One of America's greatest artists, dead at 81.
McCABE (muttering to himself): All the time makin' me feel like I'm gonna make a fool outta myself... mmm... now we gonna see who the fools is. Sonuvabitches. [McCABE pours himself a drink.] Never did fit in this goddamn town. God I hate it when them bastards put their hands on you. I tell you, sometime... sometimes when I take a look at you, I just, I just keep lookin' and a-lookin'... I want to feel your little body against me so bad I think I'm gonna bust. I keep tryin' to tell you in a lot of different ways... if just one time you could be sweet without no money around. I think I could... well, I'll tell you something, I got poetry in me. I do, I got poetry in me! But... I ain't gonna put it down on paper, I ain't no educated man, I got sense enough not to try it. [PAUSE] Can't never say nothin' to you. If you'd just one time let me run the show, I'd... [PAUSE] You're just freezin' my soul, that's what you're doin'. Freezin' my soul... [McCABE pours himself a another drink.] Well, shit! Enjoy yourself, girl. Just go ahead and have a time, what the hell. It's just my luck the only woman ever been one to me ain't nothing but a whore, but what the hell, I never was a percentage man. I suppose a whore's the only kind of woman I'd know.
From McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the best among many outstanding films in Altman's legacy, and one of my favorite movies of all time (up there with Seven Samurai and The Godfather Part 2). Mark Asch has a great post on this flick. See also Scott Lemieux's memorial post at Lawyers, Guns and Money. And Ethan gives a shout-out to my second-favorite Altman.
Stiggs: How would you like to have more fun than you've ever had in your life?
Randall: I don't know, I've had a lot of fun. I have Legos, you know.
Posted by: Seth Gordon | 21 November 2006 at 07:20 PM
You know, for some reason that movie has gone unmentioned in any Altman obit I've seen thus far.
Posted by: DJA | 21 November 2006 at 07:48 PM