The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Actors:
Zooey Deschanel (actress),
Mary-Louise Parker (actress),
Sam Shepard (actor),
Matthew Walker (actor),
Brad Pitt (actor),
Ted Levine (actor),
Sam Rockwell (actor),
Michael Copeman (actor),
Tom Aldredge (actor),
Jeremy Renner (actor),
Casey Affleck (actor),
Pat Healy (actor),
Nick Cave (actor),
Brad Grey (producer),
Michael Parks (actor),
Plot: The last months of Jesse James's life, from meeting Robert Ford, a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse, to the day Ford shoots him. Jesse's a wanted man, living under a pseudonym, carrying out a train robbery, disappearing to Kentucky, and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Robert's brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead, arrested, or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesse's around, there's tension: he's murderous, quixotic, depressed, and cautious. Ford wants to be somebody and wants the reward. On April 3, 1882, things come to a head: Jesse is 34, Robert 20. Ford becomes famous, reenacting the shooting on stage, facing down the label "coward," shot dead in 1892.
Keywords: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, actor, amazing-grace-hymn, american-civil-war, american-indian, apology, april-fool's-day
Genres:
Biography,
Crime,
Drama,
History,
Western,
Taglines: Beyond the myth lies America's greatest betrayal.
Quotes:
Jesse James: Don't tell me what I can and can not do, Ed.
Ed Miller: I was with a girl once. Wasn't a squaw, but she was purty. She had yellow hair, like uh... oh, like something.::Dick Liddil: Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?::Ed Miller: Yeah, yeah. Like that. Boy, you talk good.::Dick Liddil: You can hide things in vocabulary.::Ed Miller: Maybe you and me could writer her a note, send it by post?::Dick Liddil: See, all you gotta do, Ed, is predict her needs and beat her to the punch.::Ed Miller: Well, this girl, she had a real specific job.::Dick Liddil: Specific?::Ed Miller: We's only together once. She's afraid of lightning. She came up into the wagon and just cuddled right up to me. She gave me a kind price, too.::Dick Liddil: Well I be! That is specific.::Ed Miller: Yeah, sure, she been with other people. But the kinds of things she said to me, people just don't say unless they really mean it.::Dick Liddil: "My love said she would marry only me and Jove himself could not make her care, for what women say to lovers, you'll agree, one writes on running water or air."::Ed Miller: My God that's good. Let's write her that.::Dick Liddil: Naw. Poetry don't work on whores.
Frank James: You're not so special, Mr. Ford. You're just like any other tyro who's prinked himself up for an escapade, hoping to be a gunslinger like them nickel books are about. You may as well quench your mind of it, because you don't have the ingredients, son.::Robert Ford: Well, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way, as I put such stock in your opinion. As for me being a gunslinger, I've just got this one granddaddy Paterson Colt and a borrowed belt to stick it in. But I also got an appetite for greater things. I hoped by joining up with you, it'd put me that much closer to getting them.::Frank James: Well, what am I supposed to say to that?::Robert Ford: Let me be your sidekick tonight.::Frank James: Sidekick?::Robert Ford: So you can examine my grit and intelligence.::Frank James: I don't know what it is about you, but the more you talk, the more you give me the willies. Now I don't believe I want you anywhere within earshot this evening, okay? You understand?::Robert Ford: Well, I'm sorry...::Frank James: Why don't you just get, now? Scat!
Jesse James: [Bob walks in on Jesse in the bath] Go away.::Robert Ford: Used to be nobody could sneak up on Jesse James.::Jesse James: Now you think otherwise?::Robert Ford: I ain't never seen you without your guns, neither. [Jesse removes a towel, revealing his gun]::Jesse James: [pause] Can't figure it out: do you want to be like me or do you want to BE me?::Robert Ford: [defeated] I'm just making fun is all.
Jesse James: Give me some more conversations, Bob.::Charley Ford: I got one. This one's about as crackerjack.::Jesse James: Let Bob tell it.::Robert Ford: I don't even know what you're talking about.::Charley Ford: About how much you and Jesse have in common.::Jesse James: Go on, Bob.::Charley Ford: Tell a story.::Robert Ford: Nope. Nope.::Charley Ford: Entertain Jesse. He's here.::Robert Ford: Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, I guess it is interesting, the many ways you and I overlap and whatnot. You begin with our Daddies. Your daddy was a pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church; my daddy was a pastor of a church at Excelsior Springs. Um. You're the youngest of the three James boys; I'm the youngest of the five Ford boys. Between Charley and me, is another brother, Wilbur here, with six letters in his name; between Frank and you was a brother, Robert, also with six letters. Robert is my Christian name. You have blue eyes; I have blue eyes. You're five feet eight inches tall. I'm five feet eight inches tall. Oh me, I must've had a list as long as your nightshirt when I was twelve, but I've lost some curiosities over the years.::Jesse James: [stares at Bob for a long time, smiles] Ain't he something?
Jesse James: Go back to bed.::Robert Ford: I got to use the privy.::Jesse James: You think you do, but you don't.
Jesse James: Look at my red hands and my mean face... and I wonder 'bout that man that's gone so wrong.
Robert Ford: You want to investigate my courage? Do you? Find out! Find out!
Charley Ford: You think it's all made up don't ya? You think it's all yarns and newspaper stories.::Robert Ford: He's just a human being.
Jesse James: [last words] Don't that picture look dusty?
The Immortals (1995)
Actors:
Joe Pantoliano (producer),
Avi Lerner (producer),
Oleg Vidov (actor),
Danny Dimbort (producer),
Tia Carrere (producer),
Tia Carrere (actress),
Chris Rock (actor),
William Forsythe (actor),
James Lew (actor),
Joe Pantoliano (actor),
Tony Curtis (actor),
Clarence Williams III (actor),
Eric Roberts (actor),
Trevor Short (producer),
Elie Samaha (producer),
Plot: A crafty nightclub owner (Jack) brings together a group of small time hoods and teams them up in unusual pairs (black man and white racist, Ivy Leaguer and simpleton) for a set of multiple heists which turn out to be an elaborate double cross against a notorious gangster (Dominic). During an extended standoff in a nightclub between Jack and his band of thieves and Dominic's henchman, the hoods discover why Jack brought them all together for what amounts to a suicidal mission.
Keywords: aids, airfield, ballroom, brain-tumor, cash-in-suitcase, cigar-smoking, cleopatra, coughing-blood, diner, drug-addict
Genres:
Action,
Crime,
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: It was a chance of a lifetime. If they lived that long.
Quotes:
Jack: How the hell are you?::Dominic: Oh, you look pretty good for a dead man Jack.::Jack: You know Dom, knowing you're dead can be a very liberating experience.
Jack: Well you know, taking money from this organization and leaving them alive makes for a very shady future.::Dominic: You fucking ingrate!::Jack: Dominic, don't hurt my feelings.
Dominic: Florence? You see that hippie back there? If he even flickers or quivers, blow his head off!
Dominic: Tiny? The guy... this Peter. Peter is it, yeah? Peter. This guy, Peter. If he even moves, put a hole in the back of his bald head.::Pete: Jack, you better hope he kills me.
George: Billy, Billy, Billy they're... they're calling for backup.::Billy: Wait, wait wait. What the fuck did you just call me? Did you just use my fucking name?::George: When?::Billy: Am I gonna go crazy here or he just fucking used my name?::Cafe Manager: He just fucking used you're name.::Billy: You just used my fuckin' name! You idiot! You fuckin' mo... Wait, wait did I call you an idiot? I'm sorry... GEORGE! I'm sorry.
Tim: Well I'd rather be partnered up with a foreigner, than with a butt-pirate.::[Kerry flips Tim off]::Deke: Well at least you know a butt-pirate's gonna watch your ass.::[They all laugh]
Billy: Hey George, could you come in here and make things worse?
[first lines]::Jack: And in exchange for this unbelievable opportunity I'm giving you, I will ask each of you for one favor someday. If any here thinks there's even the slightest possible of not returning that favor, they should be out that goddamn door so fast, that their ass catches fire.
Jack: Time is of the absolute essence. And it's the only thing you can never get back.
George: I decide to check it out, so I went to the library, and it turns out that Pinocchio is a liar.::Billy: Yeah. That's why his nose grew.::George: You went too?::Billy: No, I've just spent a lot of time in the library.::George: Really. Which one, 'cause like uh, I've been on day trips to just about every one.::Billy: Harvard School of Law.::George: Really? Is that downtown?