The Hateful Eight (2015)

Bruce Dern: General Sandy Smithers

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• Sheriff Chris Mannix : May I sit down, sir?

  General Sandy Smithers : According to the Yankees, it's a free country.

• General Sandy Smithers : I don't know that nigger. But I know he's a nigger. And that's all I need to know.

• Sweet Dave : [about having Bob watching him play chess with General Smithers]  I like whipping this old man's ass in front of an audience.

  General Sandy Smithers : You ain't whipping shit!

• Jody : Now do you have any reason why you would want to interfere with me saving my sister from a hangman's rope?

  General Sandy Smithers : No.

  Jody : You don't?

  General Sandy Smithers : No I don't.

  Jody : You sure you don't? I mean we did just kill Minnie and Sweet Dave. And you and Sweet Dave looked mighty chummy over there.

  General Sandy Smithers : I just met these people, I don't give a damn about them! Or you, or your sister. Or any other son of a bitch in Wyoming for that matter.

  Jody : [menacingly]  That is a GOOD answer, old man.

• Major Marquis Warren : [after some initial hostility, Warren and Smithers seem to be conversing almost friendly about Smithers' family]  Yeah, your boy came up here a few years back. He spoke highly of his mama too.

  General Sandy Smithers : You knew my boy?

  Major Marquis Warren : Do I know him? Yeah.

  [laughs] 

  Major Marquis Warren : Yeah, I knew him.

  General Sandy Smithers : [coldly]  You did not know my boy.

  Major Marquis Warren : [shrugs]  Suit yourself.

  [gets up to leave] 

  General Sandy Smithers : [grabs Warren by the arm, pleadingly]  Did you know my son?

  Major Marquis Warren : I know the day he died. Do you?

  General Sandy Smithers : No.

  Major Marquis Warren : You wanna know what day that was?

  General Sandy Smithers : Yes.

  Major Marquis Warren : The day he met me.

  [slowly draws one of his guns and places it within Smithers' reach] 

• Sheriff Chris Mannix : [as Warren approaches General Smithers]  Warren, goddamn it, you leave that old man alone.

  Major Marquis Warren : Stand down, you son of a bitch. I shared a battlefield with this man.

  Major Marquis Warren : [to Smithers]  Or would you deny me that too?

  General Sandy Smithers : I suppose you were there.

  Major Marquis Warren : May I join you?

  General Sandy Smithers : Yes, you may.

• Major Marquis Warren : General Sanford Smithers? Battle of Baton Rouge?

  General Sandy Smithers : [to Mannix]  Inform the nigger in the cavalry officer's uniform that I had a division of Confederates under my command... in Baton Rouge!

  Sheriff Chris Mannix : [stands up]  MAJOR NIGGER! General Smithers wishes me to inform you...

  Major Marquis Warren : [raises hand]  I heard him, hillbilly! Inform this old cracker that I was in Baton Rouge also... on the other side.

  Sheriff Chris Mannix : Oh, that's interesting.

  [to Smithers] 

  Sheriff Chris Mannix : General Smithers, he said he was also in Baton Rouge on the other side...

  General Sandy Smithers : Captain Mannix! Tell the nigger that I don't acknowledge niggers in northern uniform!

  Major Marquis Warren : [to Smithers]  You captured a whole colored command that day... but not one colored trooper made it to camp, did they?

  General Sandy Smithers : We didn't have the time or the food...

  [pause] 

  General Sandy Smithers : Nor the inclination to care for nothern horses and LEAST OF ALL, NORTHERN NIGGERS!

  [pause] 

  General Sandy Smithers : SO WE SHOT 'EM WHERE THEY STOOD!

  [Warren suddenly drops his coffee cup and goes for the gun in his holster] 

• Sheriff Chris Mannix : [pointing Major Marquis Warren]  Do you know who that nigger is?

  General Sandy Smithers : I don't know who that nigger is, but I know he is a nigger, and that is all I need to know.