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(Tom: I remember liking this scene when I saw it. I am please someone took the trouble to transcribe and share it so I could pass it on to you.)
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\nOne of the cinema\u2019s most powerful scenes occurs in a film many might disregard due to its genre. In \u201cThe Outlaw Josey Wales,\u201d a man trying to rebuild his war-shattered life, rides out to face a Comanche chieftain.<\/p>\n
Josey: You be Ten Bears?<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.<\/p>\n
Josey: I\u2019m Josey Wales.<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: I have heard. You\u2019re the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace.<\/p>\n
Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: Then you will die.<\/p>\n
Josey: I came here to die with you. Or, live with you. Dying ain\u2019t so hard for men like you and me, it\u2019s living that\u2019s hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don\u2019t live together, people live together. With governments you don\u2019t always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I\u2019ve come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you\u2019ll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we\u2019ll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, we can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That\u2019s my word of life.<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: And your word of death?<\/p>\n
Josey: It\u2019s here in my pistols, there in your rifles . . . I\u2019m here for either one.<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.<\/p>\n
Josey: “That\u2019s true. I ain\u2019t promising you nothing extra. I\u2019m just giving you life and you\u2019re giving me life. And I\u2019m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.”<\/p>\n
Ten Bears: “It\u2019s sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your word of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The word of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life . . . or death. It shall be life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Tom: I remember liking this scene when I saw it. I am please someone took the trouble to transcribe and share it so I could pass it on to you.) \u00b7 One of the cinema\u2019s most powerful scenes occurs in a film many might disregard due to its genre. In \u201cThe Outlaw Josey Wales,\u201d a … <\/p>\n