― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
JIM No one's trying to buy you, Willie. It's important to know why you're telling us this.
O'KEEFE (pauses) You wanna know why? 'Cause that mother fucker Kennedy stole that fuckin' election, that's why! Nixon was gonna be one of the great Presidents 'til Kennedy wrecked this fuckin' country. Got niggers all over the fuckin' place asking for their rights, where do you think we got all this fuckin' crime now, 'cause Kennedy promised 'em too damned much. Revolution comin'. Fascism's coming back. I tell ya this - the day that Communist sumbitch died was a great day for this country. I jes' hate to think they're blaming it on some silly fuckin' Oswald who didn't know shit anyway. People should know why that sumbitch was killed. 'Cause he was a Communist. Put me on the stand, go ahead, I'll tell the same goddamn story, I'm proud of it, don't matter fuck all to me, things don't change.
As he talks, Jim shares a sickened look with Bill. Whatever truth he may be telling is necessarily compromised by an attitude that could be destroyed in court.
I wonder if the shooting script for Year Of The Dragon is available.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
JIM: Where you off to, son?
BARNES: Vietnam, suh! To fight for a grand cawse.
JIM (eyes moistening, voice choking): You--you be careful there, you hear me?
BARNES (giggles): Don't worry 'bout me, you jus' worry about Charlie!
Jim nods sadly, turns, and walks into history.
X steps into frame and turns to the camera.
X: And that was the day Vietnam started.
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 October 2005 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
"Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em."
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
(we need gear)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
MARTIN Chief, maybe you had a little too much to drink.
BANISTER Bullshit! (yells across the room) Bartender, another round ... (finishes drink) Here's to the New Frontier. Camelot in smithereens. I'll drink to that.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
He bows his head, holding it in his hands, and his wig starts to come off in his hands.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Why did Tommy Lee Jones get the nomination and not Sutherland?
Also, maybe I'm blind, but what is up with the shape of the red and blue in the one sheet?
http://perso.orange.fr/pinpin.online/media/jfk.jpg
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
X (V.O.) (CONT'D) Now this is significant, because it is standard operating procedure, especially in a known hostile city like Dallas, to supplement the Secret Service. Even if we had not allowed the bubbletop to be removed from the limousine, we'd've put at least 100 to 200 agents on the sidewalks, without question! There'd already been several attempts on de Gaulle's life in France. Only a month before in Dallas UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had been spit on and hit.
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Sutherland's the real Good Shepard.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
He kisses her gently - They start to make love, numbed, needing each other, needing their] love in an increasingly terrifying world.
This thread makes me laugh harder than any in ILX history.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Biggest historical inaccuracy in the film: watching the NBC special report discrediting his investigation, Garrison ruefully jokes "I guess my reputation is alright with the people watching 'Laugh-In.'"
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"Sonabitch, there he goes again, he's got his hands on the chicken switch."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Vee got to cohn-troll the een-telligence from Say-gon."
Also, poor Sissy Spacek.
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"You're ruining Shaw's reputation because he's a homosexual. Did you ever stop to consider for once what he was feeling?"
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I want her on my side.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"This is Louisiana, chief! How the hell do you know who your Daddy is? Because your Momma told you so."
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
JIM Who are you, Mr. Miller? (no answer - just the sound of the overhead fan) You see that helmet over there? (the Nazi helmet with a bullet hole on his desk) I picked that up at the Dachau concentration camp when we liberated it in 1945. It was the most horrifying sight I've ever seen, Mr. Miller. Pyramids of decaying, stinking bones and skin one on top of the other. I don't enjoy looking at that swastika every day, Mr. Miller, but I keep it there to remind me of what can happen when a country turns from free democratic principles to Fascism, when a few madmen turn human beings into digits and millions sit in silence and do nothing about it.
Miller waits. Bill waits. Jim comes forward with his reply.
JIM (CONT'D) Mr. Miller, you and I have met under a great misunderstanding. I haven't the remotest interest in becoming a Federal Judge. And nothing is going to keep me from going ahead with my investigation of John Kennedy's murder.
Miller's entire demeanor tightens into a corkscrew of anger and danger
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
That's one hell of a corkscrew.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 September 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if it's the same corkscrew Joe Pesci used on Tommy Lee Jones in the orgy sequende.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That might of just been a corkscrew of anger. It's been a while so I don't remember for sure.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i was 5 feet away from tommy lee jones today ina hotel lobby. i saw him greet javier bardem.
― s1ocki, Monday, 10 September 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
After Three Burials Of Meliquades Estrada I have more love for Tommy Lee Jones than ever.
― da croupier, Monday, 10 September 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought, "Yup, he barely survived after directing the script penned by the shithead who made 21 Grams and Babel."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
is that winky-at-lbj photo real?
― pisces, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
scott mcclellans crazy dad wrote a book about that wink!
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
NUMA: Pillar of the community by day, gay bars at night.
Liz Garrison is the most shaken, as she pours a fresh pot of coffee.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"more champagne!"
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
-- pisces, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:04 (6 months ago
no really IS it??
― pisces, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
FLASHBACK TO Ruby's jail cell in 1964. Ruby talks to men with their backs to us. Lawyers and police clutter the cell, making Ruby hyper-nervous. The chief official's white hair and avuncular voice are all we see and hear of him; his back is to us.
RUBY Then do you understand that I cannot tell the truth here? In Dallas. That there are people here who do not want me to tell the truth... who do not want me to have a retrial?
OFFICIAL Mr. Ruby, I really can't see why you can't tell us now.
Ruby catches the stern face of Sheriff Bill Decker from the corner of his eye, the Assistant D.A. next to him.
RUBY When are you going back to Washington, sir?
OFFICIAL (looks at watch) I am going back very shortly after we finish this hearing - I am going to have some lunch.
RUBY Can I make a statement? If you request me to go back to Washington with you right now, that is if you want to hear further testimony from me, can you do that? Can you take me with you?
OFFICIAL No, that could not be done, Mr. Ruby. There are a good many things involved in that.
RUBY What are they?
OFFICIAL Well, the public attention it would attract. And we have no place for you there to be safe, we're not law enforcement officials, and many things are at stake in this affair, Mr. Ruby.
RUBY But if I am eliminated there won't be any way of knowing. Consequently a whole new form of government is going to take over this country, and I know I won't live to see you another time. My life is in danger here. Do I sound screwy?
OFFICIAL Well I don't know what can be done, Mr. Ruby, because I don't know what you anticipate we will encounter.
RUBY Then you don't stand a chance, Mr. Chief Justice, you have a lost cause. All I want is a lie detector test, and you refuse to give it to me. Because as it stands now - and the truth serum - how do you pronounce it - Pentothal - whatever it is. They will not give it to me, because I want to tell the truth... And then I want to leave this world.
The camera pauses on Ruby's face. The men rise and leave in the shadows.
CUT TO:
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - (1967)
Jack Ruby is wheeled out of the infirmary on a gurnee, dead of cancer.
― omar little, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
JIM (V.O.) Perhaps a few more details about the evening will refresh your memory. Mr. O'Keefe told us dinner was served by a uniformed waiter - a colored man. He particularly remembers that you sat at one end and he at the other - which he found rather unusual because the table was so long. Does that bring back memories of Willie O'Keefe?
SHAW (in present) Not at all. But on the other hand, I do have a lovely Chippendale dining table and I often have a friend over sitting at one end while I sit at the other. That is precisely the point of a long dining table. The splendor of the meal adds to the enjoyment of it.
JIM I would imagine a uniformed waiter helps.
SHAW It adds a taste of elegance for which I must confess a weakness for now and then. I call him Smedley. His real name is Frankie Jenkins - but I could hardly imagine anything more uncouth during dinner than my turning toward the kitchen and hollering "Frankie!" ... Where is this leading to, Mr. Garrison?
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
great scene
― and what, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
tommy lee jones going 'frankieee!' = :D :D :D
http://www.jfk-online.com/jones.jpg
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link