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The Proposition is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by John Hillcoat released in USA on 9 june 2006 with Guy Pearce

The Proposition (2005)

The Proposition
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Captain Stanley

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Australia. What fresh hell is this?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Arthur Burns is a monster. An abomination. You were right to break company with him. What happened at the Hopkins place was unforgivable. I have never seen such a sickening sight. Did you know that that poor woman, Eliza Hopkins, had a child in her belly?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You have nine days, Mr. Burns.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I've kept company with bad men all my life.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I will civilize this land.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I wish to present you with a proposition. I know where Arthur Burns is. It is is a godforsaken place. The blacks won't go there, nor the trackers. Not even my own men. I suppose, in time, the bounty hunters will get him. But I have other plans. I aim to bring him down. I aim to show that he is a man like any other. I aim to hurt him. And what will most hurt him? Well, I've thought long and hard about that. And I've realized, Mr. Burns, that I must become a little more inventive in my methods.

Charlie Burns


Facebook Share this quote on facebook You touch my brother again, I'll kill you.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You know, Samuel, the thing I relished the most while I was away? Was not having to see your fucking face all the time.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I'm going to be with my brother

Arthur Burns

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Why can't you ever just … stop me?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You got me, Charlie. What are you gonna do now?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Look at that. Be humble of heart, Charlie. This is the end of things. You're my brother. You belong with me. We are a family. All of us.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Mikey's not the same stuff as us. We will be flung to the depths, you and I.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Love. Love is the key. Love and family. For what are night and day, the sun, the moon, the stars without love and those you love around you? What could more hollow than to die alone, unloved?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Molly O'Boyle, my arse.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook [After being shot] Oh, not the gut, Charlie. Shit.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook [As Samuel tries to rape Martha] Listen to that. He sings just like a bird.


Jellon Lamb

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I was, in days gone by, a believer. But, alas, I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just … evaporated. Let us change our toast, then, to the God that has forgotten us.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Mr. Murphy, Russia, China, the Congo. Oh, I have traveled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea. But nothing, nothing could've prepared me for this godforsaken hole.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You see, My Dude, I am something of a fortune hunter.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook [Motions for Charlie to put his gun away] No, no need for that. No need for that. We are white men, you and I!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jellon Lamb. Citizen of the world, you might say, an adventurer, and, if I may be so bold, a man of no little education.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Charles, eh? Perhaps you've read On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin? Oh, don't be thrown by the title, he had some most fascinating things to say. Chilling things! Mr. Darwin spent time studying Aboriginals. He claims we are, at bottom … one and the same! [Laughs] He infers, Mr. Murphy, that we a share a common ancestry with monkeys! Monkeys!

Two Bob

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You've got the wrong fucking black man.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Here's your knife back, you dog.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I think the job's fucking done.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook It's all your fault, Charlie. You should never have left us.

Others

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Samuel Stote: Without me and my crack shootin', you'd be fucking dingo dinner. 30 yards away, I was. And, pchoo! Blew that black bastard's head right off. It was beautiful.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Martha Stanley: She was my friend!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Soldiers: [singing] On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: five cats a-floggin, four nooses swinging, three crows a-pecking, two dogs a-pissing, and little Mikey hanging from a pear tree!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Eden Fletcher: If you have to kill one, make sure you bloody well kill them all.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jacko: Fellow in the picture, he live in a cave. Dog man. Big fella. He said Dog Man never sleep. He sit there all day. Sit down, in the cave. Way up. He live with small fella and black fella. Cannot catch him. Cannot kill him.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jacko: Strange mob, you whities.

Dialogue

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Captain Stanley: Now, suppose I told you there was a way to save your little brother Mikey from the noose. Suppose I gave you a horse and a gun. Suppose, Mr. Burns, I was to give both you and your young brother Mikey, here, a pardon. Suppose I said that I could give you the chance to expunge the guilt beneath which you so clearly labor. Suppose I gave you till Christmas. Now, suppose you tell me what it is I want from you.
Charlie Burns: You want me to kill me brother.
Captain Stanley: I want you to kill your brother.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jellon Lamb: [capturing Charlie Burns] Good boy! Nice and tight, eh? Right. Up we get. [Charlie struggles] Oh, no, I wouldn't try that if I were you. Ligatures and knots are one of my many talents. Right. And it appears that you are singularly bereft of any talents whatsoever, Mr. Burns. To be speared by a savage? How extraordinarily quaint. Easy, Mr. Burns. I was drunk. You only got me because I was drunk. Well, I'm not drunk now. I'm on the job now. Not a bad day's work, either. For what is an Irishman, but a nigger turned inside out? Now, we're gonna sit down on this log. Nice and easy, Mr. Burns. There.
[Jellon is shot in the back]
Arthur Burns: [walks up] I really need to stop saving your life, brother.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Martha Stanley: But he's no more than a boy.
Sgt. Lawrence: Oh, he's man enough, Ma'am. Man enough, indeed.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jellon Lamb: Forgive me, sir, but I've been stuck here with no one but this sorry sack of Hibernian pig shit for conversation. Poor, poor Dan O'Reilly. Sit, sir. Drink with me.
[Charlie cocks his gun and points it to Lamb]
Charlie Burns: One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?
Jellon Lamb: Oh, as the waters of Ennis, sir. Let us drink, then, to the Irish. No finer race of men have ever … peeled a potato.
[Charlie cocks his gun again and points it to Lamb]
Charlie Burns: Do you pray, Mr. Lamb?
Jellon Lamb: Good Lord, son. No, I do not.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jacko: They say he is dog.
Capt. Stanley: What? He eats dog?
Jacko: No, Captain, sir. He is dog!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jellon Lamb: [speaking about Arthur Burns] We are white men, sir, not beasts. Oh, he sits up there in those melancholy hills; some say he sleeps in caves like a beast, slumbers deep like the Kraken. The blacks say that he is a spirit. The troopers will never catch him. Common force is meaningless, Mr. Murphy, as he squats up there on his impregnable perch. So I wait, Mr. Murphy. I wait.
Charlie Burns: [knocks Jellon out with a beer mug] Aye, you wait. You wait here … bounty hunter.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook [Looking at the sunset]
Samuel Stote: It sure is pretty.
Arthur Burns: You can never get your fill of nature, Samuel. To be surrounded by it is to be stilled. It salves the heart. The mountains, the trees, the endless plains. The moon, the myriad of stars. Every man can be made quiet and complete. Even the lowliest misanthrope or the wretchedest sinners.
Samuel Stote: What's a misanthrope, Arthur?
Two Bob: Some bugger who fucking hates every other bugger.
Samuel Stote: Hey, I didn't ask you, you black bastard!
Arthur Burns: He's right, Samuel. A misanthrope is one who hates humanity.
Samuel Stote: Is that what we are? Misanthropes?
Arthur Burns: Good Lord, no! We're family!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jellon Lamb: "There's night and day, brother. Both sweet things. Sun, moon and stars, all sweet things. Very quiet now. There's a wind on the heath. Life is very … sweet, brother."
Arthur Burns: "Life is very sweet, brother. Who would wish to die?" George Borrow, I believe. A worthy writer and a beautiful sentiment, sir. But you're not my brother.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Charlie Burns: You're a copper, Stanley, not a judge and jury.
Capt. Stanley: Clearly, Mr. Burns, I am what I wish to be.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Capt. Stanley: Do I need to introduce myself?
Charlie Burns: I know who you are.
Capt. Stanley: Good. And I know who you are.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Capt. Stanley: Well, allow me to address the subject of your brother, Mr. Burns. Christmas, as you're probably aware, is fast approaching. And Christmas this year will hold a unique significance for young Micky here.
Charlie Burns: [correcting him] Mikey.
Capt. Stanley: Because on Christmas day, I have made plans for him to taken from the jail in Banyon and hanged by the neck until he is dead.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Charlie Burns: So, what is it that you want?
Capt. Stanley: I want Arthur Burns.
Charlie Burns: I no longer ride with me brother.
[Stanley takes out his gun, pauses for a moment, and then pistol whips Mikey across the face]
Capt. Stanley: Now, I will allow you a moment to think about it.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Capt. Stanley: Make no mistake, Mr. Burns. It will be done. I will civilize this place.
Charlie Burns: The fuck are you talking about, Stanley?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Eden Fletcher: Tomorrow morning, I want Mike Burns flogged. As I said, one-hundred lashes.
Capt. Stanley: This will kill him.
Eden Fletcher: So be it.
Capt. Stanley: What if I'm right? What if Charlie Burns does as I ask? What if he comes back?
Eden Fletcher: Then we will hang the lot of them.

Cast

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Mick Roughan – Mad Jack Bradshaw