Resolved: 1984 was the best year for American movies, ever

EW lists a bunch of movies from 1984 and includes a lot of embedded video clips, but they left out the awesomest:



Joe Morton and Fisher Stevens in The Brother from Another Planet, John Sayles. I was going to link to the trailer, but the trailer is really, really bad. This scene, though, I can watch over and over again.

You wanna see a card trick? Really, it's a story.

Is the card trick guy really going to just tell a story? Isn't he going to hustle him for money at some point? When are we going to pull back and see the card trick guy's reinforcers move in for the hustle? You know something bad is going to happen from the camera work, too: the light is muted and cold, but most of the rest of the film doesn't look like that.

Not this time, sucker; I got a straight flush.

This is New York City in 1984, in the pre-Giuliani subway, and it's not going to end badly? Look at the alarm and relief on the Brother's face when the story ends (2:35). He wasn't sure, either.

I have another magic trick for ya. Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?