Carpe Diem from Collateral
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- This is one of the most profound scenes I have seen in any movie. The basic message is "Carpe diem". This is a dialogue between Max (Jamie Foxx) and Vincent (Tom Cruise) from the movie, Collateral.
"Suddenly you are old." That one line is more motivating than anything you'll get in a self help book.
He's talking about me.
And you.
Nah, just me. I wanted to be more as a kid...Marine Biologist, Mechanic...NOW, I'm just old and a drunk.
And do what?
@@joshua6200what's wrong with that?
@@joshua6200don’t beat yourself up. Not everyone is out here to win the next Nobel prize. Don’t live by society’s rule book. You choose to be happy or sad everyday.
The ironic thing is that Vincent kills people for a living, and yet, he tries so hard to teach Max how to live.
i think there's a saying that's like "being around so much death gives you a new perspective on life" or something
Even more ironic is that he was going to kill Max after he killed his last guy. So he's teaching him how to live to only murder him in the same night.
@@christianjames9667 he was not going to kill him that night never..he just want him to live a great life that tom cant live i mean without family tom live himself in that guy..
@@copycat4946 If you listen to the radio earlier from that night they discuss how a taxi driver was killed in a very similar circumstance to what Max is going through right now. This is Vince's MO. He was without a doubt going to murder Max there's no way he was going to let a witness to that many murders go away.
He was never going to let him live. I think Vincent was trying to make sure max did not to do anything stupid by making him think he was going to live. Dangling the carrot infront of the horse.
Someday my dream will come. Then one day you'll wake up and discover it never happened.
That's a heavy quote
That quote made me to quit my job and fulfill my dreams.
@@8geartodown Wow..good for you :)
the "suddenly, you'r old" is even heavier.
And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.
Cuts deep to all of us that struggle in "their" 🌎
This is one of the few major Hollywood films with a big name director and stars that almost feels like an independent film.
drlee2 low crash and chase scene shootouts... mostly a character study of two individuals.
Tom Cruise got off the mainstream Hollywood train a long time ago.
Doesn’t matter anyway.
Deff does
@@CN-wt2bj yeah, I love Tom Cruise's non-mainstream Hollywood movies, like War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible 3/4/5/6, and The Mummy.
the most motivational phrase is "What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?"
Haha yea it's my whatsapp Status ^^
Max should of replied back with: what the fuck are you doing still killing people?
@@sonicjet7759 Vincent: Predators make rules
@@piotrc933 But MAX: Good Guys follow the rules, real difference. WHAT GOOD IS IT TO MAKE RULES IF YOU DONT FOLLOW THEM??? DONT MAKE ANY AT ALL TO BEGIN WITH, IF THATS GOING TO BE YOUR ATTITUDE IN LIFE.
@@sonicjet7759 LOL!
Tom Cruise is absolutely unbelievable in this movie. This is his Denzel in Training Day roll and he kills it
Mark Tully exactly
Always saw that connection!
I wish he played more villains. Cruise always has a weird intensity that is great for when he’s playing hyper capable heroes like Hunt but here he taps into it and he makes a great “friendly in an unsettling way” villain
Brad Pitt in Fight Club too
The great thing about this scene is the dichotomy of Max questioning how EASY it is for Vincent to kill people, while Vincent is questioning how HARD it is for Max to do basic things (save up money, ask a girl out on a date), and even though Vincent's questions on the surface seem more trivial, they are really not, basically saying that life is too short, so seize the day. This cold-blooded killer is offering up valuable life lessons in the midst of all these hits. Great stuff!
Also, I must say, that while Jamie Foxx is very good in this film, I just think that Tom Cruise is truly GREAT! I'm glad Foxx got the Oscar nomination for Supporting Actor, but I really think Cruise deserved to be nominated Best Actor also. It would have honored Cruise's tremendous work ethic that he put into the role that translated so effortlessly to the screen.
drlee2 this kinda reminds me of the Joker/Batman dynamic. Joker accepts chaos While Batman thinks he can save Gotham from crime.
Idk. You just like Cruise. I like him too. I like Foxx in this movie. I related. It felt like between the two I'm Max. I think that's intentional. It made the movie feel like it had a larger motive. It wasn't just an action flick.
But it’s a bit mad cuz Vincent was planning to kill Max as soon as he finished his job.
@@gukonni I feel like I could be both characters based on their philosophies, really an Alpha and Omega concept.
I do not like Tom Cruise but this is by far the best film he ever did in his career.
I always loved this scene. Max is clearly disgusted and hates Vincent, and wants nothing to do with this man...yet Vincent can read and understand Max better than anybody else can and has only known him for a couple hours. And he still manages to sum up Max's life and rip in half in a minute.
"being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life...or CZcams..." ;-)
"Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old.
Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway."
I love that line.
It was thought provoking to say the least
you like it because you know its true
What other alternatives have we got?
Scenes like this is why I think Collateral should've gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. This is two people sitting in a cab talking, and what they say fizzes with suspense. When Vincent is laying the hard hitting truth to Max, his words are like his bullets. Max didn't have to speak in that moment. We can sense the shattered glass of entitlement/destiny he's experiencing. This is the work are true character development.
+richfictionfighter This and 'Heat'!
You can't help but think about yourself when the two of them go back and fourth. Vincent speaks to everyone who's ever not gone after something in life that they really wanted. People who let their dreams die.
People with dreams are the most hated of all. Everyone who doesn´t need Bukowsky for
this insight is an enemy of the people. Painted graves don´t need support of zombies
Sometimes the dreams die because someone destroy your dreams in the process and he won
Then destroy his dreams or find a better dream. Either way, win.
True, but he's manipulative. Just getting into his victim's head so he can exploit him.
@@kevinsager5054 I'd say the gun already took care of that. "Do what I say or I'll kill you" is a great way to exploit someone lmao.
Several years later, Max became an executive at Über.
The Isaiahnator hysterical
Did he end up with that hot lawyer that looks alot like Will Smiths wife?
@@ayara8157 Yes and yes to both of those . Also recommend “Thief “a great movie by the same director. Or “ Band of the Hand” .
😂
Ayara 81 yeah they had a major entanglement lol
"There's one thing I gotta thank you for bro cuz until now I never looked at it that way". its amazing how Vincent's words shaped Max's perspective on life
Tom Cruise wasn't Tom Cruise in this movie. He became Vincent.
And Jamie Foxx became Max. Lets not forget Jamie did his thing too.
Mark of a fantastic actor. I don't like Tom Cruise's cult crap, but man, can he act.
Otherwise he is mostly Ethan Hunt, day and night.
Tom Cruise seems like in is zone in this movie....
He should do more of that....
@@moontrekerben7801 He'll be a perfect superior Iron Man in Multiverse of Madness
This movie, and especialy this scene made me think about life. It realy changed me, in a good way.
"Don't you talk to me about murder" he knows he Max is killing himself slowely. Every day just dying because he managed to delude himself and others. Vincent hadn't killed him yet because Max is doing it himself. I love that line
reminds me of Garland Green in Conair talking about madness being someone who goes to work day in day out for decades only be told to fuck off.
The look on Vincent's face as the power dynamic shifts and Max takes complete control of the situation is so good. All his pep talks worked too well and his little handgun feels pretty inadequate for trying to reclaim dominance.
As Max points out, shooting Vincent at that speed would guarantee a crash anyway. In that moment at least, the gun was a bluff and Max knew it.
Vincent can't shoot him without a crash, bailing out at that speed would be suicidal (and would let Max escape), so all Vincent can do is bark impotent commands, to a man who by now is more than aware that cooperation isn't gonna save him in the long term anyway.
Max has the power, nothing to to gain by obeying Vincent and nothing to lose in the attempt, that Vincent wasn't gonna take from him anyway.
@@JamesTobiasStewart Funnily enough, when Max tries to fire Vincent's gun at the door of the building in the next scene he finds that the safety is still on. Vincent was never going to shoot. This is where Vincent's intellectual hypocrisy comes to the surface. He acts like some badass philosopher killer who waxes poetic about the randomness of it all but he fears chaos and unpredictability. He's not a Jazz player. If he was really about the nihilist philosophy he preaches he just would have smiled and sat back while Max crashed the car. Or he would have shot Max and taken the chance. Let the chips fall where they may. But he still tries to assert control even when it's apparent that he can't control this situation anymore. And ultimately he brought it on himself by continually goading Max and mocking his life choices. He essentially guaranteed his own failure by inducing an epiphany in this man.
Reading this comment thread makes me understand why I love this movie 🍿 so much
Cruise's best role imo.
Apollo Spade no. This is his best performance.
No, It's not. Vanilla Sky is the best performance
Edge of tomorrow, Eyes wide shut
Last Samurai sorry... collateral VERY close second
You're all wrong. His best performance was Frank Mackey in Magnolia. 'Respect the Cock'
Damn man I’ve always loved this movie, I just turned 28 and feel like my life is passing me by with nothing to show for it...This speech has always stuck with me.
how are you now?
You're 32 this year how's life treating you my brother. M in the same boat. Anyhu I wish you all the best.
I'm 47 (incredibly), and by now, I know with NO end, NO illusory safety, exactly what you mean - and as time here and attention are necessarily short, I compel you to hear me: DO actually seek out the _infinitely_ compelling, truthful words of one _Alan Watts_ on the subject you raised - the subject of ALL subjects, AS you know by now - and the subject that utterly pervades ALL other subjects in your human mind. We can't avoid it - how COULD "Existence" fucking _DO US_ like this...???
LIVE while you are alive; BE infinitely honest; and LET history be history. These are 3 unimaginably _absolute_ truths you can trust yourself to remember, from now on, for your entire life.
These will each go deeper than you can now possibly imagine - and they will each LEAD to what we cannot ever truly articulate in words. (THEN there are only the infinite, eternal shades of THAT VERY _Eureka_ you find... coloring everything ELSE. You might just laugh yourself fucking silly at that moment... But however such (singular OR plural!?) moments which you experience look and feel and radically affect you... that'll be your private affair.)
But: _SEEK,_ seek, seek.
... And you _WILL_ find.
I completely empathize with you brother. I washed my 20s in depression after a close family member passed. I'm now 30 and pulling my life back together since I'm in med school. It's tough feeling this nagging feeling of regret, but I try to remember that God has a different path for all of us.
I watched this on my 21st birthday and I’m now 31 and the film still gets me
This one really cuts deep.
Excellent film that did not get enough recognition. Cruise and Foxx had an incredible dynamic who nailed their characters perfectly. Combined with the way it was shot and the soundtrack it made for a great film. I really like Mann's style. He captured the beauty of LA at night.
+Cryogenics12 yep, i think this is underrated and they did there characters perfectly
Perfect movie and perfect comment.
They cut each other deep all right. Nothing but slicing each other with truthful words.
Sounds like you would enjoy Heat. I highly recommend it 👍
Great scene.
I think Max, deep down, respected Vincent since he was the only one that could see through him. The only one that knew about Max and his failures.
Yep. Most strangers won't call bullshit when you tell them about your plans for the future. The business you're gonna start one day. The things you're gonna do. They'll just say "Oh, cool!" or "That's great!" A person can start believing his own bullshit after a while. It's hard to watch this film without thinking about all the ways that you're bullshitting yourself like Max. That's why it's good for the soul.
One of my favorite scenes. Makes you think about life, and evaluate what you are currently doing.
The psychology of this movie is way underrated. Vincent has probably heard some form of this when he was younger, but no one has been in a position to say it to him in a long time. And it gets to him, with the deer in the head lights look.
10 years later and now Max owns Island Limos Company
I hope so
Either that or he's watching day time TV :P
Harris Naseem Wtf is a Golden Oreo, Also it’s obvious that Max is no longer the same man after what happened that night...
And probably married to Annie Farrell.
17 years later and he's probably still suffering from PTSD and their traumatic history never made it possible for the attorney and him to build up a good relationship. I guess he's still out there in LA driving cabs. Probably not for the same company tho, since he destroyed a car and insulted his boss.
I always think of the “wtf are you doing still driving a cab” when I think I’m wasting time. Sometimes it helps often it doesn’t though.
There is a certain nihilism in Mann's LA movies that I really find profound and memorable. This scene really captures that.
The way he captures the scenery and the lights of LA is always perfect is well.
If anything his nihilism freed him to be a top-notch killer with incredible self training and discipline and intelligence to go up against organized crime, police and a less than willing cabbie that got lucky in the end...
@@mickeydrago9401 Not just luck. Max won the gunfight because he learned to improvise, to go with the flow. Hence him blindly shooting at Vincent, and scoring a killing blow by wildly spraying a round that went through the window and caught Vincent in the side. Vincent, in contrast, was unable to break from habit and improvise himself. He continued to fire his trademark Mozambique three-shot drills, but his picture-perfect accuracy meant his shots all impacted on the steel doorframe, and none struck Max.
The final gunfight was a test on who had learned the most from whom, and Max won.
This is the movie that made me realize Tom Cruise wasn't just the guy who hangs from a ceiling hacking a supercomputer. He's a brilliant actor and probably one of the best we've ever had.
This movie has to be on my Top Ten Underrated Movie Lists. The dialogue in this movie is emotional, powerful, and delivered perfectly by both actors. Love this movie.
This particular scene shows that someday people will grow tired of the inability to do things when they had the power to do so like fulfilling a dream. Max did the unthinkable like speeding through a red light and flipping the car while being held at gunpoint. Eventually, his true nature is slowly coming out.
Care Diem guys cheers.
5:42. My favourite part of the entire film. "Slow dow-down." A cold, calculating, brutal killer understands, for perhaps the first time in his life, what it means to be truly weak and powerless. So much so, that he stutters his order to his would-be "victim". And the knowledge of this powerlessness doesn't come at the hands of some police officer, or former instructor, or some "even-more-badass-sociopath"... but at the hands of a man he tormented. A man he saw as easily manipulated, weak and powerless.
This scene wasn't about crashing some mere car. This scene was about taking perceptions of dominance and control over others, and flipping it upside-down.
He clearly says "slow the hell down"
The whole dynamic between them is so multi faceted and awesome. It’s villain and protagonist but at times it’s almost friendship, telling someone hard truths they need to hear, it’s criminal and citizen.
This movie is so deep, it really makes you question our own individual lives. Incredible movie, I must have watched this movie 50 times over the years and it still haunts me. Few movies have that affect on me.
This scene scares me more than most horror films.
" the cop, you, me? Who notices" some of his best work
SPOILER
I think there is a need for Vincent to die at the end of the movie. Vincent taught him to improvise and adapt to the environment, so when Max learnt to so this and in the process saved Annie successfully, Vincent has to die to signal the growth of Max and the change in his personality.
***** while I say it is necessary, I don't like the ending either...I'd love Vincent to walk free even if it meant Max would be killed....But thay way the whole point of the film would be changed completely.
After all of these years, this scene still hits home in your soul. Rambo said it best. " Live for nothing or die for something ". Safe to say Max pulled his courage out and fought back. Brilliant movie with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Michael Mann deserves much praise for this as well too. Underated classic.
Like often classics are not recognized outright, but afterward .
O.J. G. How about "Get busy living or get busy dying" from Shawshank Redemption.... same principle.
Maybe I'm over-interpreting this scene but I think Max running the red light has a deeper meaning. It's the first time in his life that he's not obeying to something other people or authorities dictated him. He is so submissive that he even chose a submissive job. Driving a cab means obeying to the customer and his desires.
When he ran that red light it was the first time in his life that he did not obey to any authority (red light) or people (Vincent telling him to slow down/stop at the light).
I agree
+ when Vincent shouts out "red light", it can mean, like some kind of alarm/problem, some kind of red flag for Vincent.
I always thought he did it hoping he'd crash into someone
@@ball3677did you miss the rest of the movie??
@@Metsfanapk ? No, why?
"Twilight Zone Shit" HELL YEAH! Saw a glimpse of some humanity from Vincent with the "Sigmund Freud meets doctor Ruth" comment. Just an excellent scene all around from a very underrated movie. The Academy screwed the pooch on this one not nominating it for more
Vincent and Max are a great team because each has something they other lacks. Vincent is a killer, a sociopath and a nihilist, but he has drive and verve. He is the epitome of a man who has the tools to succeed in any avenue of life, he just got pointed in the wrong direction. Max has empathy, humility and vision, but lacks enthusiasm and self-actualization. He's a drifter with a heart of gold. He has dreams but is too timid to put anything into motion and settles for a comfortable life where everyone, from his mother to his boss to his passengers tell him what to do and he meekly complies. Vince uses Max, but is fascinated by him as he keeps telling Max to take charge of his life. The humane side of Max despises Vincent and wishes he would go away or kill him and get it over with, but deep down he knows the things Vincent says are true.
"and suddenly you are old".... what a terrible realization
At what moment did Vincent ask himself:
Maybe I pushed this guy too far....
When Max ran a red light
@@julioviloria3289 Because it was the first time he didn't obey to something other people or an authority dictated him to do. When he ran that red light it was the first time he actively opposed to something.
This is the most powerful scene in the entire movie in my opinion. Both men's lives have been impacted forever from meeting up tonight. They both share their opinions of each other's lives and they cut each other deeply. Vincent knows Max is right about him being a sociopath and just being detached and lacking sympathy and empathy for people. Max is hit by Vincent telling him that making excuses and waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen is just a waste of his time and life. Vincentz murders people for a living, and yet Max is slowly killing himself in his job. they cut each other so deep and made the other question themselves and their life choices. both men would never be the same after their meeting tonight.
very powerful scene. Tom Cruise told him what he already knew but didn't want to acknowledge. And forced him to "look in the mirror." Great scene!
I love this scene. In fact this is one of my favorite movies. The fact that these two see each other for who they really are, no more lies or masks. Max thoughts on Vincent and his negative judgement shows the impact this man has had on Vincent. But Vincent prediction on Max's future answers Max's question on why Vincent hasn't killed him yet. Vincent doesn't have to kill Max because Max been living in a dream world, wasting his life away. Lying to himself. It's when Max fights back that we see Max finds the strength and the will to back his life. Max destroying his cab was him breaking out of prison. Max killing of Vincent was Max taking his role as the protector and provider in Annie's life.
WOW! I must say this in my opinion is the deepest meaningful scene about society and everyday life. Vincent is a cold blooded contracted missionary but yet he embraces his profession and accepts the reality that comes with it. "Hypnotized by daytime for the rest of your life." That line just summed up what this generation is becoming manipulated and brainwashed to.( Media, TV, Hollywood, Entertainment, Propaganda.) Vincent really hits Max hard where I believe he did this to wake the coldness and animal side of Max, a naïve law abiding cab driver. Vincent brought out the side of Max he needed all his life to be successful. Max's coldness finally surfaces @ 4:25, he finally realizes he wasted his time just trying to walk a straight line to accomplish his dream. He even starts by saying "I never straightened up and looked at it. You know myself...I should have." Vincent is a Lone Wolf, someone who is a citizen in a modern society but secludes and distances himself from everyone to move on his own. Vincent is detached and shows no emotion because he has nothing nor no one he clings on to, only himself. Max is the opposite which is simple minded he shows compassion, remorse, guilt, and he is gullible. He believes the world should be one way but its not, the reality is the world is black and white. I took a valuable lesson many should have picked up from this scene and that is "To create your own destiny.
"
Vincent is very good at controlling. You can tell on his face after Max runs the red light he no longer has control over Max
It also looked like max was scaring the hell outta vincent at that moment too
Yeah, Max has gotten on his nerves before, but never scared him like that. He kept pushing Max to be more assertive, and it worked a little too well.
This scene and the club scene are my favourites in this film, they each capture 2 sides of the whole premise, to me anyways
I wish Tom Cruise took more chances like he did in this role. Guy likes to play it safe way too much. Only after this movie was I like...WOW, he really can act! Granted it was a really well written movie
The writing was great but that can only accomplish so much. The fact of the mater is the chemistry between these two actors and their performances were incredible. For me that was a big part of this movie.
I haven't watched Magnolia, Vincent for me is his best performance. He really can act.
hililala321 For me, "Magnolia" and this movie are Tom's two best performances. He's a good actor in general, but he's always a highlight when he plays against type.
Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the vampire..
Check out Born on the Fourth of July, his best work.
This is one of the best moments in film. A philosophical conversation that plays out in somebody who never viewed life through Vincent's view point. In all likelihood if this never took place Vincent would have finished what he needed to and killed Max. This conversation changed Max forever and killed Vincent.
audioslave - shadow on the sun
The best of Tom Cruise. He should play more in roles like this instead of the usual hero we see.
Best scene of the film!
"Suddenly you are old." I remember when i watched this in 2004. I was ten years old. Now i'm 30. From time to time, i've allways remembered this and i can't imagine how this movie might have changed my life. Crazy.
This movie really keeps you guessing and on edge till the VERY END. One of the best movies...this is.
_Millions of galaxies & we're just a spec. That's us, lost in space..._
Seeing Vincent scared and his hearing his voice quivering for the first time was so satisfying. He terrified Max the entire night so Max dished it back to him
I love how Max leaned into the sociopathic outlook Vincent had, and showed he had more balls the second he “took control of the wheel and made the call”
I feel personally attacked. !
Holy Shit! The Legendary Chris Cornell fades up in the background soundtrack before the suicidal crash... and it's perfect. RIP CC... Nobody sings like you anymore.
Vincent said some wise words.
I don't want to go through life just dreaming about my goals and not doing anything to reach them because of fear or because someone who I look up to says that I don't have it in me. I want to take action and prove them wrong no matter how ridiculous it may seem to their eyes.
One of the greatest scenes in movie history!
Bad azz movie [Bad, meaning good], my favorite scene in the movie. Bottom line, this film was about Foxx's character Max. A regular guy with a dream and a vision, however, for some particular reason, [procrastination] he kept making excuses not to implement his business idea. So the most high had to put a sociopath in his backseat to force him to start his own business. Remember, his own mother said: "you have to put a gun to his head to get him to do anything". A true parent knows their child. 🤔🤔
yea, no seatbelt -that man Vincent dead. Can’t make such a raw, realistic crime thriller and then ask your audience to suspend their disbelief like it’s a Fast Furious movie.
Love the dialogues between these two characters. The scene meeting Max’s mother was some brilliantly underrated acting from Cruise.
Max finally seeing he had the power over life and death the entire time he was under Vincent's thumb
3:54- I like that part right there where Vincent says, 'Don't you talk to me about murder.' It's like he's saying, 'Don't you dare sit there and criticize me like you have a right to judge.'
Truly compelling dialogue....you can tell that the director is dropping hints about the evils of 'casting the first stone' on other people when we know little or nothing about them.
Fucking love this scene ❤ you can learn so much about life just in this little clip
I think what's interesting to note is how focused and dedicated Max is in this scene whereas Vincent remains calm but also appears to be slightly "on edge" as he is seen observing police cars speed by. This is a stark contrast to the beginning where Max gets pulled over by a pair of cops where they ask him to explain the dent on his windshield where he stutters horribly whereas Vincent is just in the back seat all calm and composed.
I think that it's also interesting to note how Max stands up to Vincent in this scene where he says "Fuck off" pr "What's down town?" "What does it matter anyway". He is no longer "afraid" of Vincent and is becoming more and more independent. Him speeding up and driving recklessly in my opinion shows us what Max could have become had he not lacked self confidence and everything. Earlier on in the movie where the corpse falls on the car, Vincent draws his USP.45 and aims it at Max who has his hands up and says "Red light Max" where Max is clearly nervous and afraid.
When Vincent says "red light" to him in the scene referring to the literal traffic lights ahead, yet you can hear Max speed up by the sound of the engines (4:51). Eventually Vincent points the gun to him and orders him to slow down to which Max simply says "What? you gonna shoot me, go ahead pull the trigger, shoot me!" He is clearly unafraid of Vincent at this point even at the face of death and ends the climax with a "Fuck you Vincent", something that old Max would never have said to Vincent.
Just the way I interpret it. Hope it makes some sense xd
We all have a "Red light" moment in life.. either we stop and yield to our norm, or be brave and run through it and see what the consequences or fortunes the red light holds beyond it.
Very Philosophical Scene. I believe it is one of the best scenes in film history, just simply because it says so much about Human Nature and the way of the Universe.
also i know this might sound abit stupid but i remember after i watched this scene i gained a lot of self-confidence which i barely even had before. Just to think i was scared inside to do simple things like talk to people when what i should've have been terrified of and i am now is of dying old and alone with regrets.
5 years later, did you turn it around?
7 years now
At the end of the day you're either Max or Vincent.
Dysfunctional Visionary, thanks for liking. It's true.
wow
My favourite scene in the movie
This scene makes me teary eyed for some reason. I’m not a real emotional person either. This scene hits you square in the gut! For those who want to end their lives or are feeling sorry themselves watch this scene- It will be a wake up call...
5 yrs ago I was in debt and on legal trouble. I was thinking of ending my own life. Randomly one day I was flipping through the channels, and this movie was on at this exact moment. It was during when Tom Cruise tells him a “ that woman’s number you can even call her”. Then what Jamie Foxx said, like I said, above four years ago, was like a punch in the gut. That speech took all the fear, all the anxiety, all the depression, all the “feeling sorry for myself, immediately out of my system.
Anyone thanking about taking your life I strongly urge you to watch the scene, no matter what you were going through. I don’t care if you’ve been molested, raped, someone close to you have died, buried in hundreds of thousands of death, failed business, wife left you and took the kids, one of your children Were killed, anything hectic in life, watch the scene a few times. Started at when Jamie Foxx starts speeding, and Tom Cruise says “slow down“. You will probably hear one of the most powerful speeches in movie history in my opinion and very underrated. You may have to hear it a few times because it’s a Michael Mann film and he emphasizes realism a lot. Meaning, sometimes you can’t even hear what they are saying you kind of have to really listen. It gives it more of a realistic feel to. but his words definitely encouragement greatly it was very powerful more than any therapist, psychologist psychiatrist or medication could’ve ever done for me. Now I’m multi millionaire owning two businesses with revenue over $7.5 million. I’m not saying that that speech turned me into a millionaire, and I wasn’t depressed, but it sure as hell kick started my ass on the journey.
“You know you’re right-
I guess I never straight up, and looked at it… myself..
I should have….
I tried to get my way up under but that was just some loose stale fantasy dream.
I could of done anything I wanted to do (slow whimper like he was about to cry)
But NEW NEWS…
What does it really matter?
What does it matter, throwing bodies in snow banks, and killing people, twighlight zone shit.
Ha…a man? Alls I have is a bad ass sociopath
In my back seat.
But there’s one thing I have to thank you for bro… because before now, I never saw it that way.
stop feeling sorry for myself just fucking FIX IT.
What you gonna do shoot me? Shoot my ass.
You know what Vincent…. Fu$& you. Crash.”
Out of all the things Vincent has done in his life, all the bad stuff, he actually said something that was correct. This guy now looked at his life in a whole different way. A guy who always took no risks in life, and tried to do everything the easy Safeway. Even small risks he avoided. We were seeing a man’s transformation in the scene done perfectly by Jamie Foxx.
Tom is so witty and real in this movie. Max was a loser and a coward before they met. They helped each other. Thats the way the world works sometimes. Great movie!
i laughed at the next scene when they're upside down and vincent just starts hitting max out of annoyance for flipping the car. lol
First time I watched this movie and I love how Max keeps blinking fast and looking out the window while Vincent talks. Like is the first time he has opened his eyes and realized where he was.
"That's one thing I gotta thank you for because until now I never looked at it that way"
Amazing scene.
IMHO The one _line_ that could improve this. Vincent: ".. why are still driving a cab?" _when you are capable of so much more._
That would have cut even sharper, throwing his *wasted potential* in his face (Max had already managed to survive and succeed with Felix by this point), and it could also be seen as the unintentional trigger that makes Max actually fight back and take the initiative.
Vincent accidentally gives Max the inspiration to speed up and crash the cab.
Vincent told Max that he had it in him, and Max takes that to heart.
Collateral really made us think about the true meaning of life: right vs wrong, good vs bad, really interesting message in this movie and about the World. What are we here for? The reason and meaning of it all.
This and Revolver by guy Ritchie are maybe 2 of my favorite stand alone movies.
The truth is even more harsh when spoken by the wicked.
One of the best scenes in a movie period.
Wow, speaking of TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!
i love this scence, this whole movie is amazing. plus tom cruise as a bad guy is fuckin awesome.
i fell for vincent hard core
"says the bad ass sociopath in my back seat"
Very underrated movie.
Sort of out of Cruise's character but I loved the way he played the bad guy
"Suddenly you are old......." Suddenly is a lot quicker than you think ------
I don't actually think Vincent was going to kill Max at the end of the night. It's made clear earlier that's what he has done in the past (and in all likelihood would've planned to do from the outset here as well), however it becomes obvious that Vincent begins to actually view Max as a "friend" in some way (something he also likely never anticipated). You can tell in his voice once Max starts behaving erratically that he's actually worried he may *have* to kill him to protect himself. He also could've easily killed him once the cab flipped, but his decision not to just confirms my belief.
TheLastMatic As I stated, his M.O. is to kill the cab driver and make it look like he did it and he's obviously been doing what he does for awhile, however it's also clear that this time out things are a little different for him. Max is different. He has two chances at the end of the movie to kill him: when the car crashes, and when Max surprises him in the office. Like you said, he is a professional, but there is no denying that he'd grown attached to Max and even though we'll never know, it's possible he was relieved that he didn't have to.
TheLastMatic Hey, that's what makes the movie and character so awesome, we're never really supposed to fully understand what's going on in Vincent's mind. Everybody draws their own conclusions.
Shit man!! you got some big guns!!
***** Very true, I love the look he gives him right after as well.
yea i agree with you. Max was probably the first person he has ever had a human connection with.
One of the most intense scenes I've seen in a movie. And until the crash at the end it's just two guys talking in a taxi. But there is so much going on in that conversation.
Collateral is one of my favourite movies of all time. Between making this film and Heat, I can only assume that Michael Mann's middle name is 'The'.
This scene shows a lot of things. But the one thing that seems to slip by a lot of people is that Max had just as much or probably even more balls than Vincent by calling him out. A man he knew was going to kill him in a matter of minutes, maybe an hour, etc, without giving a fuck about the consequences. Vincent's response and speech about him being a coward and not truly following his dream made his balls grow even more. Vincent talked about how Max was a robot always same routine , when that night each man was becoming the other. Max turned into what Vincent was preaching about the whole night, acting on impulse, and Vincent turned into a routine same pattern shooting when he should have more wild in the subway.
I think this scene made it Oscar worthy - like the scene, took the movie from an action thriller to an Oscar worthy picture.
thank you so much for uploading this scene. It made me remember just how philosophical this film is despite its' plot and content. The question Vincent asks... get you to the core
Such immense truth spoken by both parties. Prisoners of their own vices.
This whole movie is great
one of the best scenes in modern film
After watching this scene........ Everyone is going to go back to being hypnotized by day time TV and the condemning news stations.
Everyone only ever have pockets of awareness and inevitably falls back into the sea of blindnesses.
This is the part when Max became an electrical engineer and later went bald met spider man and got his ass kicked. Many people think that spider man was actually vincent seeking revenge.
Every time I see this scene it blows me out of the water. How can a fictional situation with a couple of famous ACTORS* be so moving? How can it make one reflect so much?
Tom Cruise should do more movies like this, movies that show just how incredible he is as an actor. Foxx, too. But I got to say, Cruise blew me away.
* They are beyond actors in this, they both prove just how amazing they are at speaking not only in character, but to the audience. Best scene in modern cinema? Yep.
This movie is so underrated
Man....... Cruise is so underrated!
Two guys have just understood that they are both living under the cold empty sky. This mesmerizes me so lot.
"All it would've taken was a down payment on a Lincoln Town Car." That cuts Max as deeply as Vincent's armor-piercing question about why he's still driving a cab. He had made enough money to drop a deposit on a Town Car and gotten his limo business up and running. But he kept procrastinating.