"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Monday, October 14, 2013
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"Deserves" got nothin' to do with it.
Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
3 comments:
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That line and the derivative (studied, of course) but fantastic original screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. So many wonderful lines, scenes and performances, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris... Another favorite (and useful) line: "You stay away from folks you see... be a lot of 'em out to hang you."
Excellent film--another of my favorite one-liners, in the same vein, is when Little Bill (played by Gene Hackman) is informed that the man whom he's just beaten insensible is innocent: "Innocent? Innocent of what?"
I first watched Unforgiven for a law school class that was ostensibly on medieval Icelandic law, but was really just a literature class on the sagas. I think Unforgiven was on the syllabus as an illustration of the contrast between heroism and pragmatism in a rough pioneer society that is rapidly civilizing, but also I think just because it was the professor's favorite movie.
That's my favorite line from one of my favorite movies. I caught the second half of it on one of the movie channels the other night and couldn't resist putting it up.
That's a good shoot out scene, too. The only one better I have seen in recent westerns is the climactic shoot out in "Open Range"
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That line and the derivative (studied, of course) but fantastic original screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. So many wonderful lines, scenes and performances, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris... Another favorite (and useful) line: "You stay away from folks you see... be a lot of 'em out to hang you."
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Excellent film--another of my favorite one-liners, in the same vein, is when Little Bill (played by Gene Hackman) is informed that the man whom he's just beaten insensible is innocent: "Innocent? Innocent of what?"
I first watched Unforgiven for a law school class that was ostensibly on medieval Icelandic law, but was really just a literature class on the sagas. I think Unforgiven was on the syllabus as an illustration of the contrast between heroism and pragmatism in a rough pioneer society that is rapidly civilizing, but also I think just because it was the professor's favorite movie.
Proclus
That's my favorite line from one of my favorite movies. I caught the second half of it on one of the movie channels the other night and couldn't resist putting it up.
That's a good shoot out scene, too. The only one better I have seen in recent westerns is the climactic shoot out in "Open Range"
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