@@bradspurlin401 That was exactly what made it great. No sinister inflection or face, not bragging, just stating it matter-of-factly, as if he hadn't just admitted to being part of one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
The actor they chose in this movie 🍿🎥 who uddered those words couldn't have looked more like one of those guys that would most definitely still have one of the original shovels!!!!
@@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159 This movie was great on all levels when it came to casting. You could 100% see yourself up in the mountains to meet a guy that looks and acts just like Mr. Rate to talk about old conspiracy theories from the perspective of someone from the "inside".
He was very good in the role and even though his scene was only 5 minutes, it was pivotal for the whole movie. Unfortunately, in hollyweird, most action movies and the actors in them, never get recognized, even though these are the movies that make most of the money. For at least the last 10 years, super hero type movies are the highest grossing, yet nobody gets an Oscar nomination. In the rare instances that it does happen, the category will be for something like CGI.
@@saongpark2423 He's talking about being the shooter in a conspiracy is a bad job to take. Then follows it up with "them boys on the grassy knoll was dead 3 hours after the shot, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere out in the desert" The conspiracy theory and one many think is true is that there was 2 shooters on the grassy knoll in front of the motorcade that Kennedy was traveling in that actually shot the killing shot. If you kill the president of the USA and want to minimize the risk of it ever coming out you tie up lose ends, in this case you kill the one(s) who made the shot.
Everyone is trying to sell something. If you can't figure out what they are selling...they're selling you (like signing up for a free raffle--they're selling your contact info). When you can see past the sales pitch, you start figuring out what's really going on. but sometimes people are still too ego-centric to really see what's going on. they want the universe to make sense, to care about right and wrong.
"What you looking for?" "Wisdom." I love that, and wisdom is absolutely what he got. This guy doesn't just give Swagger the answers, he helps him realize he already knows the shooter, and gives him a few life lessons while he's at it.
@@midgetman4206 based on his reply "still got the shovel" we can infer he was more than just a gunsmith. Clearly some sort of trigger man in his younger days. You don't get that kind of wisdom only from books
@@Azraiel213a young man can accomplish this with the advice the nuns in school gave us: "God gave you two ears and one mouth so you listen twice as much as you talk". People HEAR, but they don't LISTEN. youth have it bad since they live in someone else's world (their parents', etc) and are trying to claim their place inside it. so they show off too much when they should be watching, listening, and learning. if you can learn the tool of listening without showing any signs of judgment, strangers will often stop with the BS designed to impress and begin unburdening themselves and telling you what they've done. You can learn through their experiences and then try another solution when you are in their shoes. The next tool is to learn not WHAT happened, nor HOW it happened...but WHY. figure out human nature, and you figure out what drives people. you can begin to predict their future reactions to situations that haven't happened yet. and yes, it's also good to experience. people see life as a spectator sport. don't buy your way out of problems, don't rely on friends and family...try to solve it yourself. knowledge comes from a book, but it also comes from experience. wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge, and that usually isn't taught from a book. what worked for the author may not work for you.
For the longest time, I always wondered why he was touching their palms and suddenly it clicked in my head. Helm is a gunsmith with a legendary knowledge of firearms and weapons training so it would make sense that he's checking their palms for callouses; when he lightly slaps Memphis' hand, he could immediately tell he was a bit green being a junior FBI agent and when Swagger mentioned he met the man in the wheelchair, Helm quickly grabs his palm and digs his fingers into the upper part of his palm. Upon feeling just how calloused and textured it was, he knew right away just how much experience he had and even his rank. Fuck, this move gets even better on repeat viewings.
Yup just saw that! Reminds me of something my pappy use to say. You can judge a man by the calluses on his hands, his strengths of his forearms and the size of his calves. He said they are all working man muscles. Also one of my shooting instructors told me that you can tell if that person trains by the callous on his trigger finger.
2:54 "Another one in France. I know he's dead 🤨!" The certainty in the delivery of that statement would seem to indicate he is the one that retired that talented French sniper 😳.
As a gunsmith, I love this scene. They did their homework just to bring up paper patched bullets, it wouldn't really work that well, but it's impressive none the less. And the character, I strive for that level of wisdom and insanity.
I would of been disappointed at this scene if I was a gunsmith. Really paper patch bullet if you know anything about guns that statement was completely illogical when taking about modern day bullets
@@christophercremo3020 modern bullet design wouldn't really work unless you shot it out of a sabo with a shotgun. But then you lack the velocity needed to make such a long shot.
@@dovahbear0 wrong! You’re assuming one layer of paper and same caliber rifle… but multiple layers of paper and a barrel designed to be a slightly larger caliber/bore than the one the bullet went through the first time would definitely work…. Not saying sabot isn’t easier, but sabot would leave plastic residue on the bullet, paper is much less likely to leave a trace…..
My dad is like that. I hate borrowing tools from him because they come with a story from at least 25 years ago. He has a hammer his grandfather used that is over 100 years old. His belt was made in the 70s. He is OCD about EVERY SINGLE TOOL.
First about sweeteners, second bout WMD and the third about ann nichole married for love..the way he said "...married for love..." really superb for me...two thumbs up sir
I gotta say if the old man was a school teacher, ALL his students would be well informed and smarter than others by the end of their school year. Damn he nailed that scene, with uh, good coffee too.
@@mfranks4731 paper patch bullets where design for muskets to create a seal around a loose bullet. It will reduce or eliminate the amount of scorching on the bullet. But in modern bullets in order to make accurate shots especially at long range the bullet literally needs to contact the rifling to create the spin and stay stable. There will literally be no space for the patch and even if there was it would literally rip it apart and score the bullet which completely defies the point. Anyone that reloads bullets would know this
The coffee... LMAO That's the first cup of coffee that told Memphis,'You ain't that tough!' He came close to spitting it out, something that wasn't missed by the old gunsmith.
I love this movie. No matter what anyone says, i thought Wahlberg was excellent and so was Michael Peña. And this scene was fantastic. Levon Helm brilliantly cast.
I agree with Michael Peña. I think he has the best lines and steals the scene. It’s hard to believe one of his earliest parts was “Gone in Sixty Seconds”.
It was meant to be a trilogy but it never took off good enough to satisfy or justify the said trilogy, I fookin loved it, way different from the book but then does Hollywood ever stick to source materials? Would have been a great trilogy, Antoine fuqua always does great action 💪
Unfortunately the writers gave Levon dialogue, delivered in a facetious manner, which implies that WMD's were not found in Iraq. Approximately five thousand WMD's were found in Iraq, all of them chemical, not biological. A few of them leaked and hurt some of our troups. These facts were buried for years by people (apparently Bush haters) in the American intelligence community. This story was broken by a left-wing newspaper, the New York Times. But other leftists love the "no WMD's in Iraq" lie so much that they are still telling it in the mass media.
that's the diff between a pro and someone with a credit card. the pro knows where everything in his "shop" is located because he put the tool back--cleaned off--when he was done. everyone else just takes the easy way out and then goes hunting for their tools later.
Came here after listening to Cripple Creek. He delivers his lines with such sincerity that you know the shovel is out in the shed. RIP Levon, you continue to bring us great joy.
@@norsktoolmaker88 Yeah, but that's not what Wahlberg's character said. He said "Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff". *** just over half way down the page... www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a2/shooter-script-transcript.html
@@davidanderson4091 Perhaps 12 years of catholic school has trained my ears to the origin of the phrase which is "Saint". No chicken or egg dilemma for me. Unrelated, this must have been the last performance for Levon Helm. Lead vocal for one of the sacred songs of music, "The Weight" by The Band. Not easy to do while being drummer as well.
Even asking him what he thought about the coffee was recon. He saw his reaction and knew he was used to drinking name brand, probably with sweetener. I'd assume they don't find such luxuries as commonly in the armed forces. Swagger just sips it like it's water.
Yeah! He delivers that line and you think " Haha...wait...what? Instead of the line filling in the scene, it conjures up all manner of possibilities that enrich the character without ever needing a tiresome monologue! Suddenly, you see Mr Rate in a totally different light... Brilliant writing. Flawless delivery!
Levon was a man amongst men, with more talent in his little toe than all of these young flash in the pan singers, song writers, poets, and actors put together. As the lyricist wrote "If there's a rock and roll heaven, then you know they have a hell of a band ", and you know that Levon is playing his heart out and having a great time with those that preceded him.
Greatest Sniper ever was a Fin that had 500 confirmed kills against russians in a period of 100 days!!!! Never used a scope at all!! Only his iron sights!!!
@@sethgriffin6014 He kept snow in his mouth to hide the vapor from his breath while shooting. An enemy sniper finally put a round through Simo's face and he had to retire after recovering.
Levon was a special guy. I used to provide patients who suffered from severe vision loss that they depended on those visual aids like the one Levon used in this clip. I enjoyed watching their responses to things they had not seen in years,
I always said they picked the perfect person for that part,not knowing that was him proves he became the character portrayed,made a great movie even better.
to a point, yes. I used to have a coworker raised by a Marine Sniper who went on to become a machinist for the aerospace industry. Poor kid was taught only one way to do everything--perfect. I had to teach him to triage, pick out what tasks needed to simply be done, what had to be perfect (which was very little) when was "perfection the enemy of the good", and that sometimes, "how you got the job done" was less important than, "did you get the result?". but there are some good points, like the red book. the gunsmith knows exactly where it is because when he's done with his tools, he puts them back where they belong, not just where it's convenient. i've watched plenty of "shade tree mechanics" waste time looking for the right tool for the job because they just put it down someplace--and often as not give up and then half-ass the job with the wrong tool. "an expert is someone who minds the details better than the rest of us"
I still like Shooter as a film. Though I do recommend reading Point of Impact (the book Shooter is based on). It's about 3 hours but worth the listen. It was written and published in the 1990s so there are a few differences. I'd say over all the book makes a lot more sense than the movie just because you get more details that didn't make it to the silver screen.
@@MrPolicekarimI haven't made it that far in the series. So far I've read Shooter, Dirty White Boys, and Blacklight and they were all excellent. I'm gonna assume I, Sniper is a pretty good read as well since Hunter at least in my view has gotten better each book he gets published.
Such a great singer song writer and actor I love how he portrayed this shooting and firearms expert he had to be the cooled charicter in the entire movie. God rest him and speed him to his rest.
Senator Charles F. Meachum : There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.
RIP Levon Helm I knew the words for most of The Band’s songs before I was in kindergarten Virgil Kane is the name And I served on the Danville train 'Till Stoneman's cavalry came And tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65 We were hungry, just barely alive By May the 10th, Richmond had fell It's a time I remember, oh so well The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la" Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, There goes Robert E. Lee!" Now, I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need And you leave the rest But they should never Have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la" Like my father before me I will work the land And like my brother above me Who took a rebel stand He was just 18, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Kane back up When he's in defeat
I read the book before the movie was made. There is a lot more character development and many more scenes. This scene is pretty close to the book. If you like Bob Lee Swagger, there are four or five more books about him. Start with Shooter and read them all. Excellent story.
I love Levon in this! Until now, I've not noticed the guy's line at the end of this clip. "What it is.......is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun". Great line.
Love the subtle details in this movie, at 4:56 you see swagger clear the room hes walking into, ive seen countless movies of person A following person B into an open room and not even looking left or right at all. the little details like that make this movie so much better and in a slight sense more realistic
They were on his land for a while before hoping that fence, so the guy knew there were comming, and he knew that it was Swaggert, callling him Gunny and all, hell his wife already made coffee for them!!
When you got it figured out your wrong, must true statment I've heard, for 60 + years I have talked to people like this, the world is a scary place, most people are better off not knowing, dumb is bliss.
Definitely Helm steals the show. Reminds me of that Sopranos episode when Johnny Sack is dying of cancer in prison. Sidney Pollock shows up. Only did a couple of scenes in that series. But completely took it over (he played an oncologist who was in prison for killing his wife and others). Two old acting legends.
I wish everyone up in arms about what their TV, or social media has told them in the past few years would watch this video 100 times. And take something from it.
Bob Lee Swagger : I don't really like the President much. Didn't like the one before that, much, either. Colonel Isaac Johnson : You like the idea of the President, living in a free country. Do we allow America to be ruled by thugs? Bob Lee Swagger : Sure, some years we do.
'seems like i heard about a shot like that"--well, yeah, Nick Memphis did spill the beans about the archbishop getting shot...that doesn't happen every week. Meanwhile, this guy's a shooter and you're sneaking onto his property over the fence? as for those who love the "brought the building down on his ass" comment, that's military SOP for a sniper. Another sniper may figure out where they would form a hide and see if they can find the sniper in there, but that takes too long and its easier just to call in "artty" and hope for the best or raise enough dust to cover a retreat.
One of the most indepht scenes in a movie ever. Lotta truth exposed in a few minutes. Movies expose alot of the past and the future if you know what to look and listen too.
When he gave him the book and the old guy low fived his hand it was his way of doing three things checking to see if he is a good guy, Seeing how much of a shooter he is and his way if saying (MY MAN Like Denzel).😁😁😁😁
You left out the most important one at the very beginning when the camera pans over his desk at his cabin in the mountains, The 9/11 cOMISSION Report was on his desk as he walks toward the computer and says “let’s see what kind of lies they are selling us today?”
The book was WAY better. Half of it took place in Vietnam and the other was about the conspiracy and framing of Bob Lee Swagger. One of the first books I ever read start to finish for fun.
In the past whenever I saw this scene I thought it was ridiculously unrealistic. I mean, the fbi punk is wearing a che guevara t shirt. No way a conservative/rightwinger, a gun ballistics expert, would have let him in his home wearing that t-shirt!! Surely!! I would have thrown that trash out on his ass so quickly his head would spin. But I was wrong. The last 14 months taught me a lot about the current state of so called conservatives and rightwing. A lot. The knives in my back are testament to that. It turns out there are just as many outright communists in the rightwing as in the Leftwing. In fact, on some subjects, the Rightwing might have even more communists. I'm originally from behind the Iron Curtain/Eastern Europe. The lessons I learned over the past year will stay with me forever.
I loved this movie and you couldn't have found a better actor to play the gunny than Mark Wahlberg. It just seemed every actor and actress in this movie perfectly fit the role they were chosen for.
I’m a retired Army Infantryman and have a sniper school certificate I earned in 1986 on Ft. Campbell, KY. I’m embarrassed that my hands have gotten soft, it’s so weird to me now that I’m not outdoors as much. Oh, and WMD’s we’re in Iraq, our unit guarded the old nuclear reactor where the Iraqi government buried them before the invasion for a few months in 2003. Sarin nerve agent is some nasty stuff, we sold it to the Iraqis in the 80’s and you can buy a watered down version of it at any local Home Depot under the name ‘RoundUp’.
paper patching actually wears a bore less than jacketed bullets and it is possible to push a patched bullet faster than a jacketed bullet with the same weight and cartridge
6:01 So much truth in that statement! With enough money, you can have any threat to you or your interests neutralized. AI was asked “what is the #1 biggest threat to mankind?“ It replied… “THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM (WEF)”
To your point "real shooters" tend to build up calluses on the hands that serves almost as a Sherlock Holmes clue as to the man's profession. Like the Cimmerians and the sword forge being their church , firearms are a church in their own right and men like snipers are its priests. JT
"Still got the shovel". To this day, one of my favorite movie lines
💯
Line is so fucking great.
Truth- and the way he delivers it
@@bradspurlin401 That was exactly what made it great. No sinister inflection or face, not bragging, just stating it matter-of-factly, as if he hadn't just admitted to being part of one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
And that one sentence hinted to a life much cooler than just being a great gunsmith. That would almost warrant a standalone prequel.
Still got the shovel... what a line
The actor they chose in this movie 🍿🎥 who uddered those words couldn't have looked more like one of those guys that would most definitely still have one of the original shovels!!!!
@@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159 This movie was great on all levels when it came to casting. You could 100% see yourself up in the mountains to meet a guy that looks and acts just like Mr. Rate to talk about old conspiracy theories from the perspective of someone from the "inside".
@@ShaggyRogers1the book's better, lots of action cut out into a movie.
Levon Helm should have won an Oscar for this. Although it was a short scene, it was a great scene. My favorite of the movie.
I agree 100%
Absolutely! I've watched it 3 times first time watching this movie.
He was very good in the role and even though his scene was only 5 minutes, it was pivotal for the whole movie.
Unfortunately, in hollyweird, most action movies and the actors in them, never get recognized, even though these are the movies that make most of the money.
For at least the last 10 years, super hero type movies are the highest grossing, yet nobody gets an Oscar nomination. In the rare instances that it does happen, the category will be for something like CGI.
By far the best scene in the movie, largely due to his role and how well he played it!
@@ronniecoleman2342 LOL. Maybe thats because 14,000 people live there?
He made me believe that he still has that shovel! Small role, but damn if he didn't kill it.
Probably the most memorable and impactful scene from the entire movie. That guy did an excellent job and the writers did too.
@@RustCole01 100% agree with you.
What does that scene mean?
Leon Helm was superb!
@@saongpark2423 He's talking about being the shooter in a conspiracy is a bad job to take. Then follows it up with "them boys on the grassy knoll was dead 3 hours after the shot, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere out in the desert" The conspiracy theory and one many think is true is that there was 2 shooters on the grassy knoll in front of the motorcade that Kennedy was traveling in that actually shot the killing shot. If you kill the president of the USA and want to minimize the risk of it ever coming out you tie up lose ends, in this case you kill the one(s) who made the shot.
The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong....
Lifes biggest lesson !
I took that a little further. " When you think you got
a woman figured out, your wrong...
Truth
Everyone is trying to sell something. If you can't figure out what they are selling...they're selling you (like signing up for a free raffle--they're selling your contact info). When you can see past the sales pitch, you start figuring out what's really going on. but sometimes people are still too ego-centric to really see what's going on. they want the universe to make sense, to care about right and wrong.
@@stevemanchester8399 😆
"nothing how ever horrible, is done without the consent of government".
Got that shit right mister..........
Too bad the rest of the people
Ain't figured it out
Very true statement.
Perfect example is all the False Flags that took place to get us involved in wars.
Makes the whole "Democrat vs Republican" thing seem like a rich kid's squabble in the grand scheme of things.
Amen
"What you looking for?"
"Wisdom."
I love that, and wisdom is absolutely what he got. This guy doesn't just give Swagger the answers, he helps him realize he already knows the shooter, and gives him a few life lessons while he's at it.
It's an odd thing, but elderly gun men seem to radiate more knowledge and wisdom than literally anybody else.
@@Azraiel213 "Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."
@@KS-xk2so Huh. Never knew that gunsmithing was that brutal.
@@midgetman4206 based on his reply "still got the shovel" we can infer he was more than just a gunsmith. Clearly some sort of trigger man in his younger days. You don't get that kind of wisdom only from books
@@Azraiel213a young man can accomplish this with the advice the nuns in school gave us: "God gave you two ears and one mouth so you listen twice as much as you talk".
People HEAR, but they don't LISTEN. youth have it bad since they live in someone else's world (their parents', etc) and are trying to claim their place inside it. so they show off too much when they should be watching, listening, and learning.
if you can learn the tool of listening without showing any signs of judgment, strangers will often stop with the BS designed to impress and begin unburdening themselves and telling you what they've done. You can learn through their experiences and then try another solution when you are in their shoes.
The next tool is to learn not WHAT happened, nor HOW it happened...but WHY. figure out human nature, and you figure out what drives people. you can begin to predict their future reactions to situations that haven't happened yet.
and yes, it's also good to experience. people see life as a spectator sport. don't buy your way out of problems, don't rely on friends and family...try to solve it yourself. knowledge comes from a book, but it also comes from experience. wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge, and that usually isn't taught from a book. what worked for the author may not work for you.
I could listen to this man tell stories all day lol
me to...;)
just by him saying have a sit. im ready to listen...
Should hear him sing! Levon helm
I’d listen to him and the Russian too lol
just love talking to older people about what there parents did for work ect great happy hour conversation
“There is no head to cut off, it is a conglomerate…what it is is human weakness. You can’t kill that with a gun.”
Meaning greed and power can't be killed
Hence the Hydra!
Want to reference your statement to the soliloquiy from Enemy Below delivered by Robert Mitchum.
For the longest time, I always wondered why he was touching their palms and suddenly it clicked in my head. Helm is a gunsmith with a legendary knowledge of firearms and weapons training so it would make sense that he's checking their palms for callouses; when he lightly slaps Memphis' hand, he could immediately tell he was a bit green being a junior FBI agent and when Swagger mentioned he met the man in the wheelchair, Helm quickly grabs his palm and digs his fingers into the upper part of his palm. Upon feeling just how calloused and textured it was, he knew right away just how much experience he had and even his rank.
Fuck, this move gets even better on repeat viewings.
Yup just saw that! Reminds me of something my pappy use to say. You can judge a man by the calluses on his hands, his strengths of his forearms and the size of his calves. He said they are all working man muscles.
Also one of my shooting instructors told me that you can tell if that person trains by the callous on his trigger finger.
Always wondered bout that thx
Right?!?!
How you didn’t get that the first go is astounding.
You missed a part. He knew his rank because he knew he was Swaggart. That is why he called him Gunnie. Wisdom….. remember?
The bodies he buried that day, laid the foundation of what we are today. Wait...
😂 wrong story😂
They always tell us before it happens part of ritual
John wick😂?
That's no shit.
The World ain't what it seems does it GUNNY
"Still got the shovel." Fucking love that line.
2:54 "Another one in France. I know he's dead 🤨!" The certainty in the delivery of that statement would seem to indicate he is the one that retired that talented French sniper 😳.
Who's to say it wasn't a German sniper in ww2?
The Jackal
@@Celtic2Realms that's a great catch lol
Not really it just sounds like he just informed
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As a gunsmith, I love this scene. They did their homework just to bring up paper patched bullets, it wouldn't really work that well, but it's impressive none the less. And the character, I strive for that level of wisdom and insanity.
The way he said "Anna Nicole married for love", you can tell no acting was really involved.
I would of been disappointed at this scene if I was a gunsmith. Really paper patch bullet if you know anything about guns that statement was completely illogical when taking about modern day bullets
It wouldn’t? How come? Just curious 🧐.
@@christophercremo3020 modern bullet design wouldn't really work unless you shot it out of a sabo with a shotgun. But then you lack the velocity needed to make such a long shot.
@@dovahbear0 wrong! You’re assuming one layer of paper and same caliber rifle… but multiple layers of paper and a barrel designed to be a slightly larger caliber/bore than the one the bullet went through the first time would definitely work….
Not saying sabot isn’t easier, but sabot would leave plastic residue on the bullet, paper is much less likely to leave a trace…..
He seems like the type of Man to be able to maintain and keep a shovel for about 40-50 years.
It may of have 8 new heads and 12 new handles
I had an uncle like that.
My dad is like that. I hate borrowing tools from him because they come with a story from at least 25 years ago. He has a hammer his grandfather used that is over 100 years old. His belt was made in the 70s. He is OCD about EVERY SINGLE TOOL.
Or a man with a silver tongue. People that sound like that are always just really good stroy tellers but that's it just story teller
@S. Fray. Really, and the RED bind book by Shofeld, That had'nt been touched in 15yrs...
"They quit the subtle tactics....brought the building down on his ass".....best line ever.
First about sweeteners, second bout WMD and the third about ann nichole married for love..the way he said "...married for love..." really superb for me...two thumbs up sir
I gotta say if the old man was a school teacher, ALL his students would be well informed and smarter than others by the end of their school year. Damn he nailed that scene, with uh, good coffee too.
All his students would be dumb because if you know anything about guns you would know what he said is completely dumb
@@ffdd6102 please explain
@@mfranks4731 paper patch bullets where design for muskets to create a seal around a loose bullet. It will reduce or eliminate the amount of scorching on the bullet. But in modern bullets in order to make accurate shots especially at long range the bullet literally needs to contact the rifling to create the spin and stay stable. There will literally be no space for the patch and even if there was it would literally rip it apart and score the bullet which completely defies the point.
Anyone that reloads bullets would know this
@@ffdd6102 Oh I get it! Cool thanks for the lesson!
The coffee... LMAO
That's the first cup of coffee that told Memphis,'You ain't that tough!'
He came close to spitting it out, something that wasn't missed by the old gunsmith.
“Nothing bad ever happens with the approval of the government”
Boy did that age like a fine wine
* without the approval of the government.
My favorite scene from any movie . Cinematic gold when he says" still got the shovel""
Jfk was shot by one man alone. It's a silly, pretentious line.
I love this movie.
No matter what anyone says, i thought Wahlberg was excellent and so was Michael Peña.
And this scene was fantastic.
Levon Helm brilliantly cast.
I agree with Michael Peña. I think he has the best lines and steals the scene. It’s hard to believe one of his earliest parts was “Gone in Sixty Seconds”.
I mean when you get two fantastic actors like that together you're bound to get some incredible performances. Unless you're in a shyamalan flick.
In the books Swagger's father Earl was a serious badass!
It was meant to be a trilogy but it never took off good enough to satisfy or justify the said trilogy, I fookin loved it, way different from the book but then does Hollywood ever stick to source materials? Would have been a great trilogy, Antoine fuqua always does great action 💪
Levon is very convincing with his part and dialogue! Very talented and gifted guy.
He sounds and looks like guys I've gone to church with.
He was from Arkansas.
Rural Arkansas and rural TN are not that different.
Appalachia and the Ozarks are very very similar.
He sings Also
@@bruceayers512 he does? What, next you going to expect me believe he writes songs too? 😎😎😎
Unfortunately the writers gave Levon dialogue, delivered in a facetious manner, which implies that WMD's were not found in Iraq. Approximately five thousand WMD's were found in Iraq, all of them chemical, not biological. A few of them leaked and hurt some of our troups. These facts were buried for years by people (apparently Bush haters) in the American intelligence community. This story was broken by a left-wing newspaper, the New York Times. But other leftists love the "no WMD's in Iraq" lie so much that they are still telling it in the mass media.
I love the small detail about his book. Knew exactly where it was, what it looked like, what knowledge is in it.
that's the diff between a pro and someone with a credit card. the pro knows where everything in his "shop" is located because he put the tool back--cleaned off--when he was done. everyone else just takes the easy way out and then goes hunting for their tools later.
Came here after listening to Cripple Creek. He delivers his lines with such sincerity that you know the shovel is out in the shed. RIP Levon, you continue to bring us great joy.
TENNESSEE... Patron state of shootin' stuff!
Patron Saint
@@norsktoolmaker88 Yeah, but that's not what Wahlberg's character said. He said "Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin' stuff".
*** just over half way down the page...
www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a2/shooter-script-transcript.html
@@davidanderson4091 lol I live here in Tennessee and I can attest it still is the patron state of shooting stuff 🤣
Athens Tennessee!
@@davidanderson4091 Perhaps 12 years of catholic school has trained my ears to the origin of the phrase which is "Saint". No chicken or egg dilemma for me. Unrelated, this must have been the last performance for Levon Helm. Lead vocal for one of the sacred songs of music, "The Weight" by The Band. Not easy to do while being drummer as well.
When he was feeling their hands he was doing his own recon. Smooth
how so?
@@zanesauer3673 Calluses
@@zanesauer3673 Feeling the calluses on his hands tells the old man he is a person who frequently trains with guns.
Even asking him what he thought about the coffee was recon. He saw his reaction and knew he was used to drinking name brand, probably with sweetener. I'd assume they don't find such luxuries as commonly in the armed forces. Swagger just sips it like it's water.
@@AZA9J6 Good observation, I had noticed that but could figure why they included it. So much subtitle detail in such a simple scene
Levon makes you think his character had a past. The ultimate goal of an actor! “Still got the shovel”, does that in spades!
Yeah! He delivers that line and you think " Haha...wait...what?
Instead of the line filling in the scene, it conjures up all manner of possibilities that enrich the character without ever needing a tiresome monologue!
Suddenly, you see Mr Rate in a totally different light...
Brilliant writing.
Flawless delivery!
"AND Anna Nicole married for love❤"
Lol. "And you know this for a fact?"
"Still got the shovel!" XD
Levon was a man amongst men, with more talent in his little toe than all of these young flash in the pan singers, song writers, poets, and actors put together. As the lyricist wrote "If there's a rock and roll heaven, then you know they have a hell of a band ", and you know that Levon is playing his heart out and having a great time with those that preceded him.
Too true.
Greatest Sniper ever was a Fin that had 500 confirmed kills against russians in a period of 100 days!!!! Never used a scope at all!! Only his iron sights!!!
They called him "The White Death", right?
Does video game count
That’d be Simo Hayha.
Had his cheek blown off by a Soviet incendiary bullet but lived into his 90s
@@sethgriffin6014 He kept snow in his mouth to hide the vapor from his breath while shooting. An enemy sniper finally put a round through Simo's face and he had to retire after recovering.
Levon was a special guy. I used to provide patients who suffered from severe vision loss that they depended on those visual aids like the one Levon used in this clip. I enjoyed watching their responses to things they had not seen in years,
I always said they picked the perfect person for that part,not knowing that was him proves he became the character portrayed,made a great movie even better.
Imagine having this man teach you about gun smithing he would be an amazing teacher not only teach you about guns but about life
to a point, yes. I used to have a coworker raised by a Marine Sniper who went on to become a machinist for the aerospace industry. Poor kid was taught only one way to do everything--perfect. I had to teach him to triage, pick out what tasks needed to simply be done, what had to be perfect (which was very little) when was "perfection the enemy of the good", and that sometimes, "how you got the job done" was less important than, "did you get the result?".
but there are some good points, like the red book. the gunsmith knows exactly where it is because when he's done with his tools, he puts them back where they belong, not just where it's convenient. i've watched plenty of "shade tree mechanics" waste time looking for the right tool for the job because they just put it down someplace--and often as not give up and then half-ass the job with the wrong tool.
"an expert is someone who minds the details better than the rest of us"
@@albertgaspar627 as my mother said: "Don't just put it down, baby, put it away. Never know when you're gonna need it again."
I still like Shooter as a film. Though I do recommend reading Point of Impact (the book Shooter is based on). It's about 3 hours but worth the listen. It was written and published in the 1990s so there are a few differences. I'd say over all the book makes a lot more sense than the movie just because you get more details that didn't make it to the silver screen.
... it was written*
I have read I, Sniper. That was a good book.
@@MrPolicekarimI haven't made it that far in the series. So far I've read Shooter, Dirty White Boys, and Blacklight and they were all excellent. I'm gonna assume I, Sniper is a pretty good read as well since Hunter at least in my view has gotten better each book he gets published.
Such a great singer song writer and actor I love how he portrayed this shooting and firearms expert he had to be the cooled charicter in the entire movie. God rest him and speed him to his rest.
Can't kill human weakness with a gun.
Perhaps, perhaps not. We can try though, we can try.
He said" wickedness"...human wickedness"
@@montuckyman4982 He says weakness.
Greed and power can't be killed
Senator Charles F. Meachum : There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.
There are* no Sunnis and Shiites, there are* no Ds and Rs, there are* only haves and have-nots - same as "there are no sides".
Once you think you have it figured out you’re wrong no truer words have been spoken 😉
RIP Levon Helm I knew the words for most of The Band’s songs before I was in kindergarten
Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up
When he's in defeat
The Band did this song so much better than Joan Baez, with more emotion. Levon has got to be the only drummer/lead singer I've ever heard of.
Great song by Robbie Robertson
@@txgunguy2766len frey of the Eagles, Karen Carpenter, phil collins
I read the book before the movie was made. There is a lot more character development and many more scenes. This scene is pretty close to the book. If you like Bob Lee Swagger, there are four or five more books about him. Start with Shooter and read them all. Excellent story.
There are others featuring Bob Lee's Daddy. I just finished Hot Springs. Havana too.
What are the titles first to last? I’d love to start the series of reading!
Pale Horse Coming featured his father Earl. Serious badass!
@@keithmay1033Google Stephen Hunter and they will list the books in chronological order.
There are actually about 8 or 10 Swagger books and several about his father Earl.
4:00 …’ the moment you think you got it figured..you’re wrong’….ain’t that the bloody truth…
"What it is is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun." This is basically my politics. I think I've arrived at the clear pill!
What a great scene. Michael Peña is an excellent actor. Good in everything I’ve seen him in.
This one stands out. Ant Man is fun, but in this movie he's great.
I love Levon in this! Until now, I've not noticed the guy's line at the end of this clip. "What it is.......is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun". Great line.
Does he mean that greed and power can't be killed
Love the subtle details in this movie, at 4:56 you see swagger clear the room hes walking into, ive seen countless movies of person A following person B into an open room and not even looking left or right at all. the little details like that make this movie so much better and in a slight sense more realistic
that is a good detail, but hopping the fence of someone you know is into guns? that's just asking to meet the wrong end of one of them.
They were on his land for a while before hoping that fence, so the guy knew there were comming, and he knew that it was Swaggert, callling him Gunny and all, hell his wife already made coffee for them!!
When you got it figured out your wrong, must true statment I've heard, for 60 + years I have talked to people like this, the world is a scary place, most people are better off not knowing, dumb is bliss.
I just miss our world .
Definitely Helm steals the show. Reminds me of that Sopranos episode when Johnny Sack is dying of cancer in prison. Sidney Pollock shows up. Only did a couple of scenes in that series. But completely took it over (he played an oncologist who was in prison for killing his wife and others). Two old acting legends.
I want a movie just about the gunsmith character.
Still got the shovel
I actually did a spit take in the cinema when I heard that line.
My Dr. Pepper just ran down my mouth when I heard that line. 😦
Dig at what happened with Kennedy. Grassy Knoll specifically mentioned is what gives it away
I wish everyone up in arms about what their TV, or social media has told them in the past few years would watch this video 100 times. And take something from it.
LIVING IT!!!
If someone betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power….the others betray him.
The truest statement of all.
May he RIP and did drop some wisdom from a long time ago
Isn't the Russian guy Boris the Bullet Dodger from Snatch?
Yeah
He is in fact croatian actor Rade Serbedzija
No Russian, Serbian.
Always thought this was an underrated movie
That little hand slap always gets me lmao 🤣
Dude I couldn’t breathe lmao😂😭
He was checking his hands for callous.
for lying about the coffee
Bob Lee Swagger : I don't really like the President much. Didn't like the one before that, much, either.
Colonel Isaac Johnson : You like the idea of the President, living in a free country. Do we allow America to be ruled by thugs?
Bob Lee Swagger : Sure, some years we do.
once you think you got the world figured...you're wrong.
You also here to get an idea of what happens to the democrats in the US once voter fraud has been confirmed?
@@crispytendies1433 the only thing you learn from politics is that the world is run by people that are barely human.
@@jackoates6418 The keepers aren't human creampuff!!!!!!
@GIL Favor you will never have ovaries.
@@crispytendies1433 NOTHING. HOW DO YOU LIKE THOSE APPLES
YES...we don't need proof...because it all happened before....An Anna Nicole married for love.....
Levon is the best part of this whole movie
Levon Helm shoulda gotten an award for " Best Short Performance " ...
Agree. Wahlberg is good but he has never had a scene stolen with such class and humility.
@@jsjs6755 ... I'm sure it wasn't stolen...he loved the way that played out... I bet it was on the first take... " That's a print ! "
...he was told " Mind your manners " ... " Good coffee ? " Yup...cough cough...haaaa
Levon Helm was also the narrator at the end of the movie "The Right Stuff".
I would’ve loved this guy to have his own spin-off
Every Politician needs to watch the last ten minutes of this movie. It's coming at them faster than they know.
*feels callus' on hand* "ohhh yeah, world ain't what it seems is it gunny?" 😂
I love how the gunsmith acknowledges Swagger despite that Swagger and Memphis never gave their names to him
... he recognizes* them.
Still got the shovel. Gotta be the best delvered line ever.
'seems like i heard about a shot like that"--well, yeah, Nick Memphis did spill the beans about the archbishop getting shot...that doesn't happen every week. Meanwhile, this guy's a shooter and you're sneaking onto his property over the fence?
as for those who love the "brought the building down on his ass" comment, that's military SOP for a sniper. Another sniper may figure out where they would form a hide and see if they can find the sniper in there, but that takes too long and its easier just to call in "artty" and hope for the best or raise enough dust to cover a retreat.
Man i miss levon. Use to go to the midnight rambles at his house. Hell of a guy
... used* to go
One of the most indepht scenes in a movie ever. Lotta truth exposed in a few minutes. Movies expose alot of the past and the future if you know what to look and listen too.
... in-depth* / a* lot* / to look and listen to*
Lost count how many times I've watched that scene simply amazing
Gunny Carlos Hathcock. Hollywood couldn't carry his sack.
When he gave him the book and the old guy low fived his hand it was his way of doing three things checking to see if he is a good guy, Seeing how much of a shooter he is and his way if saying (MY MAN Like Denzel).😁😁😁😁
Levon stole the show, best scene in the whole movie
You left out the most important one at the very beginning when the camera pans over his desk at his cabin in the mountains, The 9/11 cOMISSION Report was on his desk as he walks toward the computer and says “let’s see what kind of lies they are selling us today?”
still got the shovel
The book was WAY better. Half of it took place in Vietnam and the other was about the conspiracy and framing of Bob Lee Swagger. One of the first books I ever read start to finish for fun.
Art imitating life.
Make no mistake, that is how it really is.
In the past whenever I saw this scene I thought it was ridiculously unrealistic. I mean, the fbi punk is wearing a che guevara t shirt. No way a conservative/rightwinger, a gun ballistics expert, would have let him in his home wearing that t-shirt!! Surely!!
I would have thrown that trash out on his ass so quickly his head would spin.
But I was wrong. The last 14 months taught me a lot about the current state of so called conservatives and rightwing. A lot. The knives in my back are testament to that.
It turns out there are just as many outright communists in the rightwing as in the Leftwing. In fact, on some subjects, the Rightwing might have even more communists.
I'm originally from behind the Iron Curtain/Eastern Europe.
The lessons I learned over the past year will stay with me forever.
3:57 moment of absolute truth.
He was great in Coal Miners Daughter
I absolutely love this scene! Both scenes.
I loved this movie and you couldn't have found a better actor to play the gunny than Mark Wahlberg. It just seemed every actor and actress in this movie perfectly fit the role they were chosen for.
But I know two best assassins west of the Mississippi, let’s just say they are laser focused
Commentary on today's news and events...conglomerates grabbing everything these days...get it?
Man I miss Levon, great man he was
Pena has to be one of the most versatile actors to come along in a while.
"Still got the shovel" classic.
Fudds beat it to this scene.
Levon Helm nailed that part...
I’m a retired Army Infantryman and have a sniper school certificate I earned in 1986 on Ft. Campbell, KY. I’m embarrassed that my hands have gotten soft, it’s so weird to me now that I’m not outdoors as much. Oh, and WMD’s we’re in Iraq, our unit guarded the old nuclear reactor where the Iraqi government buried them before the invasion for a few months in 2003. Sarin nerve agent is some nasty stuff, we sold it to the Iraqis in the 80’s and you can buy a watered down version of it at any local Home Depot under the name ‘RoundUp’.
You're almost right. Round up does carry some of the ingredients. However, it needs a little tweaking not to hard even by an amateur chemist 😉
@@sgtbrown4273 I concur.
this is some very useful knowledge
@@sgtbrown4273 ... not too* hard
@@pontiacGXPfan - Wow...this thread went dark so quickly.
paper patching actually wears a bore less than jacketed bullets and it is possible to push a patched bullet faster than a jacketed bullet with the same weight and cartridge
In the book Point of Impact ,he uses a .318 bore with paperpatch .308 bullet in the .300 Holland&Holland case to frame Bob Lee .
@@MrPh30 damn good book wasn't it? Almost made you feel like you were behind the rifle
I use it to keep from lead fouling the lands on hot loads
I love when he says "they brought the building down on his ass"
And he said it with a bit of joy, like he was telling kids a story of how the evil villain in the story was beaten and ran away
After July 13th I immediately thought of this movie.
LEGEND... LEVON HELM
6:01 So much truth in that statement! With enough money, you can have any threat to you or your interests neutralized.
AI was asked “what is the #1 biggest threat to mankind?“ It replied… “THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM (WEF)”
Called him gunny just by rubbing his palm!!! Classic
To your point "real shooters" tend to build up calluses on the hands
that serves almost as a Sherlock Holmes clue as to the man's profession.
Like the Cimmerians and the sword forge being their church , firearms are a church in their own right and men like snipers are its priests. JT
Levon Helm owned this scene
I knew Boris didn’t die…