Original subtitles

♪ Money for Nothing by Dire Straits ♪ ♪ MTV ♪

I remember the first time I saw it

Tried to find words to describe it...

[wind rustling] but I couldn't

Nothing had prepared me

no books, no teachers, not even my parents

I heard a thousand stories but none could describe this place

It must be witnessed to be understood

and yet, I've seen it, and understand it even less

than before I first cast eyes on this place

[music]

Some call it the American desert,

others, the Great Plains

but those phrases were invented by professors at universities

surrounded by the illusion of order

and the fantasy of right and wrong

To know it, you must walk it...

bleed into its dirt...

drown in its rivers...

then its name becomes clear

[fire burning]

It is hell,

and there are demons everywhere

[panting]

[music]

[rumbling]

[war cries]

[screams]

[crying]

[woman screams]

[war cries]

[panting]

Lakota Sioux: I said no

Will you let me go?

I will sell you

or I will kill you!

You speak English

How can you do this?!

You speak English and no, your people did this

[gunshot] [grunts]

[gasps]

But if this is hell, and I'm in it...

[gunshots] ..then I must be a demon too

and I'm already dead

[screams]

[music]

[wind blowing]

[sobbing]

[deep breaths]

[music]

[sobbing]

[sniffs]

[music]

[sniffs]

[sobbing]

[music]

THOMAS: Captain

BRENNAN: Yeah

You ready?

[music]

THOMAS: You coming?

BRENNAN: I'm thinking about it

Think on it quick

If I'm digging a hole,

I'd rather do it before the sun's high

I'm coming

[music]

[carriage rolling]

[gunfire]

[music]

Come on!

[music]

Woah!

Ya!

Ya!

Pretty smart They won't fall for it again

Pretty soon they'll just shoot the horses

Horses is probably what they're after

Farmers ain't got nuthin' else worth taking

They'll shoot the horses anyway

then the farmer

Ya!

Ya!

What's he doing? I don't know

I don't give a shit

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

[booming gunshot]

Good shot

Yep

[clicks tongue]

[horse nickers]

DUTTON: So y'all just sat up there and watched?

BRENNAN: You looked like you had it figured

Well, thanks for the fucking help

Don't take the horse

Well, I figure I earned it

Thieves run in pretty big packs around here

If one of his pack sees it...

..you'd just be advertising for the next gunfight

[clicks tongue]

[music]

[sigh]

[deep breaths]

[music]

[music continues]

'MAN: come one, come all! I've got indian scalps today for sale'

MAN: The genuine article!

Comanche... Kiowa... Kickapoo... Scalps! For sale today!

MAN #2: Linson's magic elixir... ..cures consumption...

..$10

[music]

[shouting]

Woah...

[indistinct chatter]

'MAN: try and figure it out'

DUTTON: Can you take a wagon and a team?

LIVERYMAN: How many in your team?

Four. And I had two shipped here by train...

..a yellow and a buckskin

(Yellow and buckskin)

LIVERYMAN: You DUTTON Dutton? DUTTON: Yep

We got them in back

Most keep their wagons out back

See what you got here

Excuse us LIVERYMAN: 'scuse us, gentlemen

[laughs]

Hey, all this shit'll be stolen by morning

You ain't got no place you can keep it?

I'll keep it in the hay barn for ten dollars...

..of course, can't make no promises...

..it won't get robbed there either

Well, it's the promise I'm paying for

For twenty, I'll have someone sit with it

And how much for the horses?

Two apiece All right

DUTTON: here a decent hotel?

Just yourself?

Got my family. Six total

Yeah(?)

You don't want your family here

You should go to Dallas!

Down here's where they're meeting me

Best bet's the Calhoun All right

You're 77, 78, 79...

146 ..81 and 82 for the two already here

for the wagon

Liveryman: If you ain't settled up in thirty days,

everything goes to auction

[coins hit table]

DUTTON: What's the rule on firearms in this town?

This place'll pick you apart if you ain't got one

But if you pull your pistol in this town, mister...

you'd better know how to use it

[cheering]

'WOMAN: Hey, handsome!'

'WOMAN #2: is it my lucky day?'

WOMAN: Come on in for a shower and bath...

..I might let you bathe me

WOMAN #2: Forget about the bath, baby...

..you can come climb mama like a tree

PASSERBY: Watch where the hell you're going

DUTTON: Give it back

PASSERBY: give what back?

DUTTON: my wallet PASSERBY: I didn't take your fucking...

[music]

BOY: Pickpocket!

[shouting, clamouring]

MAN IN CROWD: Put that back! DUTTON: He took my goddamn wallet.

[clamouring]

[gunshots]

THOMAS: Farmer ain't scared to use that shotgun

BRENNAN: Farmer's gonna pick a fight he can't win before long

[indistinct chatter]

BRENNAN: Thomas, stand by that door

Don't let any of that bullshit spill in here

BRENNAN: That should answer any questions...

about how dangerous this journey will be

It will be that and worse, all the way to Oregon

[people speaking in german]

Does anybody speak English?

HAND RAISES MAN: I...

..I speak English...Josef

Does this group have a leader? [JOSEF POINTS]

[man stands; speaking in German]

but he doesn't speak english

[conversing in German]

No. No English

You have wagons?

And ox to pull them

'BRENNAN: Ox...'

Ox won't make the trip

Heat and no water will kill them

Sell the ox Get horses

We don't know horses

Where's your gear?

Gear?

Your supplies...

..your suitcases... ..what you take with you

In the room. In--in the back

BRENNAN: Show me

[speaking German]

What is all this shit?

Everything we brought from home

Well, you should have left it there

It won't make the trip

It must

This is everything we have

How am I supposed to load this on a wagon

and float it across the fucking river...

..and over mountains?

Captain, he ain't even got a pistol

No

Against your religion(?)

Against our laws; we were not allowed

None of you have firearms?

Do we need them?

[laughs]

Do you need them?

We're going to have to hire more men

to protect you...

..to help you hunt for food

Talk it over with your group and see what kind of money

they can come up with so we can hire them

More money...?

The price is two hundred per family

There's a new price

Our church warned us about people like you

You change rules You-you try to rob us

you think we're fools, just because...

You have no horses...

..no guns...you can't ride

You are a fucking fool!

for thinking you can travel two thousand miles

with no skills to survive it

Captain

[music]

[gags]

Take the train to Portland

You won't make this trip

We... we can't afford the train

Then I suggest you buy farms around here

Here is hot...here is dry

We come from mountains...

..mountains we know

[speaking German]

How much do more men cost?

Maybe a hundred apiece

maybe more. Let me check around

Okay. We...we leave in the morning?

We leave when you're ready

and you won't be ready in the morning

JOSEF (to group): All is okay

[music]

[music]

PASSENGER: You're staring out that window like there's a prize to be had

ELSA: You ain't half-wrong

Never seen a sunset

MAN: Sun don't set where you're from?

The pine trees block it

Tennessee...

How'd you know?

I know the pines

and I know the accent

Where you headed?

West

All by yourself?

With my family

I don't see much family...

..just see you.

They're, um...

our seats are in the back.

I just wanted to look out the window so i...

Sit here as long as you like

then just a little bit longer...

I question your father's judgment, though

If I had a daughter as pretty as you,

she would never leave my sight.

Don't do that

Don't hide from it

Beauty is meant to be admired.

Let me look...

Yeah.

Look at you.

Ah! Ow! [woman hits him]

All right, ma'am...

Ma'am, I get your point, ma'am

All right, ma'am!

FAITH: Elsa, let's go!

Good day to you, sir

You're going to be the death of me, I swear.

I was just looking out the window.

Mm-hmm. Window sure wears a fancy suit.

Excuse me. Excuse me, sir.

Oh, excuse me.

Excuse me, sir.

Where's John? With your aunt.

You left him with them(?) YOU left me no choice.

Sit.

Someday I'll only ride in the front of the train.

[Claire scoffs] 'That's a child's goal'

FAITH: A woman's goal is to never ride a train again

because she has a home she never wants to leave

I guess we're both a ways from our goal.

CLAIRE: Ought not let her talk to you like that

If she were my daughter...

FAITH: If you think you can make her listen, be my guest

[Claire leans forward] [Elsa gasps]

Traipse off into harm's way

and then back-talk your mother for saving you?

ELSA: I wasn't in harm's... [gasps in pain]

I'm sorry. Ahh!

It didn't worry me. You apologise to her.

I'm sorry, mama. Tell her to stop.

You proved your point.

You'll hit a stranger, but not your own daughter

when it's exactly what she needs

[Elsa sobbing]

Spare the rod, Margaret, and the freedom will ruin her...

..if it hasn't already.

[sniffs]

MARY ABEL: You had it coming.

[music]

[piano playing]

[indistinct chatter]

MAN #1: How's the pay? BRENNAN: Hundred a month.

MAN #2: It'll take four months to get there,

then we're stuck in Oregon for the winter.

We'll burn through the money waiting to get home.

BRENNAN: We'll send you back on the train.

MAN #1: Look, Captain...

'I've pushed cattle all the way to Omaha...'

..come across my fair share of these immigrant wagons.

These sons of bitches are trying to die.

'They can't swim... they can't ride...'

Bandits gon' plague you all the way to Nebraska

and when you get to Indian country...whoo!

Indians are on reservations.

MAN #2: They're on reservations till they ain't

and when they see you coming 'round the bend,

they gon' saddle up and pluck y'all like chickens

Mm-hmm

'MAN #1: it's dangerous enough around here'

I ain't gotta go two thousand miles looking for trouble

All the trouble I'll ever need is right outside that door

Thank you for supper

Mm-hmm.

We could have a look in the Elephant.

if they're in the Elephant when we find 'em...

..I don't want 'em.

BRENNAN: Look who it is.

That farmer's everywhere at once, ain't he?

Mm-hmm.

Mind if we speak?

Whatever you're selling I ain't buying.

Mind if we speak?

For your supper. For the intrusion.

I can pay for my own dinner.

Four horses to your wagon. What are you hauling?

Moving pretty fast.

My guess, it's empty and you're filling her up in town

then headed... (chuckles)

Mister, if we wanted to rob you...

..we'd have done it long before now.

We're leading a wagon train north.

Figured you might be headed the same way.

We could use some capable men with us...

..and you seem to be that.

That's all we're asking.

My family's meeting me here tonight.

We're headed up north tomorrow.

North where? Don't know.

You don't strike me as a man who travels without a plan

I got a plan

[chuckles]

You will make a man work for an answer, won't you?

DUTTON: I ain't got the answer myself.

yYou got all these folks hauling ass

west and north and they ain't never even seen the country...

..and they don't even know if it's worth the journey.

Not me.

I'm gonna keep heading north...

..till I find land that's worth the journey.

THOMAS: How many in your group?

Six

How many men?

We can help each other

I ain't looking for help

I'm worried enough about my own family

to be worrying about somebody else's

You got lucky in that field

You got lucky on the street

Hope you got enough luck left for those coming with you.

[music]

[door squeaks]

[bell ringing]

CONDUCTOR: Next stop, Fort Worth

Next stop, Fort Worth!

FAITH: Elsa!

I'm just looking outside

[music]

[train whistle blows]

The air was different

The air at home is heavy, like a musky soup

Here it is light...

..with a strange scent of pollen and smoke.

Like burning flowers

It smelled wild...untamed

It was beautiful!

[music]

[steam hisses]

CLAIRE: ust wait for everyone to get off.

FAITH: have you seen Elsa?

You lost her again.

[sighs]

If "possible" can describe a feeling, that's how I felt

The whole world felt possible

and I was ready for it

ELSA: Daddy!

Daddy! Daddy!

Daddy!

DUTTON: How did you get up there?

There's a door.

Well then, go back through it

Too many people now I have to wait

[Dutton exhales]

ELSA: Oh, I can't wait

Oh my god!

Be careful!

Whooh!

Come here. [Elsa giggling]

Oh.

[scoffs]

Ah!

DUTTON: If you don't stop growing I'm gonna have to stack bricks

on your head.

ELSA" You need a shave, Daddy. Mama's gonna throw a fit.

She might like it. [laughs]

That girl...

FAITH: How did you get down here?

I jumped

She is your daughter and you can have her

DUTTON: Hey, babe. I missed you

FAITH: You look like a ruffian

I was planning on a shave

You should've planned harder

I'll get one first thing tomorrow

Well... it's okay for now

Well, it looks like you survived the journey

Barely

The man beside me shit hisself in Mississippi

and I had to smell it all the way here

DUTTON: that doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun.

Dutton, your children are feral

Absolutely feral

Hello, Claire Hi

Sorry to hear about Henry

He was...

..a patient man

Nothing to be sorry about

It's the Lord's Will

Can't believe in Heaven then be sad when people go there

Yes, ma'am

[dog barks in distance]

[sniffs]

DUTTON: Mary Abel.

Claire.

Thank you

Elsa?

Elsa

This is a dangerous town I don't want you to wander

I don't wander

Honey, that's all you do...wander

And I don't want you doing it here

You promise me

I promise All right

Baby

[music]

Calhoun. Yes, sir.

[kissing noises]

[clicks tongue]

[shouting] [punching]

WOMAN: Whip his fucking ass!

Eat dirt, you asshole.

Get him!

What did she say?

Nothing, honey.

WOMAN: you call me a whore again, you son of a bitch.

COACH-DRIVER: You staying in Fort Worth long?

DUTTON: Not if I can help it.

You know... there's some real nice parts...

..you just ain't in one of 'em.

[clicks tongue] Yeah, I can see that.

Hotel Calhoun

Woah, whoa, whoa

Here we are

[music]

[dog barking in distance]

Claire, this is you

Mary Abel, let's go

[door closes, locks]

Losing her husband didn't soften her much

Hmph...you could soak that woman in buttermilk

for a month and not even soften her a bit

All right [door unlocks]

John, this is you and your sister

Where are you? Right next door, son.

Look after your brother. I will.

Yes, ma'am.

I said I will.

I know what you said.

What you didn't say is "yes, ma'am."

Women don't say that to each other

Oh, so you're a woman now?

Aren't ?

Oh...[laughs]..that child!

She ain't wrong.

Oh, so you're ready for her to start courting.

[laughs] Not a chance. Mm-hmm, that's what I thought.

[music]

[sighs]

How much did you spend on this room?

It's the last room we'll see for a while

You deserve it

A bath...imagine that

I wonder if there's hot water in the lobby

There's hot water

I read about a hotel in New York...

..where they pipe hot water straight into the room

You turn a faucet on and it comes right out.

[laughs] Can you imagine that?

For now, you're gonna have to imagine me

hauling buckets of water up those stairs

Mmm

Well... I can do that

All right

I'll be right back

[clicks tongue]

[door closes] [sighs]

[piano playing]

MELODI: Absinthe?

BRENNAN: Soda water.

Hmm. I don't know this water.

You probably use it to remove stains

Why do you drink it?

Because I don't drink alcohol

Why not?

Just don't

You don't gamble either

No [chuckles]

Do you dance?

Not anymore

Well, maybe you should go home and sleep

Now let me guess... you don't sleep either

Not much

So you sit here and drink your drink that isn't a drink

and you watch the people do all the other things you don't do

That's a fair observation

Why?

It's not money

Poor men stare across this room...

..like little puppies hungry for scraps

but you... you have money

I have enough

You don't want to be alone with your memories

That's why you don't sleep

It's why you sit here until you are too tired for memories

You're too smart to be working here

I make more money than bankers

[chuckles]

MELODI: I'm right where I'm supposed to be

What was her name?

Helen.

[music]

You've known no one since?

You can call me her name.

You can close your eyes

and you can call me her name

and you can be with her again

I can give that to you...

BRENNAN: Get the fuck off me

PATRON: Is he causing you problems?

MELODI: He pushed me

You know what I'm doing here?

Looking for a reason

You want to be my reason?

No, I do not

Then sit the fuck down

[whispers into her ear] HELEN

Didn't work.

[indistinct chatter]

[piano playing cowboy western song]

[faint laughter]

All I knew of sex was rumors

stories traded among friends as we tried

to imagine what that word really meant

now I knew...

FAITH: I've read a lot about Wyoming.

DUTTON: Well, there's not enough rain in the east

there's too much snow in the west

So...

No to Colorado...

No to Wyoming

Oregon

Washington

Plenty of rain...not much snow

Cool summers and mild winters

Kind of sounds like a song

To you it sounds like a song

James...

You don't think that I hauled 40 gallons of water

up those stairs just to get clean?

[giggles]

I'm wooing you.

[music]

Mm.

Whoo, those buckets of water sure must have been heavy.

they were, honey. mm, poor thing.

{WOMAN'S VOICE] WHOO!

[moaning]

so much I don't know about life

We learn to read, learn rules

learn scripture and manners,

and how to avoid saying or doing things

that make others uncomfortable.

All those things seem to be the opposite of life

seem to strangle it

But now, I'm sleeping on the edge of civilisation

and soon we leave the edge behind

Then no rules

Then, only life

What an adventure

What an adventure for all of us

[music]

[panting]

[music]

[grunts]

[grunts]

[grumbling]

[grunts]

[silence]

[music]

[muffled scream]

[struggling]

[screams]

[screams]

[man laughing]

She's a wild one!

My turn.

[grunts]

[coughs]

[gunshot]

[panting]

[moaning]

[crying] Mama!

DUTTON: Anybody else want to fuck with my family?

You?

[music]

[cows lowing]

RANCH AGENT: What the hell am I gonna do with these?

Sell 'em

To who? Farmers

Farmers don't use ox no more

They got these steam engines now that can pull a plow all day

All you gotta do is feed the furnace

Never seen one and neither have you

Swap me even

I'll swap you for mules

We need horses

These folks can't handle mules

they're real green

Green's their problem Not mine

I'll take a mix, but it needs to be half horses

All right.

But don't give me lip about the horses

They are what they are

They...cowboys got all the good ones these days

THOMAS: When you wanna pull out?

BRENNAN: Let's see what we can teach them first

I want to give them a chance

It's a job, Captain... we took it

All I got's my word... gon' see it through

Half these folks ain't gonna make it

We both know it

it's a free country and...

hell, this what they chose

We doing what we can

but we need to get moving

or winter's gon' kill us all

They're not ready

They ain't ever gon' be ready, Captain

Just 'cos they won't survive doesn't mean we can't try

Never say it did.

All right, mister

This right here... that's for the soil

and this, that's for the bank

Thank you

This is a rattlesnake

They hide under logs, and under rocks

at night if it's cold, they will look for warmth...

and if you are sleeping on the ground, that warmth is you

A bite will kill you

[Josef translates]

This is poison oak and poison ivy

It won't kill you You'll just wish you were dead

Do not touch it

Do not walk in it

[Josef continues translating]

What else?

Water.

Do not drink water from the ground.

When we camp, we will choose a latrine

away from our water source

JOSEF: What is a latrine?

Powder room

Water closet

Thomas, help me

Toilette

What in the hell is a toilette?

It's French for shitter.

When did you learn French?

I don't know French, I just...

know the French word for shitter.

How do you know the French word for shitter?

I used to fuck a girl from France!

Fine. that's all you had to say

Don't have to get angry about it

We should check them

I know

All of them

I know

[music]

The farmer

DUTTON: you need help, I'll give it

I'll take it. Thank you

Pays a hundred a month

No, I don't want your money I ain't working for you

I'm just riding with you

Fair enough

How many women in your group?

It's all women in my group and a five year-old boy

May need to borrow one of those women

Borrow them for what?

CLAIRE: Next

Spin.

You're done. Step over there

Next

Come on

Take it off

Arms up

Turn around Lift your hair

Oh, lord

You're done

Next

DUTTON: Turn around

Hey

THOMAS: Captain

BRENNAN: Put your clothes on

Do you have a wife?

[speaking German]

Bring her here

MAN: What?

Nothing

What did I do?

You didn't do anything

Thomas

What did I do?

What did we do?

No! What did we do?

You didn't do anything

You have smallpox and you're going to die

In three days you'll give it to everyone you meet

If you have a soul, you will leave the city and find a river

and lay down beside it and die in peace

If I see you again, I'll kill you myself

[explaining in French]

I don't have this thing you say

CROWD: Get the fuck out of town! Go on, get out of here!

I don't have this thing!

[clamouring]

[couple protesting in French]

BRENNAN: You ready to travel?

DUTTON: I've spent my last night in this town. I'm leaving now

We head north in the morning

We'll camp on the Trinity

See if we can teach these people how to drive a wagon

Where on the Trinity?

There's a big oak bent over like an old woman

Big boulder up against the trunk

Looks like it's crying over a grave

We'll meet you there

All right.

[music]

Elsa: I remember stories of the great war,

how it seemed man had lost all reason

That we'd become animals

Or perhaps we just surrendered to the fact

that animals is all we've ever been

[music]

But there are moments where I feel we are more...

where we have evolved beyond a search for the next meal

or the dominance to breed who we choose...

where we breathe fresh air deep

and can almost taste its Maker

[music]

I wish I could freeze this moment

I would live in it forever

swimming in the possible

while the mud of the real is stuck to the shore

[laughs]

[music]

We weren't poor

we weren't desperate

The road west is filled with failures

but failure isn't what drove him

It was a dream

and the dream is coming true

[music]

[music]