The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Daniel Day-Lewis: Hawkeye
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Quotes
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Hawkeye : No! You stay alive! If they don't kill you, they'll take you north up to the Huron lands. Submit, do you hear? You're strong! You survive! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
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British Officer : You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
Hawkeye : I do not call myself subject to much at all.
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Jack Winthrop : You're not coming with us?
Hawkeye : I've got a reason to stay.
Jack Winthrop : That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
Hawkeye : It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.
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Hawkeye : [taking Duncan's gun away] In case your aim's any better than your judgment.
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[last lines]
[Director's Expanded Edition]
Chingachgook : The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.
Hawkeye : That is my father's sadness talking.
Chingachgook : No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here.
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Cora Munro : What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye : I'm looking at you, miss.
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Hawkeye : My father warned me about you...
Cora Munro : [interupting] Your Father?
Hawkeye : Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
Cora Munro : Oh, he did?
Hawkeye : He said "Do not try to understand them".
Cora Munro : What?
Hawkeye : Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".
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Cora Munro : They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye : Because what I'm interested in is right here.
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Hawkeye : My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there's the Cameron's monument. My folks' too, I guess.
Cora Munro : You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it's not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London...
Hawkeye : Sorry to disappoint you.
Cora Munro : No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
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Cora Munro : Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
Hawkeye : After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.
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Hawkeye : Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
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Colonel Munro : And how am I to know it wasn't a raid by thieves?
Hawkeye : The cabin was attacked by a war party fighting with the French. They're sweeping south along the frontier attacking farms and Mohawk villages, all the men are stuck here.
Colonel Munro : I need proof more convincing than this man's opinion before I weaken the fort's defenses by releasing the militia.
Jack Winthrop : Chingachgook had the same opinion about the raid; taken together that's gospel. Your fort will stand or fall depending on Webb's reinforcements, not the presence of the Colonials.
Colonel Munro : I judge military matters here, not you.
Hawkeye : Your judgment is not more important than their right under agreement with Webb to defend their farms and families. Major Hayward was there, he was at John Cameron's, he saw what it was.
Colonel Munro : What exactly did you see Major?
Duncan : [glancing at Cora] I saw nothing that would lead me to the conclusion that it was other than a raid by savages bent on thievery.
Hawkeye : You're a liar.
Colonel Munro : [as Duncan lunges for Hawkeye] Major!
[to Hawkeye]
Colonel Munro : Montcalm is a soldier and a gentleman, not a butcher.
Hawkeye : Easy for you to suppose, it's their women and children on the farms, not yours!
Colonel Munro : You forget yourself, sir.
Jack Winthrop : We're not forgetting Webb's promise.
Colonel Munro : British promises are honored. And the militia will not be released, because I need more definite proof than this man's word.
Jack Winthrop : Nathaniel's word's been good on the frontier a long time before you got here.
Colonel Munro : This meeting is over, the militia stays.
Jack Winthrop : Does the rule of English law no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
Hawkeye : If English law cannot be trusted maybe these people would do better making their own peace with the French.
Duncan : That is sedition!
Hawkeye : That is the truth.
Duncan : I'll have you beaten from this fort!
Hawkeye : Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
Colonel Munro : Anyone fomenting or advocating the leaving of Fort William Henry will be hung for sedition. Anyone actually CAUGHT leaving will be shot for desertion. Now my decision is final. Get out!
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Maj. Duncan Heyward : I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
Hawkeye : I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.
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Hawkeye : I'm Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people. Let the children of the dead Munro and the Yengeese officer go free. This belt which is the record of the days of my father's people speaks for my truth.
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Cora Munro : A breed apart, we make no sense?
Hawkeye : In your particular case, Miss, I'd make an allowance.
Cora Munro : Thank you so much.
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Hawkeye : Take me!
Duncan : [as he is being forced away] My compliments, sir! Take her and get out!
Cora Munro : Duncan! What are they doing to Duncan?
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Hawkeye : I am Le Longue Carabine! My death is a great honor to the Huron, take me!
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Hawkeye : It was a war party. That means they're going to be attacking up and down the frontier.
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Hawkeye : We just dropped in to see how you boys was doing.
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Cora Munro : Yes! Go ahead!
Duncan : What the bloody hell plan is this?
Cora Munro : I want you to go!
Hawkeye : If we go, there's a chance there won't be a fight. There's no powder. If we don't go in that, there's no chance. None! Do you understand?
Duncan : Coward!
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Cora Munro : Our father - Did you see my father?
Hawkeye : From a distance.
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Hawkeye : Out the northern sally port. Strike for the east side of the swamp till you clear the French picket line. Head north over the ridge, then come about southeast. Fork left in Little Meadow and you're free of the outpost and skirmishes.
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Hawkeye : l am Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people.
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Hawkeye : Would the Huron make his Algonquin brothers foolish with brandy and steal his lands to sell them for gold to the white man? Would Huron have greed for more land than a man can use? Would Huron fool Seneca into taking all the furs of all the animals of the forest for beads and strong whiskey?
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Hawkeye : Magua's heart is twisted. He would make himself into what twisted him.
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Hawkeye : Face to the north, and all of a sudden turn left.
