{"id":1961,"date":"2015-03-11T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T22:04:01","slug":"ive-heard-about-you-shane-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/ive-heard-about-you-shane-1\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’VE HEARD ABOUT YOU, SHANE.” #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zephyr’s Favorite lines from its favorite Westerns…<\/strong><\/p>\n

(From The Zephyr Archives…December 2004<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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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.<\/em><\/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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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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

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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.<\/em><\/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

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“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

BOOKS:\u00a0 “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

BOOKS:\u00a0\u00a0 “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

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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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Have you got your own favorite lines? Add them in the comments below…<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEXT TIME:\u00a0\u00a0 “ONE-EYED JACKS” with Marlon Brando & Karl Malden<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Zephyr’s Favorite lines from its favorite Westerns… (From The Zephyr Archives…December 2004) I was raised on matinees, on Saturday afternoons. Lookin\u2019 up at Hoppy, Gene and Roy…oh boy! And I was raised believin\u2019, the best a man can do Is a be rootin\u2019-tootin\u2019, straight shootin\u2019 cowboy buckaroo ———————Mason Williams & the Sons of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}