I must tell you that I do feel a bit nostalgic and sentimental whenever I watch that scene. It brings a tear to my eye.
“Fill yours hands!, you sons......!”
Gets me fired up every time.
bold talk for a one-eyed fatman!
And how about this line
“The war wagon is coming. Women and children better stay behind”
He ain’t as game as Bo.
“She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” good movie. “The Searchers” another one.
Vera Miles or Natalie Wood? Nah, Natalie Wood.
The Flaca speech:
“I’m going to tell you something Flaca and I want you to listen tight. It may sound like I’m talking about me but I’m not, I’m talking about you. As a matter of fact I’m talking about all people everywhere.
When I come down here to Texas I was looking for something. I didn’t know what. It seems like you added up my life and I spent it all either stomping other men or in some cases getting stomped. Had me some money and had me some medals, but none of it seemed a lifetime worth the pain of the mother that bore me.
It’s like I was empty somehow. Well I’m not empty anymore. That’s what’s important — to feel useful in this old world. To hit a lick against what’s wrong or to say a word for what’s right even though you get walloped for saying that word.
Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting but that don’t change the truth none. There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but your dead as a beaver hat.”
Pick the harder path. That’ll be the right one.