Old Consigliere Quotes in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Sonny Valerio: What the fuck is his name?

Louie: Ghost Dog.

Sonny Valerio: What?

Louie: Ghost Dog.

Sonny Valerio: Ghost Dog?

Old Consigliere: He said Ghost Dog!

Louie: Yeah. He calls himself Ghost Dog. I don't know, a lot of these Black guys today, these gangster-type guys, they make up names like that.

Ray Vargo: Is that true?

Sonny Valerio: Sure. He means like the rappers, you know, All the rappers, they got names like that: Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube, Q-Tip, Method Man. My favorite was always Flavor Flav from Public Enemy. You got the funky fresh fly flavor.

[rhymes hip-hop verse]

Ray Vargo: I don't know about that, but it makes me think of Indians. They got name like, uhh, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Running Bear, Black Elk.

[makes elk noise]

Sonny Valerio: Yeah. That kind of shit.

Old Consigliere: Yeah. Indians, Niggers, Same thing.

[Ghost Dog storms in and aims his guns at Vargo and his Consigliere]

Old Consigliere: JESUS, IT'S THE FUCKING BIRD MAN!

[has heart attack and dies instead of getting shot]

[Deleted scene; accountant exits after sharing some bad news]

Ray Vargo: [stunned] Is he gay?

Sonny Valerio: He drives a Porsche...

[pause]

Old Consigliere: He's gay!

Louie: It's a pigeon. It must be a carrier pigeon or whatever.

Old Consigliere: Passenger pigeon! They've been extinct since 1914!

Sonny Valerio: Am I fucking dreaming here or what? All right, Louie, forget about the bird, okay?