Western front in the trenches.
Your Bedouin Army,
or whatever it calls itself...
...would be a sideshow of a sideshow.
Big things have small beginnings, sir.
Does the Arab Bureau
want a big thing in Arabia?
Does the bureau think theyll sit down
under us when this war is over?
The bureau thinks the job of
the moment, sir, is to win the war.
Dont tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden.
- Lawrence, sir.
- Send
western feel: Lucchese boots, Levis 501s, Mahan
cotton shirt. His down parka is unzipped in the sunny,
windless, forty-degree afternoon.
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He pauses, then brings to his shoulder a rifle with a
four-power scope mounted atop it. He peers through the
scope.
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HIS POV - THROUGH SCOPE
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He puts the crosshairs on the shoulder flank of a big,
ivory-white timber wo
learn to sing?
JANE
Whats up with him? What did he want?
JOHNNY
You wanna know whats up with him? That son-of-a-
bitch just fucked us!
SCENE 3
JANE
You know, this town is dead for me anyway. We got
that gig in L.A., well just leave a little early.
JOHNNY
Yeah, well maybe this is trying to telling us
something. You know what Im saying?
JANE
Yeah, its telling us were fucking fired! Thats
what it
western shirt and a worn beige Army jacket with a patch reading, "King Kong Company 1968-70".
He has the smell of sex about him: Sick sex, repressed sex, lonely sex, but sex nonetheless. He is a raw male force, driving forward; toward what, one cannot tell. Then one looks closer and sees the evitable. The clock sprig cannot be wound continually tighter. As the earth moves toward the sun, Travis B
western world
have I found anyone to love but you.
And Rosamund?
- Shes dead.
- And Eleanor.
The new Medusa,
my good wife?
How is your queen?
Decaying, I suppose.
No, dont be jealous
of the Gorgon.
She is not
among the things I love.
How many husbands do you know
who dungeon up their wives?
I havent kept the great bitch in the keep
for ten years out of passionate attachment.
- Theres Captain Mars
me tell ya.
Wow. Sweet.
Well, heres my first question:
You think
its a little dangerous,
handing out guns in a bank?
Ten-ho!
Each gun makes lots
of battle sounds.
Just press the trigger,
and listen.
That sounds like a gun battle.
Over there.
- Is it real?
- Looks like real!
Hey, it sounds like real!
Right! The Sound-O-Power
military and western rifles
by Marx!
This was my first gun.
learned that day...
...the day my son was born.
Sometimes the only way to catch
an uncatchable woman...
...is to offer her a wedding ring.
What, a fathers not allowed
to talk about his son?
Im a footnote in that story, Dad...
...the context for your great adventure,
which never happened, incidentally.
You were selling novelty products
in Wichita when I was born.
Come on, Will.
Everyone loves that
Western doctor could find it.
Six months later she fell over with pain.
- I heard Jean Lewis had a wattle-ectomy.
- A good one. All that turkey-neck is gone.
- Am I getting that?
- Oh, no.
Dont forget Dr Yang.
His herbs are marvellous.
Theyre not chemicals. Theyre all natural.
Helen Dukes had vaginal tumours.
Every Western doctor wanted to operate.
She went on Dr Yangs herbs. They went
into remis
Western ideas are dangerous.
We must resist them at every turn.
Leader, were not strong anymore.
Since the Americans came,
people have hope.
- They are voting, woman own businesses.
- Yes, it is getting harder
to find suicide bombers,
and all the good ones are gone.
Sir, I think we might need
a new recruitment video.
Look, ours...
it looks, you know, cheap.
This video will teach you.
Here are Ahm
We are floating up a steep scrubby slope. We hear male voices gently singing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and a deep, affable, Western-accented voice - Sam Elliots, perhaps:
VOICE-OVER
A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he