Sorry To Bother You: The 10 Wildest Scenes, Ranked

Starring Lakeith Stanfield as a telemarketer, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You is full of disturbing yet hilariously dark moments you won’t forget.

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Boots Riley’s satirical masterpiece Sorry to Bother You is one of the most fiercely original movies in recent memory, expertly blending an absurd heightened reality with eye-opening social commentary. Lakeith Stanfield stars as a telemarketer who becomes successful by affecting a Caucasian accent, rises through the corporate ranks, and uncovers a disturbing conspiracy.

As a whole, the movie is an indictment of economic imbalance as a workers’ union fights for a living wage and an eccentric celebrity CEO tries to bring back slavery, but it touches on plenty of other facets of our society and culture along the way. It’s a very surreal movie filled with unforgettable moments.

10 White Voice

What kicks off Sorry to Bother You is Cassius “Cash” Green getting a job as a telemarketer and initially struggling to find success at it. An older co-worker named Langston, played by Danny Glover, becomes a sort of mentor figure.

He tells Cash to use his “white voice” when he’s talking to customers. This is based on director Boots Riley’s own experiences as a telemarketer, as he had to affect a different accent to make sales. Cash’s white voice is David Cross and Langston’s, although it sounds eerily like Steve Buscemi, is temp engineer Ryan Coursey, who happened to be on the set that day.

9 The Power Caller Suite

After rising through the ranks of RegalView, Cash is promoted to the position of Power Caller and invited up to the Power Caller suite, where he’s greeted by Mr. _______, who tells him to always use his white voice when he’s in there.

Cash’s surreal introduction to the Power Caller suite is ripped straight from a David Lynch film. There, Cash learns that RegalView is selling weapons and slave labor for WorryFree.

8 Cash Becomes A Meme

When Cash is crossing the picket line to go into work, he’s booed and taunted by all the picketers because he’s choosing the company over their wellbeing. One of the picketers throws a soda can at his head, leaving an injury that remains for the rest of the movie.

But this injury doesn’t make him more sympathetic in the public eye. Instead, he quickly becomes a meme, known across America for getting hit in the head with a soda can.

7 Horse People!

Somewhere around the middle of the movie, Cash attends a party at WorryFree CEO Steve Lift’s mansion and gets invited into Lift’s office. Lift gives him some cocaine and tells him he has something important to tell him, but Cash asks to use the bathroom first.

He goes through the wrong door and finds a half-human half-horse hybrid chained to the wall, begging him for help. This is usually the moment that Sorry to Bother You sears itself into the viewer’s memory.

6 Equisapiens Explained

When Lift finds Cash in the room with all the horse people, he tells him to calm down and assures him that if he’d waited for his presentation back in his office, the horse people wouldn’t have freaked him out.

So, Cash watches Lift’s video presentation, which explains that WorryFree has been turning people into humanoid horses in the hopes of creating the perfect laborers.

5 I Got The S*** Kicked Out Of Me

Early in Sorry to Bother You, Riley plants a fictional reality show whose title sums up the shameful trajectory of the television landscape: I Got the Sh*t Kicked Out of Me. It’s exactly what it sounds like. The movie actually makes an interesting parallel between exploiting people for entertainment and exploiting people for cheap labor.

This plant is paid off brilliantly later in the movie when Cash has a video of the equisapiens and goes on the show in order to expose it.

4 No One Cares About The Equisapiens

In a desperate bid to overpower the powerful and expose the diabolical schemes of Steve Lift to the world, Cash endures relentless humiliation on I Got the Sh*t Kicked Out of Me just to get a video played that will expose the equisapiens to the world.

Unfortunately, no one cares. The equisapiens are praised as a scientific breakthrough and WorryFree’s stock goes through the roof. The sad thing is, this is probably exactly what would happen.

3 The Equisapiens Turn The Tables On The Cops

Cash realigns with his friends by the end of the movie and returns to help the RegalView union end their strike once and for all. However, during a riot at the picket line, he’s knocked unconscious by the police.

When he regains consciousness, he’s locked up, fearing it’s all over. But then, he looks through the bars and sees the equisapiens overpowering the cops. They promptly free him.

2 Cash Transforms Into A Horse

When Cash finds out that people turn into equisapiens by snorting a strange powder, he’s paranoid that the cocaine Lift gave him was actually the equisapien powder. Lift assures him he wouldn’t give it to him without his permission.

However, in the final scene of the movie, after Cash has reunited with Detroit and a happy ending seems right around the corner, he suddenly grows horse nostrils.

1 Cash Leads An Equisapien Army To Steve Lift’s House

After turning into an equisapien, Cash rounds up a small army of equisapiens and heads to Steve Lift’s house. Lift sits at home, terrified, as his Frankenstein-esque creations break down his door and come charging into his house.

Having said everything he wanted to say about capitalism in the movie itself, Riley added a pre-credits stinger to give the audience some catharsis with Lift finally getting his comeuppance.

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