The Postman Page #3

Synopsis: 2013,Post-Apocalyptic America. An unnamed wanderer retrieves a Postman's uniform and undelivered bag of mail. He decides to pose as a postman and deliver the mail to a nearby town, bluffing that the United States government has been reinstated and tricking the town into feeding him. However, he reluctantly becomes a symbol of hope to the townspeople there who begin to remember the world that once was and giving them the courage to stand up to a tyrannical warlord and his army.
Director(s): Kevin Costner
Production: Warner Home Video
  7 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
29
Rotten Tomatoes:
9%
R
Year:
1997
177 min
662 Views


You broke. . .

. . .Law One.

Law Two:

Ounishment shall be swift.

Law Three:

Mercy. . .

. . .is for the weak.

Four:

Terror. . .

. . .will defeat reason.

Five:

Your allegiance is to the clan.

Six:

Justice can be dictated.

Seven:

Any clansmen may challenge

for leadership of the clan.

Does anyone

wish to challenge me?

On your feet.

Law Eight:

There's only one penalty.

Death.

Olease!

l'm begging you!

You will get out of this army

what you put into it.

Work and you'll be fed.

Fight and you'll be respected.

Die and you'll be remembered.

You thinking of challenging

for leadership?

No, sir.

l'm a follower. . .

. . .not a leader.

You got a smart mouth. . .

. . .Shakespeare.

You see Colonel Getty

always following the General?

He was the last man ever to challenge.

Fight lasted 6 seconds. . .

. . .but he didn't kill him.

Cut off his tongue. . .

. . .then he cut off his balls.

And old Getty's been following him

around like a dog ever since.

Fall out!

The General don't see it. . .

. . .but l say

you've got some n*gger in you.

They're yours?

A solitary man, aren't you?

Binoculars to watch life from a distance

and Shakespeare. . .

. . .to read about it,

instead of living it.

No offense, but you seem

to have read Shakespeare. . .

. . .yourself.

lf he wishes to rise

above mere thuggery. . .

. . .a military commander

must be classically educated. . .

. . .philosophy and history,

even a sense of the dramatic.

What do you think that l did

before the war?

Do you think

that l was in the army?

l sold copying machines.

l was a salesman. . .

. . .with the talent to lead men,

devise and execute a battle plan. . .

. . .locked away inside.

lf Nathan Holn hadn't come along,

l'd still be selling copying machines.

Can you imagine. . .

. . .the wasted life?

Can you imagine the magnitude of that?

But war. . .

. . .war gives men like me a chance.

Here.

"The prize is often left unclaimed.

We must have the courage to grasp it. . .

. . .for fortune always favors the bold. "

He always inspires me.

l have a design for the future.

A master plan.

l will need able officers

to help me carry it out.

You have the intelligence.

lf your heart matches. . .

. . .you will go far.

We'll talk more in weeks to come.

Dismissed.

Captain!

We'll be moving out tomorrow.

lssue those binoculars to a scout.

And the book, sir?

Burn it.

Quit moving!

What happened?

-What happened? What'd he say?

-Nothing.

Did he say anything about me?

No!

-l'm getting out of here.

-What are you talking about?

-Escaping.

-What?!

You ever hear of St. Rose?

lt's on the coast.

-lt's a paradise.

-We can't.

We could!

Between the 3 of us we could.

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Eric Roth

Eric Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). more…

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