Unforgiven (1992)

Saul Rubinek: W.W. Beauchamp

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Quotes 

• Little Bill Daggett : Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya.

  W.W. Beauchamp : But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first...

  Little Bill Daggett : Then he'll be hurrying, and he'll miss. Look here...

  [stands and draws his gun] 

  Little Bill Daggett : That's about as fast as I can draw, and aim, and hit anything more than ten feet away... 'less it's a barn.

  W.W. Beauchamp : But if he doesn't miss?

  Little Bill Daggett : Then he'll kill ya.

  [chuckles] 

  Little Bill Daggett : Yeah, that's why there's so few dangerous men around like old Bob, like me. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks.

• [Little Bill tells the real story of English Bob's gunfight] 

  Little Bill Daggett : First off, Corky never carried two guns. Though he should have.

  W.W. Beauchamp : No, no, he was, he was called "Two-Gun Corcoran."

  Little Bill Daggett : Yeah well, a lot of folks did call him "Two-Gun" but that wasn't because he was sporting two pistols. That was because he had a dick that was so big it was longer than the barrel of that Walker Colt that he carried. And the only "insultin' to a lady" he ever did was to stick that thing of his into this French lady that Bob here was kind of sweet on.

• [Little Bill is telling Beauchamp the real story of English Bob's gunfight] 

  Little Bill Daggett : You see, the night that Corky walked into the Blue Bottle, and before he knows what's happening, Bob here takes a shot at him! And he misses, 'cause he's so damn drunk. Now that bullet whizzing by panicked old Corky, and he did the wrong thing. He went for his gun in such a hurry that he shot his own damn toe off. Meantime Bob here, he's aiming real good, and he squeezes off another, but he misses, because he's still so damn drunk, and he hits this thousand-dollar mirror up over the bar. And now, the Duck of Death is as good as dead. Because Corky does it right. He aims real careful, no hurry...

  W.W. Beauchamp : And...?

  Little Bill Daggett : BAM! That Walker Colt blew up in his hand, which was a failing common to that model. You see, if old Corky had had two guns instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself.

  W.W. Beauchamp : Wait a minute. You mean that, English Bob killed him when he didn't even have...?

  Little Bill Daggett : Well, old Bob wasn't goin' to wait for Corky to grow a new hand. No, he just walked over there real slow - 'cause he was drunk - and shot him right through the liver. Pop!

• Little Bill Daggett : [correcting W.W Beauchamp]  Eyewitnesses?

  W.W. Beauchamp : Yes, sir.

  Little Bill Daggett : Like the Duck himself, I guess.

  W.W. Beauchamp : The Duke.

  Little Bill Daggett : Duck, I says.

• W.W. Beauchamp : Who, uh, who'd you kill first?

  Will Munny : Huh?

  W.W. Beauchamp : When confronted by superior numbers, an experienced gunfighter will always fire on the best shot first.

  Will Munny : Is that so?

  W.W. Beauchamp : Yeah, Little Bill told me that. And you probably killed him first, didn't you?

  Will Munny : I was lucky in the order, but I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks.

  W.W. Beauchamp : And so, who was next? It was Clyde, right? You must have killed Clyde. Well, it could have been Deputy Andy. Wasn't it? Or, or...

  [Will points the rifle in his face] 

  Will Munny : All I can tell you is who's gonna be last.

  [Beauchamp quickly exits out the front door] 

• Little Bill Daggett : [talking to English Bob, and refering to a book]  That you here, Bob, on the cover? "The Duck of Death?"

  W.W. Beauchamp : Duke. It's the Duke. "Duke of Death."