'And call of Christmas!'
Hilarious!
shareKEEEELLLLLOOOSSEEEE THHHHHHAAATTT GATTTTTEEEE!!
but yeah he's completely hamming it up
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They kept wanting to sign him for the part, he played hard to get until they offered to let him play the role as he saw fit. He's clearly improvising lots of the lines and the result is a truly memorable Sheriff.π
shareCompletely owned the movie, in my opinion. I don't think it would be worth watching if he hadn't been in it.
My life...has taken me beyond the planets and the stars
They needed an interesting, broad villain to make up for the paper-thin, uninteresting hero.
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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..you're my villain now?
..bland, do not have a care about, boring?
It's "off", just a keyword malfunction. I know what you mean. That was funny. Man & his people can't take a holiday because the guy wants to show he's in charge and people need to fall in line or otherwise they'll get charcoal in their stockings. Good Lord!
shareLOL! I wonder what he meant when he also said "no more merciful beheadings." They're going to stone people now cause he's pissed off?!
share"no more merciful beheadings", as in (most likely) all the beheadings will now be done with dull blades that won't penetrate all the way through the victim's neck in one blow, plus the headsman might not swing his sword hard enough to lob off the victim's head in one blow, all of this making the beheading a slow, torturous death instead of a quick one.
share"no more merciful beheadings", as in (most likely) all the beheadings will now be done with dull blades
...or done with a spoon...
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I like at the end of Anne of A Thousand Days, some merciful soul gets Anne's (Gen' Bujold) attention so as she is not straining and concentrating on the executioner. She turns her head, giving the X a chance to land a proper blow. She was the Queen of England, after all.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.
I thought he meant no more beheadings in general which up to this point was a merciful way to be executed. From now on people were going to be slow hung, beaten or tortured to death.
If you dip your foot into a pool of piranhas don't cry when you lose a toe!ππ
From wikipedia: "in England it was considered the privilege of noblemen to be beheaded. This would be distinguished from a dishonourable death on the gallows or through burning at the stake. In medieval England, the punishment for high treason was to be hanged, drawn and quartered but in the case of nobles and knights it was often commuted to beheading; female commoner traitors were burned at the stake." So, beheading indeed was "merciful" comparing to other types of punishment.
shareTwo thoughts:
A) Beheadings *were* relatively merciful as opposed to other forms of executions, since a good executioner can lop off a head with one stroke. Hanging could take 20 minutes or more and was horribly undignified. Disembowelment, or being hanged, drawn, and quartered was worse, and don't even get me started on being burned at the stake, or being stuck in a cage, exposed to the elements, until you slowly starved. The ancient Romans actually used beheadings as a privilege: they only crucified slaves and non-citizens (the Apostle Paul, for example, being a Roman citizen, was beheaded).
B) It could just be Rickman hamming it up. Keep in mind, canceling a religious holy day and changing the rules regarding the punishments for capital offenses aren't actually things a local sheriff has the authority to do. Those things come from people who are higher up in the chain (i.e, Richard). Rickman was probably just playing the scene for laughs.
One thing I didn't understand, and never did understand, is 'why a spoon cousin... why not an axe or...?"
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I think it's just for comedic purposes. It was such a random thing to say even Guy of Gisborne is confused as to the eccentricity. Then the Sheriff says 'because it's dull you twit, it'll hurt more'.
If you dip your foot into a pool of piranhas don't cry when you lose a toe!ππ
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Whole film is full of brilliant quotes from Rickman, sadly missed π’
"No, he's useless. He's absolutely useless. He's as useless as a marzipan dildo."
You. My room. 10:30 tonightGreat lines and delivered so brilliantly. I agree, such a tragic loss to cinema.
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We have to show the world that not all of us are like him: Henning von Tresckow. share