The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Page #2

Synopsis: Taking place in the American Northwest in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in his assassination at the hands of Robert Ford the following April. In the time between these two fateful events, the young and jealous Ford befriends the increasingly mistrustful outlaw, even as he plots his demise.
Director(s): Andrew Dominik
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 25 wins & 65 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
2007
160 min
$3,900,000
Website
1,216 Views


But she was pretty.

She had yellow hair like a...

Oh, like something.

Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight?

Yeah. Yeah, like that.

Boy, you... You talk good.

You can hide things in vocabulary.

Maybe you and me could write her a note,

send it by post?

See, all you gotta do, Ed...

...is predict her needs

and beat her to the punch.

Well, this girl, she has a real specific job.

- Specific?

- We was only together once.

She...

She was afraid of lightning,

and she came up under the wagon and...

...just cuddled right up to me.

She give me a kind price too.

Well, I'll be. That is specific.

Yeah, sure,

she'd been with other people...

...but the kind of things she said to me...

...people just don't say

unless they really mean it.

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 on air.

My God, that's good.

Let's write her that.

No.

Poetry don't work on whores.

How do you do?

Am I too late

to wish you a happy birthday?

How'd you know?

You'd be surprised

at what I got stored away.

I'm an authority on the James boys.

Is you?

Well... Well, your brother Frank and I,

we just had a real nice visit.

Just chit-chatting about this and that,

right over there.

And must've been a hundred subjects

entertained...

Good Lord, you know

what this stew needs?

Dumplings?

Noodles.

You eat yourself some noodle stew

and your clock'll tick all night.

You ever see that woman up in Fayette?

Suck noodles up her nose.

- In Fayette?

- I don't believe I have.

You never heard of her, huh?

You got canals up there

you never dreamed of.

I don't like to harp on a subject...

I don't care who comes with me.

Never have.

That's why they call me gregarious.

I hear you and young Stovepipe here

had a real nice visit.

Your boys have got about a acre

of lumber to haul, dingus.

You better goose them down yonder.

The James Gang committed over 25 bank,

train and stagecoach robberies...

...from 1867 to 1881.

But except for Frank and Jesse James...

...all the original members

were now either dead or in prison.

- 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.

So for their last robbery at Blue Cut...

...the brothers recruited a gang

of petty thieves and country rubes...

...culled from the local hillsides.

Right on schedule, Buck!

Snuff those lanterns!

Look at those fools. They're gonna trip

and shoot each other into females.

I bet you I could find them husbands

if they do.

Fan out!

Hold your fire!

- Watch him!

- Going down.

Hold your fire, you idiots!

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Andrew Dominik

Andrew Dominik (born 7 October 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the neo-noir crime film Killing Them Softly. more…

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