101 Things I Learned From Silverado
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El_Stone — 11 years ago(July 07, 2014 09:34 AM)
- Hangings don't always happen at sunrise.
- Scott Glenn likes to get up pretty early.
- Shooting while jumping sideways is a surprisingly effective way to kill people.
- If you're on a wagon train don't put all your money in one box.
- If you're on a wagon train and you do put all your money in one box, don't show that box to the strangers you hired to take you to Silverado.
- Kevin Costner likes to hide under things.
- Sometimes in a western, the cowboys don't run into any Indians.
- There's a sandy desert somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona, that's too big to walk across. Even in the winter, when it's not hot, it's better just to lay your head on a rock and die.
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freemanpatrick7 — 10 years ago(June 04, 2015 11:28 PM)
- There's a sandy desert somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona, that's too big to walk across. Even in the winter, when it's not hot, it's better just to lay your head on a rock and die.
There actually is. It's called Glamis.
"Whatever happened to Fay Wray?"
- There's a sandy desert somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona, that's too big to walk across. Even in the winter, when it's not hot, it's better just to lay your head on a rock and die.
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signlady — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 12:37 AM)
- You can spew coffee, fall over laughing, and/or get a knot-pain in your side from laughing so hard at the things you learnt from Silverado
- When practicing for definite up-coming gun fights with the bad guys, keep a knife on you so you can cut the rope with your free hands, in case they find you right after you emptied your pistols, and lasso you around the torso.
- practicing for definite up-coming gun fights, be sure you are really far enough out in the vast desert that no one can hear you, or find you.
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signlady — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 12:50 AM)
- If your friend has been hog tied and is being bullied by three bad guys, and one of the bad guys has rode a horse over him a couple of times, and you arrive 'just short' of your friends death, simply shoot one of the bad guys in the hand and take their horses away so they have to walk back to town. This was sufficient punishment for bad guys the old western days.
- Letting really bad guys live after 3-4 times they couldve easily been shot insures an extensive shoot-out scene in town
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signlady — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 01:20 AM)
- Always wear long johns that are real baggy in the crotch
- If you ride out of the bad guys barn where you've been hiding, you can ride across his porch and shoot thru thru a couple of windows before you know exactly where all your guys are . . .
- Sheriffs remove their hats before a show-down even when its really sunny.
- Even if your brother-in-law & sisters house burnt down, and they are still in slings & bandages, you can still go ahead and leave town, and they should load up in a wagon and ride out past the edge of town to say goodbye to you.
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signlady — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 01:55 AM)
- Even when the saloon is empty, dead bodies get removed pretty quick from the porch during shoot outs
- The man who owns the general store displays his porceline dishes outside prior to a shoot-out even the old west had insurance schemes
- Regardless of how small a town was, people still had to 'hide and watch' to find out what was goin' on
- If you run the gambling in the saloon you are extremely dispensable and can have no job security.
- Everyone casually trusts any stranger who comes to town, even if he is a gambler named 'slick' and is probably jewish.
- During a shoot-out in town the sheriff can just casually sit on the porch of the jailhouse ina rocker polishing his badge.
He will not even accidently get shot untilit jis turm to paeticipate.
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MurphAndTheMagicTones — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 03:26 PM)
- No matter who you are, you'll get a first-class hanging in Silverado.
- Blind Pete is an expert lock picker but not a good prognosticator.
- Never shoot anyone while holding a coffee. You WILL spill.
- Missouri posses don't care if you are dealing with a dog one of your gang shot.
- Jake didn't have to buy; he was at the Midnight Star first.
- Give the guns you stole from a quick-draw artist back from him and you get to live through at least the morning.
- If you eat breakfast in Turley, order extra biscuits.
- Sometimes it's OK to have someone try to kill you. It's an excuse to get up.
- Someone give Emmett a drink before he dies of thirst!
- If you want your uncles to ease up the restrictions on jumping onto a horse, just get kidnapped.
"After a third date, women start expecting things."
"Like a fourth date?"
My Boys
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signlady — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 08:44 PM)
(lol!!)
9. Jake can drop down from a weighted, sqeaky pully immediately behind two bad guys and they wont even hear him and turn around til the weight drops at which point jake has drawn two guns and shot both of them.
8. If a couple of strangers keep starin' at your wife and comment on how pretty she is, its none of their business, but do NOT go off and leave her
7. There is no silver, silver-smith, place to cash in silver, or a silver mine in Silverado
8. If you're hiding someone in a shed below some second story windows, AND you're a midget, be sure to look up when you sneak out for help -
signlady — 11 years ago(January 27, 2015 09:19 PM)
- Regardless of how vast the territory and how miniscule the population is, chances are you will still be found by someone even if your lying in.the middle of a desert at deaths door.
- Emmett & Mal are really good at showing up just before youre dead
- At a town picnic, the bad guys can ride in shooting up stuff, knocking stuff over, knocking people down, and trying to burn buildings, seriously endangering the lives of women, children, and the elderly, but the good guys mostly just watch and dont try to stop this UNTIL the bad guys shoot a citizen apparently THAT'S the signal to start shootin' the bad guys
I defer to another writer for the final 2 revelations and add this note; in spite of these humorous little gaffs, I still love the movie, own it, and watch it when I go thru all my westerns ; )
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Blackarachnia-XXX — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 12:45 PM)
Special Mention: Kevin Costner is actually an adept acrobat who can spin round and round on a square overhead beam in a barn, and climb around like a monkey in a jail cell - and also incredible at twirling and spinning both pistols in his hands around really fast in tandem.