The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Crispin Glover: Arlo

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• Larry Flynt : [to his staffers, as they remained silent]  What's wrong?

  Arlo : The distributer called and unfortunately we had only a twenty five percent sell through

  Larry Flynt : Someone want to translate that for me?

  Jimmy Flynt : What that means their sending back a hundred fifty thousand copies

  Larry Flynt : [slams the champagne bottle into the cake]  SHIT!

• Larry Flynt : [In a magazine store in front of news reporters]  Good hardworking news dealers are being threatened and intimidated: if that's not censorship I don't know what is. What we're going to do is I'm going to pay this news dealer one thousand dollars. I am renting this store for the next twenty fours. I am in charge now and if anybody wants to purchase a copy of Hustler Magazine

  Arlo : [In disguise and hands Larry money]  Mr. Flynt, may I please buy a copy of Hustler Magazine?

  Larry Flynt : [Takes the money, before the police watching nearby arrest Larry]  Yes you can sir, here is the Hustler Magazine I'm selling to this gentleman

• Arlo : [During a nude photo shoot of Althea]  I've got bad news: Georgia prosecutor arrested a few news dealers for selling Hustler Magazine and other retailers are getting nervous so their taking off our magazines off their stands

  Larry Flynt : Fuel the jet and alert the Georgia media that "the Calvary is on the way"

• Larry Flynt : [In a magazine store in front of news reporters]  Good hardworking news dealers are being threatened and intimidated: if that's not censorship I don't know what is. What we're going to do is I'm going to pay this news dealer one thousand dollars. I am renting this store for the next twenty fours. I am in charge now and if anybody wants to purchase a copy of Hustler Magazine

  Arlo : [In disguise and hands Larry money]  Mr. Flynt, may I please buy a copy of Hustler Magazine?

  Larry Flynt : [Takes the money, before the police watching nearby arrest Larry]  Yes you can sir, here is the Hustler Magazine I'm selling to this gentleman.

• Larry Flynt : [During a staff meeting after looking at their Hustler Magazine's advertisement that is offering one million dollars to help President John F. Kennedy's killers to justice]  That's good

  Jimmy Flynt : So we're going to pay a million bucks?

  Larry Flynt : Why not? If it catches the killer, I think it's worth it. Moving on "asshole of the month"

  Althea : Jerry Falwell

  Arlo : you always say Jerry Falwell

  Althea : Jerry Falwell is always an asshole that's why Arlo

  Chester : how about this month we do Anita Bryant?

  Arlo : I say Gerald Ford

  Jimmy Flynt : [jokingly but intentionally insulting his brother]  I say Larry Flynt

  Larry Flynt : [Althea covers her mouth while laughing]  Yeah I like that bro everybody thinks I'm an asshole.

• Jimmy Flynt : Who the hell would wanna shoot you anyway, Larry?

  Larry Flynt : Who wouldn't want to shoot me, Jimmy?

  Arlo : I'd say it was the CIA.

  Althea : Why?

  Arlo : Because of the million dollars that was offered for JFK's killers.

  Althea : No. I think it was the interracial photo spreads - and the KKK.

  Jimmy Flynt : The KKK? It wasn't the KKK. It was the Mob!

  Arlo : The extreme religious right. They're the ones that control all of the fanatics.

  Alan Isaacman : Well, you've just named every American psycho.

• Larry Flynt : [During a staff meeting after looking at their advertisement that is offering one million dollars to help President John F. Kennedy's killers to justice]  That's good

  Jimmy Flynt : So we're going to pay a million bucks?

  Larry Flynt : Why not? If it catches the killer, I think it's worth it. Moving on "asshole of the month"

  Althea : Jerry Falwell

  Arlo : you always say Jerry Falwell

  Althea : Jerry Falwell is always an asshole that's why Arlo

  Chester : how about this month we do Anita Bryant?

  Arlo : I say Gerald Ford

  Jimmy Flynt : [jokingly, intentionally insulting his brother]  I say Larry Flynt

  Larry Flynt : [amused, Althea covers her mouth while laughing]  Yeah I like that bro, everybody thinks I'm an asshole.

  Chester : [after laughing]  that's true

  Larry Flynt : [while giving him a serious look]  is that right?