Yancy Cravat: Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.

Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.

Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
Sol Levy: They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it.
Sabra Cravat: Did you have to kill him?

Yancy Cravat: No, I could have let him kill me.
Sabra Cravat: Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?

Yancy Cravat: I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
Yancy Cravat: Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love.
Yancy Cravat: I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
[caption at the beginning of the film]

Caption: In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma Lands for white settlement... 2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming across the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd.
Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.
Yancy Cravat: Why, it'll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman's petticoat!

Sabra Cravat: But you didn't! They can't say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.

Yancy Cravat: Well, you shouldn't interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin'.
Yancy Cravat: Why, we've had enough of this Wichita. We're goin' out to a brand new two-fisted, rip snortin' country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun toters and desperados. Whoopee!
Yancy Cravat: There's loyalty, Sabra, that money can't buy.
Yancy Cravat: The second button on his coat is about the spot of his wishbone. Maybe a couple inches higher.
Yancy Cravat: Dixie Lees have been stoned in the market place for 2,000 years. You've got to drive the devil out first.
Yancy Cravat: Never is a long time.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens:, I have been called upon to conduct this opening meeting of the Osage First Methodist Episcopalian Lutheran Presbyterian Congregational Baptist Catholic Unitarian Hebrew Church.

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Cimarron short comments

Aletha 2022-04-20 09:02:25

2.5. Oscar's first Western BP. Compared with the chivalrous cowboy image and the eulogized personal heroism created by traditional western films, this film has made great innovations. The script spanned 40 years and staged a true portrayal of the changing times in a two-hour capacity. From the development of the West to the exploitation of oil mines, from black people to Indians, a series of iconic events were skillfully combined into the main line of the plot. Going forward, the film has a heavy epic atmosphere. Yang Xi's character has the idealistic hero image in traditional western films. He draws his sword to help when he sees injustice, is indifferent to fame and fortune, and has a single-minded feeling, which has laid the foundation for his success. However, unlike traditional heroes, he is not satisfied with the status quo. No matter what achievements are only fleeting, only the road ahead is infinitely attractive, always on the road, always moving forward. This also reflects the value orientation of the United States at that time, always expanding outwards. The value of a hero lies in creating a new world for future generations to enjoy, but the hero has no luck with his own achievements, so he can only continue on the road and start a new adventure.
Randi 2022-03-19 09:01:08

3.5. At a glance at the Western Frontiers, the limelight hero and the vase heroine are exactly the representatives of two values, but they are one-sided. The ending is too beautifying, but it just fits the values of the old beauty. However, the spirit of exploration in the male protagonist is worthy of praise. Sao Nian should learn more.