Dust Devil (1992)
John Matshikiza: Joe Niemand
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Quotes
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Joe Niemand : There's a whole lot of power in fingers and knots and knuckles and such. If you want to win a war, you gotta have a whole fistful of knuckles!
Ben Mukurob : You smoke too much, Joe.
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Joe Niemand : The Dust Devil must keep moving to survive, blown by the desert wind, on and on, throughout eternity, without rest or pity.
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Ben Mukurob : [wakes up from a terrible dream] Was it a dream?
Joe Niemand : No my friend that was reality... You are dreaming now.
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Joe Niemand : The desert knows her name, now. The devil has taken her hand. He has stolen both her eyes. When she looks into a mirror, she will see his shadow. The dust devil, must keep moving to survive, blown by the desert wind; on and on throughout eternity - without rest or pity.
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[first lines]
Joe Niemand : Back in the first times, in the time of the red light; the desert wind - Soo-oop-wa - was a man like us. Until, by mischance, he grew wings and flew... like a bird. He became a hunter, and like a hawk, he flew to seek his prey; taking refuge in those far corners of the world where magic still lingers in the earth. But having once been a man, so does he still suffer the passions of a man. The people of the great Namib - me and my ancestors before me - we have another name for those violent winds that blow from nowhere. We call them, 'dust devils'.
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Joe Niemand : The desert knows her name now. He has stolen both her eyes. When she looks into a mirror she will see his spirit, like a shawl, blowing tatters round her shoulders in a haze. And beyond the dim horizon a tapestry unfolding of the avenues of evil. And all of history set ablaze.
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Ben Mukurob : [dismissing Joe's tales of the killer] You've been watching too many drive-in movies.
Joe Niemand : My friend, you, you've got to stop thinking like a white man and start thinking like a man instead. Otherwise, you're going to be in big trouble with this.
Ben Mukurob : He's flesh and blood. Like us. He must be.
