Slow West (2015)
Michael Fassbender: Silas Selleck
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Quotes
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Jay Cavendish : I know why you need my help
Silas Selleck : Oh yeah?
Jay Cavendish : Yeah. You're lonely. You're a lonely man.
Silas Selleck : Sure, kid.
Jay Cavendish : "Sure, kid." "Let's drift." Silent, lonely drifter. You're a lonely, lonely man.
Silas Selleck : No need to concern over me. Hold still.
Jay Cavendish : All I'm sayin' is there's more to life than just surviving.
Silas Selleck : Yeah. There's dyin'. Survival ain't just how to skin a jackrabbit. It's knowing when to bluster and when to hush. When to take a beating and when to strike.
Jay Cavendish : Where's your folks?
Silas Selleck : Father's in the ground in Ireland, mother's in the ground in Canada.
Jay Cavendish : So what keeps you from joining them?
Silas Selleck : I don't know, kid. Quit asking me shit. I was fine 'til you showed up.
Jay Cavendish : *I* showed up? *You* showed up.
Silas Selleck : Yeah, well maybe I'm tired of showin' up.
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[last lines]
Silas Selleck : There is more to life than survival. Jay Cavendish taught me that. I owe him my life. Ho for the west.
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Silas Selleck : Jay...
[pause]
Silas Selleck : He loved you with all his heart.
[pause]
Rose Ross : His heart was in the wrong place.
[pause]
Silas Selleck : His spirit was true.
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Jay Cavendish : "Wanted Dead or Alive..."
Silas Selleck : Dead or Dead, kid.
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Jay Cavendish : [gazing up at the sky] Same stars, same moon... One day we'll be wanderin' 'round that moon. They'll build a railroad. A railroad up and down the ways. A railroad to the moon. And when we get there... the first thing we'll do... is hunt the natives down.
Silas Selleck : No Indians on the moon.
Jay Cavendish : No, the natives of the moon. The moon people.
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Silas Selleck : [Narrating] That kid was a wonder. He saw things differently. To him, we were in a land of hope and good will.
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Jay Cavendish : It's just a shame.
Silas Selleck : Is it?
Jay Cavendish : No. No it's not. Charles Darwin talks of evolution by natural selection.
Silas Selleck : For our sake, let's hope he's wrong.
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[first lines]
Silas Selleck : [narrating] Once upon a time, 1870 to be exact, a 16-year-old kid traveled from the cold shoulder of Scotland to the baking heart of America to find his love. His name was Jay. Her name was Rose.
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Jay Cavendish : All I'm sayin' is... there's more to life than just survivin'.
Silas Selleck : Yeah, there's dyin'.
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Silas Selleck : He loved you with all his heart.
Rose Ross : His heart was in the wrong place.
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Payne : It's easy to see how you two crossed paths. One's a falling angel, the other one's a rising devil.
Silas Selleck : I ain't no angel
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Shop Keeper : [offering a bottle] Whiskey?
Silas Selleck : [no] Got any meat?
Shop Keeper : I got condemned bacon. Traded it for bullets. Both'll kill you pretty quick.
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Silas Selleck : Breathe...
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[last lines]
Silas Selleck : [narrating] His spirit was true. There is more to life than survival. Jay Cavendish taught me that. I owe him my life. Ho for the West.
