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  • Horrible re-editing. If you're going to post a clip - don't try to "improve" it wil your sloppy editing "skills"

  • thanks i was guessing what it could mean.

    sense is clear now

  • "Amazing that to this day, Sicilians still carry that NIGGER GENE." Absolutely classic line!!! "It's a fact, it's written."

  • Kiss of death.

  • 3:29 Walken wants to laugh so bad...Great Post!

    Great performance by two of the best.

  • I don't understand, by cantaloupe is he saying Dennis Hopper has mottled skin on the outside and is orange on the inside?

  • what's the name of the song in the background ?

  • This is so good! Actors are saying what the public want to say public in everyday life but cant... I just love Walken in this role!

  • christopher walkens is just amazing here, he is a superior actor, his comedy is just as good as his serious stuff, this is a classic scene

  • i like how everyone twists things to fit their own bias prespective though, its good for a laugh anyhow......the eggplant and the canteloupe make a great scene here....good movie overall.

  • I don't think black people would like this scene

  • @TittyTittyBangBangXX I am Black and I like this Scene

  • Nobody here is smart enough to understand this scene.

    The whole "you're descended from niggers" rant is a way for hopper to test his lie detector as Walken has just said he can always tell when someone is lying.

    The claim is ridiculous and he asks "am I lying?" and then " cause you're part eggplant" to show that even Walken can be fooled and that it was a ridiculous "fact" all along.

    That's why they're laughing, Hopper was fucking with him. And now everyone's trying to argue the anthropology

  • @MrRealitycheque you got it down ;)

  • @MrRealitycheque I agree with your analysis of the scene. However, Hopper's "fucking around" scenario, his statement about the moors conquering Sicily is true.

  • @MrRealitycheque You think he's lying?

    You obviously aren't Sicilian then.

  • @MrRealitycheque lol wrong dude. He called him an eggplant because he knew he was going to be killed so he just wanted one last dig in. He's not going to call the guy holding a gun to his head a nigger just to test some theory of his. Seriously, man, it's not a hard scene to work out.

  • @MrRealitycheque Um......Eggplant: slang; A word used by Italian-Americans to describe a person of African descent. e.g.: (Man, speaking to a Sicilian who is allegedly descended from niggers) "You, you're part eggplant."

    Tarantino would definitely be aware of this slang definition, so the word's use is not coincidental. It's intentional.

    The ACTUAL point of the scene is that Hopper's rant is merely an elaborate "fuck you" to Walken. Plain and simple.

  • 3:01

  • Black hair doesn't require an African component to exist. The native Americans, Asians, people of India, persians, Balkan Europeans, Arabs etc. All have Black hair and some have dark skin. The scene is funny though.

  • come again?

  • My favourite scene of all time. The eggplant/cantaloupe lines were the only adlib lines in the scene. Hopper called him part eggplant and Walken responded with the first thing that came to him.

  • It is so true, sorry Maffia

  • Best piece of cinematic history.

    

  • What does "you're a cantaloupe" mean?

  • @flano1 means you're a fucking fruit.

  • @MRDx3kb I like fruit.

  • Read the Roland Chanson when the Moors invaded France, also the Coat of Argon

  • mmmmmm.....eggplant

  • Incredible, outstanding, amazing acting lesson. But what are we talking about? The acting of this two masters? The music? The light work? The editing? The direction? The script? No we're argueing racial topics. Always there's the black man on scene, we have to talk about that. And the arguements always have to be on denial of black blood "we're not so black", "moors were not really black, they just came from Africa". But we're not racists... yeahright! I'm latino BTW.

  • @carmaj156 I agree there. Every other race is fair game, but blacks are just more equal than the rest of us.

  • Northern Italians are white, Southern Italians are not! Northern French are white, Southern French are not. Greek, Spanish and Portugueze are not white at all. Eastern Europeans are white! Swiss, Austrians, Germans, Dutch and Belgians are whiter than them! Scandinavians whiter than Swiss, Dutch, etc. People of the British Isles are the whitest of all!

  • @mishim100 if they're not white then what are they huh? black, asian? No they are white. Just because their skin tone varies a little doesn't make them none white.

  • You're a cantaloupe. 

  • Moors were Arab & Nigger flunkies who could barely conquer a small island (sicily) and the south of Spain.... Now look @ Europeans... we conquered Earth and fuckin Outter Space! Whites conquered the UNIVERSE.

  • @mrtundra45 but we fucked up

  • The Moors were not "niggers".

    They were simply a variety of Semitic ethnic groups like Arabs, Berbers, Phoenicians and Numidians.

    There was very little actual Sub-Saharan African genetic admixture in their Moorish invaders who conquered Southern Europe during the Middle Ages.

  • @omglollmao123 True, the Moors were an islamic version of the Romans. They got their troops and citizens wherever they could.

  • So Italians are part "Eggplant" But I knew that already..

  • the best scene from anyfilm ever

  • Moolies ain't shit. LOL.

  • If you gotta go.......then at least....depart life with a smile.

  • now i know why my dick is so big

  • @lnclincoln your great great great great grandfather fucked a nigger..

  • Fuck the FBI for cracking down on the mob. the streets were better with the mafia around.

  • Hate to break it to you all, but by this logic WE ARE ALL NIGGERS.

  • I really feel bad for Hopper's character here. He died in order to save his son's life by not telling those mafia scumbags where he was.

  • Dennis Hopper was one of a kind. There will never be another actor like him. 

  • Seriously... excellect actors. Outstanding.

  • A proud white man in the end. Looks death in the eye and smiles

  • Negro means black, as in the color, but also used to describe africans from the sub saharan region. There is No such word as "moor" in the spanish language.

    The moors, were more of a religious crusade, and consisted of people from a few different ethnic groups as well as locations throught the Mediterranean area, and later the far upper western area of Africa.

  • @mrtundra45 Ok i see, nice, I learned something today. I was clearly mis informed.

  • @derekisisrael Thats not to say that there were no black african moors, there were, but moors were quite a mixed group, and consisted of various ethnic groups from different locations throught the Mediterranean area, over a period of several hundred years, also they were like Muslim religious fanatics...

  • @mrtundra45 Yes tundra most of the "moors" were not negroes, they were a mixed bunch largely made up of arabs and berbers. But the fact of the matter remains that they were a darker skinned people who had changed the racial and socio-cultural makeup of germanic Italy.

  • @WorshipInTruth i was with you untill you said "Germanic Italy" smh ... FIRST of all they were in Sicily (southern island) SECOND of all it was not Germanic at ALL.... Sicilians were actually DARK Before "moors" came along....they just became a tad bit darker... and Not all moors went around raping the women... only a small amount. Sicilians are still overwhelmingly of the Mediterranean "race" as they have been for thousands and thousands of years...

    Germanics are in North Italy.

  • @mrtundra45 I agree with you that there were Blacks in the Moorish Empire, but they made up for the minority. Berbers made up the majority of the empire.

  • @lifeisgood1013 Yes they also became somewhat "mixed" as they took moorish women of many different types. especially during travel. You got all these different types, negro, arab, berber, mixed, possibly even mediterranean converts. ect ect.... Moors were not 1 specific race/ethnic group.... the 1 thing they all had in common was ISLAM.

  • @mrtundra45 Dude, I know that the moors were not just one ethnic group. In fact there was a time where I was trying to convince some people that they were not all of the same race or ethnicity.

  • @lifeisgood1013 Justin Bieber's ancestors made up the majority of the Moors? Holy Hell, we've got to spread the news.

  • @JudasRemains loll your a funny guy. The Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa. They are actually called the Amazigh, but the Greeks called them Berbers.

  • "Am I lying"

  • Green eyes are actually very common in Sicily,

  • Greatest fucking scene ever put on film.

  • @RenegadeCossack You clearly haven't seen Lexi Belle in Wet Young Bitches 3

  • Great Video with two great actors .. rip dennis hopper

  • Why are you fools arguing about the historical or anthropological accuracy of his statement? You are missing the whole of him saying it ... to piss off Coccottti (Walken) so he would kill him quickly in anger rather than torture him into revealing the whereabouts of Clarence. WHOOSH! Right over your heads ...

  • @Carus0e Not to mention to insult him before getting whacked. one last FU

  • @Carus0e some people just don't get it

  • @Carus0e you said it much better than MrRealitycheque

  • actually the moors were middle eastern/arabic

  • best scene in history of cinema !!!!!!!!

  • this is the best part in a film i can remember. rip dennis.legend

  • I miss Hopper, for all is faults and gains I'll leave it at this - he was a one of a kind legend.

  • 4 brown eyed sicilians disliked this!

  • Moors comes from the spanish word Mooreno meaning black!

  • @derekisisrael incorrect....

  • @mrtundra45 I'm curious to know what it means?

  • @derekisisrael en Espanola es "negro" .....black.

  • @mrtundra45 negro black yeah that's true but I was vinformed Moreno means black or negro but I could be wrong but what doesn moreno mean?

  • @derekisisrael no...moreno refers to tan skin, or light brown skin...not black, maybe a light skin black or mixed black person could be moreno, but thats not the word means, moreno could be mexican, spanish, sicilian, certian Arabs ect...., even Asians like philipinos, ...certain Africans or African Americans could be described as moreno but that word does not mean "black" (color, or skin)... "african person" or "negro" ect.....

  • "I haven't killed anybody.... since 1984."

  • It aint nothing wrong with this scene, everything that motherfucker said was true. All ya'll disillusioned people can kiss my ass. THey were niggers and keep telling yourselves they weren't . Look at Jersey Shore and tell me they aint.  OK to be more specific the Moors from the 12th century were from Western Africa. You say that they were a Greek island the Greeks were mixed with niggers. Cleopatra was mixed with Greek too, but she was a nigger. You can't get rid of that nigger gene

  • @lhoward360 (1) There's no such thing as a "nigger gene", whatever that means. (2) What does an orange Jersey tan have to do with this? (3) Correct, although the Moors come from the very northernmost parts of Western Africa. (4) The Greeks, in both ancient and modern times, have not mixed in any significant numbers with African populations, except for Ptolemaic Egypt. (5) Cleopatra was descended from a Macedonian Greek. There's no solid evidence for native Egyptians in her family tree.

  • Great movie man...

  • Such an amazing scene

  • If the writing style seems familiar, that's because this is one of the first scripts ever written by Quentin Tarantino. but not directed by,.Directing and acting are easy by comparison,it's the writers that do the heavy lifting,they have the real talent!

  • @theylied1776 so quentin tarantino couldnt make a bad line look good?

  • @fergus247 Yes, he's also a great director. not the best, but damn good. my only point is that actors and directors get too much credit for what ends up on the screen.

    most directors don't write and the actors are reciting and reacting to what's in the script. By the way, Tarantino would just change the line.

  • all time classic scene set to great music.. as good as it gets

  • I still have trouble with cantalopes ..

  • Hopper:  Your part eggplant.

    Walken: Your a cantalope.

  • Great classic scene. Love it!

  • why does dennis hopper always get shot in the head? Great scene btw

  • Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper -- 'nuff said...

  • Go back far enough and everyone's ancestors were "niggers".

  • Can watch this scene all night and day long! such poetry in motion

  • this clip proves why its good to be of German decent.

  • @cpufightclub

    Ah yes, the Barbarians are sooooo dignified. Read a fucking book before making retarded statements. Everyone has black, white, asian, and the like inside of them. The entire concept of 'race' has been debunked.

    Most skin color is based on geographical location...

  • @Stereotype77 My, my, you sound argumentative.

  • If that's a fact...Tell me? Am I lying.

  • Brilliant! One of the best contemporary movie scenes ever. No Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt shit here. Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper know about the CRAFT of acting and they have TALENT!

  • I see Tarantino is a one-trick pony.

  • @TiniNormi

    He isn't.

  • what a glorious scene

  • i know why....italian socker are handsome!!!!

  • what he says about sicilians is so true

  • @saulberg

    It really isnt

  • @VideoPussy it is read the history books

  • RIP Dennis You were the best

  • two actors at the top of their game - a fantastic scene.

  • Hopper and Walken kick ass, for the sake of kicking ass!

  • "If thats fact, tell me am I lying?"----That has got to be one of the best lines i've ever heard. :)

  • "I haven't killed anyone since 1984"... such a great line to finish the scene with.

  • R.I.P. Dennis..

    You were awesome always.

  • Hmmm....are Sicilians brathas by blood? Okay, both yielded great gangsters. Both have great lying mouthpieces. Both have "big ball" swagger. Both love spaghetti, cheese, and meatballs. Both love to say "fuck" 100 times in a 102 word conversation. Yup, CONFIRMED. LOL.

  • Tarantino is a really talented writer and when you have two equally talented actors bringing and you get what you call "Hollywood magic".

  • It is NOT meant to be a joke. It's a FACT. Southern Italians and Sicilians have a large percentage of NEGRO ancestry. The negroes came came to Sicily and raped all the white Italian women. And half-black people like you & the rest of the modern day Italians are the result. Don't deny your black African heritage. Embrace it, homie. Now give me a high five.

  • @SonofBrunhilde

    your fuking retarded i have brown hair and blue eyes and im the whitest albino in the fuking world and im sicilian i have Norman, greek, and roman ancestors no fuking nigger in me and in not a fact no one in sicily looks black nor do they have black ancestors including me o fuck you your wrong and you don't live in the fuking country i would know.

  • I'm glad I don't live in that country because I wouldn't want to live somewhere like that where all the locals are half-black like you. No offense. And another thing...calm down, homie. There's nothing wrong with you and all Sicilians being half-black. All I'm saying is you should acknowledge that you are instead of trying to deny it.

  • @italianpride9 fuck you racist prick.

  • Dude...don't let it eat at you. Just accept your negro ancestry and deal with it.

  • RIP Dennis Hopper.

  • Look up the List of Sicilian Americans on wikipedia

  • Read grendo147's comment below.

    i think in this scene the character knew he wasn't going to sell his son out to these men and he knew he'd be tortured. So he says all this to piss them off and try to get a quick death

  • Wrong. He was stating facts. Southern Italians and Sicilians are more black than white. It's a fact. The only thing that puzzles me is how come Sicilians aren't great basketball players.

  • @SonofBrunhilde

    Wrong. The vast majority of (Muslim) Moors who occupied Sicily were gradually expelled after the Norman conquest of the island in the 11th century. Some stayed behind, converting to Christianity and marrying Christians to blend in, but by and large Sicilians are descended from ancient (and Byzantine) Greeks, Romans, and the Normans, who were Norsemen related to the Vikings of Scandinavia. People forget that Sicily was a Greek island much longer than it was anything else.

  • @EricMetalGuitarist yeah in the 11 century, but it was done already lol..... we're all decendents of black ppl...... did u know that the black man in america are the real jews? i mean we're the chosen ppl of god...... jesus was black..... so was cleopatra..... know your history man

  • @JUANO510

    Well, according to all of mankind's shared biological history, we are all out of Africa, but that was well before even the Neolithic Age (i.e. Stone Age), which gave human populations plenty of time to develop new phenotypes through mutation. I'm part Sicilian. Does that mean there's a Moor / Berber in my family tree somewhere? Probably. More likely I'm related to a Greek or ancient Roman, though, and especially a Norman conquerer from northern Europe.

  • Go to Sicily and show me one person who looks like a Viking. Sicilians all look like momar kadafi.

  • @SonofBrunhilde Well, clearly you don't know who the Normans were. These are the same Germanic people who settled in northern France, England, and southern Italy during the High Middle Ages. Of course, they came in limited numbers, but they left an imprint in areas across Western Europe. Most Sicilians could probably trace their bloodlines back to ancient Greek settlers, though. Syracuse, after all, was one of the greatest Greek cities of antiquity, the home of the great inventor Archimedes.

  • @SonofBrunhilde aye aye brother!

  • RIP DH

  • Race is about the facial features, skin tone..hair color I guess too

    Many Italians and Spanish people have around 2.whatever percent of african blood.

    keep in mind a lot of the moors were north africans. Google image north africans.

    Not Sub Saharan blacks.

    In southern Italy its also closer to the equator. More Mediterranean.

    I love having darker hair and tanning light olive skin. I tan nicely.

    if its because of a "nigger gene" hundreds years ago..then thank you very much niggers.

  • PS- I have blue eyes

  • Hey don't get so defensive. I'm not faulting you for having lots of negro ancestry. I'm just saying (as stated in the movie) that it's a fact. Southern Italians, especially Sicilians, have LOTS of black blood pumping through their veins. Now go get a bucket of KFC, a watermelon, a can of Welch's grape soda, a 40 ounce of malt liquor & have a party, you half-monkey ginny.

  • @RobertoCalcio Well, if we go by the hard evidence, the most Negroid native European population are the Portuguese at 4.4%. Sicilians are 2.5%. However English people, maybe like good ole Dennis Hopper, are 1%. So, I guess it's at least a little bit unfair to focus on only one population. Mexicans, who aren't regarded as being of Negro descent, usually test at between 5-10%. Puerto Ricans obviously have a considerable amount of black, as well as the vast majority of Latin Americans and Arabs.

  • best scene ever

  • One of the greatest scenes in movie history! And it's true! Sicilians are half black. That's gotta hurt. OUCH!

  • RIP Hopper, one of the coolest scenes thanks to these two legends and the dialogue, True Romance is an amazing film

  • Two Greats in Hollywood. both my favorite actors. amazing to see them work together. Beautiful scene from True Romance.

  • Check my videos for a great tribute for a great man! You will be missed Dennis Hopper! :'(

  • Rest in peace Dennis.

  • "Your Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother f*%ked a n*^ger, ho ho yeah; and she had a half n%$ger kid. Now if that's a fact, am I lying? Cause' you, you're part eggplant." What a better way to tell somebody to f#$k off!

  • RIP Dennis From one of ur millions of FANS <3 Gone but not FORGOTTEN

  • RIP Dennis From one of ur millions of FANS <3 Gone but not FORGOTTEN

  • wow! I always loved them both and I would've never seen this unless I started reasearching Dennis Hopper after his untimely passing! Him and Walken too! Absolutely outstanding!

  • RIP Dennis - a great actor

  • still to this day sicilians still carry that nigger gene ,,lol!!!!!

  • what an amazing scene... r.i.p. dennis hopper.

  • walken is handsome!

  • And it won't ever get that good again.

  • R.I.P. Dennis.

  • RIP Dennis Hopper, oneof your best scenes ever

  • By far the best scene ever filmed in a movie. and it brought that little fact about Sicilians out. Im sure that made more than a few guidos pissed.

  • @KRDMerc In 1993, there wasn't any way to test for Negro DNA percentages as there is today. I don't give a rat's ass about Sicilians, but this doesn't stand up to the DNA evidence.

  • @thirdpositionist

    Its pretty obvious even without DNA testing that bloodlines got mixed when the moors (northern African black people) landed and conquered the country in 831 AD. At the time the average Sicilian was a blond haired blue eyed white person. After the moor occupation, That was no longer the case and the physical characteristics of large numbers of white/black interracial childbirths exist in the country to this day. It may also explain most Sicilians distaste for black people.

  • @KRDMerc Sicilians were never blonde/Norse, etc. Only in later centuries was there Norman influence. The Maghrib of today is different than the Maghrib of a thousand years ago. Saracens held at least parts of Iberia for 800 years, yet Spaniards don't look a bit Negro, and their DNA shows only a slight trace of actual Negro mtDNA genetic markers. Now with a country like Puerto Rico, it's obviously different, where three very different races did truly blend into one basic type.

  • RIP Dennis, the world will miss you and your work.

  • RIP Dennis. Thank you for you talent and for your constant support of the Arts in L.A. Travel well, into that good night.

  • Like others, when I heard Dennis had died, I thought of this scene. It was an all time cinema classic, and I'm glad others think so too. RIP Dennis, and thanks for the laughs.

  • god bless you sir, my father loved you (r.i.p) they don't make em' like you no more.

  • "i love this guy" R.I.P Dennis Hopper!

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  • RIP Hopper

  • @ITHEREONETHATHASNT  Why so angry? No pussy lately?

  • RIP Mr. Hopper!

  • this is crazy, i watched this clip last night... RIP Dennis Hopper

  • Two of the best, and one of my favorite movies. RIP Dennis, you will be missed. So very sad...

  • RIP Dennis.

  • RIP Dennis Hopper. Great loss.

  • Good bye, Mr. Hopper [*]

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