Stallone considered it something he regretted after watching the movie. Makes me wonder if he talked to Harrison about it when they were making Expendables 3.
@@originaltommy Harrison Ford was indeed nominated for best actor in a leading role for his performance in Witness. William Hurt won the Oscar that year for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Was so amazed by Ford's performance in this one, best I've ever seen him. This scene as well as the couple quiet moments of him and Samuel felt so real and full of genuine emotion. I love that it was a fairly simple plot but with great characters and acting that made it very enjoyable.
What? You seriously believe that the well delivered but underdeveloped character he played was better than Matthew McConaughey's homophobic rodeo turned understanding and heroic HIV sufferer. That's just not true, man.
Love this movie. The ending is so touching when Samuel realizes the bad guys came back to kill Book and despite Book telling him to run to the neighbor's house, he returns. I suspect he returned to get Book's gun to either give it to Book or even to shoot the bad guys himself to protect his family. As he said to his grandfather, "I will only kill the bad person". But in the end, the Amish side of him listens to his grandfather and instead of getting the modern gun, he opts for the traditional bell ringing to sound the alarm. ( Why the neighbors hear the bell but not all the gunshots is more than odd and frustrating but that's beside the point). Then Samuel looks out the window and sees Book smoking a cigarette, animately describing what just unfolded to his fellow cops, relishing the adrenaline. At that moment Samuel looks away with sadness and disappointment because he realizes Book loves his job as a cop and that he belongs to the other world.
Rachel is disappointed as well to, and looks upon him as a true outsider that he is. Think she kinda sorta loved him, however their two worlds would only clash and not work out at all. Sad part, in the end, Rachel would have to be shunned for even bringing Book into their household and having violence in the end disturb their quiet, simple way of Amish lifestyle.
No. His grandfather told him to pull the bell with that hand gesture. It is only us, the audience, that thinks of the gun. Samuel never considers it. It's a criticism of us, a commentary on the way we think, on how we rely on violence instead of community.
I’m sure that wasn’t the last he will see of book. Surly he will be called back to testify at schafers trial. In the original script he tells Samuel that right before he leaves
That's a good point about the gun shots. Maybe they have no experience with what a gun shot sounds like and there are things around the farm that sound similar so they ignored it?? I'm probably reaching but your analysis is really good.
@@filmgirlLisa I live fairly close to where this was filmed, and have been around Amish most of my life. They are actually quite fond of hunting, but would never use firearms for self-defense.
"I'm a police officer. This man's wanted for murder." After all the time Book spent with the Amish and learning to appreciate them as a good people, they weren't fooled for an instant with Schaefer's sorry, pathetic attempt to convince them that Book was the guilty one.
I love the mutual respect that developed between the Amish and book. They accepted him as one of their own even though he was a violent city cop. On the flip side it too every bit of restraint for book not to beat Schafer to a bloody pulp in this scene but he respected the Amish who had just saved his life too much to dishonor them with another violent act
@@leerogish7223 He also invoked one of their best weapons. Shame. All they had to do was look and he had to spell it out for Schafer how ashamed and disgusted he and them were for even trying to kill him, let alone try to kill Rachel, Sam and Eli.
They had misgivings about Book and his violent (to them) lifestyle, but I like to think they knew he was, at heart, a good and honest man who wouldn't have committed cold-blooded murder.
beneath his rough exterior like the Amish he had a strong sense of right and wrong.” You be careful out among them English” by that point Eli finally got past his xenophobia and accepted book as one of them for heroically protecting his family.
Schafer was j smart enough to kown he had been beaten and was resigning himself to spending the rest of his life in prison.None of the Amish believed him and he knew he couldn’t kill all of them so he had to give up. He was also probably ashamed thinking about his wife and daughter who were only going to be able to see him on the weekends and talk to him through a sheet of glass with a phone
Most thrillers end with the villain's death. This -- Book exposing Schaeffer as the worm that he is, disarming him, and then fixing him with that lacerating, up-close glare -- is actually more cathartic.
Joseph Sommer was very good as the corrupt cop and he gets overlooked when this film is discussed. He's very human (he gets rattled, frightened, he's creepy, etc)
The best scene between him and Ford is the phone call where Ford tells him he's on to him and knows what he's been doing and Sommer laughs slightly and says "I like you John, I've always liked you"
I went to Lancaster, PA to an Amish Farm and bought a big bag of mushrooms. To me, I was impressed about how courteous, reserved and polite they were... I did respect them all the way, no pics, no questions about anything, and I did not even ask them to lower their asking price as it was already unbelievably low. I insisted that I wanted to pay double and they declined. The Amish are clean, honest, unpolluted humans that do nothing bad EVER but they always keep a low profile, respect God and morals and educate their kids to continue their tradition. If you see them, just RESPECT THEM. They are A-OK...!!!
badger4382, Yeah, I'm from Western Pennsylvania here, and you see them in Lawarance County, north of me here in Beaver County. I've even seen them in Chippewa, suburb of Beaver Fslls at Aldi buying groceries, they have someone drive them to the store so they can buy their groceries. The only downside to them is that they have puppy mills that arn't so nice from what I've read and heard. Being close to Ohio like I am, they also go out to the Friday night Rodgers auction sale, sell their baked goods, and their vegetables. You can even see them going out there with their horses and buggies. I've spoke to them, they do speak back, and are polite and kind. However, i won't tolerate anyone picking on them or giving them a rough time, i will step in and defend them.
Sadly, some of them take off all teeth of young people as a tradition to remember them that the body is not so important than soul. And if they refuse, they are cast away from their people. In every places exists stupidity.
@@Berniewahlbrinck They're farms where they breed dogs like livestock. The Amish view dogs as livestock. Puppy mills are bad, but no worse than the way other animals like pigs and sheep are treated.
If anyone has seen the Disney Mighty Ducks Trilogy the actor who played Schaffer was Mr. Ducksworth in the first movie, and the Actor who played the old Grandfather was the Jan character in D2.
He realizes it's hopeless. He'd have to kill Book and every Amish person present, many of whom would most likely flee, get away and report what they saw. He can't explain his partner's deaths, or why they were there alone. He's a high-ranking Philadelphia police officer; he can't just put on Groucho glasses and run. He has enough snaity and humanity left to realize that. Or, maybe he would have if he could work up the nerve, but Book disarms him before he can.
The point was that he was showing his boss that he at least a shred of humanity left, a shred of a soul that wouldn't let him pull the trigger on the little boy, old man and woman, a part of the man he was when he recruited Book
I paid to stream full film because they chopped the crucial scenes into such small segments. I admit one gets the point here, just. This is a masterpiece and should be seen. 1985 I was in Lausanne trying to get a certificate in teaching French ... not great situation but the whole experience was life-changing. I had left money for my Dad, who was in the 1st stages of alzheimers, but when I got back, I was completely involved in making his life part of mine as best as I could. I cannot ever thank him enough for being my Dad; he was proud of me, and it was a bad moment to leave in order to help, in a better way, but I got a way better job and my mum and I sorted things out from then on in. I will always associated this allegory of cooperation with the best decision I ever made when I came home. Happy New Year, Zigo! Made it to 2019 (almost). Also new dog; she's perfect, you would love her.
Book had to find a way to defeat the villain without killing him since he had loved ones Book was close with. Paul and his family may have divorced after the scandal
@@bearcattony00 Lol his wife divorcing him is going to be the least of his worries. He was behind the murder of two police officers so he’s looking at life in prison or even capital punishment!!
What an unnerving feeling that must be for Schaeffer (Joseph Sommer) at the end of this scene when everything you have and worked hard all your life for all of a sudden comes down like a house of cards on you.
And Josef Sommer played those emotions very well. The cornered desperation, and finally his life and career crashing down around him. At the same time, he brought it on himself and no one forced it on him.
@@leerogish7223That’s right-Schaefer chose to become a dirty cop-now he has to pay the consequences for his actions. I bet John Book replaced him as Chief.
I love the reprise of the Barn Building theme when the other Amish come to the alert bell. You may dislike how they were going to possibly shun Rachel, but in a bad situation they are great to have on your side.
Shunningr, shaming is a punishment used by the Amish elders of their community whare they send a erring one who has broken the rules of the ordnig and will have to be put out of their community. I do believe though that once the erring one has had a taste of being with the English out there, they do have the right to meet with the elders and ask permission to be accepted back into the community to in which they came from, however they still are shunned for a period of time until the elders determine that the shunning process can then be lifted, and be fully accepted back into the Amish community and now are permitted to speak and have dealing with that one again as it was before the shunning, or shaming began.
I've got this movie recorded on VHS (blank tape) back in 1990 on BBC1 (after Canned Carrott). However the movie is heavily edited for content, especially this scene. The edited version in this is well funny lol.
@@partyentertains4092 I recorded this movie from Showtime when I use to live in Tennessee. It made me homesick for my home in Beaver County Western Pennsylvania, as both the Enon Valley and Rodger's Auction sales always had a lot of Amish around those places. Enon Valley was in Lawarance County, north of Beaver County, and Rodgers was in Columbia County, Ohio, whare I was born at in East Liverpool, Ohio.
I love it. This was against type for Harrison Ford. I love how there wasn't any cool one liners, it's a very desperate situation and he sells it flawlessly
Love how this movie ended. With even the main antagonist having a line he would not cross for a senseless reason. There are zero movies that end like this today: the bad guy gets arrested.
felt way more realistic than hilarious. you really felt the sense of desperation and dangerous urgency from every character the way it was acted, shot, and edited. much preferred this to many other cool calculated standoffs with unrealistic emotional coolness and slickly delivered lines of dialogue
One of the best endings to a movie it seemed so real and life like Harrison Ford deserves a life time achievement award so does George Lucas and the late Burt Reynolds!
@@bryanthardin5514 you’re welcome. Watch ‘Presumed Innocent,’ when you have a chance, great film. Stars Harrison Ford, the late Brian Dennehey, and the late Raul Julia.
A brilliant film depicting the clash of cultures and Harrison Ford’s best performance. A very well made, thoughtful film, showing perfectly the difference between the peaceful lives of the Amish and the violence, especially gun violence, that so afflicts America today. If All Americans could adopt what Eli Lapp said to his grandson Samuel “This gun of the hand is for the taking of human life. We believe it is wrong to take human life, that is up to God” there would be no gun violence and thousands of lives saved every year. Another great moment is when the Amish are harassed by some young people while on their horse carriages but they refuse to fight back, even under severe provocation and stay calm. Of course, John Book is not Amish and when Eli says to him “This happens sometimes, do nothing - it (fighting )is not our way” Book replies “But it is MY way” and proceeds to give those bullying the Amish a thrashing, much to Eli’s displeasure. Another Amish, Daniel, explains to an astonished passer by who says “I have not seen this kind of fighting in all my years” that John Book is a cousin from Ohio and the passerby replies “Well those Amish there must be different” and says to Eli “This is not good for the tourist trade you know, explain that to your Ohio friend!” It was refreshing that the film did not have a traditional happy ending with John Book and Rachel walking off happily into the sunset together, accepting that they belonged to their worlds and were better off staying in their respective worlds. Lastly, the scene of the building of the barn was an absolute masterpiece and the music perfectly fitted that scene, as indeed it did for the rest of the film. I am sure Peter Weir is rightly proud of making a film like this, a film that could hardly be bettered.
Love the realism. First both guys panicked n talking quick n over eachother then the bad just giving up at the ends, nothing flashy not even a punch to the face
Witness was such slept on movie. Idk how I never heard of those before. Harrison Ford Danny Glover. I was randomly channel surfing and it was on Showtime Extreme.
Strange. Another Mandela Effect thing with the past changing in various ways? I saw this movie several times back when it came out and in the years shortly after that, and the final scene was quite different from this....though with the same basic resolution. A number of Amish men formed a semicircle, and they were all holding pitchforks as Book yelled "Enough!" and the other remarks he made to Paul. It was strongly implied that if Paul opened fire he was going to die by the pitchforks, because he certainly couldn't kill all of the Amish who had gathered. That striking visual scene is simply not here.....and I know what I saw back then. So this is very strange indeed.
Imagine a parody remake where he keeps pulling people in front of him and asking "You gonna shoot her!?! Blam! You gonna shoot him??? Boom!", as his boss keeps gunning them down one after another. Book then runs away when his boss is out of ammo.
People say this is Ford's best performance but I don't see anything extraordinary about it. Ford is a consistently solid actor, who, while maybe not the most versatile, can give a reliably good performance in any movie. His performance as John Book is classic Ford. It's not exactly outside his range. I think his roles in The Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry were far more ambitious. They also showed some of his limitations as an actor. Overall, I think Ford's greatest strength is his on-screen charisma. It's hard not to root for him.
At 1:59 it took every bit of restrain for book not to beat Schafer to a bloody pulp or even kill him but he had too much class to dishonor the Amish who had just saved his life by committing another act of violence.
When I saw this movie as a boy, I remembered thinking that Det. Paul Shaeffer might actually shoot John Book and all of the Amish people and try to get away with it. However, his a .38 revolver only held 6 rounds, and he probably wouldn’t have been carrying more than 2 extra moon clips (since he also initially had a shotgun). After he fired the first shot, most of the Amish would have likely scattered and hid from him. So, killing all of the Amish with a .38 revolver and so few rounds, would have been difficult, if not impossible for Paul to accomplish.
funny I know. I'd also like to think Viggo based some of his Captain Fantastic performance on Ford's character in The Mosquito Quest. I'm grasping at straws, I know, but still..
I'm so glad Stallone turned this film down when they asked him to play Book. Ford does a great job here.
I think Stallone could have pulled it off.
Stallone was considered for this 😖Hell no. Maybe Mel Gibson but Ford was the right choice.
my Dad's favorite film
keller conley Harrison Ford was the perfect choice.
Stallone considered it something he regretted after watching the movie. Makes me wonder if he talked to Harrison about it when they were making Expendables 3.
One of the all-time greats. Harrison Ford should've won the Oscar for this performance. I also loved the shades of High Noon at the end.
Ford was also great in‘Presumed Innocent.’
Was Ford even nominated? This and Mosquito Coast are his two best performances in the space of two years! And same Director? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
@@originaltommy Harrison Ford was indeed nominated for best actor in a leading role for his performance in Witness. William Hurt won the Oscar that year for Kiss of the Spider Woman.
@@asanta2023 Yes, he was!!
Was so amazed by Ford's performance in this one, best I've ever seen him. This scene as well as the couple quiet moments of him and Samuel felt so real and full of genuine emotion. I love that it was a fairly simple plot but with great characters and acting that made it very enjoyable.
Quite a bit different than what he was in American Grefetti running around with broads and that black 55 Chevy of his.
@valerie W you should watch Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast. A movie the same director made a year after this one.
Probably his best dramatic performance.
And how about Kelly McGillis performance. A real tour de force. They were all great in their roles
It was my first non-Star Wars Ford film.
One of the best movies ever made. I never got tired of watching this.
I live in delco, two counties over from Lancaster, every time I go to Lancaster I think of witness
peter weir is an amazing director. his movies have depth in characters, storyline and scenery.
Weir being from the Land Down Under 🇦🇺 with his films "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Dead Poets Society"
And how Harrison didn't win an Oscar for this is beyond my understanding.
An even bigger snub than Leonardo DiCaprio not winning the Oscar for 'Wolf of Wall Street'.
Biggest snub ever, Linda Hamilton not even being nominated for BSA for Terminator 2.
What? You seriously believe that the well delivered but underdeveloped character he played was better than Matthew McConaughey's homophobic rodeo turned understanding and heroic HIV sufferer. That's just not true, man.
F. Murray Abraham blew him out of the water with Amadeus, sorry. It was no contest. Another year, maybe. But Abraham owned the Oscar that year.
Yah, Abraham's performance in Amadeus will win the acting oscar in almost any year ... its one of the greatest acting performance ever ..
Love this movie. The ending is so touching when Samuel realizes the bad guys came back to kill Book and despite Book telling him to run to the neighbor's house, he returns. I suspect he returned to get Book's gun to either give it to Book or even to shoot the bad guys himself to protect his family. As he said to his grandfather, "I will only kill the bad person".
But in the end, the Amish side of him listens to his grandfather and instead of getting the modern gun, he opts for the traditional bell ringing to sound the alarm. ( Why the neighbors hear the bell but not all the gunshots is more than odd and frustrating but that's beside the point).
Then Samuel looks out the window and sees Book smoking a cigarette, animately describing what just unfolded to his fellow cops, relishing the adrenaline. At that moment Samuel looks away with sadness and disappointment because he realizes Book loves his job as a cop and that he belongs to the other world.
Rachel is disappointed as well to, and looks upon him as a true outsider that he is. Think she kinda sorta loved him, however their two worlds would only clash and not work out at all. Sad part, in the end, Rachel would have to be shunned for even bringing Book into their household and having violence in the end disturb their quiet, simple way of Amish lifestyle.
No. His grandfather told him to pull the bell with that hand gesture. It is only us, the audience, that thinks of the gun. Samuel never considers it. It's a criticism of us, a commentary on the way we think, on how we rely on violence instead of community.
I’m sure that wasn’t the last he will see of book. Surly he will be called back to testify at schafers trial. In the original script he tells Samuel that right before he leaves
That's a good point about the gun shots. Maybe they have no experience with what a gun shot sounds like and there are things around the farm that sound similar so they ignored it?? I'm probably reaching but your analysis is really good.
@@filmgirlLisa I live fairly close to where this was filmed, and have been around Amish most of my life. They are actually quite fond of hunting, but would never use firearms for self-defense.
"I'm a police officer. This man's wanted for murder." After all the time Book spent with the Amish and learning to appreciate them as a good people, they weren't fooled for an instant with Schaefer's sorry, pathetic attempt to convince them that Book was the guilty one.
I love the mutual respect that developed between the Amish and book. They accepted him as one of their own even though he was a violent city cop. On the flip side it too every bit of restraint for book not to beat Schafer to a bloody pulp in this scene but he respected the Amish who had just saved his life too much to dishonor them with another violent act
@@leerogish7223 He also invoked one of their best weapons. Shame. All they had to do was look and he had to spell it out for Schafer how ashamed and disgusted he and them were for even trying to kill him, let alone try to kill Rachel, Sam and Eli.
They had misgivings about Book and his violent (to them) lifestyle, but I like to think they knew he was, at heart, a good and honest man who wouldn't have committed cold-blooded murder.
beneath his rough exterior like the Amish he had a strong sense of right and wrong.” You be careful out among them English” by that point Eli finally got past his xenophobia and accepted book as one of them for heroically protecting his family.
Schafer was j smart enough to kown he had been beaten and was resigning himself to spending the rest of his life in prison.None of the Amish believed him and he knew he couldn’t kill all of them so he had to give up. He was also probably ashamed thinking about his wife and daughter who were only going to be able to see him on the weekends and talk to him through a sheet of glass with a phone
Most thrillers end with the villain's death. This -- Book exposing Schaeffer as the worm that he is, disarming him, and then fixing him with that lacerating, up-close glare -- is actually more cathartic.
N he didn't even give him the cliche punch in the face. Very realistic n non-hollywood
Book should have hit that guy across the head with that shotgun!!!
@@craigwilson3532 yes, Book's rage held in check enough to keep him from punching Schaeffer, was very good acting on Harrison's part.
Joseph Sommer was very good as the corrupt cop and he gets overlooked when this film is discussed. He's very human (he gets rattled, frightened, he's creepy, etc)
Amen. Some character actors literally MAKE a movie work.
Sommer: Fine character actor...
The best scene between him and Ford is the phone call where Ford tells him he's on to him and knows what he's been doing and Sommer laughs slightly and says "I like you John, I've always liked you"
He was the DA in Dirty Harry 14 years earlier.
Yeah, he did a great job at making this villain a threatening but flawed and ultimately vulnerable person. Such an underrated actor.
I went to Lancaster, PA to an Amish Farm and bought a big bag of mushrooms. To me, I was impressed about how courteous, reserved and polite they were... I did respect them all the way, no pics, no questions about anything, and I did not even ask them to lower their asking price as it was already unbelievably low. I insisted that I wanted to pay double and they declined. The Amish are clean, honest, unpolluted humans that do nothing bad EVER but they always keep a low profile, respect God and morals and educate their kids to continue their tradition. If you see them, just RESPECT THEM. They are A-OK...!!!
badger4382, Yeah, I'm from Western Pennsylvania here, and you see them in Lawarance County, north of me here in Beaver County. I've even seen them in Chippewa, suburb of Beaver Fslls at Aldi buying groceries, they have someone drive them to the store so they can buy their groceries. The only downside to them is that they have puppy mills that arn't so nice from what I've read and heard. Being close to Ohio like I am, they also go out to the Friday night Rodgers auction sale, sell their baked goods, and their vegetables. You can even see them going out there with their horses and buggies. I've spoke to them, they do speak back, and are polite and kind. However, i won't tolerate anyone picking on them or giving them a rough time, i will step in and defend them.
If everyone could look at it from your perspective the world would be such a better place
@@danbasta3677 What are puppy mills?
Sadly, some of them take off all teeth of young people as a tradition to remember them that the body is not so important than soul. And if they refuse, they are cast away from their people. In every places exists stupidity.
@@Berniewahlbrinck They're farms where they breed dogs like livestock. The Amish view dogs as livestock. Puppy mills are bad, but no worse than the way other animals like pigs and sheep are treated.
For some reason, when the men of the community come over the hill after the bell rings, I get teary eyed!
Also, Viggo Mortenson!
Me too!!
I guess all the gunshots didn’t get attention but a bell does?
I agree Darcy. A sense of community which is sadly lacking in our modern world.
Amen to all (well, almost all) of the above.
Yes!
If anyone has seen the Disney Mighty Ducks Trilogy the actor who played Schaffer was Mr. Ducksworth in the first movie, and the Actor who played the old Grandfather was the Jan character in D2.
1:49
Dat finger point. Nobody does it like Han.
He realizes it's hopeless. He'd have to kill Book and every Amish person present, many of whom would most likely flee, get away and report what they saw. He can't explain his partner's deaths, or why they were there alone. He's a high-ranking Philadelphia police officer; he can't just put on Groucho glasses and run. He has enough snaity and humanity left to realize that. Or, maybe he would have if he could work up the nerve, but Book disarms him before he can.
Peter Rouleau melifluas de harrison Ford
All true, plus Schaefer just doesn't strike me as someone who has much stomach for doing the dirty work himself. That's what McFee was for.
The point was that he was showing his boss that he at least a shred of humanity left, a shred of a soul that wouldn't let him pull the trigger on the little boy, old man and woman, a part of the man he was when he recruited Book
Right plus Philadelphia police had no authority in Lancaster.
I paid to stream full film because they chopped the crucial scenes into such small segments. I admit one gets the point here, just. This is a masterpiece and should be seen. 1985 I was in Lausanne trying to get a certificate in teaching French ... not great situation but the whole experience was life-changing. I had left money for my Dad, who was in the 1st stages of alzheimers, but when I got back, I was completely involved in making his life part of mine as best as I could. I cannot ever thank him enough for being my Dad; he was proud of me, and it was a bad moment to leave in order to help, in a better way, but I got a way better job and my mum and I sorted things out from then on in. I will always associated this allegory of cooperation with the best decision I ever made when I came home. Happy New Year, Zigo! Made it to 2019 (almost). Also new dog; she's perfect, you would love her.
How can this be clip 1/9? It’s the end of the movie!
LOL
1:41 A young Aragorn taking cues from Indiana Jones
I don’t know why but these two characters yelling at each other at the same time in the beginning is hilarious IMO
Haha I agree.
This is such a great movie. The performances were great all around!
I love the look of repentance in Paul's face.
Smashtime I think it's shame
And realization that it’s over. Like Book said, was he gonna kill all 20 people standing there.
He finally came to realize he'd done wrong. He knew it was over and he was guilty and had to pay for his crime.
Book had to find a way to defeat the villain without killing him since he had loved ones Book was close with. Paul and his family may have divorced after the scandal
@@bearcattony00 Lol his wife divorcing him is going to be the least of his worries. He was behind the murder of two police officers so he’s looking at life in prison or even capital punishment!!
What an unnerving feeling that must be for Schaeffer (Joseph Sommer) at the end of this scene when everything you have and worked hard all your life for all of a sudden comes down like a house of cards on you.
He brought it on himself! Nobody made him turn his back on his oath to uphold the law he chose his own fate
And Josef Sommer played those emotions very well. The cornered desperation, and finally his life and career crashing down around him. At the same time, he brought it on himself and no one forced it on him.
@@leerogish7223That’s right-Schaefer chose to become a dirty cop-now he has to pay the consequences for his actions. I bet John Book replaced him as Chief.
@@maryhlad7501 Few would make a better chief than book.
"You really f'd up now you idiot!" amazing line.
I love the reprise of the Barn Building theme when the other Amish come to the alert bell. You may dislike how they were going to possibly shun Rachel, but in a bad situation they are great to have on your side.
Shunningr, shaming is a punishment used by the Amish elders of their community whare they send a erring one who has broken the rules of the ordnig and will have to be put out of their community. I do believe though that once the erring one has had a taste of being with the English out there, they do have the right to meet with the elders and ask permission to be accepted back into the community to in which they came from, however they still are shunned for a period of time until the elders determine that the shunning process can then be lifted, and be fully accepted back into the Amish community and now are permitted to speak and have dealing with that one again as it was before the shunning, or shaming began.
It's no surprise that Harrison Ford earned an Oscar nod for this one. He deserved another one for his reprisal of Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.
I loved him in ‘Presumed Innocent.’ Great film...
@@asanta2023 It certainly was.
Love this ending...nothing over the top. The bad guy knew it was over n basically gave up
After the grandfather picks up the little boy he first looks to heaven to thank our heavenly Father.
Feels good that this movie was made not too far from where I live.
It looks beautiful mate
One of the best movies from Harrison Ford IMHO
Loved him in ‘Presumed Innocence,’ as well.
@@asanta2023 Regarding Henry is good too
Forgot how good Harrison For was in this movie.
Star Wars brought Ford before the public. But I think this movie was where people saw what he was truly capable of doing.
@@dciccantelli he was also great in ‘Presumed Innocent.’
that shouting match lol
I've got this movie recorded on VHS (blank tape) back in 1990 on BBC1 (after Canned Carrott). However the movie is heavily edited for content, especially this scene. The edited version in this is well funny lol.
Reminds me of me getting the kids to bed
It's like the "500 DOLLAH !" bit in Bubble Boy.
@@partyentertains4092 I recorded this movie from Showtime when I use to live in Tennessee. It made me homesick for my home in Beaver County Western Pennsylvania, as both the Enon Valley and Rodger's Auction sales always had a lot of Amish around those places. Enon Valley was in Lawarance County, north of Beaver County, and Rodgers was in Columbia County, Ohio, whare I was born at in East Liverpool, Ohio.
I love it. This was against type for Harrison Ford. I love how there wasn't any cool one liners, it's a very desperate situation and he sells it flawlessly
What a awesome Love Story! One of Harrison Fords Best Movies along with the cast ❤
Love how this movie ended. With even the main antagonist having a line he would not cross for a senseless reason. There are zero movies that end like this today: the bad guy gets arrested.
"ENOUGH!!!"
Powerful Scene!
It's not perfect, but this movie is probably the best depiction of Amish in a film.
The greatest finger-pointer in show business
I grew up in central Maryland when this was being filmed. It's hard to believe it was only 3 counties away.
It's funny because they were yelling with each other 😹😹
That’s how reality is in arguing dummy. You don’t wait til someone is finishing talking to then talk. You must live under a rock.
I just finished watching the movie on netflix and the scene where they're yelling to drop the gun was hilarious to me.
Also, pretty great movie!
I thinks it more realistic though. I mean this is what most people would do in that kind of situation facing a gun at each other.
I think it was filmed that way to show the extremes between the two cultures.
This whole scene was hilarious lmao
And it's hilarious to me on how you're obviously a lousy troll...
felt way more realistic than hilarious. you really felt the sense of desperation and dangerous urgency from every character the way it was acted, shot, and edited. much preferred this to many other cool calculated standoffs with unrealistic emotional coolness and slickly delivered lines of dialogue
One of the best endings to a movie it seemed so real and life like Harrison Ford deserves a life time achievement award so does George Lucas and the late Burt Reynolds!
1:48 Love how he yells at the bad guy like a dog
I think that was the best performance he done witness was definitely more awesome than Indiana Jones and Blade Runner
This was great. Though I really loved him in ‘Presumed Innocent.’
@@asanta2023 you know in never seen Presumed Innocent I kind of forgot about it I'm going to look it up thank you
@@bryanthardin5514 you’re welcome. Watch ‘Presumed Innocent,’ when you have a chance, great film. Stars Harrison Ford, the late Brian Dennehey, and the late Raul Julia.
@@asanta2023 i will friend thanks for movie history
1:41 your time will come my son............LOTRs
+kevin garner ironic! viggo mortensen is in this movie too
And 16 years later it did
A brilliant film depicting the clash of cultures and Harrison Ford’s best performance. A very well made, thoughtful film, showing perfectly the difference between the peaceful lives of the Amish and the violence, especially gun violence, that so afflicts America today. If All Americans could adopt what Eli Lapp said to his grandson Samuel “This gun of the hand is for the taking of human life. We believe it is wrong to take human life, that is up to God” there would be no gun violence and thousands of lives saved every year.
Another great moment is when the Amish are harassed by some young people while on their horse carriages but they refuse to fight back, even under severe provocation and stay calm. Of course, John Book is not Amish and when Eli says to him “This happens sometimes, do nothing - it (fighting )is not our way” Book replies “But it is MY way” and proceeds to give those bullying the Amish a thrashing, much to Eli’s displeasure. Another Amish, Daniel, explains to an astonished passer by who says “I have not seen this kind of fighting in all my years” that John Book is a cousin from Ohio and the passerby replies “Well those Amish there must be different” and says to Eli “This is not good for the tourist trade you know, explain that to your Ohio friend!”
It was refreshing that the film did not have a traditional happy ending with John Book and Rachel walking off happily into the sunset together, accepting that they belonged to their worlds and were better off staying in their respective worlds.
Lastly, the scene of the building of the barn was an absolute masterpiece and the music perfectly fitted that scene, as indeed it did for the rest of the film.
I am sure Peter Weir is rightly proud of making a film like this, a film that could hardly be bettered.
Intense scene...Saw this in the theater..
I’m sure going to miss Harrison Ford, he was a great Actor!
Was? He’s not dead
..great movie.. under rated
Love the realism. First both guys panicked n talking quick n over eachother then the bad just giving up at the ends, nothing flashy not even a punch to the face
1:48 The most famous point in Hollywood history! You simply _can't_ _beat_ Harrison Ford pointing for pure cinematic impact.
Why is this listed as one of nine when it’s the last scene in the playlist?
Such a powerful scene.
It's a great film. But not giving the grandfather the moral dilemma of touching the gun was a missed opportunity.
This scene was foreshadowed in a way during the house building scene. These people are there for eachother
Well, you got Indy, Han, and Aragon standing against you, give up the gun.
Get off my plain, Paul.
For Behavior And Discipline
Great movie. Wonderful sean. Thank you.
from around 1:23-140 Harrison Ford turns into Dennis Quaid
This is the best Harrison Ford "its over moment" in a film! The runners up are the end of Blade Runner and the end of The Fugitive.
Aragorn? WOW!
He rung the bell for TOO LONG. 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Witness was such slept on movie. Idk how I never heard of those before. Harrison Ford Danny Glover. I was randomly channel surfing and it was on Showtime Extreme.
Strange. Another Mandela Effect thing with the past changing in various ways? I saw this movie several times back when it came out and in the years shortly after that, and the final scene was quite different from this....though with the same basic resolution. A number of Amish men formed a semicircle, and they were all holding pitchforks as Book yelled "Enough!" and the other remarks he made to Paul. It was strongly implied that if Paul opened fire he was going to die by the pitchforks, because he certainly couldn't kill all of the Amish who had gathered. That striking visual scene is simply not here.....and I know what I saw back then. So this is very strange indeed.
Those Days Are Over No More Fights
this movie give horror films a new definition.
Awesome movie!
How come all the clips for this movie are numbered wrong? This clip should be 9/9, not 1/9
Wait...(1/9)? This is the end of the damn movie.
That's called movie clips.
Probably the first time I've seen a scene like this in which the villain doesn't make one last desperate bid to shoot someone.
Harrison Ford's greatest performance IMO
Ford's acting is great, yes, but whoever plays Schaeffer does a great job at conveying sheer fear that his life's over if he doesn't kill Book.
I love how Harrison Ford uses a little boy as a human shield.
Not exactly, he was trying to show the guy that he had at least a little humanity left in him
Imagine a parody remake where he keeps pulling people in front of him and asking "You gonna shoot her!?! Blam! You gonna shoot him??? Boom!", as his boss keeps gunning them down one after another. Book then runs away when his boss is out of ammo.
He's not. The kid comes up to his elbow.
Either you are truly dense or you are trolling. Either way, your comment is super lame.
@@jamesbelshan8839 lmao
Why is this clip 1 of 9? It's pretty much the end of the film.
Great film
No wonder Ford received an Oscar nod for this film.
Possibly the best scene of the entire movie.
THAT is an intense scene !!
People say this is Ford's best performance but I don't see anything extraordinary about it. Ford is a consistently solid actor, who, while maybe not the most versatile, can give a reliably good performance in any movie. His performance as John Book is classic Ford. It's not exactly outside his range. I think his roles in The Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry were far more ambitious. They also showed some of his limitations as an actor. Overall, I think Ford's greatest strength is his on-screen charisma. It's hard not to root for him.
At 1:59 it took every bit of restrain for book not to beat Schafer to a bloody pulp or even kill him but he had too much class to dishonor the Amish who had just saved his life by committing another act of violence.
Thank You
And Viggo over Ford's shoulder at end of clip.
The movie that redefined cinema.
They don’t make movies like this anymore.
They really don’t.
Going to York pa today, saw tons of these people
I Don’t Wanna Hear One Word Out Of You And Don’t Say Another Word Perfect
When I saw this movie as a boy, I remembered thinking that Det. Paul Shaeffer might actually shoot John Book and all of the Amish people and try to get away with it. However, his a .38 revolver only held 6 rounds, and he probably wouldn’t have been carrying more than 2 extra moon clips (since he also initially had a shotgun). After he fired the first shot, most of the Amish would have likely scattered and hid from him. So, killing all of the Amish with a .38 revolver and so few rounds, would have been difficult, if not impossible for Paul to accomplish.
For Peter. Weir
The most unintentionally hilarious scene ever.
"It's over enough... ENOUGH!"
Powerful fucking scene.
So this is where Aragorn was in his 20s.
Paul didn't have enough ammo, and even if he did, he'd have to explain three dead cops outside of his jurisdiction and 50 dead civilians.
Are they speaking English during that shouting match lol
1:48 should be repeatedly played back to Trumpers 😂
Aragon, Han Solo and villain from Die hard...ASSEMBLE
Get Him Outta Here
It's the fact they sneaked "super early" whilst everyone is asleep. Amish already did 2 hours work in the fields 🤣
I love how respectful this movie is of the Amish. I think if it was made today they would be made to look like just naive and clueless victims.
1:41 - Viggo Mortensen?
Mitchell Murray Yeap
well how about that
Mitchell Murray Han Solo and Aragorn in the same movie!
funny I know. I'd also like to think Viggo based some of his Captain Fantastic performance on Ford's character in The Mosquito Quest. I'm grasping at straws, I know, but still..
Mitchell Murray And both 'Mosquito coast' and 'Witness' were directed by Peter Weir
Harrisons best movie In my honest opinion!
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