LISTEN UP, all you uber-macho soldering iron pilots, let's begin this week by a survey which might counteract whatever depressing malarkey The Bossman or your clients concoct...
That cinematic moment can go all the way back to our wacky planet's pioneering initial celluloid venture --probably a private erotic one, now that I think of it.
Maybe the mods will have their customary boring oversight goosed up by a spicy splash of human nature !!
Anyway, back to the topic --- Here's my zinger, from a classic [The Big Sleep] that all young whippersnappers on the Forum ought to watch if their best smooth moves & impromptu bar fights fall short of attracting Babes as smokin' hot as Lauren Bacall was in her prime:
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) to Joe Brody (Louis Jean Heydt) --
"You're not the first guy I've met who thinks a gat in the hand means the world by the tail."
That cinematic moment can go all the way back to our wacky planet's pioneering initial celluloid venture --probably a private erotic one, now that I think of it.
Maybe the mods will have their customary boring oversight goosed up by a spicy splash of human nature !!
Anyway, back to the topic --- Here's my zinger, from a classic [The Big Sleep] that all young whippersnappers on the Forum ought to watch if their best smooth moves & impromptu bar fights fall short of attracting Babes as smokin' hot as Lauren Bacall was in her prime:
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) to Joe Brody (Louis Jean Heydt) --
"You're not the first guy I've met who thinks a gat in the hand means the world by the tail."
From The Man Who Would Be King. "How to remove three Afghans from four camels leaving two Englishmen?"
Classic are the Dirty Harry lines.
Classic are the Dirty Harry lines.
I will put that desert arithmetic, tvrgeek, into my stash of laugh provokers...
Yes, the Dirty Harry series is probably the champ for a per-film ratio, and we will perhaps revisit that dialogue when more members parachute into this thread.
BTW, I am pondering the launch of another lounge topic: "Share a memorable win or fail involving firearms." Whaddya think ???
Yes, the Dirty Harry series is probably the champ for a per-film ratio, and we will perhaps revisit that dialogue when more members parachute into this thread.
BTW, I am pondering the launch of another lounge topic: "Share a memorable win or fail involving firearms." Whaddya think ???
It's hard to top Clint Eastwood, in either Dirty Harry or the spaghetti westerns.
There's a scene in one of the westerns where one of the bad guys ("Bad guys"? Hmmm . . . almost all of the characters in those films are pretty sleazy . . . ) is escaping on horseback. Eastwood's "Man With No Name" character drops him dead at a range of about a thousand yards, with a single-shot from a hand-held weapon. (It may have been a rifle with open iron sights, but I'm thinking it was a revolver.) A witness congratulates Eastwood for such an impressive shot, but Eastwood is disgusted, explaining "I was aiming for his horse!".
It's actually a remake, down to just about every detail, from "The Magnificent Seven".
But if there's a line that DOES top Eastwood, it might be from the movie "Zulu". It's a film based on the actual battle at Rorke's Drift, South Africa, where a company-sized contingent of (mostly) British soldiers - actually composed of detachments from several unrelated units - withstood an assault by a brigade-size force of Zulu infantry. In the movie version of the battle's aftermath, a soldier remarks to one of the co-commanders, "It's a miracle.". The officer responds, "If it's a miracle, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.". And the infantryman, having participated in some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting of the engagement, clarifies "And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind."
Dale
There's a scene in one of the westerns where one of the bad guys ("Bad guys"? Hmmm . . . almost all of the characters in those films are pretty sleazy . . . ) is escaping on horseback. Eastwood's "Man With No Name" character drops him dead at a range of about a thousand yards, with a single-shot from a hand-held weapon. (It may have been a rifle with open iron sights, but I'm thinking it was a revolver.) A witness congratulates Eastwood for such an impressive shot, but Eastwood is disgusted, explaining "I was aiming for his horse!".
It's actually a remake, down to just about every detail, from "The Magnificent Seven".
But if there's a line that DOES top Eastwood, it might be from the movie "Zulu". It's a film based on the actual battle at Rorke's Drift, South Africa, where a company-sized contingent of (mostly) British soldiers - actually composed of detachments from several unrelated units - withstood an assault by a brigade-size force of Zulu infantry. In the movie version of the battle's aftermath, a soldier remarks to one of the co-commanders, "It's a miracle.". The officer responds, "If it's a miracle, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.". And the infantryman, having participated in some of the fiercest hand-to-hand fighting of the engagement, clarifies "And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind."
Dale
Thank you Dale for supplying my Tuesday morning entertainment ... I have only caught short segments of Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns he did....
"Zulu" never seen by Yours Truly... Must check it out.
"Zulu" never seen by Yours Truly... Must check it out.
Variation:
From an episode of Firefly where Jayne (Adam Baldwin) shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand and was complimented on the shot:
"I was aiming for his head."
Re-used in an episode of Castle by Castle (Nathan Fillion).
P.S. ZULU...great movie.
From an episode of Firefly where Jayne (Adam Baldwin) shoots the gun out of the bad guy's hand and was complimented on the shot:
"I was aiming for his head."
Re-used in an episode of Castle by Castle (Nathan Fillion).
P.S. ZULU...great movie.
From the Untouchables when Sean Connery says, "Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gunfight" then blows him away!
Slight correction: Both 'A Fistful Of Dollars' and 'The Magnificent Seven' were quite detailed but unofficial remakes of the Akira Kurosawa movies 'Yojimbo' and 'Seven Samurai' respectively.
Stolen from an old Alias Smith and Jones. " I he was aiming for your stomach"
All time loser in a gun battle was from the Raiders series where Harrison Ford reaches for his whip to find he has lost it, pulls out the pistol and shoots the villain with wielding a sword. Proof, never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Then there was the classic Get Smart with the two shot finger gun.
At least they stole decent scripts! Not like some of the current rip-offs. West Side Story was a pretty good rip-off.
Got another : The Inlaws ( Perter Falk, Alan Arkin) "Surpetine Sheldon, Serpintine!"
Hi,
Allegedly come the day of shooting that scene Ford was
suffering from the local cuisine and in no real fit state to
indulge in the choreographed whip vs. sword fight.
So they winged it on the day, and never got back
to filming the original planned fight scene, allegedly.
Apparently Ford didn't have to try too hard to
do the "I can't be bothered with this" look.
rgds, sreten.
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Ralph Bakshi's full-length animated (cartoon) feature, "Wizards" used a similar script in the mid 1970's. The story, introduced as "An illuminating history bearing on the everlasting struggle for world supremacy fought between the powers of Technology and Magic.", is based on a mortal struggle between two Wizards, born as twin brothers. One relies on magic, spells, and sorcery; the other uses technology and force. In the final showdown the Wizard of Magic proclaims he will use ". . . A magic trick Mother showed me when you weren't around - for use on special occasions like this." to defeat the Wizard of Technology. The Wizard of Magic then pulls a Luger pistol and shoots the Wizard of Technology dead. You can see the sequence starting about 1:14:30 in the recording at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rF2y7oMlQg (Watching the very first 3 or 4 minutes of the video sets the background and tone of the whole story.)
(I suppose artsy types would view "Wizards" as a serious work with strong parallels to Tolkien's Rings Trilogy. I thought it was a very well-done parody of the fantasy genre. The R-rated Fairy Princess character is especially cool.)
If you stretch the definition a bit, there's the "gun line" from the John Wayne western, "True Grit". The chick who's trying to find the man who allegedly swindled and killed her father counters every insult and threat to her by mentioning, ". . .you'll hear from my lawyer, Mr. Daggett.". After experiencing this several times, Glen Campbell's character observes, "Lawyer Daggett again? She draws him like a gun.".
The recent death of Tom Laughlin brings to mind the closing scene from "Born Losers", the film that introduced the "Billy Jack" character. (And probably the best of the series - later efforts were way too preachy, and even more fantastic fantasies than Born Losers.) In the scene, a motorcycle gang known for viciousness and lawlessness (aren't they ALL like that?) is in the process of beating and raping a girl when Billy Jack arrives, carrying an '03 Springfield rifle. He informs the gang that some of them will take the girl to a hospital for medical treatment. If he doesn't get a phone call reporting her condition within 15 minutes, he will shoot the gang leader "right between the eyes". The gang leader starts deploying his gang to rush Billy Jack; Billy jack says they have 3 seconds to start helping the girl up, and starts counting: "One . . . two . . . three". A single shot - from across the room - with the rifle held at his hip - lands precisely on the bridge of the gang leader's nose. Motioning to the man standing beside the dead gang leader, Billy Jack says, "Now you're in charge. One . . . ". The chosen man screams to his comrades, "Quick, help her up! Don't just stand there!". The scene starts about 2:30 into the clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paUw-H5cAZY
Dale
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THX, Gentlemen... Keep those zingers coming !!
BTW, Hiten, your vid hotlink has a "side order" of other great macho movie moments.
I have almost run out of source for funny pet videos, so these macho moments will be me chuckling for a long time.
BTW, Hiten, your vid hotlink has a "side order" of other great macho movie moments.
I have almost run out of source for funny pet videos, so these macho moments will be me chuckling for a long time.
Yeah, that's a pretty good scene.
A few times I have thought about pointing it out to my wife as a potential self-improvement motto regarding things unrelated to shooting, but I'm a little afraid it could encourage her to take up shooting as a pastime.
Dale
There was a cheap bounty hunter movie with Lenard Nemoy where he had no lines. Just grunted a few times and shot people.
Still in True Grit (original, not seen remake): Final showdown between Cogburn and Pepper, Cogburn shouts to Pepper "Fill your hands, you sonnavabitch!" takes the reins between his teeth with a rifle in one hand, pistol in the other, then they charge at each other like jousting knights.
Always enjoy that line. 😀
How about the Samuel L. Jackson preacher- like speech, that he gives to his victims just before shooting them, in "Pulp Fiction?
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