This is from my favorite episode of Justified. Raylan treats Wallace with integrity and Wallace realizes that Raylan is a straight shooter (no pun intended), the one guy he can trust & who won’t treat him like trash. That’s all it takes… along with some extra spicy chicken & bourbon…
Raylan is interesting because he treats everyone like real people. The characters are less one-dimensional to us partly because Raylan doesn't see them that way.
I love this episode because so much of what they do is from the hostage negotiation playbook. You just keep talking like two people. You dont dent the situation but you dont let it dictate the dialogue. There was a hostage negotiation book that I read and about half of them were resolved because The negotiator just kept talking to them like people and prevented things from escalating.
This reminds me of a documentary i watched, a chinese prisoner kept breaking out of jail so they kept throwing him in worse prisons with terrible conditions, it got to the point where he was stuck in a freezing cell, chained up so tight he had maggots in the cuts on his arms. He broke out, was on the run for years, do you know how they got him? He was promised that he'd be treated better and once he was, he never attempted to break out ever again. People just wanna be treated like people
I think what the series had going for it was that Leonard was heavily involved (well, until he died). There have been some famously disastrous efforts to involve authors in the adaptations of their works, but Leonard was fully on board and I think he even wrote an extra novel with the invitation to strip mine it for plot xd
He actually was not. He liked and supported the show, but actively wrote only one episode - thick as mud. His involvement was limited to occasional set visits. Edit- he wrote the novel too because the show made him enthusiastic about the character again...and used a lot of elements from the show in the novel which was further used for "stripmining". All in all, they shared great relationship but the writing was all justified writers.
Imagine that…treat a person like a person and they respond like a person…treat a person like an animal and they respond like an animal…seems super complicated and difficult to understand doesn’t it
@@valdie91285 No, not always. But it works an awful lot of the time, and I think that makes it always worth the attempt. At the very least, you did the right thing to the best of your ability.
@@jasonmurdoc9533 No its a shame that they didn't. If it was me I would have written a scene where raylan is sitting with him for the last time just talking with him. Right at the end when they come to get him he tells raylan that because he kept his word to him he is going to give him some information on some big criminal operation he heard about in prison. Raylan nods and thanks him wishing him luck.
@@andrewdavis623 massive missed opportunity I would have ended the episode with them eating together. A nice moment of duality that’s what the whole show is really about anyway
I love that he pretty much gives up the SECOND that bourbon goes does his throat, it's like his humanity was reawakened lol
Bourbon has that effect on people
@jesserusinski7972 lol apparently so
This is from my favorite episode of Justified. Raylan treats Wallace with integrity and Wallace realizes that Raylan is a straight shooter (no pun intended), the one guy he can trust & who won’t treat him like trash. That’s all it takes… along with some extra spicy chicken & bourbon…
Raylan is one of the greatest characters ever written and tim olyphant plays him perfectly
"If that don't cool it down and heat it up at the same time."
Best description of bourbon and fried chicken anyone could ever come up with!
I love that almost every deadwood character at one point or another makes an appearance in justified
Raylan is interesting because he treats everyone like real people. The characters are less one-dimensional to us partly because Raylan doesn't see them that way.
Well played, Jordan -- a terrific observation. Never having read them, I wonder how close these scripts are to Elmore Leonard's original novels.
@@rickrose5377 the whole series is apparently based on a single EL short story, "Fire in the Hole"
I love this episode because so much of what they do is from the hostage negotiation playbook. You just keep talking like two people. You dont dent the situation but you dont let it dictate the dialogue. There was a hostage negotiation book that I read and about half of them were resolved because The negotiator just kept talking to them like people and prevented things from escalating.
Dignity is a powerful thing.
This reminds me of a documentary i watched, a chinese prisoner kept breaking out of jail so they kept throwing him in worse prisons with terrible conditions, it got to the point where he was stuck in a freezing cell, chained up so tight he had maggots in the cuts on his arms. He broke out, was on the run for years, do you know how they got him? He was promised that he'd be treated better and once he was, he never attempted to break out ever again. People just wanna be treated like people
I think what the series had going for it was that Leonard was heavily involved (well, until he died). There have been some famously disastrous efforts to involve authors in the adaptations of their works, but Leonard was fully on board and I think he even wrote an extra novel with the invitation to strip mine it for plot xd
He actually was not. He liked and supported the show, but actively wrote only one episode - thick as mud. His involvement was limited to occasional set visits.
Edit- he wrote the novel too because the show made him enthusiastic about the character again...and used a lot of elements from the show in the novel which was further used for "stripmining". All in all, they shared great relationship but the writing was all justified writers.
I binge-watched the series in one week😂
"You think if it comes to that, I give a shit what he thinks". - Ice cold murderer quote.
Imagine that…treat a person like a person and they respond like a person…treat a person like an animal and they respond like an animal…seems super complicated and difficult to understand doesn’t it
That doesn't always work, buddy.
Though there is also treat a person like a person and they figure your empathy is a weakness that can be exploited….
@@valdie91285 No, not always. But it works an awful lot of the time, and I think that makes it always worth the attempt. At the very least, you did the right thing to the best of your ability.
what a great show
I love you bor ❣️
Did raylan sit with him and eat?
I think he did, though he had a lot of trouble after this situation was resolved, I’d like to think he kept his promise.
@@matthewriley7826 they don’t show it?
@@jasonmurdoc9533 No its a shame that they didn't. If it was me I would have written a scene where raylan is sitting with him for the last time just talking with him. Right at the end when they come to get him he tells raylan that because he kept his word to him he is going to give him some information on some big criminal operation he heard about in prison. Raylan nods and thanks him wishing him luck.
@@andrewdavis623 massive missed opportunity I would have ended the episode with them eating together. A nice moment of duality that’s what the whole show is really about anyway
Yellow Eyes ( Azazel) from Supernatural.
'Tactical' hot fried chicken.
Is that SWAT guy Carl from ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’, or what?
Brilliant!