I didn't realize it, but this might be my new favorite scene


The scene immediately following Bob making a deal with the Richmond sheriff (telling them that Dick was at Martha's house). The raid on the house, the music, Bob walking out with his hands up as the music peaks, and we see Dick get arrested. I don't know why, but it's just so beautiful. Damn this movie ain't for whores, is it?

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Yeah it was beautifully shot. The music is "Falling"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHC-vZTlQM

You Will Give Them An Ideal To Strive Towards

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Dammit, Nick Cave should have gotten the Oscar for Best Music: Ever.

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That's great one. The music is so exquisite. I like so many scenes in this movie. I will mention couple that I really like. I apologize in advance if the quotes are not verbatim.

Jessie and Charlie is walking together with horses. Jessie James says "have you ever considered suicide", Charlie says "I cant say that I have. There was always something else I wanted to do. My predicaments change or I saw my hardships from different slant. You how a lot can happen (I think that's what he says. I could never understand fully this particular line). It never seemed respectable." Jessie then says "I'll tell you one things that's for sure. You don't mind dying once you peaked over the other side. You no more want to go back to your body then you want to you want to spit up your own puke" Charlie continue conversation about putting Bob back in gang.

Another one:
Music starts to play with the narrator saying "The James Gang committed over 25 bank, train and stagecoach robberies from 1867 1881. Except for Frank and Jessie James all the original members were either dead or in prison". Frank was mumbling something. Narrator continued to say "So For their last robbery at Bluecut the brothers recruited a gang of petty thieves and country rubes called form the local hill sides". While he says that you see the gang making the barricade for the train. Wood Hite is singing the song. Jessie is listening to the tracks and the singing was fading in background. Jessie yells at his brother "right on schedule buck". Frank says "Snap those lanterns. Look at those fools. They are going to trip and shoot each other into females". Dick Liddle says "I bet you ain't going to fin them husbands if they do". Jessie and Frank put on bandanas. Jessie foot is on tracks. The rocks fall because of train coming closer. The camera is on Jessie face then goes to the side, and goes into the darkness. You hear the train coming with the music, while seeing the light on the train through the trees with it hitting on the gang and Frank while the train is slowing down. You kind of see Jessie because of the train light hitting him.



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You how a lot can happen (I think that's what he says. I could never understand fully this particular line).


I think he says, "You know all-what can happen." (Charley seems to say "all-what" and "what-all" frequently: in the scene where he describes the cat on the roof: "it was a tomcat yowlin and what-all and I slipped").

Anyway, that's definitely one of my favorite scenes too. It makes the scene where Charley kills himself extra emotional and intense when you remember the conversation he had with Jesse.

Music starts to play with the narrator saying "The James Gang committed over 25 bank,


I just noticed this recently: there's actually a poem you hear spoken by Frank James subtly under his breath during that scene right after the narration:

... mine eye
All my soul and all my every part.
And for this sin, there is no remedy
It is so grounded inward in my heart.


^ From the film's transcript

You have to listen closely because he's practically whispering as he's walking along the tracks while it's still daylight and the boys are still hauling the lumber.

Frank James was really sick of his life of crime, which explains why he turned himself in a year later.

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It's all these little subtle moments... It's Visual AND Lyrical Poetry.

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My favorite scene is the opening. And I do agree that this is a very poetic and lyrical film. It is something of a lullaby. Adorable.

'Ne cherchez plus mon coeur, les bĂȘtes l'ont mangĂ©.' Baudelaire

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Then and than are different words and not interchangeable.

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Dammit, I scrolled all the way down hoping to find a new post and only found a grammar nazi.

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