"Little by little the look of the country changes

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

because of the men we admire."

The most prescient line ever. Points to those who know the source without looking it up on the internet.

I will say this. When I first saw the movie this line is in, some two decades after the movie was first released, I practically fell off my chair. It was amazing then, and remains even more amazing nearly four more decades later.

I frequently post this, and no one ever gets it. Sigh.

[misanthrope]

1. Great line in a great film

that was early on the Hollywood track toward what became a new golden age in the late 1960s on through the 1970s. For some reason, I thought I embedded that Melvyn Douglas bit on this page in the last year.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Wow. Thank you for posting this clip.

I had not seen this since that time I saw the movie a very long time ago, and had forgotten the context. Thank you again.

A separate comment. How is it that Paul Newman, who invariably played awful men, became a matinee idol? Honestly, I don't think he ever played a likeable person. Yes, he was an amazing actor and absolutely deserves all of the accolades showered upon him. But I don't think any single person he ever portrayed on screen was even remotely likeable.

But again, thank you so very much for this clip, because it gives a context to the quote.

[misanthrope]

3. Because Newman had "it"

The camera loved him, he was an exceptional actor, and he just had charisma. That's why his performances are so rivetting. Yeah, he was an anti-hero but a number of his roles were more like scalawags than outright villains.

[Ztolkins]

4. Butch Cassidy was great.

[Klaralven]

5. "nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list, which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newman#Political_activism

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Oh, my.

That's well worth celebrating.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Sooner or later people have to make up their mind.