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SheilaT

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64. "Little by little the look of the country changes

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 11:17 PM

Sep 2013

because of the men we admire."

From Hud, 1963. The old man, played by Melvyn Douglas, to Brandon deWilde as Lonnie. Lonnie totally admires his uncle Hud, played by Paul Newman. The old man despises Hud and all he represents, and cannot stand it that Lonnie wants nothing more than to be exactly like his uncle.

It is, in fifteen words the single most prescient line ever.

I did not see the movie when it came out. I first saw it twenty years later on TV, and we (my husband and I) just about fell out of our chairs when we heard the line. Thirty years on it's still both prescient and timely.

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You people are as loud as you are ignorant! NuclearDem Sep 2013 #54

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