I'm not sure if anyone will know the answer to this but there is a segment where Hicks compares the USA to Jack Palance's character in the movie 'Shane', throwing a gun at the feet of a farmer and telling him to "pick it up".
It was a nice analogy but this scene wasn't in 'Shane', at least not the version I saw.
Is this from another movie, or is he just using the Palance character to help illustrate the point ?
"I'm so sick of arming the world, then sending troops over to destroy the *beep* arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries, then we go and blow the *beep* out of them. We're like the bullies of the world, y'know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the pistol at the sheepherder's feet. "Pick it up." "I don't wanna pick it up, Mister, you'll shoot me." "Pick up the gun." "Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister." "Pick up the gun." (He picks it up. Three shots ring out.) "You all saw him- he had a gun."
-Bill Hicks-
I think this is what you're looking for. I've had this quote on my allpoetry homepage for a while. Fantastic stuff.
How did you feel when you were denied these "Hungry, Hungry Hippoes"?
It was definatlye in shane, it was that Bad guy they hired to take him out, shooting one of hte townsfolk, shane was not even in the scene which I guess why people don't make teh accosiation.
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I think it was a point, but it is a basic analogy. Somewhere in the movie Shane, Palance really goads one of the sheep herders into dueling with him, just about threatens and belittles the guy, and then has the sociopathic nerve to say he acted in self-defense when everyone who saw knew Palance had basically threatened the guy. It's not a verbatim, shot by shot analogy, but there is a similarity.
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I think this part in Hicks' bit:
I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff.