Often Western Genre movies are dismissed as frivolous and all about guns and violence. Not always. Below is a dialogue between characters played by Burt Lancaster and Jack Palance. The final words are by Jack Palance who plays a Mexican revolutionary in The Professionals. The subject? revolution. I hope you read it . It is worth it. - They died for what they believed. - The revolution? When the shooting stops and the dead buried... ...and the politicians take over, it all adds up to one thing, a lost cause. - So... You want perfection or nothing. Youre too romantic, compadre La Rev olucion is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But every love affair has a terrible enemy. Time. We see her as she is. La Rev olucion is not a goddess, but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. So we run away. Find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love... ...without a cause, we are nothing. We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 10:47:25 +0000
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