[Father's motto/Epithet/Theme of movie] Can anybody confirm the quote that is the thread throughout the movie? It's what the father (Lt. Hardy/John Mahoney) says, it's on his tombstone, and it seems (to me) to be the actual theme of the movie. I believe it is "Loyalty above all else, except honor." Does anybody have the movie, can you check?
shareYes the quote was "Loyalty above all else, except honor." I've always liked that and try to live by it. The father was captain by the way.
shareThanks for checking. I've always wondered...is it a police oath/motto/saying, or what?
shareI believe it is from medieval times, part of the code of the knights.
shareI believe that FireJake41 is correct.
In Mediaval the knights' had a high sence of loyalty and they probably had some quates about it..
In that perspective it usually means loyalty to God (so not in same perspective than in the movie)..
But to take it a little further the same kind of idea was also part of bushido (~the way of samurai) in Japan. So basically that quote comes from either one (or within a similar kind of people somewhere else)..
I am quite sure though that that "except honour" part is just added there by the movie's writers.
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