Johnny Cool (1963)
Henry Silva: Johnny Cool, Salvatore Giordano
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Johnny Colini : While you are here, you'll go through a process of polishing designed to make you "civilised". A little, not too much. On the surface, not inside. When I decide you're ready, you'll do a job for me, a job no other man could do. I want you to go to those who betrayed me, take back what they stole and make them dead. Do that and what is mine, is yours. You will be my son.
Johnny Cool : I am no son of Colini. You disgraced us in America.
Johnny Colini : Hmm, there is a streak of decency in you. You've gotta get rid of that streak.
Johnny Cool : They teach you to murder in Chicago and then they send you back to us.
Johnny Colini : And you, who taught you to murder?
Johnny Cool : I am no criminal. I never murder for money. All I have done, I have done for my people.
Johnny Colini : Yes, I'm a criminal. I know it. I am not kind, I know that. I'm not even a generous man. I go to church and lie to God. What's mine is mine because I'm selfish, mean and cruel. There is no one I could point to and say, "this is the reason why Colini is a murderer" but you, you have the people. Poor people. Mr Giordano, you're a liar, yourself. The people, the poor people, aren't you weary of taking bows? You ate well, you've stolen everything you wanted and when you're belly was full, you gave the rest away. I know you, my young friend.
Johnny Cool : I am no friend of yours.
Johnny Colini : You will be, you have no other choice. I put you in the streets, you'll be dead within the hour. Or you'll do the job I picked for you and you'll become rich. More money and wealth than a peasant could dream.
Johnny Cool : Ten million lire.
Johnny Colini : You will not understand a number that big. But you'll learn. Take you a long time. But I will teach you. I'll teach you America: the clothes; how to walk; how to act; who has the money, where it comes from; which are the important names and where their power lies. And when I've finished, you'll be one of three men in the world who knows it all. This I teach you. But in the end, what will count is what is here
[he pokes him in the chest]
Johnny Colini : .
Johnny Colini : In your hills you have been a glorious success, we'll now see what you do with a mountain, America. You prove you can be the son of Colini and in a few years when I have gone, you will inherit my kingdom.
