'Shooter' - Political statements 

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Line is so fucking great.

Truth- and the way he delivers it

@@bradspurlin401 That was exactly what made it great. No sinister inflection or face, not bragging, just stating it matter-of-factly, as if he hadn't just admitted to being part of one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

And that one sentence hinted to a life much cooler than just being a great gunsmith. That would almost warrant a standalone prequel.

The actor they chose in this movie 🍿🎥 who uddered those words couldn't have looked more like one of those guys that would most definitely still have one of the original shovels!!!!

It's an odd thing, but elderly gun men seem to radiate more knowledge and wisdom than literally anybody else.

@@Azraiel213 "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."

@@KS-xk2so Huh. Never knew that gunsmithing was that brutal.

@@midgetman4206 based on his reply "still got the shovel" we can infer he was more than just a gunsmith. Clearly some sort of trigger man in his younger days. You don't get that kind of wisdom only from books

@@Azraiel213a young man can accomplish this with the advice the nuns in school gave us: "God gave you two ears and one mouth so you listen twice as much as you talk". People HEAR, but they don't LISTEN. youth have it bad since they live in someone else's world (their parents', etc) and are trying to claim their place inside it. so they show off too much when they should be watching, listening, and learning. if you can learn the tool of listening without showing any signs of judgment, strangers will often stop with the BS designed to impress and begin unburdening themselves and telling you what they've done. You can learn through their experiences and then try another solution when you are in their shoes. The next tool is to learn not WHAT happened, nor HOW it happened...but WHY. figure out human nature, and you figure out what drives people. you can begin to predict their future reactions to situations that haven't happened yet. and yes, it's also good to experience. people see life as a spectator sport. don't buy your way out of problems, don't rely on friends and family...try to solve it yourself. knowledge comes from a book, but it also comes from experience. wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge, and that usually isn't taught from a book. what worked for the author may not work for you.

I took that a little further. " When you think you got a woman figured out, your wrong...

Truth

Everyone is trying to sell something. If you can't figure out what they are selling...they're selling you (like signing up for a free raffle--they're selling your contact info). When you can see past the sales pitch, you start figuring out what's really going on. but sometimes people are still too ego-centric to really see what's going on. they want the universe to make sense, to care about right and wrong.

Got that shit right mister.......... Too bad the rest of the people Ain't figured it out

Very true statement.

Perfect example is all the False Flags that took place to get us involved in wars.

Makes the whole "Democrat vs Republican" thing seem like a rich kid's squabble in the grand scheme of things.

Amen

Meaning greed and power can't be killed

Hence the Hydra!

Yup just saw that! Reminds me of something my pappy use to say. You can judge a man by the calluses on his hands, his strengths of his forearms and the size of his calves. He said they are all working man muscles. Also one of my shooting instructors told me that you can tell if that person trains by the callous on his trigger finger.

Always wondered bout that thx

Right?!?!

How you didn’t get that the first go is astounding.

You missed a part. He knew his rank because he knew he was Swaggart. That is why he called him Gunnie. Wisdom….. remember?

The way he said "Anna Nicole married for love", you can tell no acting was really involved.

I would of been disappointed at this scene if I was a gunsmith. Really paper patch bullet if you know anything about guns that statement was completely illogical when taking about modern day bullets

It wouldn’t? How come? Just curious 🧐.

@@christophercremo3020 modern bullet design wouldn't really work unless you shot it out of a sabo with a shotgun. But then you lack the velocity needed to make such a long shot.

@@dovahbear0 wrong! You’re assuming one layer of paper and same caliber rifle… but multiple layers of paper and a barrel designed to be a slightly larger caliber/bore than the one the bullet went through the first time would definitely work…. Not saying sabot isn’t easier, but sabot would leave plastic residue on the bullet, paper is much less likely to leave a trace…..

I agree 100%

Absolutely! I've watched it 3 times first time watching this movie.

He was very good in the role and even though his scene was only 5 minutes, it was pivotal for the whole movie. Unfortunately, in hollyweird, most action movies and the actors in them, never get recognized, even though these are the movies that make most of the money. For at least the last 10 years, super hero type movies are the highest grossing, yet nobody gets an Oscar nomination. In the rare instances that it does happen, the category will be for something like CGI.

By far the best scene in the movie, largely due to his role and how well he played it!

@@ronniecoleman2342 LOL. Maybe thats because 14,000 people live there?

Probably the most memorable and impactful scene from the entire movie. That guy did an excellent job and the writers did too.

@@RustCole01 100% agree with you.

What does that scene mean?

Leon Helm was superb!

@@saongpark2423 He's talking about being the shooter in a conspiracy is a bad job to take. Then follows it up with "them boys on the grassy knoll was dead 3 hours after the shot, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere out in the desert" The conspiracy theory and one many think is true is that there was 2 shooters on the grassy knoll in front of the motorcade that Kennedy was traveling in that actually shot the killing shot. If you kill the president of the USA and want to minimize the risk of it ever coming out you tie up lose ends, in this case you kill the one(s) who made the shot.

me to...;)

just by him saying have a sit. im ready to listen...

Should hear him sing! Levon helm

I’d listen to him and the Russian too lol

just love talking to older people about what there parents did for work ect great happy hour conversation

😂 wrong story😂

They always tell us before it happens part of ritual

John wick😂?

That's no shit.

The World ain't what it seems does it GUNNY

It may of have 8 new heads and 12 new handles

I had an uncle like that.

My dad is like that. I hate borrowing tools from him because they come with a story from at least 25 years ago. He has a hammer his grandfather used that is over 100 years old. His belt was made in the 70s. He is OCD about EVERY SINGLE TOOL.

Or a man with a silver tongue. People that sound like that are always just really good stroy tellers but that's it just story teller

@S. Fray. Really, and the RED bind book by Shofeld, That had'nt been touched in 15yrs...

All his students would be dumb because if you know anything about guns you would know what he said is completely dumb

@@ffdd6102 please explain

@@mfranks4731 paper patch bullets where design for muskets to create a seal around a loose bullet. It will reduce or eliminate the amount of scorching on the bullet. But in modern bullets in order to make accurate shots especially at long range the bullet literally needs to contact the rifling to create the spin and stay stable. There will literally be no space for the patch and even if there was it would literally rip it apart and score the bullet which completely defies the point. Anyone that reloads bullets would know this

@@ffdd6102 Oh I get it! Cool thanks for the lesson!

The coffee... LMAO That's the first cup of coffee that told Memphis,'You ain't that tough!' He came close to spitting it out, something that wasn't missed by the old gunsmith.

Who's to say it wasn't a German sniper in ww2?

The Jackal

@@Celtic2Realms that's a great catch lol

Not really it just sounds like he just informed

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Jfk was shot by one man alone. It's a silly, pretentious line.

* without the approval of the government.

I agree with Michael Peña. I think he has the best lines and steals the scene. It’s hard to believe one of his earliest parts was “Gone in Sixty Seconds”.

I mean when you get two fantastic actors like that together you're bound to get some incredible performances. Unless you're in a shyamalan flick.

In the books Swagger's father Earl was a serious badass!

He sounds and looks like guys I've gone to church with.

He was from Arkansas. Rural Arkansas and rural TN are not that different. Appalachia and the Ozarks are very very similar.

He sings Also

@@bruceayers512 he does? What, next you going to expect me believe he writes songs too? 😎😎😎

Unfortunately the writers gave Levon dialogue, delivered in a facetious manner, which implies that WMD's were not found in Iraq. Approximately five thousand WMD's were found in Iraq, all of them chemical, not biological. A few of them leaked and hurt some of our troups. These facts were buried for years by people (apparently Bush haters) in the American intelligence community. This story was broken by a left-wing newspaper, the New York Times. But other leftists love the "no WMD's in Iraq" lie so much that they are still telling it in the mass media.

how so?

@@zanesauer3673 Calluses

@@zanesauer3673 Feeling the calluses on his hands tells the old man he is a person who frequently trains with guns.

Even asking him what he thought about the coffee was recon. He saw his reaction and knew he was used to drinking name brand, probably with sweetener. I'd assume they don't find such luxuries as commonly in the armed forces. Swagger just sips it like it's water.

@@AZA9J6 Good observation, I had noticed that but could figure why they included it. So much subtitle detail in such a simple scene

Too true.

that's the diff between a pro and someone with a credit card. the pro knows where everything in his "shop" is located because he put the tool back--cleaned off--when he was done. everyone else just takes the easy way out and then goes hunting for their tools later.

Patron Saint

@@norsktoolmaker88 Yeah, but that's not what Wahlberg's character said. He said "Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff". *** just over half way down the page... www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a2/shooter-script-transcript.html

@@davidanderson4091 lol I live here in Tennessee and I can attest it still is the patron state of shooting stuff 🤣

Athens Tennessee!

@@davidanderson4091 Perhaps 12 years of catholic school has trained my ears to the origin of the phrase which is "Saint". No chicken or egg dilemma for me. Unrelated, this must have been the last performance for Levon Helm. Lead vocal for one of the sacred songs of music, "The Weight" by The Band. Not easy to do while being drummer as well.

to a point, yes. I used to have a coworker raised by a Marine Sniper who went on to become a machinist for the aerospace industry. Poor kid was taught only one way to do everything--perfect. I had to teach him to triage, pick out what tasks needed to simply be done, what had to be perfect (which was very little) when was "perfection the enemy of the good", and that sometimes, "how you got the job done" was less important than, "did you get the result?". but there are some good points, like the red book. the gunsmith knows exactly where it is because when he's done with his tools, he puts them back where they belong, not just where it's convenient. i've watched plenty of "shade tree mechanics" waste time looking for the right tool for the job because they just put it down someplace--and often as not give up and then half-ass the job with the wrong tool. "an expert is someone who minds the details better than the rest of us"

​@@albertgaspar627 as my mother said: "Don't just put it down, baby, put it away. Never know when you're gonna need it again."

You're almost right. Round up does carry some of the ingredients. However, it needs a little tweaking not to hard even by an amateur chemist 😉

@@sgtbrown4273 I concur.

this is some very useful knowledge

@@sgtbrown4273 ... not too* hard

that is a good detail, but hopping the fence of someone you know is into guns? that's just asking to meet the wrong end of one of them.

They were on his land for a while before hoping that fence, so the guy knew there were comming, and he knew that it was Swaggert, callling him Gunny and all, hell his wife already made coffee for them!!

There are others featuring Bob Lee's Daddy. I just finished Hot Springs. Havana too.

What are the titles first to last? I’d love to start the series of reading!

Pale Horse Coming featured his father Earl. Serious badass!

​@@keithmay1033Google Stephen Hunter and they will list the books in chronological order.

There are actually about 8 or 10 Swagger books and several about his father Earl.

Does he mean that greed and power can't be killed

... it was written*

I have read I, Sniper. That was a good book.

​@@MrPolicekarimI haven't made it that far in the series. So far I've read Shooter, Dirty White Boys, and Blacklight and they were all excellent. I'm gonna assume I, Sniper is a pretty good read as well since Hunter at least in my view has gotten better each book he gets published.

The Band did this song so much better than Joan Baez, with more emotion. Levon has got to be the only drummer/lead singer I've ever heard of.

Great song by Robbie Robertson

​​@@txgunguy2766len frey of the Eagles, Karen Carpenter, phil collins

This one stands out. Ant Man is fun, but in this movie he's great.

He said" wickedness"...human wickedness"

@@montuckyman4982 He says weakness.

Greed and power can't be killed

There are* no Sunnis and Shiites, there are* no Ds and Rs, there are* only haves and have-nots - same as "there are no sides".

They called him "The White Death", right?

Does video game count

That’d be Simo Hayha.

Had his cheek blown off by a Soviet incendiary bullet but lived into his 90s

@@sethgriffin6014 He kept snow in his mouth to hide the vapor from his breath while shooting. An enemy sniper finally put a round through Simo's face and he had to retire after recovering.

... he recognizes* them.

Agree. Wahlberg is good but he has never had a scene stolen with such class and humility.

@@jsjs6755 ... I'm sure it wasn't stolen...he loved the way that played out... I bet it was on the first take... " That's a print ! "

...he was told " Mind your manners " ... " Good coffee ? " Yup...cough cough...haaaa

... used* to go

Dude I couldn’t breathe lmao😂😭

He was checking his hands for callous.

for lying about the coffee

Yeah, people can't do bad things without a government telling them to. You know yourself this is complete nonsense!

I actually did a spit take in the cinema when I heard that line.

My Dr. Pepper just ran down my mouth when I heard that line. 😦

Dig at what happened with Kennedy. Grassy Knoll specifically mentioned is what gives it away

this clip is chocked full of 'wokeness' ya drip

​@@soulmod63conspiracy anymore are the opposite of wokeness belief. If you mean political then yes

@@crazychase98 Can you define woke for me? Really curious to see what it means to you. Seems like its anything you don't like, the real definition, as per the African Americans who invented it used it as a term of enlightenment or a term meaning "Stay alert to racism", it's pretty sad how it's been hijacked by racists and bigots these days

You also here to get an idea of what happens to the democrats in the US once voter fraud has been confirmed?

@@crispytendies1433 the only thing you learn from politics is that the world is run by people that are barely human.

@@jackoates6418 The keepers aren't human creampuff!!!!!!

@GIL Favor you will never have ovaries.

@@crispytendies1433 NOTHING. HOW DO YOU LIKE THOSE APPLES

In the book Point of Impact ,he uses a .318 bore with paperpatch .308 bullet in the .300 Holland&Holland case to frame Bob Lee .

@@MrPh30 damn good book wasn't it? Almost made you feel like you were behind the rifle

I use it to keep from lead fouling the lands on hot loads

Yeah

He is in fact croatian actor Rade Serbedzija

No Russian, Serbian.

Yes

Guess it was to see who was used to shooting

The tools you work with forms callus on your hand. By looking and feeling their hands, he can tell what they do for a living. That’s how he figured out he’s talking to Bob Lee.

... in-depth* / a* lot* / to look and listen to*

To your point "real shooters" tend to build up calluses on the hands that serves almost as a Sherlock Holmes clue as to the man's profession. Like the Cimmerians and the sword forge being their church , firearms are a church in their own right and men like snipers are its priests. JT

And he said it with a bit of joy, like he was telling kids a story of how the evil villain in the story was beaten and ran away