The Hateful Eight (2015)
Bruce Dern: General Sandy Smithers
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Quotes
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Sheriff Chris Mannix : May I sit down, sir?
General Sandy Smithers : According to the Yankees, it's a free country.
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General Sandy Smithers : I don't know that nigger. But I know he's a nigger. And that's all I need to know.
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Sweet Dave : [about having Bob watching him play chess with General Smithers] I like whipping this old man's ass in front of an audience.
General Sandy Smithers : You ain't whipping shit!
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Jody : Now do you have any reason why you would want to interfere with me saving my sister from a hangman's rope?
General Sandy Smithers : No.
Jody : You don't?
General Sandy Smithers : No I don't.
Jody : You sure you don't? I mean we did just kill Minnie and Sweet Dave. And you and Sweet Dave looked mighty chummy over there.
General Sandy Smithers : I just met these people, I don't give a damn about them! Or you, or your sister. Or any other son of a bitch in Wyoming for that matter.
Jody : [menacingly] That is a GOOD answer, old man.
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Major Marquis Warren : [after some initial hostility, Warren and Smithers seem to be conversing almost friendly about Smithers' family] Yeah, your boy came up here a few years back. He spoke highly of his mama too.
General Sandy Smithers : You knew my boy?
Major Marquis Warren : Do I know him? Yeah.
[laughs]
Major Marquis Warren : Yeah, I knew him.
General Sandy Smithers : [coldly] You did not know my boy.
Major Marquis Warren : [shrugs] Suit yourself.
[gets up to leave]
General Sandy Smithers : [grabs Warren by the arm, pleadingly] Did you know my son?
Major Marquis Warren : I know the day he died. Do you?
General Sandy Smithers : No.
Major Marquis Warren : You wanna know what day that was?
General Sandy Smithers : Yes.
Major Marquis Warren : The day he met me.
[slowly draws one of his guns and places it within Smithers' reach]
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Sheriff Chris Mannix : [as Warren approaches General Smithers] Warren, goddamn it, you leave that old man alone.
Major Marquis Warren : Stand down, you son of a bitch. I shared a battlefield with this man.
Major Marquis Warren : [to Smithers] Or would you deny me that too?
General Sandy Smithers : I suppose you were there.
Major Marquis Warren : May I join you?
General Sandy Smithers : Yes, you may.
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Major Marquis Warren : General Sanford Smithers? Battle of Baton Rouge?
General Sandy Smithers : [to Mannix] Inform the nigger in the cavalry officer's uniform that I had a division of Confederates under my command... in Baton Rouge!
Sheriff Chris Mannix : [stands up] MAJOR NIGGER! General Smithers wishes me to inform you...
Major Marquis Warren : [raises hand] I heard him, hillbilly! Inform this old cracker that I was in Baton Rouge also... on the other side.
Sheriff Chris Mannix : Oh, that's interesting.
[to Smithers]
Sheriff Chris Mannix : General Smithers, he said he was also in Baton Rouge on the other side...
General Sandy Smithers : Captain Mannix! Tell the nigger that I don't acknowledge niggers in northern uniform!
Major Marquis Warren : [to Smithers] You captured a whole colored command that day... but not one colored trooper made it to camp, did they?
General Sandy Smithers : We didn't have the time or the food...
[pause]
General Sandy Smithers : Nor the inclination to care for nothern horses and LEAST OF ALL, NORTHERN NIGGERS!
[pause]
General Sandy Smithers : SO WE SHOT 'EM WHERE THEY STOOD!
[Warren suddenly drops his coffee cup and goes for the gun in his holster]
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Sheriff Chris Mannix : [pointing Major Marquis Warren] Do you know who that nigger is?
General Sandy Smithers : I don't know who that nigger is, but I know he is a nigger, and that is all I need to know.