'Do you think I need to lose some weight?'
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marcjacobspants — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 08:25 PM)
It has to do with the whole "character" thing. If you remember the scene when they are in the fine dining restaurant and Eddie tells Vince "you have natural character, you're a total flake people spend half their lives to perfect something like that" and "when you walk in a pool hall people will be climbing over each other to get a piece of you".
Well if you recall Amos kept talking about crazy things, giving off the impression he was off kilter, saying he was used as a psychological science experiment, etc etc. That last line about "do you think I should lose some weight" wasn't so much an insult but more a tell - Amos was tipping his hand that what you saw was a character built by Amos and he used it to fleece Eddie. Eddie was the mark. Amos was telling Eddie he suckered him, that Eddie fell for the 'character' Amos built and got taken down. Eddie learned from it (asking himself how he could fall for it, a little too cocky, a little too much booze etc) and sought to change himself. -
steveou — 12 years ago(March 02, 2014 06:17 PM)
here is the answer to this.
Eddie was asking him 'are you hustling me Amos?'
him saying 'do you think I need to lose weight?' being the answer we would all say is 'yes'
That is the answer to the question eddie was asking him. he answered eddie's question by asking one of his own, which reveals the answer. -
zee944 — 11 years ago(March 21, 2015 08:07 AM)
Amos (Withaker) said that line ('Do you think I need to lose weight?') one or two minute later than Eddie (Newman) asked if he was hustling him.
So while in your post it seems pretty straightforward, it is not at all in the movie. I'm not sure your answer is correct, but you're may be right about the screenwriter's original intention. -
isotop235 — 10 years ago(June 25, 2015 10:17 PM)
The "hustling me" question was after Eddie had lost one hundred bucksthe "weight" question was after he lost four hundred.
A few games later
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ProfessorFate — 11 years ago(August 19, 2014 07:12 AM)
I think he was referring to the hustle character he had developed: A fat, non-threatening, sort of crazy-talking kid, whom no one would ever suspect of being a hustler.
In the end he sarcastically asks Eddie's advice: Would the hustle work better if he lost some weight? The answer is obviously no, since it worked so well on Eddie.
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daniel-grigg — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 01:57 AM)
"Weight" in pool also refers to changing the spot or giving advantage to your opponent to even things up.
Like telling someone "do you think I should go easier on you", while simultaneously reminding them the reason they underestimated you in the first place. -
HOKfilms — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 05:00 PM)
It has to do with Whitaker being fat was one of the reasons Paul Newman didnt suspect him as a huslter. Plain and simple.
Whitaker just points it out.
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