'Do you think I need to lose some weight?'

I always thought it was just a remark on his swindling of money.
Money buys food. Excess money busy excess food, excess food makes you overweight? I always considered it a slight backhand to Felsen because he got hustled.

I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told.

It has to do with the whole "character" thing. If you remember the scene when they are in the fine dining restaurant and Eddie tells Vince "you have natural character, you're a total flake... people spend half their lives to perfect something like that" and "when you walk in a pool hall people will be climbing over each other to get a piece of you".

Well if you recall Amos kept talking about crazy things, giving off the impression he was off kilter, saying he was used as a psychological science experiment, etc etc. That last line about "do you think I should lose some weight" wasn't so much an insult but more a tell - Amos was tipping his hand that what you saw was a character built by Amos and he used it to fleece Eddie. Eddie was the mark. Amos was telling Eddie he suckered him, that Eddie fell for the 'character' Amos built and got taken down. Eddie learned from it (asking himself how he could fall for it, a little too cocky, a little too much booze etc) and sought to change himself.

He was a flake just like Tom cruise was a flake. Newman wanted a flake that could be controled. But could not see that in the guy he lost to a little irony there no?

here is the answer to this.

Eddie was asking him 'are you hustling me Amos?'

him saying 'do you think I need to lose weight?' being the answer we would all say is 'yes'

That is the answer to the question eddie was asking him. he answered eddie's question by asking one of his own, which reveals the answer.

I think he was referring to the hustle character he had developed: A fat, non-threatening, sort of crazy-talking kid, whom no one would ever suspect of being a hustler.

In the end he sarcastically asks Eddie's advice: Would the hustle work better if he lost some weight? The answer is obviously no, since it worked so well on Eddie.


"Push the button, Max!"

Brilliant line, one professional to another, off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush.

It has to do with Whitaker being fat was one of the reasons Paul Newman didnt suspect him as a huslter. Plain and simple.

Whitaker just points it out.


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I think it was because Forest Whitaker was / is fat.