MY COUSIN VINNY -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Right now i am at Chennai doing a 2 week re validation course , for my Master's certificate of competency.

I stay at Breeze hotel which is at a walking distance from the college-- a good one ( expensive too ).

While down on the massage chair at the gym, i saw some scenes of the Hollywood movie " My cousin Vinny ".  ( This chair gives a lovely lower back knead -- this pain has pleasure in it! .   This gym also has 20 kilo dumbbells , which i prefer - reason for my obscene biceps )

This is my most favourite movie. It is a hilarious low budget movie which is worth seeing again and again.  Joe Pesci and Marisa Thomei were outstanding.

When i first saw this priceless movie , it made a deep impression on me, which in a way has moulded my character.

Two young New Yorker boys are charged with man slaughter in hilly billy rural Ala- fuckin' -Bama  -- for a crime they never did.  Joe Pesci , who has never contested a case , is a lawyer related to one of the boys.  He meets them in jail and asked them " Did you kill the store clerk?".

When the boys said NO!--he tells them ( to this effect ) .

" -- if you have not done the crime, then the prosecution will try to show that you did it.  Their case is like a building which they will try to show the judge and jury as real and solid -- while actually it is just a facade . I am smart enough to expose the illusion from the right angle and perspective "

This is the meaning of wisdom, ladies and gentlemen!

Think about it!

ONE OF THE PRICELESS DIALOGUES--

Vinny Gambini [to the jury] Hey, how ya doin'? 
[to witness] 
Vinny Gambini: Mr. Crane, what are these pictures of? 
Ernie Crane: My house and stuff. 
Vinny Gambini: House and stuff. And what is this brown stuff on your window. 
Ernie Crane: Dirt. 
Vinny Gambini: Dirt. And what is this rusty, dusty, dirty looking thing that's covering your window? 
Ernie Crane: That's a screen. 
Vinny Gambini: A screen! It's a screen. And what are these really big things that are right in the middle of your view of the Sac-o-Suds and your kitchen window, what do we call these big things? 
Ernie Crane: Trees? 
Vinny Gambini: Trees, that's right, don't be afraid just shout 'em right out when you know 'em. And what are these thousands of little things that are on trees? 
Ernie Crane: Leaves. 
Vinny Gambini: And these big bushy things between the trees. 
Ernie Crane: Bushes. 
Vinny Gambini: Bushes. So, Mr. Crane, you can positively identify the defendants, for a moment of 2 seconds, looking through this dirty window, this crud covered screen, all of these trees, with all of these leaves on them, and I don't know how many bushes. 
Ernie Crane: Looks like five. 
Vinny Gambini: Uh, uh, uh, don't forget, this one and this one. 
Ernie Crane: Seven bushes! 
Vinny Gambini: Seven bushes. So, what do you think? Isn't possible you just saw two guys in a green convertable and not necessarily these two particular guys? 
Ernie Crane: I suppose. 
Vinny Gambini: I'm finished with this guy. 

-  here's another one--

Vinny Gambini: I understand you played a game of pool with Lisa for $200, which she won. I'm here to collect. 
J.T.: How 'bout if I just kick your ass? 
Vinny Gambini: Oh, a counter-offer. That's what we lawyers - I'm a lawyer - we lawyers call that a counter-offer. This is a tough decision here. Get my ass kicked or collect $200. Let me think... I could use a good ass-kickin', I'll be very honest with you... nah, I think I'll just go with the two hundred. 
J.T.: Over my dead body. 
Vinny Gambini: You like to renegotiate as you go along, don't you? Well here's my counter-offer... do I have to kill you? What if I were just to kick the ever loving shit out of you? 
J.T.: In your dreams. 
Vinny Gambini: Oh no no... in reality. If I was to kick the shit out of you, do I get the money? 
J.T.: You kick the shit, out of me. 
Vinny Gambini: Yeah. 
J.T.: Yeah. you get the money. 
Vinny Gambini: So, here are my options. Option A: I get my ass kicked or Option B: I kick your ass and collect the 200. I think I'm gonna go with Option B: Kickin' your ass and collecting $200. 
[Takes off his jacket] 
J.T.: We're gonna fight now? 
Vinny Gambini: Yeah. But first, show me the money. 
J.T.: I have it. 
Vinny Gambini: You have it, then show it to me. 
J.T.: [pause] I can get it. 
Vinny Gambini: You can get it? Okay, get it. Then we'll fight. 
[Takes his jacket from Lisa] 

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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