best scene...the parlor game played by Clint, Laura Dern and the other 2 lawmen, as they proceed to dissect the Butch Haynes person...nice underplay, but very effective.
2nd best scene...Costner and the boy walk thru the fields...Billy, the boy, tries to hold his hand...the first 2 times, Costner rejects it, but finally he does hold hands with him...no words spoken; none needed.
Butch Haynes finally becomes the father {to the little boy} as they proceed through the county side and through the movie. Butch hates the parental violence he sees inflicted by adults to their children, and has no mercy on such adults {and, I might add, rightfully so...our children are our gems, not burdens}. So that hand-holding scene becomes even more poignant.
I love how Butch's life philosophies are sprinkled...rationalizing how stealing is OK when absolutely needed, how he can't explain how his kissing a woman's rear is something he can't explain, how a boy should be allowed to eat cotton candy and go to the fair, and how he only killed 2 people in his life {that needed killing}.
I'd like to see how Billy turned out ten years later.
Why no Oscar nominations? {Those type of omissions annoy me, like no nomination for Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws.}
BTW, great music throughout too.
2nd best scene...Costner and the boy walk thru the fields...Billy, the boy, tries to hold his hand...the first 2 times, Costner rejects it, but finally he does hold hands with him...no words spoken; none needed.
Butch Haynes finally becomes the father {to the little boy} as they proceed through the county side and through the movie. Butch hates the parental violence he sees inflicted by adults to their children, and has no mercy on such adults {and, I might add, rightfully so...our children are our gems, not burdens}. So that hand-holding scene becomes even more poignant.
I love how Butch's life philosophies are sprinkled...rationalizing how stealing is OK when absolutely needed, how he can't explain how his kissing a woman's rear is something he can't explain, how a boy should be allowed to eat cotton candy and go to the fair, and how he only killed 2 people in his life {that needed killing}.
I'd like to see how Billy turned out ten years later.
Why no Oscar nominations? {Those type of omissions annoy me, like no nomination for Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws.}
BTW, great music throughout too.