❝ Monologues · 7 lines · B2

You got to knock the mayor,

The pitch · American Hustle (2013)

 

You got to knock the mayor,

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the speaker of the State Assembly, you got to knock him off of his fucking feet, all right?

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Why it's worth practising

It builds by adding scale instead of argument — a mayor, an Assembly speaker, a sheik with hundreds of millions — until the room has no room left to say no.

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