Best lines
"I reckon that man would marry stones to stones if there was a chicken at the end of it." Jake Roedel
"My...my...ain't you purty, and just look at them shiny shoes!"
May I ask who says the last line? It's been quite a while since I've seen this film and it's not one of the lines listed.
shareDo you mean the very last line of the film? It's either Jake or Holt, when Holt is leaving.
"My...my...ain't you purty, and just look at them shiny shoes!"
I'm sorry, I think I was looking at your tagline there and thinking that you put two up in your post.lol. I was thinking "Gee, I don't remember anyone saying anything like that in the movie."
shareOh, that...(giggle). That's something my mother said once. She always deplored what she called "that hick drawl", and tried to obliterate it from us kids. She had success with my two sisters, none at all with me. But when my husband--then my fiance--came to the door to meet her for the first time, her true colors came out. He was in his dress greens, all spit and polish, chest dripping with his medals and ribbons--she opened the door--and what you see below is what came out of her mouth!
"My...my...ain't you purty, and just look at them shiny shoes!"
That's great.lol My mother has to suppress a greek accent. Comes out in at really weird times.
But when I saw that line is it wrong that all I could think was "What! Nobody said THAT in the movie." Beat "But if they did, they said it to Jonathan Rhys Meyers."
Jonathan Rhys Meyers--he played Pitt, didn't he? Now, that would be hilarious, to have that line said to him in the movie! LOL
What did you think of Ride With the Devil? Seems like more than a few folks hate it, but I enjoyed it. The soundtrack is great.
"My...my...ain't you purty, and just look at them shiny shoes!"
I remember enjoying when I saw it. Of course I didn't see it in theatres, it was on tv, and I'm a bit of a history geek so it was nice that it was a different sort of civil war story.
Actually I'm probably due to give it a second viewing, my bestfriend and I were talking about this movie and she couldn't even remember JRM was Pitt or even the scene with Pitt in Lawrence. So I think we'll be watching it together sometime.
ETA, I should probably do something on topic and put down some favourite lines. These are mine so far, they might change after my second viewing;
Jack Bull: Are you saying, sir, that we fight for nothing?
Evans: Far from it, Mr. Chiles. You fight for everything that we ever had... as did my son. It's just that... we don't have it anymore.
I never even heard of it until well after it had reached the VHS realm, which is how I finally saw it. Enjoyed it, too, even though the lead cheracters were the sort of guys my great-great-grandfather (3rd/7th Missouri State Militia Cavalry) would have been spending some time chasing down!
"I fell out of favor with Heaven somewhere and I'm here for the Hell of it now." - Kirsty McColl
What about 'Brothers, I am sad... but I am vengeful'? Put a shiver down my spine.
shareFunniest line, after Jake talks about being notable by the loss of his finger.
Jack Bull: "You sound pleased... as if that finger'd been pesterin' you for rings."
It was pretty much the only humor in the movie (which I did enjoy).
The Canadian code of conduct requires us to be polite or face deportation to France.
I like Holt's..."You're suppose to sleep with the wife. That way, if some other man does, you shoot him."
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I also like when Jack Bull tells Jake that Sue Lee is expected shortly, Jake says "Oh good, it's been near a week since I've seen her."
Troika go bragh!
Just watched a lot of it today...another great line is, after Jack Bull tells Jake that he and Holt need to give the lovers some privacy - by going to throw hickory nuts at squirrels or play mumblety-peg or something, when Sue Lee shows up, Jake says (approximation):
"Well, me and Holt are off to chuck hickory nuts at...mumblety peg players or some such thing."
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Shamus said that Jim Caviezel asked why they had cut the book's best line. Shamus asked what he thought that was; when told, he gave him the line:
"Don't think you are a good man. That thought will spoil you."
Federal soldiers have the drop on Jake:
"Let's parole him to Jesus"
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Pitt Mackeson:
"put his head on a pole...
...put a picher' of it in ther' paper"
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Sue Lee Shelley: So do you wanna marry me?
Jake: No, not too bad.
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Oh, geez! So many good lines in this flick. My friends and I quote it often. My personal favorite is towards the end of the movie, when Pitt rides up and the conversation between Roedel and Mackeson. Pretty much any interaction between those two is great, if you ask me.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?"