Some excellent quote and links to scenes here. Thanks all :smile:
Another from me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEMwTbb8NHQ
This scene from A Fistful of Dynamite (aka
Duck, you Sucker, aka
Once Upon a Time.. the Revolution) is one of my favourite bits of movie dialogue and Rod Steiger's performance throughout one of the best bits of acting you're ever likely to see - IMO, of course.
The film is well under-rated, often overlooked in Leone's work in favour of
Once Upon a Time in America and the
Man With No Name trilogy, but so good that I'm even prepared to forgive James Coburn's awful Irish accent.
Juan: What's that?
Sean: It's a map.
[Juan puts it under his head]
Sean: That's your country you're lying all over there.
Juan: [laughs] Not my country. My country is me and my family.
Sean: Your country is also Puerta, the Governor, the landlords... Gunther rules his locusts... this little revolution we're having here.
Juan: Revolution? Huh, revolution. Please, don't try to tell me about revolution. I know all about the revolutions and how they start. The people that read the books they go to the people that don't read the books, the poor people, and say 'Ho, ho! The time has come to have change...'
Sean: Shh...
Juan: ssssh.. sshh, sshh, sshh, sshh! Shit shush! I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change." So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They are dead! That's your revolution. [pause] Shhh... So, please, don't tell me about revolutions! [lies down... sits back up] And what happens afterwards? The same fucking thing starts all over again!
John H. Mallory: Whew. [looks at the book he was reading Mikhael A. Bakunin: The Patriotism.] Hmph. [Throw it into the mud.]