13 quotes
Confronting Racial Identity and Injustice
John Joker Jackson
Ya'll can't lynch me! I'm a white man!
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Impending Conflict on the Road Ahead
Sheriff Max Muller
They'll probably kill each other before they go five miles.
[why they don't have to worry about finding the two convicts]
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The Essence of Meanness Revealed
Noah Cullen
There, now just the meanness shines through.
[after covering Joker's face with mud so it doesn't show in the moonlight]
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Struggling with Commitment and Encouragement
John Joker Jackson
Cullen, I can't make it.
Noah Cullen
Come on, man, you draggin the chain.
[Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together]
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Celebrating Greatness in The Defiant Ones
Taglines
One of the great ones!
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Rescue and Responsibility in Adversity
Noah Cullen
I almost... swallowed half that river. Thanks.
[after almost drowning]
John Joker Jackson
What for?
Noah Cullen
For pullin me out.
John Joker Jackson
Man, I didn't pull you out. I kept you from pullin me in.
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Humor in Unlikely Circumstances of Injustice
Law officer
How come they chained a white man to a black?
Sheriff Max Muller
The warden's got a sense of humor.
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Conflict Over Risky Plans in Pineville
Noah Cullen
Pineville's south, I don't go south.
John Joker Jackson
I used to know a girl in Pineville, if she's still there we get this broke now come on.
Noah Cullen
And then what? I'm a strange colored man in a white south town, how long you think before they pick me up?
John Joker Jackson
Get off my back I ain't married to you. Now what do I care? Come on!
Noah Cullen
You married to me alright Joker. Now here's the ring but I ain't goin south on no honeymoon now!
[holds up the chains]
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Acceptance of Identity and Its Consequences
John Joker Jackson
Well, that's what you are, ain't it? It's like callin a spade a spade...That name sure bugs you, don't it? Well, that's the way it is, and you're stuck with it, cos I didn't make any rules.
[about calling Cullen the N-word]
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Confrontation Over Racial Slurs in The Defiant Ones
Noah Cullen
Nigger! You call me that again, and I'll kill you!
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Opposites Attract in Unlikely Partnerships
Taglines
They couldn't like each other less. They couldn't need each other more.
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Confrontation of Identity and Control
Noah Cullen
Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.
[to Joker; Joker punches him]
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A Lifetime of Anger
Noah Cullen
I ain't gettin mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.
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