{"id":11142,"date":"2014-03-01T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=11142"},"modified":"2014-03-01T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:41:01","slug":"ive-heard-about-you-shane-the-zephyrs-favorite-cowboy-movie-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/ive-heard-about-you-shane-the-zephyrs-favorite-cowboy-movie-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’VE HEARD ABOUT YOU SHANE.’—The Zephyr’s Favorite Cowboy Movie Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was raised on matinees, on Saturday afternoons.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lookin\u2019 up at Hoppy, Gene and Roy…oh boy!<\/em><\/p>\n

And I was raised believin\u2019, the best a man can do<\/em><\/p>\n

Is a be rootin\u2019-tootin\u2019, straight shootin\u2019 cowboy buckaroo<\/em><\/p>\n

—–Mason Williams & the Sons of the Pioneers<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it was for me. As a little kid, I grew up in a neighborhood where there weren\u2019t many other children. Billy Springstead was, at seven, four years older than me and didn\u2019t really want to be seen “with a little kid.” So I learned to entertain myself. On Saturdays I was glued to the television, and eagerly awaited one Cinema Cowboy hero after another. Later I\u2019d go out on the sidewalk and re-enact the episodes I\u2019d just watched. I even did my own Western background music, the lavish orchestrals that always accompanied a good horse opera. Oddly enough, all these years and decades later, my favorite musical genre is…you guessed it..the soundtracks to great Westerns. I\u2019ve run off more than one girlfriend, simply because I refused to remove my “Lonesome Dove” CD from the car stereo. I need my own soundtrack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also love the great laconic dialogue that comes from a good Western. And so I\u2019ve gathered here some of my favorite lines from my favorite Westerns. It\u2019s not a complete list, by any means\u2014I don\u2019t even think I have a Top 10 list here…maybe a Top 7? I\u2019m not a movie critic and am not about to bore you with critic-ese about the fabric and texture of a film. I simply know what I like and these are the films that sustain me when I need a good jolt of Cinema West.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, in no particular order, here are the great Western movie lines I love the most…JS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"220px-Shootist_movie_poster\"<\/a>THE SHOOTIST (1976)<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Wayne(JB Books) Lauren Bacall (Mrs Rogers) Ron Howard (Gilliam Rogers) James Stewart (Doc Hostetler)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by Miles Hood Swarthhout & Scott Hale from the novel by Glendon Swathhout<\/em><\/p>\n

Music by Elmer Bernstein<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s dangerous for an environmentalist\/sometime liberal to say anything kind about John Wayne. Especially these days. But the Duke deserves kudos for “The Shootist,” his last film. Ironically, it\u2019s about an aging gunfighter, riddled with cancer, who comes to Carson City, Nevada to live out his last days. John Wayne actually succeeds in acting humble in this film. The fact that he died of cancer, three years later, makes “The Shootist” that much more poignant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“His name was J.B Books and he had a pair of ivory-handled pistols that were a sight to behold. But he wasn\u2019t an outlaw. For a while he was a lawman…The wild country had taught him to survive. He lived his life unherded, by himself. And he had a credo…<\/p>\n

“I won\u2019t be wronged. I won\u2019t be insulted and I won\u2019t be laid a hand on. I don\u2019t do these things to others and I require the same from them.”<\/p>\n

James Stewart (as Dr Hostetler) offers Books an alternative to the agonizing death by cancer that he faces…<\/em><\/p>\n

“There\u2019s one more thing I\u2019d say. Both of us have had a lot to do with Death. I\u2019m not a brave man but you must be…I would not die the death I described if I had your courage.”<\/p>\n

“Every young man feels the need to let the badger loose now and then.”<\/p>\n

Sheriff Tibidoh offers this advice to Books…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Books, this is 19-ought-one. The old days are gone and you don\u2019t know it. We got a waterworks and we\u2019ll have our street car electrified by next year. And we\u2019ve started to pave the streets. Oh we\u2019ve still got some weedin\u2019 to do, but once we get rid of people like you, we\u2019ll have a goddamn Garden of Eden here…You plain outlived your time.”<\/p>\n

“A man\u2019s emotions gets him all tangled up sometimes. I been operatin\u2019 on the raw edge Gilliam…Guess I jumped too far, too fast.”<\/p>\n

Conversation between young Gilliam and Books on being a Shootist..<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gilliam: “Bat Masterson said a man has to have guts, deliberation and a proficiency with firearms.<\/p>\n

Books: “Did he mention that third eye you better have? You need it for that dumb ass amateur. It\u2019s usually some six-fingered buster who couldn\u2019t hit a cow on the tit with a tin cup that does you in. But then Bat Masterson always was full of sheep dip.”<\/p>\n

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\"oneeyedjacks-cover-smaller\"<\/a>ONE-EYED JACKS (1961)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marlon Brando (Rio) Karl Malden (Dad Longworth)<\/em><\/p>\n

My pal Judge Lewis Paisley introduced “One-Eyed Jacks” to me, just a few years ago. The Judge is a connoisseur of good cowboy dialogue and knew I could not resist Brando\u2019s over-the-top lines. And of course Brando could play it over the top\u2013this is the only film he ever directed and clearly, he decided to take it to the limit. You\u2019ve got to love a Western in which the leading actor can, with unheard of earnestness, call the Bad Guy, “A gob of spit.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My home is any place I throw my saddle down, I guess.”<\/p>\n

Rio tries to seduce a young woman…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I never did get much upbringin\u2019 as a kid and the manners I learned was in a saloon. Didn\u2019t have much chance to be around ladies like yourself…I\u2019m sorry Senora. Just hope you don\u2019t think too bad about me when I\u2019m gone….my mother give me this ring just before she died. It\u2019d mean a lot to me Senora if you\u2019d wear it for me. It\u2019d make me feel a whole lot better.”<\/p>\n

“Remember a little stick place just this side of San Felipe? Remember when you was drunk and you killed that lady\u2019s goat?<\/p>\n

Ben Johnson tries to interest Rio in a bank robbery..<\/em><\/p>\n

“How would you like to get rich, once and for all? You could stand a piece of change couldn\u2019t you? Fourteen days ride from here there\u2019s a town. And in that town is the fattest bank you ever saw. And it ain\u2019t nuthin\u2019 but a cheesebox…Word\u2019s goin\u2019 around you\u2019re lookin\u2019 for Dad Longworth…Hear there\u2019s dirt between yuh. Now if that\u2019s true, I can tell yuh where you can find him…You want me to keep talkin\u2019?<\/p>\n

“Now here\u2019s where the fun comes…it\u2019ll tickle you. The sheriff in that town is Dad Longworth. Now we gonna do some business?”<\/p>\n

Rio\u2019s expressive vocabulary…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You get up, you big tub o\u2019 guts!”<\/p>\n

“We took to scufflin\u2019 and he come out from behind there with that scattergun. Yeah…he didn\u2019t give me no selection.”<\/p>\n

“Get up you scum suckin\u2019 pig! I want you standin\u2019 when I open you up! Get on up! You got right on the edge…you mention her once more and I\u2019m goin\u2019 to tear yer arms out!”<\/p>\n

Dad Longworth to Rio…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rio, you\u2019ve been tryin\u2019 to get yourself hung for ten years and this time I think you\u2019re gonna make it.”<\/p>\n

Rio to Dad…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You\u2019re a one-eyed jack around here, Dad, but I\u2019ve seen the other side of yer face….know where I spent the last five years? Rottin\u2019 my guts out down in that pen in Sonoma…what do you think of that?”<\/p>\n

“You gob o\u2019 spit!”<\/p>\n

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\"220px-Misfits3423\"<\/a>THE MISFITS (1961)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clark Gable(Gaylord Langlan) Marilyn Monroe (Roslyn Tabor) Montgomery Clift (Pearce Howland ) Thelma Ritter (Isabelle Stears)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by Arthur Miller<\/em><\/p>\n

For Gable, Monroe and Clift, this was their last film of note. They would all be dead within three years of the release of “The Misfits.” Montgomery Clift was always a brilliant actor, so there\u2019s no surprise here that his performance is so memorable. But Gable usually played Gable and Marilyn played herself.. When you see these performances, you\u2019ve got to think they both knew this was their last chance to get it right. And they did. The screenplay was by Arthur Miller, one of MM\u2019s ex-husbands. He actually wrote the short story upon which the screenplay was based, in Reno, while waiting for his divorce. That of course is the theme upon which the film is constructed. But for me, it\u2019s the first film that acknowledges how rapidly the West was changing. It had seen a long period of rest, through the first half of the 20th Century. Now all that was changing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“I can smell a cowboy…I can smell the look in your face. But I love every miserable one of you…\u2019Course you\u2019re all good for nuthin\u2019.<\/p>\n

“That may be but it\u2019s better than wages.”<\/p>\n

Gay on Educated Women…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Oh..I like educated women alright. But they\u2019re always tryin\u2019 to figure out what we\u2019re thinkin\u2019….Did you ever get to know a man better by askin\u2019 him questions?”<\/p>\n

Roslyn asks Gay..<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“What do you do with yourself?<\/p>\n

“Just live.”<\/p>\n

“How do you just live?”<\/p>\n

“Well…you start by goin\u2019 to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of day it is. You throw stones at a can. You whistle.”<\/p>\n

Isabelle tells Rosalyn,<\/em><\/p>\n

“Cowboys are the last real men left in the world. And they\u2019re about as reliable as jack rabbits.”<\/p>\n

“Is anybody any different? Maybe you\u2019re not supposed to believe what people say…Maybe it\u2019s not even fair to them.”<\/p>\n

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Isabelle on Nevada…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Welcome to Nevada…the Leave it State…You got money you want to gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you wanna get rid of? Get rid of her here. Extra atom bombs you don\u2019t need? Blow it up here. Nobody\u2019s going to mind in the slightest. The slogan of Nevada is: Anything goes. But don\u2019t complain if it went.”<\/p>\n

“You know, sometimes when a person don\u2019t know what to do, the best thing to do is just stand still.”…..Gay<\/p>\n

“Ever hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this feler sitting on his porch and he says, \u2018Mister, can you tell me how to get back to town?\u2019 And the feller says, \u2018Nope.\u2019 So he says, “Can you tell me how to find the post office?\u2019 And the feller says, \u2018Nope.\u2019 \u2018Well can you tell me how to find the railroad station?\u2019 And he says, \u2018No.\u2019 So the city man says, \u2018Boy, you don\u2019t know much do you?\u2019 And the feller says, \u2018Nope…but I\u2019m not lost.\u2019”…Gay<\/p>\n

Guido to Roslyn on Life…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Knowin\u2019 things don\u2019t matter much. What you got Roslyn is a lot more important…You care. What happens to anybody happens to you. You\u2019re really hooked in to the whole thing, Roslyn…It\u2019s a gift.”<\/p>\n

“People say I\u2019m just nervous.”<\/p>\n

“If it weren\u2019t for nervous people in the world, we\u2019d still be eating each other.”<\/p>\n

Gay on Mustanging…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Nothing can live unless something dies. I herd these horses so I can keep myself free. So I\u2019m a free man. That\u2019s why you like me, isn\u2019t it? If it\u2019s bad, then maybe you have to take a little of the bad with the good. Or else you\u2019ll be running for the rest of your life.”<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t want nobody makin\u2019 up my mind for me, that\u2019s all. Damn \u2018em all. Changed it. They changed it all around. Smeared it all over with blood. I\u2019m finished with it. It\u2019s like ropin\u2019 a dream now. I jus\u2019 got to find another way to be alive, that\u2019s all…if there is one anymore…”<\/p>\n

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\"jeremiahjohnson\"<\/a>JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Redford (Jeremiah Johnson) Will Geer (Bear Claw Kris Lapp) Stefan Gierasch (Del Gue)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by John Milius & Edward Anhalt<\/em><\/p>\n

Music by John Rubinstein & Tim McIntire<\/em><\/p>\n

When this film was first released, I was absolutely obsessed with it. In the pre-VCR era, my only opportunity to satisfy my craving was to keep going to the theatre. I saw JJ more than 20 times. I finally carried a portable audio tape recorder with me and recorded the entire film on a cassette tape. I\u2019d listen to the tape almost every day. This was also in the days when I still lived in Kentucky, wanted only to be in Utah and kept my watch on Mountain Time, even though I lived in the East. Knowing that JJ was shot entirely on location in Utah added to its appeal. And years later, when I met Redford in Hanksville, Utah (see story on page 2), I was able to tell him just how much the film meant to me, while totally humiliating myself at the same time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“His name was Jeremiah Johnson and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. He was a big man of proper height and adventurous spirit, sited to the mountains. He was a young man and ghosty stories of the tall hills didn\u2019t scare him none. He was lookin\u2019 for a hawken gun, 50 calibre or better\u2014he settled on a 30, but it was a genuine Hawken. You couldn\u2019t go no better. Got himself a good horse and traps and other truck that went with bein\u2019 a mountain man and said goodbye to whatever life was down there below…<\/p>\n

“Just where is it I can find bear, beaver and other critters worth cash money when skinned?”<\/p>\n

“Ride due west as the sun sets…turn left at the Rocky Mountains.”<\/p>\n

Meeting Bear Claw…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I am Bear Claw Kris Lapp, blood kin to the grizzley that whupped Jim Bridger\u2019s ass. You are molesting my hunt!”<\/p>\n

On coming to the mountains…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Didn\u2019t like it down there eh?”<\/p>\n

“It ought to have been different.”<\/p>\n

“Is that so? Many a child journeys this high to be different, tryin\u2019 to get something from the mountains the Natures couldn\u2019t give him below. Comes to nuthin\u2019. Can\u2019t cheat the mountain Pilgrim…Mountain\u2019s got its own ways.”<\/p>\n

Meeting Del Gue, buried to his neck in sand…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Injuns put you here?”<\/p>\n

“Tweren\u2019t Mormons.”<\/p>\n

Gue\u2019s advice..<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“You turn down this gift and they\u2019ll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses, from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!”<\/p>\n

Reunion with Del Gue…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Where you headed, Del?”<\/p>\n

“Same place you are, Jeremiah…Hell in the end.”<\/p>\n

Farewell from Del…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Keep your nose to the wind…and your eyes along the skyline.”<\/p>\n

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\"lonelyposter\"<\/a>LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kirk Douglas (Jack Burns) Walter Matheau (The Sheriff) Gena Rowlands (Jeri Bondi)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the book “Brave Cowboy” by Edward Abbey<\/em><\/p>\n

Music by Jerry Goldsmith<\/em><\/p>\n

I was 10 years old when I first saw this film. I\u2019d never been out West, never heard of Ed Abbey, and had no inkling of the World out there that was changing so rapidly. But when the film ended, I was moved in ways I didn\u2019t think possible for a kid. It reached some visceral part of me that had not been aroused until then. Years later, when I was in college and my friends and I would gather to discuss film, and we\u2019d all want to impress each other with some obscure movie that no one else had heard of, I could always pull out “Lonely are the Brave,” as one of my Top 10 films of all time. It would be another few years before I\u2019d discover Ed Abbey and the fact that he had written the book upon which the film was made.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When I say \u2018hup,\u2019 you \u2018hup.\u2019 Pretty little fuzz tail. You\u2019ll learn. What you need is a little horse sense.”<\/p>\n

Jack to Jeri on being a Westerner…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Basically you\u2019re still an easterner…A Westerner likes open country so he has to hate fences and the more fences there are, the more he hates them…It\u2019s true. You ever notice how many fences there are getting to be? And the signs they got in \u2018em…No hunting. No fishing. Private property. Closed area. Get moving. Go away. Get lost. Drop dead…And they got those fences that say: \u2018This side\u2019s jail and that\u2019s the street.\u2019 Or \u2018here\u2019s Arizona and that\u2019s Nevada.\u2019 Or \u2018this is us and that\u2019s Mexico.\u2019<\/p>\n

“He just naturally didn\u2019t see the use of it so he acted like it wasn\u2019t there. So when people sneaked across, he helped them.”<\/p>\n

“Jack, the world you and Paul live in doesn\u2019t exist…maybe it never did. Out there is the real world and it has real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. If you don\u2019t go by the rules you lose…you lose everything.”<\/p>\n

“A fella can always keep something.”<\/p>\n

Jeri on Men…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Men are idiots. You\u2019re an idiot. Paul\u2019s an idiot…You\u2019re all idiots.”<\/p>\n

Jack on getting drunk…<\/em><\/p>\n

“About every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetens your breath, tones up your skin.”<\/p>\n

Bondi to Jack…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You\u2019re the only man alive who would break into jail, just to see an old friend off to the penitentiary.”<\/p>\n

Jack to Guiterez the jailer…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Take it easy…Temper like that and you\u2019ll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on, and no place to go but hell…Believe me buddy, you better watch it.”<\/p>\n

To Jeri as Jack prepares his escape after breaking jail…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t want a house. All those pots and pans. I didn\u2019t want anything but you, and it\u2019s God\u2019s own blessing that I didn\u2019t get you…I\u2019m a loner clear down to my very guts. And do you know what a loner is? He\u2019s a born cripple. The only person he can live with is himself. It\u2019s his life, the way he wants it. It\u2019s all about him. He\u2019d kill a woman like you…\u2019Cause he couldn\u2019t love you, not the way you are loved.<\/p>\n

“…If I got a big kiss, I could probably beat the sun to the top of that hill.”<\/p>\n

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\"Open-Range-2003-movie-poster\"<\/a>OPEN RANGE (2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Duvall (Boss) Kevin Costner (Charlie) Annette Benning (Sue)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by Craig Storper<\/em><\/p>\n

Music by Michael Kamen<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a new one, just released last year. It received mixed reviews from the critics and one of my friends insists that, because it used quick change stirrups and a nylon rope in one scene that “Open Range” is a failure as a Western. And others have complained that it moves too slowly to the point of being ponderous….I don\u2019t care; I still love this film. The slow and deliberate way “Open Range” moves forward toward its ultimate violent climax gives us more time to get to know the characters. They may not say a lot, but that tells you something about who they are. The scene in Sue\u2019s kitchen where neither Boss nor Charlie can get their fingers through the handle in the tea cup is one of the most tender scenes I\u2019ve ever seen in a cowboy movie. It\u2019s a film that deserves to be watched more than once. Much of the dialogue is subtle\u2013you need to hear it twice. I\u2019ve heard it about 38 times now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“A man\u2019s trust is a valuable thing, Button. You don\u2019t want to lose it over a handful of cards.”<\/p>\n

“Ol\u2019 Boss sure can cowboy.”<\/p>\n

“Yep…Broke the mld after him.”<\/p>\n

Boss takes on the Cattle Baron…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Cows is one thing. One man tellin\u2019 another where he can go in this country is somethin\u2019 else. That rancher sat in that jailhouse, sneerin\u2019 and lettin\u2019 his lawman llay down the law \u2018til he figured it was time to show us who gives the orders around here…sticks in my crawl.”<\/p>\n

A tender moment with Boss…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was married once…Never knew that did you Charlie? Had a wife and child. Sweet little spread too. Nothing fancy but we was young, loved each other…never had a cross word. They caught the Typhus and died and after that, home didn\u2019t seem a place to spend time…Believe I\u2019ve changed my mind on that, now that I\u2019m gettin\u2019 on in the years….If Button lives, and we survive Baxter, I am to see there\u2019s a home he\u2019s sleepin\u2019 in, instead of the cold prairie.”<\/p>\n

Boss at a graveside service…<\/em><\/p>\n

“If you wanna speak with the man upstairs, go on and do it. I\u2019ll stand here and listen, hat in hand. But I ain\u2019t talkin\u2019 to that son of a bitch.”<\/p>\n

Charlie\u2019s ghosts…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You may not know this but there things that gnaw at a man worse than dyin\u2019.<\/p>\n

“Men are going to get killed today, Sue, and I\u2019m going to kill them. Do you understand that?”<\/p>\n

Last words before the shoot out…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Boss, I ain\u2019t goin\u2019 to my Maker without knowin\u2019 your given name. Mine ain\u2019t \u2018Waite,\u2019 it\u2019s \u2018Postelwaite…Charles Travis Postelwaite.\u2019 What\u2019s yours?…It sure ain\u2019t boss…I mean it Boss. I\u2019m askin\u2019 you straight up.”<\/p>\n

“……It\u2019s…Blue Bonnet…Just Blue Bonnet Spearmint and don\u2019t you go tellin\u2019 no one.”<\/p>\n

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\"shaneposter\"<\/a>SHANE (1952)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan Ladd (Shane) Van Heflin (Joe Starret) Jack Palance (Wilson)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by A.B. Guthrie, based on the novel by Jack Schaefer<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe the greatest Western of all time. On the one hand, by today\u2019s standards, it\u2019s about as corny as a movie can get. I doubt if too many 21st Century women will do anything but cringe at Joe Starret\u2019s constant referrals to his “little woman.” Shane\u2019s syrupy plea to the homesteaders after Riker\u2019s hired gun, Jack Wilson, has cut down their friend Corey always makes me squirm. And yet…and yet it still works brilliantly. With the Grand Tetons as the ultimate scenic backdrop, “Shane” offers the most malevolent performances ever seen in a Western by Jack Palance as Wilson. Director George Stevens knew Alan Ladd could act, as long as he didn\u2019t have too many lines, and so Ladd turns in a silently brooding performance that may have been his best. The final shootout at Grafton\u2019s Saloon has never been equaled\u2014it\u2019s the Cowboy Shootout upon which all other shootouts are compared.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shane meets little Joey…<\/em><\/p>\n

“You were watching me down the trail quite a spell weren\u2019t you?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, I was.”<\/p>\n

“You know…I like a man who watches things goin\u2019 around…he can make his mark someday.”<\/p>\n

Introductions from Joe Starret…<\/em><\/p>\n

“If this don\u2019t beat all. I\u2019m Joe Starret and this is Joey. You heard what my little woman said. Come on in…please.”<\/p>\n

“Call me Shane.”<\/p>\n

The Stump…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I been fightin\u2019 this stump off and on for two years. Use the team now and this stup could say it beat us…Sometimes nothin\u2019ll do but your own sweat and muscle!”<\/p>\n

Marion\u2019s warning to Joey..<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Joey…Don\u2019t get to liking Shane too much…he;ll be moving on someday.”<\/p>\n

Riker gets tough with Shane…<\/em><\/p>\n

” Ok Shane. You had your chance! Nobody roughs up one of my boys and gets away with it. We\u2019re gonna rough you up a bit and ride you out and you\u2019re going to stay out!”<\/p>\n

After Shane & Starret whup Riker\u2019s boys…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m through foolin\u2019 around. Next time we fight with them, the air is going to be filled with gunsmoke.”<\/p>\n

Shane defends his gun…<\/em><\/p>\n

“A gun is a tool, Marion. No better or worse than any other tool. A shovel or axe…anything. A gun is as good or bad as the man using it.”<\/p>\n

The Shoot Out…Last words before the bullets fly…<\/em><\/p>\n

“So you\u2019re Jack Wilson.”<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s that mean to you?”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve heard about you.”<\/p>\n

“What have you heard, Shane.”<\/p>\n

“…I\u2019ve heard you\u2019re a low-down Yankee liar.”<\/p>\n

“….Prove it.”<\/p>\n

The aftermath…<\/em><\/p>\n

“That was him…That was Wilson alright. He was fast…fast on the draw.”<\/p>\n

“A man\u2019s got to be what he is, Joey. He can\u2019t break the mold. I tried it and it didn\u2019t work for me….Joey, there\u2019s no living with a killing. There\u2019s no going back from it. Right or wrong, it\u2019s a brand. A brand that sticks…There\u2019s no going back…Now you run home to your mother and tell her..tell her everything is alright. And there aren\u2019t any more guns in this valley.”<\/p>\n

“Goodbye Shane!”<\/p>\n

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\"Lonesome-Dove-3\"<\/a>LONESOME DOVE (1988)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Duvall (Augustus McRae) Tommy Lee Jones (Capt Woodrow F. Call)<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay by Bill Wittliff based on the novel by Larry McMurtry<\/em><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t get better than this. The six hour epic about two aging Texas rangers who decide to embark on one last adventure, a 2500 mile cattle drive to Montana, is to many, the greatest Western ever made. Duvall has called his performance as Gus McRae the best of his career. There was once a time when I had committed to memory the dialogue of the entire film. (See next page for yet another embarrassing encounter\u2013this time with Duvall.) The sets and costumes are painstakingly authentic, the cinematography stunning (and remember this was shot for television), the dialogue rich and moving. But of all the performances in “Lonesome Dove,” it\u2019s Jones\u2019 that stands out most prominently in my mind. Call lived inside his own head, grappling silently with the ghosts that tortured him. Jones had to convey Call\u2019s agony without many words and he did it brilliantly. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen such haunted eyes as those of Capt Call. Great soundtrack too…<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Growth and development…<\/em><\/p>\n

“This town sure has growed since the last time we here.”<\/p>\n

“The dern people are buildin\u2019 towns everywhere. And it\u2019s our fault too.”<\/p>\n

“Our fault?”<\/p>\n

“Well, we chased off all the Indians didn\u2019t we? Killed off all the good bandits. Did it ever occur to you that everything we done was a mistake? Me and you did our work too well, Woodrow. Hell we killed off most of the people that made this country to begin with didn\u2019t we…<\/p>\n

On Cuisine…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Our boys ain\u2019t gonna take much to eatin\u2019 bugs.”<\/p>\n

On Death…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Gus is right, boys…the best thing you can do with Death is to ride off from it.”<\/p>\n

On Greek…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I told you Woodrow, it ain\u2019t Greek, it\u2019s Latin.”<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s it say, that Latin?”<\/p>\n

“Well…it just says itself…yo varum. Yo varum fit. Yo varum double fit…”<\/p>\n

“You ain\u2019t got no idea what it says. You probably found that in some old book or something. For all you know, it invites people to rob us!”<\/p>\n

“The first man to come along who can read Latin is welcome to rob us, as far as I\u2019m concerned. I\u2019d like the chance to shoot at a educated man, once in my life.”<\/p>\n

Gus\u2019s advice to Lori on the \u2018Little things\u2019…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Listen to me now…pretty little thing. Life in San Francisco is still Life. If you want just one thing too much, it\u2019ll turn out to be a disappointment. Now the only healthy way to live, as I see it, is to like all the little ever\u2019day things.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah…like what.”<\/p>\n

“Well…like a sip of fine whisky of an evening. Or a soft bed…Or say, a feisty gentleman like myself.<\/p>\n

Gus on aging…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Well the older the violin, the sweeter the music.”<\/p>\n

“Me and Woodrow always like to get where we\u2019re startin\u2019 for, even if it don\u2019t make a damn bit of sense.”<\/p>\n

“Well it don\u2019t make sense.”<\/p>\n

“Well I know it don\u2019t. But I\u2019d like to see at one more place that ain\u2019t settled before I take up the rockin\u2019 chair.”<\/p>\n

Woodrow F. Call…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t stand rude behavior in a man…I won\u2019t tolerate it.”<\/p>\n

Deets\u2019 epitaph…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve seen your pa bury many a man, but I never seen him carve a sign before. Let\u2019s see what he wrote. It reads…<\/p>\n

Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought in 21 engagements with the Commanche and Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior…<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s what it says.”<\/p>\n

Gus on Life, as he\u2019s about to leave it…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I God, Woodrow…it\u2019s been quite a party, ain\u2019t it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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