{"id":3578,"date":"2013-07-10T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:00:40","slug":"ive-heard-about-you-shane-3-the-zephyrs-favorite-westerns-this-time-the-misfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/ive-heard-about-you-shane-3-the-zephyrs-favorite-westerns-this-time-the-misfits\/","title":{"rendered":"(The Zephyr’s favorite Westerns) This time: “THE MISFITS”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>THE MISFITS (1961)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

“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

\"\"<\/a>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…\"\"<\/a><\/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

\"\"<\/a>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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Here is a link to installment #1:\u00a0 “THE SHOOTIST” (CLICK THE IMAGES)
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AND TO #2: “ONE-EYED JACKS”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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