The Power of the Dog (2021)
Kodi Smit-McPhee: Peter Gordon
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Peter Gordon : When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother's happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?
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[last lines]
Peter Gordon : [reading from the Psalms] "Deliver my soul from the sword. My darling from the power of the dog."
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Peter Gordon : Is something wrong, Phil?
Phil Burbank : [furious] Wrong? For Christ's sake. Every goddamn hide is gone! Oh, she really put her foot in it this time!
Peter Gordon : You think she did it? She sold them?
Phil Burbank : Bloody tootin'. Or maybe even gave them away.
Peter Gordon : W-why? Why would she do that, Phil? She knew we needed the hides.
Phil Burbank : [exploding] Because she was drunk! Pie eyed, she was smashed! I think you'd know from the books your pa left you, that your ma's got... . uhhh what chamacallit alcoholic personality? It comes under the letter A!
Peter Gordon : You're not going to say anything to her?
Phil Burbank : Say anything? I won't say nothin'. But sure as one good hell brother George is going to.
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Peter Gordon : Did Bronco Henry teach you to ride, Phil?
Phil Burbank : Yep. He taught me to use my eyes in ways that other people can't. Take that hill over there. Most people look at it and just see a hill. Where Bronco looked at it, what do you suppose he saw?
Peter Gordon : A barking dog.
Phil Burbank : The hell, you just saw that now?
Peter Gordon : No. When I first came here. See, it looks like a dog with its jaw wide open.
Phil Burbank : You... you just saw that?
Peter Gordon : Yeah.
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Peter Gordon : How old were you when you met Bronco Henry?
Phil Burbank : About the age you are now.
Peter Gordon : Was he your best friend?
Phil Burbank : Yeah... he was. He was more than that. Once, he saved my life. We were way off up in the hills shooting elk, and the weather turned mean. Bronco kept me alive by... lying body against body in a bedroll. Fell off to sleep that way.
Peter Gordon : Naked?
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Phil Burbank : Pete. Hey, Pete. Peter.
Peter Gordon : You want me, Mr. Burbank?
Phil Burbank : Well, I don't see any Mr. Burbank here. I'm Phil.
Peter Gordon : Yes, Mr. Burbank.
Phil Burbank : I guess it's hard for a young'un like you to call an old fella like me just plain Phil, at first. Now come and take a look at this. Have you done any braiding or plaiting yourself, Pete?
Peter Gordon : No, I never have, sir.
Phil Burbank : Peter, we kind of got off on the wrong foot.
Peter Gordon : Did we, sir?
Phil Burbank : Forget the Sir stuff. That can happen to people. People who get to be good friends. Well, you know what?
Peter Gordon : What? What, Phil?
Phil Burbank : Now, you see? You did it. You called me Phil. I'm gonna finish this rope and give it to you and teach you how to use it. Sort of a lonesome place out here, Pete. Unless you get in the swing of things.
Peter Gordon : Thank you... Phil.
