The Limey

[eddylon1983]

they should of gotten some proper cockney to play this part, terence stamp is well posh in real life

[whitbyjet65]

@eddylon1983 I agree. His cockney accent is shite. He still sounds like a toff.

[mymovienerd]

Limey is an old slang nickname, often pejorative, for the British, originally referring to their sailors. The term is believed to derive from Lime (fruit), referring to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy practice of supplying lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy. ~ Wikipedia

[Nanotech92]

Way he says "Geeeezer", fuckin cracks me up

[steveOo0o]

"The Limey is a 1999 American neo-noir crime film"

[girdelle]

Bill Duke here is great in a very understated way. He was also great in Car Wash, in my opinion a much underrated film about class and working people from a  70's viewpoint

[ALBIONTYKE]

So many accents in Britain, even London has many. This guy sounds a bit similar to the way Michael Cane talks, nothing like Cockney. The best English accent is Yorkshire ( apart from east Yorks) Shaun Bean is a classic example.

[kd84afc]

@ALBIONTYKE Terence Stamp is from Stepney in East London, So technically you can call him a cockney

[belzondium]

Why did he not understand? I'm American and I had no difficulty following his speech. I've heard difficult examples of British English, but that was not one of them.

Fail.

[SteveTwoTheO]

never met someone in england that talks like that

[tartantarget]

@SteveTwoTheO I live in London and there's plenty.

[PipweedTheGreat]

whos this shitty little actor who cants peak english properly?

[Jdaddy997]

@PipweedTheGreat FUCK YOU! HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY!

[DanielChannon]

this was the exact scene i wanted to see and its top of the list when i searched 'the limey'

[world2explode2moro]

I love the last line. "there's one thing I don't understand....." classic filming too.

[drsyn]

I like to think that Bill Duke in the chair is his character from MENACE II SOCIETY after a promotion.

[xuiton]

he uses slang for every word, people do use slang, but not for every word.

[VaultVHS]

@xuiton

You've not been to Britain, then?

[xuiton]

@VaultVHS well yeah since I live there, people do not use sentences like that in real life... only in shitty films.

[VaultVHS]

@xuiton When my brother lived in the East End (Walthamstow) we'd hear old ex-cons speaking just like that. Couldn't understand a word. Now I can't understand any of the bizarre pidgin-patois of yoofs. If you'd never heard a Valley girl speak, then saw one in a movie, you'd not believe anyone speaks like that. But they do. If you'd never heard jive talk outside of a movie you'd probably think it fake. But it's not. Maybe you should get out more?

The Limey is a fine piece .of movie making.

[treenut999]

@VaultVHS: What's a Valley girl?

[geffel]

@treenut999

Google it. It's a type of female who lives/lived in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles, California. Frank Zappa wrote a song about Valley Girls and I believe there's a movie called Valley Girl.

[treenut999]

@geffel Oh right,thanks. So a Valley Girl is a like an air head accent? Blondie American accent?

[geffel]

@treenut999 Yes, but very specifically from The San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, and it's possibly a little dated now. I live in the San Fernando Valley and I've rarely heard that accent.

[treenut999]

@geffel: Nice one! Cheers. Love my accents....Will remember that next time I am in L.A.

Cheers mate!

[ocf1fan1]

@treenut999 A blondie American accent is different than a Valley girl accent. You should listen to the "Valley Girl" song by Frank Zappa where his daughter sings in a valley girl tone of voice throughout most of the song to know what that that type of accent sounds like.

[dixon97a]

Gor blimey mary poppins. . .

[01marky]

I understood him perfectly

[jwahh]

They invented our language?

[errcycoo]

i couldnt understand a word he said, so im just assuming those subtitles were in english, and whoever did them couldnt understand what the fuck he said either

[eddylon1983]

@errcycoo its slang

[sillybearwagon]

I could understand "Wilson" with no trouble. It is fun hearing all those weird slang words. I can say most monologues aren't as enjoyable as this one is.

[MaxRenn]

They call him The Seeker...

and he's been search' all his life...

Soderbergh's best film by a country mile!

[iain075]

Funny, it's like the scriptwriter though "OK, how many British slang terms can I fit into a monologue".

[stratocaster1986able]

Must've been a nightmare writing the subtitles for this.

[LDNLeon]

this is terribly overacted :\

[PHILLYification]

Terrance Stamp plays a badass to the tee

[CreativeDissent]

Pwned by a Negro...LOLz

[essertpitay]

Fantastic !!!...You need English subtitles !

[lurch321]

T.S. should have at LEAST received an Oscar nod for this!  Easily the best performance of his career........................­......

[Rebound622]

kneel before limey!

[munecaeburro]

one of my favorites lines ever

[otisbroth]

"The thing I don't understand is every motherfuckin' word you're sayin.'"

[moschops911]

great  film tell him I'm coming!

[johnatlanta5]

Terrance Stamp is a total bad ass old guy in this movie. Everyone who messes with him ends up in the hospital, or more likely dead. Awesome flick.

[integral]

pieced together brilliantly: at least three different camera angles of him, god knows how many takes, and it reads like it's all of a piece

[richysst]

just love the Strong British movies yawhat .

[2210ethan]

Great film, great performance.

[TheSwedishFilmNerd]

Terence Stamp is my favourite actor, and this is his performance of a lifetime. You know, I love Michael Caine too, but fuck him, Stamp is way cooler!

[yazmatraz]

If you want a proper cockney, go see a Michael Caine film....

[luverlything]

@yazmatraz Terence Stamp was born in Bow so he is a bonafide Cockney. Michael Caine was born in South London just around the corner from me, too far away from Bow to be a real Cockney, although he has a more 'Cockney' accent.

[redgalaxy4]

@luverlything oddly enough, the role was actually written with Michael Caine in mind.

[batmanofni]

@redgalaxy4 You can really tell. 

[GomerDose]

I have no idea what he said. Something about tea and crumpets and fucking midgets..?

[SnideCast]

they made him to british, its like a american's interpretion of a cockney hard knock, well thats what it is a supose

[integral]

@SnideCast from the way he spoke in the rest of the film I got the impression he was kinda conning the guy, playing the incomprehensible foreigner to make himself appear harmless

[SnideCast]

@integral Ahhh I see haha, I still havn't got around to watched this yet either :( will do soon

[AvEryBadApPLe]

epic!

[Loge91]

at the end of this film theres real footage of him playing the guitar with these old london gangsters along with john bindon. wtf was his business with them.

[Roodosutaa]

Terence Stamp is too posh to act like a cockney or soemthing from the east end... in fact, him and Michael Caine should swap roles, he can play Alfred and Caine will be far more convincing as the Limey

[yazmatraz]

Don't mean to be a downer on this film but if you've ever been to London or heard a cockney accent you'll think his accent is ridiculous. First time I heard him say geezer I actually laughed.

[muttilo]

He is an Eastender however

[OurLass]

Actually, Terence Stamp is from Stepney, originally... though he's spent a lot of time elsewhere.

[bogleby]

@yazmatraz - you're right ... his accent is like a caricature London accent.

Still a good film, tho.

[KageTrauma]

I love this movie man, I understand everything he's saying. Even without the vignettes. I'm glad they didn't put one on this scene.

[logant44]

"I'm going to have me some fun"

[cgavin1]

I really wish someone would post up the opening 5 minutes of the movie, where he's on the plane with The Seeker playing.

[alfriendo2008]

Powerhouse of a script. Thought provoking lines (from Stamp) that you can use in every avenue of life no matter what direction you are taking.

[Remington61189]

oh my god its my uncle! Terence Stamp is Wonderful

[spitz512]

It's a good thing it came with subtitles.

[daneyboy88]

@spitz512 your mom came with subtitles

[EcHeLoN5242]

I bloody love that part!! And i highly admire Terence...an absolute favourite!

Anyhow, to those who say bullocks about his COCKNEY, please, that was really really FUN to watch & suggests his very refine nature which is absobloodylutely the most FANTASTIC thing ever.

Those who say he is a bummer, well, this man has contributed what you will never do in your entire lifetime...this is Terence Stamp & so Nough Said!

Thank you

[dcasey77]

Unbelievable... I'm a big Terence Stamp fan and you'd think he'd be perfect for this role, having originally come from the East End.

But he's awful in this film. No Cockney talks like that. He should know that better than anyone else.

[GayleMI]

This scene is a show-stopper. When I first saw the DVD, my jaw dropped the whole time & I immediately replayed it. It was a similar experience (on a smaller scale) to the infamous monologue in Waiting for Godot. Thanks for highlighting this.

[crazyredlion4500]

Shit that was funny. I am talking about what the black guy said. Very true.

[Roodosutaa]

He's too posh to sound cockney

[graemeoliver84]

I think you're right.

[GomerDose]

Oh please he was spitting every British cliche except "Roit Guvnah!"

[azzblaster]

best fucking line i heard by a british guy, hands down.

[Netinterspace]

hes so funny look at the way he speaks he looks like 20 LOOL Go Wilson!

[hamtrak]

Any film that opens with the Who's "Seeker" has got to be great!

[mark456m]

Kneel before ZOD!

[MieVitunIte]

man, i thought this would be the scene where bunch of american "thugs" and "hard-men" beat our limey up, and threaten him - then he gets up, pulls .32 automatic, and kills em as a point lesson. And he's right, you know?

[kway745]

Yep, that's the one I was looking for. What's great about that scene is that it's so understated, no gratuitous violence necessary. We only see it from outside the building, but that's plenty to get the point across. Don't F**K with this limey!

[Jobided15]

an underrated scene from a grossly underrated movie.

[kway745]

The movie got plenty of positive reviews from what I remember. Seems it was largely ignored by the public though, which is definitely unfortunate.

[Jobided15]

i see, seems to be the case with many great films (e.g. no country for old men).

[animeloverryan85]

You didn't need to see all the gore and such, that's not needed. The point is, that they wanted it to look realistic

[Andre2010]

This scene alone made me want to watch the movie.

The predator guy cracked me up

[JIM2u007]

HA HA!! This is such a great scene - 'Limey Jailbird

Sings' (the subtitles should be accented too!). Stamp delivers cockney bull and Duke caps it. Hilarious!

[Flowbee79]

I love that scene. It's a great monologue following a sublimely delivered punchline.

[sitedecinema]

Bill Duke steals the scene.

[ignoranceandwant]

Bill Duke rules. I met him at a memorial service for composer Elmer Bernstein and he was a really nice guy.