Saturday, November 18, 2006

Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand...


Nate and I sat around this morning and watched the movie Cool Hand Luke. Aside from being a great movie with one of the best titular lines in the world:
Dragline: Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
along with this:
Captain, Road Prison 36: What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
the egg eating contest and the fist fight, and the capstone:
Dragline: He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

1 comment:

Jon said...

Best line from the movie is:
Boss Carr-"Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box"