Who is english bob

Little Bill Daggett : I heard that one myself, Bob. English Bob : [discussing the assassination of President Garfield] Well there's a dignity royalty. A majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shakes as though palsied. Barber : Oh I wouldn't point no pistol at nobody sir. English Bob : Well that's a wise policy, as wise policy.

But if you did. I can assure you, if you did, that the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and you would stand In awe. Now, a president English Bob : why not shoot a president. English Bob : This Strawberry Alice person, tell me again.

Barber : Down the street and across. Greely's Beer Garden and Billiard Parlour. Just ask for Alice; say you want a game of billiards. English Bob : Even though I don't really wish to play. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. English Bob is only in the film for a short period of time, but he's symbolically very important. And no; it's not because he insults the president on the Fourth of July. In the universe of Unforgiven , English Bob is a legendary gunfighter.

Various characters suggest that he has been employed by the railroad companies from time to time to shoot Chinese people that may have gotten out of line railroad companies employed a very large number of Chinese people for projects like the Transcontinental Railroad.

Bob gets wind of the bounty and comes to Big Whiskey, with his biographer in tow W. He's deadly accurate with a pistol, as he proves during an impromptu pheasant-shooting contest. He's also not one to give up his guns.

When Little Bill confronts him about this, Bob lies. Bill calls it, and disarms Bob, who tries to go on his way. This is where the scene turns, as well. English Bob is clearly hurt on the ground and Daggett just keeps on kicking him. The power of the scene is in its subversion of tropes. Daggett is doing exactly the things that would be heroic in most Westerns.

Every piece of Western mythology the audience takes as doctrine is challenged. The casting of Richard Harris, a respected actor who was already into his older years at the time of filming, bolsters this further.

What is literally happening in the scene is that Gene Hackman is beating up an old man.