Not that most of the ladies in this category have been short - listed for playing saints, but the squawking Ryan's potty mouth reigns supreme in Gone Baby Gone: The calculated one - liners meant to
elicit audience sympathy for Boston's lower class («I don't got no daycare» — essentially a variation of Amy «I got one leg» Poehler's Amber from SNL) are trumped by nasties like «Why don't you suck a nigger's dick, Bea,» «It smells like cock,» «Nigger please, I hid it,» «Fucks yous both,» and my personal favorite, «Who's the faggot now, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.»
It's an entire cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness» held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he
elicits the
audience's
sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.