Death Race (2008)

Ian McShane: Coach

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• Lists : Somebody's mad right now.

  Coach : Nobody fucks with my car.

• Coach : [after the Dreadnought is destroyed]  Now that's entertainment.

• Jensen Ames : So where's the ammo?

  Gunner : We get that on race day.

  Jensen Ames : Pity.

  Coach : Yeah, everyone thinks that... the first time.

  Jensen Ames : Thinks what?

  Coach : About turning the guns on the guards. About escaping.

  Jensen Ames : No, I wasn't thinking that.

  Coach : Well, I'm glad, because Hennessey's got electric kill switches on all the guns on all the cars. And all the guard towers are fortified, and their guns are bigger than your guns. Oh, did I mention the helicopters and also the fact that we're on an island here a mile from the nearest shoreline? The only way in or out of here is on that one skinny bridge you came in on.

• Coach : I love this game.

• Coach : Who's the new guy?

  Lists : Jensen Ames.

  Gunner : The driver?

  Coach : Never heard of him.

  Gunner : Oh, yeah. I saw him race years ago. He was good. He did some time upstate. Killed his career.

  Lists : [reading from a notebook]  Holder of the fastest laps at Willard, Union, and Butler.

  Coach : [seeing some prisoners approach Jensen Ames]  I hope he's as fast off the track as he is on it.

• Coach : Tomorrow morning you'll meet your navigator, Case. She'll help you navigate the course, reload your weapons, and help with the running of the car.

  Jensen Ames : I'd love to talk to her ahead of time before the race.

  Gunner : Yeah, I'd like a big-tittied girl to lick peanut butter off my toes, but it ain't gonna happen. This is still a prison, man. She's a chick. They get bussed in from the women's facility upstate.

  Coach : It's all about ratings. Fast cars, pretty women...

  Gunner : Machine-Gun Joe's the only one that has male navigators, 'cause he's gay.

  Lists : A-a-actually it's because he goes through them so fast, and the a-a-audience gets squeamish.

  Gunner : Yeah, he goes through them... through their ass.

  Coach : He cuts each kill into his skin as a souvenir, I hear.

• Coach : [to Jensen Ames, who is wearing Frankenstein's costume and mask]  Don't talk to the other drivers. Frank never did. Part of the mystique. Let the mask do the work.

• Jensen Ames : Why don't you wear a number, Coach?

  Coach : Because I'm not a prisoner. I qualified for parole three years ago. Got as far as the gate. They got a name for it: something-or-another syndrome. Simple fact is, world's changed since I've been in here. Don't know what, don't much want to. But this... this I know.

  Jensen Ames : What did they send you away for?

  Coach : Oh, plenty... and nothing.

• Coach : And what do we owe the pleasure of your company?

  Jensen Ames : I killed my wife.

  Coach : Bullshit! You're a hard man, but you ain't no wife killer.

  Jensen Ames : And how do you know?

  Coach : I've met my share. But you, the way you look at her, couldn't do that if you killed her mother. So I say, bullshit.

  Jensen Ames : [sees Coach walking away]  Coach? What would you say if Hennessy got my wife killed? Got me framed to come in here to be a Frankenstein, what would you say to that bullshit?

  [pauses] 

  Jensen Ames : Her name was Suzie. I was headed here. Always knew it; she didn't. She was my chance of something else and that bitch took her away from me.

• Gunner : Man, what is this supposed to be?

  Coach : Oatmeal... I think.

  Gunner : Man, how do you fuck up oatmeal?

• Coach : [after Jensen Ames wins a short prison fight in the cafeteria]  I guess he didn't like the oatmeal, neither.

• Machine-Gun Joe : [referring to Jensen Ames]  Who's the new fish?

  Coach : Grease monkey.

  Machine-Gun Joe : [to Jensen Ames]  Well, well. Monkey. I got a new name for you - Igor, because you about the ugliest motherfucker out here in this prison, yo!

• Lists : Jensen Garner Ames. Moved to the States at 24 years old. Named after a car, the Jensen Interceptor. A three-time local speedway champion.

  Jensen Ames : You've done your homework, or do you just know everything?

  Coach : Jensen Interceptor. I had one. Handled like a school bus.

• Lists : Travis Colt. Our local superstar. He used to race for NASCAR...

  Gunner : Yeah, he was good too.

  Lists : ...until he fell asleep behind the wheel of his Mercedes with the help of a bottle of Scotch and a handful of 'ludes. Wiped out the entire patio of Moscala, sent a dozen people to the hospital... and killed three of them.

  Coach : Technically, he's the best driver in here, but a mean son of a bitch quitter.

• Coach : [from track #1 of the film's soundtrack]  Now pay close attention. You may not know it, but the next Great Depression is right around the corner. People will lose their jobs, then their homes. It's gonna be the perfect time for the Race, a hard sport for a hard age. Millions watch the raw footage streamed live over the Net. The drivers are convicts, and the rules are simple: it's kill or be killed. Frankenstein had lived through it, made with a steel mask as the crowd's favorite. Behind that plate is a face so torn up and burned from the half a dozen crashes that nobody can stand the sight of him. But shoot him, burn him, run him over, he just won't die. He's won four races. Just one more and he wins the ultimate prize... freedom.