What did Bert Gordon whisper to Sarah?
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Mythical Monkey — 14 years ago(February 01, 2012 01:36 PM)
Actually, Piper Laurie talked about that scene in her autobiography. She said she ran into George C. Scott at a party thirty years later and "I finally asked him what he had whispered into my ear in the big party scene in The Hustler that elicits a violent response from me. We shot it perhaps three or four times, and I could never figure out what he was saying; it sounded something like 'isha-pa-pishpo.' He told me he chose to use just gibberish, knowing he could never invent words or phrases as powerful as what my imagination could summon up. Probably true."
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biffer_spice — 11 years ago(July 21, 2014 06:04 AM)
well neither scott nor laurie would know what the character said if it wasn't in the screenplay (and I'd imagine the screenplay would just say "gordon whispers something in her ear"). if you want to know the answer to this question, you'd have to ask the people who wrote it, not the actors who go where they're told and say what is on the page.
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athomed — 12 years ago(June 01, 2013 09:05 PM)
I always figured he said something like, "After tonight, Eddie won't be ours anymore. He'll be mine. Then if you're lucky, I'll keep you around as my little tramp."
People with guns don't understand. That's why they get guns. Too many misunderstandings. -
cubuz — 12 years ago(September 20, 2013 01:36 PM)
Those were my thoughts as well. Only I assumed he told her that she is 'perverted, twisted and crippled', not just 'perverted'. When you think about the way she walks down the stairs limping shortly before the conversation this may be a clue.
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pilarinhavana — 11 years ago(December 08, 2014 02:42 PM)
I think Findley, the rich man, wants to f@#k her (though he's seems homosexualperhaps he's bi) and Bert is acting as her pimp. Maybe he whispers something like "want to make twenty dollars?" Keep in mind, when Bert goes back to the hotel and makes out like Eddie is paying her off, she tells him to put the money on the bed and says, "that's how it's done, isn't it?"
Sarah never wants to admit to herself that she uses men to exist both physically and emotionally, and Bert sees through her.