# What movie is this scene/line from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885 "2006-09-15T21:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/1 "2006-09-15T21:04:13Z")
First, I apologize to my fellow dopers for getting all carried away and asking this question in the “guess the movie from the line” game. My bad. Won’t happen again. Now to the business at hand. It’s in a Western, possibly one of the later Clint Eastwood films. The scene is muddy main street, a hearse with the body in it getting ready to head for Boot Hill, the cynical old undertaker up top, and by his side his apprentice. There’s been so much killing in town, the kid is concerned about the undertaker going out of business because the population has dwindled (I think that’s the situation.) Anyway, the cynical undertaker snorts derisively and says, “Naw, as long as fuckin’ is more fun than dyin’, we’ll always have customers” or something of that nature. Anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/2 "2006-09-15T22:43:55Z")
Don’t remember that line, but the lead-in scenario sounds like \*Last Man Standing \* w/ Bruce Willis ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/3 "2006-09-16T04:50:07Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > Don’t remember that line, but the lead-in scenario sounds like \*Last Man Standing \* w/ Bruce Willis Well, Bruce Willis’ movie was a Twenties version of Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” (which was, itself, a Western version of Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”). And I remember the undertaker was an important character in that one. So, is that it? ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/4 "2006-09-16T06:09:41Z")
…And Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was just a take on Dashielle Hammet’s novel, Red Harvest. Last Man Standing’s time and setting did a better job matching the one found in the original story than all the other alternatives. There’s also Miller’s Crossing, which is an adaptation of two of Hammet’s novels, The Glass Key, and Red Harvest. So you could argue that Red Harvest has been adapted for film three and a half times. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/5 "2006-09-16T15:24:02Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Well, Bruce Willis’ movie was a Twenties version of Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” (which was, itself, a Western version of Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”). And I remember the undertaker was an important character in that one. > > So, is that it? Nope, this was a western, set circa 1880s. Undertaker wasn’t necessarily an important character, I don’t think. Probably wasn’t anything that’d be called classic – in fact, I probably wouldn’t remember the movie at all except for that line, which (I think) is a very funny take on the human condition. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/6 "2006-09-16T17:51:19Z")
Did this movie have Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCapprio in it? I can’t remember what it was called but they were in a movie (directed by Sam Raimi, IIRC) which was about some kind of “last man standing” quick draw tournament in the old west. The line mentioned in the OP seems to ring that bell with me, but it’s been years since I saw it and I could be getting it mixed up with something else. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/7 "2006-09-16T17:51:31Z")
I’m having a problem ascertaining which was the first Western to employ the word _fuckin’_ in the dialogue. That would be an appropriate starting point in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/8 "2006-09-16T18:02:16Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Did this movie have Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCapprio in it? I can’t remember what it was called but they were in a movie (directed by Sam Raimi, IIRC) which was about some kind of “last man standing” quick draw tournament in the old west. The line mentioned in the OP seems to ring that bell with me, but it’s been years since I saw it and I could be getting it mixed up with something else. _[The Quick and The Dead](http://imdb.com/title/tt0114214/)_ Oh, so horrid. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/9 "2006-09-16T20:41:34Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Oh, so horrid. I kinda liked it, actually. Classic Raimish (except for the lack of Bruce Campbell and Sam’s brother Ted). Spotted Horse’s death scene alone was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/10 "2006-09-16T22:51:12Z")
> [@Chez Guevara](#): > > I’m having a problem ascertaining which was the first Western to employ the word _fuckin’_ in the dialogue. > > That would be an appropriate starting point in my opinion. Definitely. That would apparently disqualify **A Fistful of Dollars** since it was made in 1964 when that word was still strictly verboten. Was it [**High Plains Drifter**](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068699/)? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/11 "2006-09-17T01:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Definitely. That would apparently disqualify **A Fistful of Dollars** since it was made in 1964 when that word was still strictly verboten. Was it [**High Plains Drifter**](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068699/)? [/QUOTE] Well, if by ‘Western’ he meant a cowboy movie, [Midnight Cowboy](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/) came out in 1969 (four years before High Plains Drifter), and there sure were lots of “fucks” in it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-scene-line-from/372885/12 "2006-09-17T04:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Definitely. That would apparently disqualify **A Fistful of Dollars** since it was made in 1964 when that word was still strictly verboten. Was it [**High Plains Drifter**](http://imdb.com/title/tt0068699/)? [/QUOTE] It runs in my mind that it was that kind of film – gritty, muddy, what passed for realistic back then (whenever “then” was.) I only saw the movie once, that I recall, and I did a search of a script I found online for High Plains Drifter, and the quote – or variations thereof – didn’t come up. Maybe it wasn’t Eastwood, but it was the kind of movie he was making in the mid-70s (when he wasn’t being Dirty Harry.)