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Show ee eI PATO TAMAS ATWO Roslyn asks Gay... “What do you do with yourself? “Just live.” “How do you just live?” “Well...you start by goin’ to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of day it is. You throw stones at a can. You whistle.” Isabelle tells Rosalyn, “Cowboys are the last real men left in the world. And they’re about as reliable as jack rabbits.” “Is anybody any different? Maybe say...Maybe it’s not even fair to them.” you're not supposed to believe what people NOS OA hie Reunion with Del Gue... “Where you headed, Del?” “Same place you are, Jeremiah...Hell in the end.” Farewell from Del... “Keep your nose to the wind...and your eyes along the skyline.” LONELY ARE THE Kirk Douglas (Jack Burns) BRAVE (1962) Walter Matheau (The Sheriff) I was 10 years old when I first saw this film. I'd never been out West, never heard of Ed Abbey, and had no inkling of the World out there that was changing so rapidly. But when the film Isabelle on Nevada... “Welcome to Nevada...the Leave it State...You got money you want to gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you wanna get rid of? Get rid of her here. Extra atom bombs you don’t need? Blow it up here. Nobody’s going to mind in the slightest. The slogan of Nevada is: Anything goes. But don’t complain ifit went.” ~ : ended, I was moved in ways I didn’t think possible for a kid. It reached some visceral part of me that had not been aroused until then. Years later, when I was in college and my friends and I would gather to discuss film, and we'd all want to impress each other with some obscure movie that no one else had heard of, I could always pull out “Lonely are the Brave,” as one of my Top 10 films of all time. It would be another few years before I'd discover Ed Abbey and the fact that he had _ written the book upon which the film was made. a “You know, sometimes when a person don’t know what to do, the best thing to dois just stand still.”.....Gay “Fiver hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this feler sitting on his porch and he says, ‘Mister, can you tell me how to get back to town?’ And the feller says, ‘Nope.’ So he says, “Can you tell me how to find the post office?’ And the feller says, ‘Nope.’ ‘Well can you tell me how to find the railroad station?’ And Gena Rowlands (Jeri Bondi) Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the book “Brave Cowboy” by Edward Abbey Music by Jerry Goldsmith he says, ‘No.’ So the city man says, ‘Boy, you don’t know much do you?’ And the feller says, ‘Nope...but I’m not lost.’”...Gay “When I say ‘hup,’ you ‘hup.’ Pretty little fuzz tail. You'll learn. What you need is a little horse sense.” Guido to Roslyn on Life... “Knowin’ things don’t matter much. What you got Roslyn is a jot more important... You care. What happens to anybody happens to you. You’re really hooked in to the whole thing, Roslyn...It’s a gift.” “People say I’m just nervous.” “Tf it weren’t for nervous people in the world, we’d still be eating each other.” Jack to Jeri on being a Westerner... Gay on Mustanging... “Nothing can live unless something dies. I herd these horses so I can keep myself free. So I’ma free man. That’s why you like me, isn’tit? Ifit’s bad, then maybe you have to take a little of the bad with the good. Or else you'll be running for the rest of your life.” “Basically you're still an easterner...A Westerner likes open country so he has to hate fences and the more fences there are, the more he hates them...It’s true. You ever notice how many fences there are getting to be? And the signs they got in ‘em...No hunting. No fishing. Private property. Closed area. Get moving. Go away. Get lost. Drop dead...And they got those fences that say: ‘This side’s jail and that’s the street.’ Or ‘here’s Arizona and that’s Nevada.’ Or ‘this is us and that’s Mexico.’ “He just naturally didn’t see the use of it so he acted like it wasn’t there. So when people sneaked across, he helped them.” “Jack, the world you and Paul live in doesn’t exist... maybe it never did. Out there is the real world and it has real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. If you don’t go by the rules you lose...you lose everything.” “Ton’t want nobody makin’ up my mind for me, that’s all. Damn ‘em all. Changed it. They changed it all around. Smeared it all over with blood. I’m finished with it. It’s like ropin’ a dream now. I jus’ got to find another way to be alive, that’s all...if there is one anymore...” JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972) “A fella can always keep something.” Jeri on Men... “Men are idiots. You’re an idiot. Paul’s an idiot... You’re all idiots.” Jack on getting drunk... Robert Redford (Jeremiah Johnson) Will Geer (Bear Claw Kris Lapp) Screenplay by John Milius & Edward Anhalt Music by John Rubinstein & Tim McIntire Stefan Gierasch (Del Gue) Bondi to Jack... When this film was first released, I was absolutely obsessed with it. In the pre-VCR era, my only opportunity to satisfy my craving was to keep going to the theatre. I saw JJ more than 20 times. I finally carried a portable audio tape recorder with me and recorded the entire film on a cassette tape. Id listen to the tape almost every day. This was also in the days when I still lived in Kentucky, wanted only to be in Utah and kept my watch on Mountain Time, even though I lived in the East. : “About every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetens your breath, tones up your skin.” Knowing that J] was shot entirely on _ location in Utah added to its appeal. And years later, when I met Redford in Hanksville, Utah (see story on page 2), I was able to tell him just how much the film meant to me, while totally “You're the only man alive who would break into jail, just to see an old friend off to the penitentiary.” Jack to Guiterez the jailer... ake it easy... Temper like that and you'll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on, and no place to go but hell...Believe me buddy, you better watch it.” To Jeri as Jack prepares his escape after breaking jail... “T didn’t want a house. All those pots and pans. I didn’t want anything but you, and it’s God's own blessing that I didn’t get you...I’m a loner clear down to my very guts. And do you know whata loner is? He’s a born cripple. The only person he can live with is himself. It’s his life, the way he wants it. It’s all about him. He’d kill a woman like you...’Cause he couldn’t love you, not the way you are loved. “Jf | got a big kiss, I could probably beat the sun to the top of that hill.” humiliating myself at the same time. : -— = " -y he wanted to be a mountain man. He was a big man of proper height and adventurous spirit, sited to the mountains. He was a young man and ghosty stories of the tall hills didn’t scare him none. He was lookin’ for a hawken gun, 50 calibre or better—he settled on a 30, but it was a genuine Hawken. You couldn’t go no better. Got himself a OPEN RANGE (2003) Robert Duvall (Boss) Kevin Costner (Charlie) Annette Benning (Sue) Screenplay by Craig Storper Music by Michael Kamen good horse and traps and other truck that went with bein’ a mountain man and said goodbye to whatever life was down there below... “Yast where is it I can find bear, beaver and other critters worth cash money skinned?” This when “Ride due west as the sun sets...turn left at the Rocky Mountains.” Meeting Bear Claw... “Tam Bear Claw Kris Lapp, blood kin to the grizzley that whupped Jim Bridger’s ass. You are molesting my hunt!” On coming to the mountains... “Didn't like it down there eh?” “Tt ought to have been different.” : “Is that so? Many a child journeys this high to be different, tryin’ to get something from the mountains the Natures couldn't give him below. Comes to nuthin’. Can’t cheat the mountain Pilgrim...Mountain’s got its own ways.” Meeting Del Gue, buried to his neck in sand... “TInjuns put you here?” is a new one, just released last year. it twice. I’ve heard it about 38 times now. “Tweren’t Mormons.” continued on next page... Gue’s advice... “You turn down this gift and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses, from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!” It received mixed reviews from the critics and one of my friends insists that, because it used quick change stirrups and a nylon rope in one scene that “Open Range” is a failure as a Western. And others have complained that it moves too slowly to the point of being ponderous....I don’t care; I still love this film. The slow and deliberate way “Open Range” moves forward toward its ultimate violent climax gives us more time to get to know the characters. They may not say a lot, but that tells you something about who they are. The scene in Sue’s kitchen where neither Boss nor Charlie can get their fingers through the handle in the tea cup is one of the most tender scenes I’ve ever seen in a cowboy movie. It’s a film that deserves to be watched more than once. Much of the dialogue is subtle-you need to hear PAGE]13 |
