John Arends at 2014-09-12 16:46:23:
Here's a couple more, if needed, Scott - both westerns from the 1970s.
JACK CRABB: You mean you're blind?
OLD LODGE SKINS: Oh no. My eyes still see. But my heart no longer receives it.
JACK CRABB: How did it happen?
OLD LODGE SKINS: White man.
JACK CRABB: Where's Buffalo Wallow Woman?
OLD LODGE SKINS: Rubbed out. And White Elk Woman too. And Dirt On The Nose. And High Wolf. And many others.
JACK CRABB: And Burns Red?
OLD LODGE SKINS: Yes.
JACK CRABB: Burns Red in the Sun?
OLD LODGE SKINS: Rubbed out. His wife. His children. And many more.
JACK CRABB: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White Man now?
The old man pulls a scalp from his belongings.
OLD LODGE SKINS: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the Human Beings, my son, they believe that everything is alive. No only man and animals, but also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them, like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp. That is the way things are. But the White Man, they believe everything is dead. Stone, earth, animals, and PEOPLE. EVEN THEIR OWN PEOPLE. If things keep trying to live, White Man will rub them out. That is the difference."
-- Little Big Man (1970) Screenplay by Calder Willingham, from the novel by Thomas Berger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DMjmkhTBw
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Wisdom.
Trivia: The line "Today, is a good day to die." largely used by Star Trek Klingons was first
said in this film by Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George). Little Big Man was an actual historical figure. He was a Native American, an Oglala Lakota, who was a fearless and respected warrior who fought under, and was rivals with, Crazy Horse. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn, a battle which is depicted in this film.
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JOSEY WALES: You be Ten Bears?
TEN BEARS: I am Ten Bears.
JOSEY WALES: I'm Josey Wales.
TEN BEARS: I have heard. You are the grey rider. You would not make peace with the blue coats. You may go in peace.
JOSEY WALES: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.
TEN BEARS: Then you will die.
JOSEY WALES: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dyin' ain't so hard for men like you and me. It's livin' that's hard, when all you've ever cared about's been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. Governments, you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one. Or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope. The Comanche. And so will we. And we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, we can rest here in peace. Butcher some of our cattle, jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life.
TEN BEARS: And your word of death?
JOSEY WALES: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one.
TEN BEARS: These things you say we will have, we already have.
JOSEY WALES: That's true. I ain't promising you nothin' extra. I'm just givin' you life and you're giving me life. And I'm sayin' men can live together without butchering one another.
TEN BEARS: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carry the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life…or death. It shall be life.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Screenplay by Philip Kaufman and Sonia Chernus, from the book "Gone To Texas" by Forrest Carter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCvi-XvQuo
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Wisdom.
Trivia: Philip Kaufman started to direct the film but was replaced by Clint Eastwood, a controversial move which prompted the DGA to institute a ban on any current cast or crew member replacing the director on a film - a rule which has ever since been titled the "Eastwood rule." According to Eastwood biographer Marc Eliot part of the acrimony between the two married men was a result of both asking female lead Sondra Locke out to dinner on the same night. In all his Westerns, Clint Eastwood only kills an Indian once, in this movie. This movie received a lot of high praise among Native American viewers for its non-stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans.