After the nuke and Becker kills Jefferson, what is that speech that he gives about snarling and playing the dog, and the father/mother part...?
I have for a long time wondered if this was taken out of a Shakespeare play or something else?
Any help?
Thanks in advance
Vince
And also can someone post what is actually said because I can't remember it all too well (except for the MF self part)
The bit about snarling and playing the dog is a (mis)quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3, and it's actually earlier in the film. The later speech starting with Down! Down to hell is adapted from the same passage.
You can read the original passage here: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/3henryvi/3henryvi.5.6.html. Scroll all the way down; it's at the very end.
As for Becker's rephrasing: http://www.cswap.com/1996/Screamers/cap/en/25fps/a/01_24#caption.
(Those subtitles are slightly incorrect, though. The actual lines are I am like my father, I am like my brother, and which old farts call divine.)
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Thank You...
I have been searching for this for over 13 years...
Thanks again.
By the way, the other Shakespeare quotation -- the "little better than a beast" bit earlier in the movie to which Hendricksson responds with a remark about never knowing they put Shakespeare in comic books -- comes from The Merchant of Venice: http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/merchant/2/ (search e.g. for the text "little better than a beast").
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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