'was it worth the trouble?'
"wasn't no trouble"....
What scene? Accurate quote?
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It's somewhere near the end. 5-10 before the movie is over. Johnson meets Bearclaw again an shares his rabbit with him.
Bearclaw: "You ('ve) come far, pilgrim."
Johnson: "Feels like far"
Bearclaw: "Were it worth the trouble?"
Johnson: "HA.. what trouble."
This exchange brings up a question. After Johnson says, "What trouble?", Bearclaw gives him a curious look. I've always been unsure about this: is it a look of puzzlement or approval?
Is Bearclaw approving Johnson's stoic acceptance of his fate, or is he puzzled by Johnson's dismissal of all his troubles as "no trouble".
~~"Oh shut up, you two. And listen, you're not to say nowt."~~
Actually, neither.
When Johnson says, "What trouble?" it was not stoic acceptance and it was not dismissal. It was a genuine inquiry -
Johnson, incredible but true, was unaware that there had been any trouble! And that is why Bearclaw had that look. Bearclaw, who had come close to seeing everything possible to see up in the mountains, was taken aback by that one!
Something else - the ending - When Johnson lifts his arm to the Crow warrior ending the fight between himself and the Crow a groan escapes his soul. Compare that groan with the groan of the tragically grieved mother-driven-insane that was in answer to Jeremiah's plea to keep the boy. They are the same. It's a language of pain that seems to say everything.
Look where no one else is looking and see what no one else sees.
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