A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop mus... Read allA suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 20 nominations total
- Leroy
- (as Ernie Banks)
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- TriviaMany objected against Warren Beatty hiring Composer Ennio Morricone to write the score for the film. One of the reasons was his hefty fee of about a million dollars and Beatty eventually won out over his producers. Despite all of this, Morricone only has a little more than ten minutes of his complete score featured in the final cut of the film which largely dominated by rap music and other source music. Morricone was not pleased with the end results of the film and what Beatty had done to his score.
- GoofsBulworth tells the assassin that he will be traveling to Los Angeles via American Airlines, yet the arrival airplane footage shown is clearly a Southwest Airline plane.
- Quotes
Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor/ Making billions and billions and billions of bucks/ well my friend if you weren't already rich at the start well that situation just sucks/cause the riches mother fucker in five of us is getting ninety fuckin eight percent of it/ and every other motherfucker in the world is left to wonder where the fuck we went with it/ Obscenity?/ I'm a Senator/ I gotta raise $10,000 a day every day I'm in Washington/ I ain't getting it in South Central/ I'm gettin it in Beverly Hills/ So I'm votin from them in the Senate the way they want me too/ and-and-and I'm sending them my bills/ But we got babies in South Central dying as young as they do in Peru/ We got public schools that are nightmares/ We got a Congress that ain't got a clue/We got kids with submachine guns/ We got militias throwing bombs/ We got Bill just gettin all weepy/ We got Newt blaming teenage moms/We got factories closing down/ Where the hell did all the good jobs go? Well, I'll tell you where they went/My contributors make more profits makin, makin, makin, Hirin' kids in Mexico/ Oh a brother can work in fast food/ If he can't invent computer games/ But what we used to call America/ That's going down the drains/How's a young man gonna meet his financial responsibilities workin and motherfuckin Burger King? He ain't! And please don't even start with that school shit/ There aint no education going on up in that motherfucker/ Obscenity? We got a million brothers in prison/ I mean, the walls are really rockin/But you can bet your ass they'd all be out/If they could pay for Johnny Cochran/ The constitution is supposed to give them an equal chance/ Well, that ain't gonna happen for sure/ Ain't it time to take a little from the rich motherfucker and give a little to the poor? I mean, those boys over there on the monitor/ they want a government smaller and weak/ but the be speakin for the riches 20 percent when they pretend they're defendin the meek/ Now, shit, fuck, cocksuker, that's the real obscenity/ Black folks livin with every day/ Trying to believe a mothefuckin word Democrats and Republicans say/ Obscenity? I'm Jay Billington Bulworth And I've come to say/ The Democratic party's got some shit to pay/ It's gonna pay it in the ghetto/ It's gonna pay it in the...
[talks a little]
Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: You know the guy in the booth who's talking to you in that tiny little earphone? He's afraid the guys at network are gonna tell him that he's through/ If he lets a guy keep talking like I'm talking to you/ Cause the corporations got the networks and they get to say who gets to talk about the country and who's crazy today/ I would cut to a commercial if you still want this job/ Because you may not be back tomorrow with this cooperate mob/Cut to commercial, cut to commercial, cut to commercial. Ok ok I got a simple question that I'd like to ask of this network/ That pays you for performing this task/ How come they got the airwaves? They're the peoples aren't they? Wouldn't they be worth 70 billion to the public today? If some money-grubbin Congress didn't give them away for big campaign money? It's hopeless you see/ If you're runnin for office with out no TV/If you don't get big money/ You get a defeat/ Corporations and broadcasters make you dead meat/ You been taught in this country there's speech that is free/ But free don't get you no spots on TV/If you want to have senators not on the take/ Then give them free air time/ They won't have to fake/ Telecommunications is the name of the beast/that, that, that, that, that's eating up the world from the west to the east/ The movies, the tabloids, TV and magazines/ they tell us what to think and do/ And all our hopes and dreams/ All this information makes America phat/ But if the company's outta the country/ How American is that? But we got Americans with families that can't even buy a meal/ Ask a brother who's been downsized if he's getting any deal/ Or a white boy bustin ass til they put him in his grave/ He ain't gotta be a black boy to be livin like a slave/ Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing white people from colored people/ but white people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people/ we just gotta eliminate them. White people, black people, brown people, yellow people, get rid of 'em all/ All we need is a voluntary, free spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction/ Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody til they're all the same color
- Crazy creditsFor the song "Bulworth Breakdown," the title character Jay Bulworth is credited as a writer and performer.
- SoundtracksSemper Fidelis
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Conducted by Major Rodney Bashford
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited/London Records
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
I revisit this film periodically as it is so appropriate to what is happening in the country. Warren Beatty has written, directed, and starred in a timeless ode to the fact that our fascist state is so behind in health care and taking care of the poor.
"Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor/ Making billions and billions and billions of bucks/ well my friend if you weren't already rich at the start well that situation just sucks/cause the riches mother f*cker in five of us is getting ninety f*ckin eight percent of it/ and every other motherf*cker in the world is left to wonder where the f*ck we went with it."
Yes, we are reminded by this film that we are all at the mercy of the rich. They rape the riches of America and enslave the rest of us. It's hard to take, especially by those who would excuse their behavior because they are waiting for their in the "Promised Land."
"I'm giving them entry-level positions into the only growth-sector occupation that's truly open to them right now. That's the substance supply industry. They gonna run this sh*t someday. They gonna have the whole empire. Man, y'all don't give a f*ck about it. You greedy-ass politicians. That's what you tell me every time that y'all vote to cut them school programs; every time y'all vote to cut them funds to the job programs. What the f*ck; how a... how a young man gonna take care of his financial responsibilities workin' at motherf*ckin' Burger King? He ain't. He ain't, and please don't even start with the school sh*t. They ain't no education going' on up in that motherf*cker. 'Cause y'all motherf*ckin' politicians done f*cked the sh*t up. So what they gonna do? What's a young man supposed to do then, right? What's he gonna do? He gonna come to me, that's what he's gonna do. Why? 'Cause I'm a businessman, and as a businessman, you gotta limit your liabilities. And that's what these shorties offer me: limited liabilities; because of their limited vulnerability to legal sanctions, man. It's the same f*ckin' thing in politics, Dog. You find an edge, you gotta exploit that sh*t. That's why y'all sent all them motherf*ckin' teenagers to Iraq. Die over some motherf*ckin' oil money. Send the motherf*ckin' CIA up in the 'hood with all the f*ckin yayos. Slangin' in the hood man. It's the same sh*t in politics."
We wonder why we have a problem in this country when we have an education system that is no better that is was before Brown V Topeka, and we keep sending the poor to fight so the rich can get richer.
Sure, Bulworth is a political movie made by one of the most political people in Hollywood. It stings and it hurts those who are the object of the numerous political barbs contained therein. It hits at Democrats and Republicans - all politicians are equally to blame for the mess we have.
You have to love Warren Beatty for having the courage to make this. It had some other greats here, too, in a huge cast. Halle Berry, Sean Astin, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt and others, including cameos by Al Gore and others.
I've given you a taste. See more, if you dare.
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,528,185
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $141,816
- May 17, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $29,202,884
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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