A character in Shark Tale (2004)

Luca quotes from Shark Tale (2004)

Vincent Pastore

9th most-quoted character in Shark Tale (2004): in 8 of its 53 quotes
Most scenes with: Don Lino (7), Oscar (6), Sykes (6)

Scenes with Luca

8 scenes
[Sykes is talking to Lino over the phone]

Sykes, shut up! Shut up!

Hey, that's good. That's good, I like that! Shut up, Lino! Ha! Shut up! Oh, kid, he wants to talk to you.

[whispers]

No. I'm not here. I'm not here!

Yeah, he's right here. [hands Oscar the phone]

Hello?

[furious]

Shut up? Shut up?! You don't tell me "Shut up"! I tell you "Shut up"!

[As he talks beeping is heard on the other side of the phone]

What? Hello?

Luca

Yeah, hi. Lemme have a pie with everything on it. Anchovies, Meatballs, Mushrooms–

[startled]

Luca?

Luca

Oh, hi, boss. What are you doin' workin' at a pizza joint?

Get off the phone!

Luca

But I'm hungry! [Luca reluctantly hangs up]

[shakes his head in frustration, then returns his attention to Oscar.]

My guys are comin' for you, Shark Slayer! They're gonna tear you FIN FROM FIN! [slams the phone down hanging up too]

[The record player gets stuck while Lino talks with Sykes.]

Luca.

Luca
[Luca moves the needle; the record player plays Baby Got Back by Six Mix-a-Lot; Luca quickly moves the needle again and it cuts off.]

Hey, boss, big butts! [chuckles]

Oy vey!

[A dark ship. The camera fades in, showing Don Lino feeding his fish] [to his fish]

How are my babies this morning? You miss me? You doing good? Huh? Huh? [To Sykes] You see, Sykes, it's a fish-eat-fish world, [he drops a food pellet into the tank] you either take, or you get taken. [The fish sprout razor teeth and devour the pellet as Lino closes the tank's lid]

[hastily]

Truer words have never been spoken. Is that it? That all? We done?

Now, you and me, we worked together a long, long, long time.

Please, Don Lino, it's hardly been like work.

You know...

I love that about you.

Let me finish. That I've lived my life for my sons. Raising and protecting them...

You're the best! He's the best, right? Am I right or am I wrong? Am I right?

It's all been to prepare...

Right?

...to prepare them...

Sorry.

Yeah. It's all right. ...for the day they run the reef. Well, today is that day. [pauses; The record player gets stuck] Luca.

Luca
[moves the needle; the record player plays "Baby Got Back" by Six Mix-a-Lot; Luca quickly moves the needle again and it cuts off]

Hey, Boss, big butts! [chuckles]

[facepalming]

Oy vey. Long story short, from now on yous work for Frankie and Lenny. Capiche?

[laughs a bit]

Lenny? Frankie, I understand, but Lenny? You can't be serious.

I'm dead serious. It takes more than muscle to run things. Now Lenny, he's got the brains. That's something special.

He's special all right.

What's that supposed to mean?

Nothing. I'm just saying...

Hey, I bring you in here, look you in the eye, tell you what's what, and what?

What?

What "what"?

"What, what" nothing. You said "what" first.

I didn't say what first. I asked you what.

No, you said "And then what?", and I said "What?"

[confused]

No, I said "what what", like what, what?! [brief pauses]

[breakling paused]

You said "what" first.

[annoyed]

Now you're makin' fun of me?!

[hastily]

No, no, no, no, you misunderstood! [His sons arrived]

Sorry we're late, Pop. Lenny had an accident. He was born.

[sarcastic laughter]

You're a comic genius.

Look, all I'm saying is the kid ain't exactly no killer.

My Lenny is a killer! Ya hear me? A cold-blooded killer! Look at him! [Lino and Sykes both notice Lenny obliviously spinning around on his chair; Frankie shakes his head]

Huh?

[paused; moreness annoyedling]

That's it. That's IT! You are OUT!

[shocked]

What?! [inflates; high pitched] Whaddya mean I'm "out"?!

You're fired! [pushes Sykes; Sykes screams and lands on a picture across the room] And on top of that, you're gonna have to start paying me!

[high pitched]

For what?

[ominously]

So nothing happens to that little Whale Wash of yours. [Cut to the Oscar and workers at the Whale Wash]

[while shoveled the slime off the whale's tongue]

Welcome to Oscar's crib. 60 foot slime-covered tongue with canker sores, swim-in cavities and plankton-encrusted teeth for when I feel a little… [exasperated] old school!

Ah, stop your moaning, Oscar! It could be a lot worse, you know?

Yeah, that's true. I could have this job, and look like you! [laughs; sudden rumbling] Indigestion... SHE'S GONNA BLOW! [Workers start scattering]

Knuckles

Wait! Headphone Guy's still in there. [Headphone Guy is cleaning the whale, oblivious to the rumbling]

[yelling]

I GOT YOU, HEADPHONE GUY! [he and Headphone Guy brace themselves on the whale's uvula. The scrubbers peak when...the whale let us out a small belch, sending some slime onto Oscar. The workers laughs]

[groans as he rubs the slime off him]

Still think it could be worse?

Yeah! I could look like you!

Haha! Ya'll funny. Well, see if you laugh at THIS! [throws slimeball at Pontrelli, who ducks with a laughs, and it hits in splat instructor Johnson, causing him to stagger around and accidentally hits a button that sprays soap in the whale's eye, causing the whale to screams in pain and anogy]

Ohh! Ohh! My eye! OHH!!

SOAP IN THE EYE, SOAP IN THE EYE! [Flips the emergency; the grabbers grab the screams whale very tightly; quickly cleans the whale's eye] It's alright. I'ma get you some nice coupons, we gonna get you a free hot wax and all you like that? Alright, go ahead, Big Baby.

Thanks, Oscar.

Alright. [gets slapped on the back by Ernie and shocked, causing the bucket to land on his head]

Well, look who it is, Bernie.

Just the fish we're looking for.

Yeah. [Oscar struggles to remove the bucket]

The boss be needing to see you right now.

Right now.

[getting the bucket off]

Ernie, Bernie, my jellyfish brothers. Boo-ya-ka. Hey, what's up, man? Man, it's good to see y'all... Huh? What'd you say, Ang? Okay. Fellas, I'm gonna go ahead over there. [singing] But don't worry [beatboxes] About a thing 'Cause every little thing [Bernie and Ernie shakes the head no] Is gonna be all right... [gets slapped again]

That's not the way you sing that song, one. [Cut into the Oscar is tossed into Sykes' office and rolls into his desk]

Hey, Sykes! My brother from another mother. What the deezy, baby? [Oscar tries dapping Sykes up, who sighs annoyed at his antics] Show me dat. What's going down? Hey, baby, this is all gravy today. Now snap your fin... Snap it. You're not snapping it...

[pulls his hand back]

Oscar!

Hey, don't sweat it. A lot of white fish can't do it.

Oscar, would you just sit down, okay?

[Ernie and Bernie force him into a chair]

Thank you.

I've been going over my markers. You're into me for five grand. 5 G's, okay?

5 Gs? Man, you tripping, 5 Gs.

Oh, yeah? See if [throws unpaid loan documents at Oscar] this refreshes your memory.

[As he picks them back up into a pile and places them on Sykes' desk]

That's crazy, look at that. You wrote everything down so you wouldn't forget. This a perfect example of why you're in management, and I'm not. You go, boy.

Look, I have to start paying Don Lino protection, so everything you owe me, you owe him!

How you figure that?

Simple - the food chain! [pulls out chart] You see, on top there's Don Lino, there's me, and there's regular fish.

Oh, that's me!

No. There's plankton, there's single-celled amoebas.

And then me!

I'm getting there, I'm getting there. There's coral, there's rocks, there's whale poo, and then there's you.

That's messed up.

So if Don Lino's squeezing me... he's squeezing you!

What? [the chart suddenly pulls up, catching Sykes in the chin]

Easy, boss. Find a happy place.

Yeah, a happy place!

There is no happy place with him around! [agitated he puffs up; higher pitched] I'm SERIOUS!

AH! All right, look! Just give me another chance-! I-I'm begging you, Sykes please! Please!

[high-pitched]

All right. [deflates; normally] Because I "like" you, I'm gonna give you 24 hours to pay up.

All of it? How am I supposed to do that?

That's your problem. Bring me 5,000 clams to the racetrack tomorrow, or else.

Or else what?

The boys will explain. [exits his office]

[Ernie and Bernie approach Oscar while grinning and laughing in a threatening manner; cut to black as they sting him as a warning] [off-screen and strained]

Unpleasant.

Shark
[Meanwhile the Sharks mourn the loss of Frankie.]

Nomine Patri, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

[singing]

I could fly higher than an eagle... If you are the wind beneath my wings [coughs] Frankie, we'll miss you.

All

To Frankie.

Giuseppe

It's a terrible thing, Don Lino. Everybody loved Frankie. May whoever did this die a thousand deaths. May his stinking, maggot-covered corpse rot in the fiery depths of hell!

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Giuseppe.

Giuseppe

Oh, and may Lenny be found safe and sound too. Hope he's okay.

Oh, Lenny...

Luca

Don't worry, Boss.

I said some things to him... We gotta find him.

Luca

We're searching everywhere. Forget about it, he'll turn up.

What's wrong with that kid? Why's he gotta be so different? Frankie, God rest his soul, he was perfect. Perfect. [Lenny, who has been eavesdropping outside of the window leaves with a muffled sobs] Oh... Luca. Who could have done this?

Don Lino, at this most difficult time, please accept my deepest condolences.

Thank you, Don Feinberg, for honoring my son with your song.

I got some news, about the guy who took out Frankie. [he passes gas and the bubble knocks out an orca standing behind him]

Let's... Yeah, let's talk over here. [They swim to the window]

He come out of nowhere, this guy. Calls himself... [turns around with a flourish] The Sharkslayer!

[behind him tapping his shoulder]

Ira, over here...

[turns to face Lino, makes the flourish again]

Sorry. The Sharkslayer!

Where do I find him?

He lives on the South Side. That's all we could dig up. [to the other sharks] Any other requests?

Hey, Luca.

[off-screen]

How about that Titanic song?

Other Sharks
[off-screen; groaning]

Oh, please no! Not again!

[to Luca; getting more and more vengeful as he speaks]

Get Sykes. He knows that Reef better than anybody. I want to know all about this guy. I want to know what he does. I want to know where he eats. I want to know where he sleeps. He pops a gill, I want to know about it. Who is the Sharkslayer?

[Sykes is talking to Lino over the phone]

Sykes.

Hey, Oscar.

Oh! Hey, Sykes.

[to Oscar]

Hey, hey, hey. There he is, my brother, my player, the Sharkslayer!

Yeah, whatever, Sykes, listen...

[to Lino over the phone]

Oh, and another thing: from now on, you're gonna have to start paying ME protection!

Sykes, the deal is off. That shark I killed was Don Lino's son.

I know! Ain't it great?

Not if he finds out!

What do you mean, "find out"? I've got him on the phone right now! [Oscar's eyes widen in fear] That's right, Lino. I've got the Sharkslayer right here in front of me.

[throat gesture while shaking his head]

Mm-mm! Mm-mm!

[over the phone]

And he's gonna slay you, and all your sharks.

Sykes, shut up! SHUT... UP!

Hey, hey, that's good. That's good, I like that! Shut up, Lino! Ha! SHUT UP! [Oscar groans] What? Oh, kid, he wants to talk to you.

[whispers]

No. I'm not here. I'm not here!

Yeah, he's right here. [hands Oscar the phone]

[quiet high-pitched voice]

Hello?

[furious]

"Shut up"? "Shut up"?! You don't tell ME "shut up", I tell YOU "shut up"! [As he talks, beeping is heard on the other side of the phone] What? Hello?

Luca

Yeah, how ya doing? Lemme have a pie with everything on it. Anchovies, meatballs, mushrooms-

[startled and annoyed]

Luca?

Luca

Oh, hi, Boss. What are you doing working at a pizza joint?

[enraged]

GET OFF THE PHONE!!!

Luca

But I'm hungry! [reluctantly hangs up]

[shakes his head in frustration, then returns his attention to Oscar]

My guys are coming for you, Sharkslayer! They're gonna tear you FIN FROM FIN! [slams the phone down in a rage, leaves Oscar frozen with horror]

[still oblivious to Oscar]

Come on, now who's your puff daddy, huh? Who takes care of you, huh? Huh? [turns to Ernie and Bernie play the Sharkslayer video game] Come on, you two. We've got work to do. [turns off the TV]

Aww! Mon, I was winning!

[unsuccessfully tries to get Sykes' attention as the latter makes his way to the elevator]

Sykes, Sykes, hold - Look, you've got it all wrong!

They're gonna write songs about you, kid. [sings] Oh, the shark bites...

Sykes!

With his teeth, dear.

Sykes, please!

And then Oscar...

Sykes!

Kicked his butt. [The elevator closes in Oscar's face]

Sykes! Sykes, man! [attempts to open the elevator] Come on!

Maybe I can help.

Ooh. Hey, Lola, what are you doing here? Just.. you're popping out sometimes places.

Well, you said to wait, so... I've been waiting. [Music plays "Can't Wait" by Avant]

Look, I don't have a lot of time for the hand-clappy making-the-lights-go-off music-playing-in-the-dark thing.

What are you afraid of?

Afraid... [laughs] Yeah, that's funny. I ain't afraid of nothing, it's just... Ooh.

Oh, baby, you are so tense.

Yeah, I've been stressed lately, you know, protecting the reef. I do that by myself, you know. It's just crazy.

It's too much, it's piling up...

Yeah, you know, one thing on top of the other. Actually, I was thinking about retiring.

You don't want to do that.

I don't?

You have worked your way to the top. You don't want to go back to the bottom, do you?

No. No way.

You just show 'em who's boss and those sharks will leave you alone.

Yeah, you're right. Lenny.

Luca

This reef is huge. How we supposed to find the Sharkslayer? [the sharks hearing Lenny screams.]

[Oscar seeing Luca with the Sharks, he grabbing the Lenny's tail]

This is it, Lenny. Big finish. Just like we practiced.

The flying fish?

The flying fish.

[he grabbing in heavily at Lenny]

A little help here, buddy boy.

Sorry.

Thank you. [Lenny standing up, but Oscar starts spinning around, and throws at the TV screen on the building, screams in slow motion, falling down.]

CURSE YOU, SHARKSLAYEEEERER!!! [Lenny falls in the mist, screams then banging the pipe door and Lenny snorts, makes crashing sound] Ow!

Don
[off-screen]

Oscar, you fool! You Lenny defeat and gonna get you!

NO, I'M NOT FOOL!!!! Yeah. And you tells Don LAME-O's it be dangerous that I don't never, ever, ever, ever, OR NEVER *AGAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN* AND I DO YOU WANT TO SEE ANOTHER SHARKS IN THIS REEF AGAIN!!! EVERS! [they swim away in fears] Remember this name: OSCAR THE SHARKSLAYER! [The crowd cheers]

You see? You see? [crowd chants, Lenny swims through the pipe.] Oscar! Oscar!

Crowd

# Oscar, boom bye-ay # Oscar, boom bye-ay

Look at Oscar. # Oscar, boom bye-ay #Oscar, boom bye-ay Woo! Hey... Lola. [Lola kissing Oscar.]

Seems The Sharkslayer not only conquered a few sharks today, but maybe a few hearts? Has the reef's most eligible bachelor been snapped up? I'm Katie Current, here live, watching the Sharkslayer makin' out.

[At the dining table room with all the sharks, Lenny disguised as dolphin and Oscar, gulps in nervous, Sykes breathing in nervous, Oscar clear throat, he trying to get the mug on the plate, hammerhead gasps in shocked, he turns around at the killer whales, he growls with the crawls, but the one orca faints on the floor.]

Will you stop screwing around? This'll never work. We're dead. We're dead!

Thank you, Sykes. Thank you. My man Sykes just begged me not to murder-lise all y'all up in here, all right. Now, I might listen to him, but then again I might not. And that depends on the individual behavior of all the individuals in here, individually. Ain't that right?

Hammerhead #1

Look, he's got dolphin muscle.

Hammerhead #2

My uncle Vito got whacked by one of those.

All right. Now which one of you sardines called this meeting?

[enters]

That would be me. So, this is the Sharkslayer. I've been looking forward to meeting you. I feel like we're practically family. You know that? Funny, ain't it? I brought my kids into the world, full of love and care, and you took them out. You know who I am? Do you know who I am? I'm the Don. The boss of the Great White Sharks.

Luca

Hey, Boss, I saved you a seat.

I've been running this reef since before you was born. And if you thought a guy like me can't get to a guy like you... Guess what? You thought wrong. [He lifted up the cover to reveal the gagged Angie.]

Pfft! Man, you the one who's wrong. I barely even know that girl. What's your name, miss?

[muffled]

ANGIE!

Oh, yeah? Well, I say he's bluffing.

Shark

Marone, if I wasn't married.

How ya doing, pretty lady?

Lola. We meet again.

You know, Sharkslayer, there's only one thing I like better than money. Revenge.

Shark

Oh! I'm in love.

Your sharkslaying days are over. And there ain't nothing you can do about it. [Oscar laughs. Lenny and Sykes laugh]

Huh? What's so funny?

Luca

Ow.

You got nothing. Nothing! Sebastian, take her out. [As commanded, Lenny swoops down and "eats" Angie. Oscar hums U Can't Touch This]
Can't touch this.
Can't touch this.
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Stop. Oscar time. [After Lenny "eats" Angie] Okay, new rules. Nobody, I repeat, nobody, makes a move without my OK. I am the Panama Canal, baby. From now on, everything [places a spoon on Giuseppe's nose] flows through me.

Giuseppe

Heh?! What'd he do?! What'd he do?! I can't see it!

You don't lose a tooth, you don't grow one back without my okay, okay?

[nervously]

Okay. [The swordfish sneezes, stuck to the table]

If you sneeze, you don't wipe that boogie without my okay, okay?

Orca
[scared]

Okay.

And you don't say "okay" without my okay! Okay?! [one of the orcas faints, Lenny starts gagging]

Uh-Oh. Okay, thank you all for coming. We gotta go.

Oh, and one more thing. What is with all y'all living in the Love Boat?

Oscar...

Y'all are supposed to be the mob. Get yourselves a real hideout.

[gagging]

Oscar?

[to Lino]

And take a good look, Lino. It's over. You're old school...!

Sykes and Lenny

Oscar!

What?! [Lenny makes a last gag and retches out Angie, a violin, a sidewalk sweeper, a radio box and a Louisiana's car license plate]

The horror! THE HORROR! [one of the sharks eats the Louisiana's license plate; retches out a beach ball]

[chuckles]

Um, excuse me. [swims over to Angie] Ang, are you okay?

No, I am not okay! He ate me!

I couldn't take it. The taste was killin' me!

[sees Lenny]

Lenny? Is that you? You're alive? [hugs Lenny] I thought I lost you. [noticed his disguise] What are you wearing? Huh? What is that? [Dejected, Lenny takes off his black and yellow scarf, then scrubs his nose with his sponge and takes off the red rubber band. The sharks gasps in assortment]

Luca

Hey, Boss, it's Lenny, he was wearing a disguise so we couldn’t recognize him, but now he's not wearing a disguise, so we do recognizing him.

[still dejected]

Hi, Pop...

[upset; Lenny turns blue]

Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me, are you out of your mind?! Do you have any idea how this looks?!

Giuseppe
[whispers to another shark]

This is the best sit down I ever been to.

What are you doing with this guy?! He took out your own flesh and blood, Frankie!

But Pop, just listen...

But nothing! You never take sides against the family! Ever?!

Hey, Don Lino, sir. Listen, it's not his fault. This is between you and me.

What did I ever do to YOU?! You took Frankie away, and you turned Lenny into a dolphin! [turns furiously] I'M GONNA GET YOU! [Oscar shrieks, Don Lino starts chasing him]

Oscar, look out!!!

Oscar, swim! [opens the door] Swim for your life! [Don Lino gets wedged in a porthole while chasing Oscar]

[calling after Oscar]

You're gonna regret the day you became the Sharkslayer!

[appears in another porthole]

Well, well, well...look who's stuck in the porthole.

Huh?

You still hungry, big guy? Well, say hello to my little friends! [A bunch of shrimps appear and attack Lino]

Try again.

Hello, Sykes' Whale Wash; And the price... [sees Don Lino chasing Oscar; alarmed] OH MY GOSH!

All right. [not knowing] Hey, you got it right! [suddenly sees Don Lino also. They swim away in fear]

Come on, everyone's waiting, Mr. Manager.

All right, I just gotta put the finishing touch on my new desk. Love ya, Pop.

Yo, dog.

Sykes.

All right, partner, let's see what you can do.

Sykes and Oscar's Whale Wash is now open for business.

[crowd cheering] [Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott: "Car Wash"]

Yo, E, B. Let's get this party bumping.

Yo, yo. It's E and B on the wheels of steel.

Yo, Christina. Missy. How about we have a little Oscar-licious fun? Don't try this at home. Warm it up. I be warming it up. Okay, Jimbo, let it go!

Hey, Angie, sorry Pop and I are late, but we brought some new customers.

Luca

Hey, how ya doing?

Wow.

OK, guys, come on in.

Come on, snap your fin. Snap it. You're not snapping it.

I'm snapping it, I'm snapping it!

That's okay, a lot of great whites can't do it, yo.

Yo?

Yo, what's up?

What's up with what?

Yo-yo-yo, yo-yo-yo, yo-yo-yo-yo...

[threatening]

Hey, you say "Yo" one more time, and I'm gonna yo you!

[stops]

I'm sorry.

OK, dude, I pimped your hide.

Shark

All right.

Check me out.

Orca

Hey. You think this is funny? What am I, a clown to you?

Keep up with me. Don't let me lose ya. You know I'll lose ya.

In your face.

What you got?

You don't want none of this.

You gotta be kidding. Break it down, fellas. You got served.

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