I have been listening to the Jeremiah Johnson soundtrack that I bought a while back. The music takes my mind to a peaceful place – kind of like the mountains where Jeremiah makes his way.
Listening to the music also makes me think about the movies that Robert Redford has made. There are a bunch of good ones that should be great places to hunt for some wise words. With that in mind, I looked for Movie Wisdom in Redford’s films.
Remember the rules. I must have seen the movie, but the quote can come from any character.
From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Don’t ever hit your mother with a shovel.
Move in slowly, check out everything.
From Jeremiah Johnson
Elk don’t know how many feet a horse has!
Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.
From The Way We Were
People are their principles.
From All the President’s Men
If you’re gonna do it, do it right.
From The Natural
Some mistakes you never stop paying for.
The only thing I know about the dark is you can’t see in it.
I believe we have two lives: the one we learn with, and the one we live with after that.
From Out of Africa
The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
From Indecent Proposal
Some things are not for sale.
From The Horse Whisperer
Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.
SBI: A Thinning Crowd 
I love all those movies. Every single one. The Natural and Jeremiah Johnson are both in Garry’s top ten … or maybe top five.
The Natural is awesome. Tell Garry that he should read the novel when he has some spare time.
Of course he read the book. He was an English/Drama major. He has read almost as much as me, but has seen far more movies.
I should have known.
He gets mad at me all the time because I don’t assume he reads books. So how would you know if I forget … and I ‘ve known Garry for more than 50 years.
You missed my favourite – “Do you think you used enough dynamite there Butch?”
There are a bunch of good lines in that movie.
Wild Bunch lines perhaps?
A few years ago, we finally got an HDTV. Jeremiah Johnson was the first thing I ever watched on it. It was incredible to see in high def after having just a smaller plain tv
The scenery is the main character and can only be appreciated in the right format. I would love to watch it on the big screen.