"Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family, and they don't belong no place. They got nothing to look ahead to . .
"Well, we ain't like that. We gotta future. We got someone to talk to who gives a damn about us . . . Some day we gunna have us a little house and a coupla acres, and a cow and a pig and a chicken . . ."
"We gunna live off the fat of the land, George, and have rabbits."
"We gunna live off the fat of the land, George, and have rabbits."
". . . and when it rains in the Winter, we'll just say, 'hell with going to work,' and we'll just build a fire in the stove and we'll just set there and we'll listen to the rain . . ."
Hand down, one of John Malkovich's best performances.
This scene is profound.
The vengeful power of the Left as depicted by John Steinbeck and Gary Sinise.
The problem with Lennie is that he's a dissociated fragment of the Left, whereas George is a large part of the remainder of the whole.
George's intellectual and emotional acumen temper one another, and together they complement Lennie's emotional intensity and unbridled empathy.
George is also a perpetual bachelor, with near monastic devotion. He's a stoic, Lennie's opposite.
. . . he's a stoic with everyone except Lennie. Then he's a brother.
George places something pure in Lennie, then he must euthanize his brother . . .
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