The Crow (1994)

Michael Wincott: Top Dollar

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• [gazing at falling-snow crystal ball containing a mini-cemetery] 

  Top Dollar : Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said, "Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die."

• Top Dollar : Our friend T-bird won't be joining us this evening on account of a slight case of death.

• [after shooting the crow] 

  Top Dollar : Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!

• Top Dollar : Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!

• Top Dollar : Ya know, my daddy used to say every man's got a devil. And you can't rest 'til you find him. What happened back there with you and your girlfriend - I cleared that building. Hell, nothin' in this town happens without my say-so. So I'm sorry if I spoiled your wedding plans there, friend. But, if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face.

• [Top Dollar noticed the crow on the table] 

  Top Dollar : How the hell did that thing get in here?

  Eric Draven : Gentlemen!

• Skank : [fast and hysterically]  That's him! That's him! But he looked different. He was all painted up white like some sort of dead whore! I seen him! T-Bird he sent me in some road beers, right? Then he took him away. But, I chased him down. And he flash fried T-bird to his fucking car! Aww, T-Bird here's to you buddy.

  [drinks his flask] 

  Skank : Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!

  Top Dollar : Maybe we oughta just video tape this, play it back in slow motion.

  Top Dollar : Did you see the grave?

  Grange : Empty.

  Skank : [still hysterical]  Grave? What grave? What about my fucking grave?

  [Grange pushes him away] 

  Grange : Three out of four. He's working his way to this speed freak right here.

  Skank : [still hysterical]  It's not fair. It's Funboy's fault. That boy was outta control. T-bird, he came in, said...

  [whistles] 

  Skank : Waste them both! And now this ghost gonna kill my ass next!

  [Top Dollar suddenly slaps him down] 

• Eric Draven : I see you have made your decision, now let's see you enforce it.

  Top Dollar : Aw, this is already boring the shit out of me. Kill 'im!

• Top Dollar : So you're him, huh? The Avenger. The Killer of Killers. Nice outfit. I'm not sure about the face, though.

• Grange : I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a fourth floor window like he had wings.

  Top Dollar : He winked at you?

  [tsk] 

  Top Dollar : Musicians.

• Top Dollar : For a ghost you bleed just fine.

• T-Bird : I got trouble. One of my crew got himself perished.

  Top Dollar : Yeah, and who might that be?

  T-Bird : Tin Tin, somebody stuck his blades in all his major organs in alphabetical order.

  Top Dollar : Well, gentlemen, by all means, I think we oughta have an introspective moment of silence for poor ol' Tin Tin.

  [sniffs drugs] 

• Top Dollar : It's all been done before, you see what I'm sayin'?

  Bad Ass Criminal : That's no reason to quit.

  Top Dollar : Wrong. Best reason to quit. *Only* reason to quit.

• Top Dollar : Oh for fuck's sake, die, will ya?

• Top Dollar : No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big, the gods'll notice us again, that's what I'm sayin'. I want all of you boys to be able to look me straight in the eye one more time and say: ARE WE HAVING FUN OR WHAT? Hey, you! What's your name? Skank? You don't feel that?

  Skank : I feel like a little worm on a big fuckin' hook.

  [All the other thugs laugh] 

  Top Dollar : "I feel like a little worm on a big fucking hook." Well, boy, your mama must be damn proud of you!

• Top Dollar : I think we broke her.

• Top Dollar : [after his men have unload a lot of bullets into Eric]  oooooohh... that had to hurt!

• Grange : So that, I take it, was the late, great Eric Draven.

  Myca : [studying the crow's feather]  He has power. But it is power you can take from him.

  Top Dollar : I like him already.

  Myca : The crow is his link between the land of the living, and the realm of the dead.

  Grange : So, kill the crow... and destroy the man.

• Eric Draven : Gentlemen.

  [sits on the table] 

  Top Dollar : So, your him, huh? The avenger. The killer of killers. Nice outfit. Not sure about the face, though.

  Eric Draven : [points to Skank]  I just want him.

  Top Dollar : Well, you can't have him.

  Eric Draven : Well,

  [standing up] 

  Eric Draven : I see you've made your decision. Now let's see you enforce it.

  Top Dollar : Ah, this is already boring the shit out of me. KILL HIM!

• Top Dollar : You ain't lost everything.

  Gideon : Yeah? And maybe you're not such a big shot, either!

  [Grange restrains him] 

  Gideon : Ow! Jesus!

  Top Dollar : Fair enough. Catch.

  [Top Dollar tosses an eyeball at him] 

  Gideon : Jesus.

  Top Dollar : Say hello to the last fella who wouldn't cooperate with me.

  Gideon : What are you telling me thi- You telling me this thing is real?

  Top Dollar : All the power in the world rests in the eyes, fella.