-All the King's Men- (2006)
Sean Penn (Willie Stark)
You know who they were? In that big fine car? They was Joe Harrison's own lickspittles....coming in to split MacMurphy's hick vote!
That's right! Your hick vote!
There he is! There he is right there. There's the Judas Iscariot lickspittle nose-wiper from the city, right there.
Come on, Tiny. Look at him. Joe Harrison's dummy.
Come on, take a bow. Come on. No, come on now, people wanna see you. Take a bow, come on.
There he goes!
No! No, let him lie! Let him lie! Let that hog lie in his own filth!
Let him lie, but listen to me, you hicks. That's right, I'm not the only one here. You hicks too. They fooled you, too, just like they fooled me a thousand times!
But it's time I fooled somebody. It's time I fooled them!
Them big-city, striped-pants lickspittle hick-haters.
I'm running for governor on my own. I'm coming for them and I'm coming for blood!
First thing I'm gonna do is build me a road out...across the swamps and alligators and anything else that gets in my way. A thousand miles of concrete, if that's what it takes...so I can come out here and visit with my fellow hicks on a regular basis.
Then I'm gonna build me a bridge across that mighty Mississippi. Name it after myself because I'm the one who built it. Then I'm gonna build you all new schools.
Send your kids home with free tablets and pencils and books...to study and learn on the way to the new university I'm gonna build...where every one of them can go. Same as rich folks' kids!
Now, I hope you're listening, you hicks. Because I don't wanna drive all the way back home...just to drive back out here next week to tell you again.
And this is it:
If you don't vote......you don't matter.
You don't matter!
You don't matter!
And then you're just as ignorant as them in the city say you are...while they stealing food off your table...and every nickel out your pocket, saying, "Thank you."
Because then you are just a bunch of ignorant hicks who got nothing...because you deserve nothing.
So listen to me.
Listen here.
Lift your eyes...and look on the God's blessed and unflyblown truth:
You are a hick and ain't nobody never helped a hick but a hick hisself. It's up to you to nail these parasites up.
Up to you and me and God.
(Woman's voice): "Amen!"
Nail up Joe Harrison!
(Crowd): "Nail him up!"
Nail up MacMurphy!
(Crowd): "Nail him up!"
And nail up any bastard that gets between you...and the roads and the bridges and schools...and the food you need.
You give me the hammer and I'll do it.
I'll nail their hides to the barn door.
Nail 'em up!