Thunderheart (1992)

Sam Shepard: Frank Coutelle

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• Frank Coutelle : I know more about the law and the history out here than the people themselves. Let me tell you, I feel for them. They're a proud people. But they're also a conquered people. That means their future is dictated by the nation that conquered them. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it works, down through history.

• Frank Coutelle : [shouting into CB Radio]  Officer down! Officer down!

  FBI Agent : Has the officer been shot? Over.

  Frank Coutelle : [shouting]  No, the officer's been bit by a fuckin' badger!

• Frank Coutelle : [pointing out the squalid conditions on the reservation]  Look at this, we got the Third World smack dab in the heart of America. Hard to believe, huh? It used to be all theirs, clear on up into Canada. This is what they got left with.

  Ray Levoi : Jesus.

• Ray Levoi : [Identifying dead body]  Leo Fast Elk.

  Frank Coutelle : [Sarcastically]  Not fast enough.

• Jimmy Looks Twice : I'm a warrior!

  Frank Coutelle : [Sarcastically]  Yeah, and I'm John Wayne.

• Ray Levoi : [Rhetorically, looking at the poverty of the reservation]  Where the hell did they send us?

  Frank Coutelle : A long way from home, Ray.