Are we shooting people or not? Three Kings 1999 starring George Clooney & Mark Wahlberg & Ice Cube & Spike Jonze & Cliff Curtis & Nora Dunn & Jamie Kennedy et al, director David O Russell, opening line
So shoot. Show me you’ve got balls. Point Blank 2010 starring Gilles Lellouche & Roschdy Zem & Gerard Lanvin & Elena Anaya & Mireille Perrier & Claire Perot & Moussa Maaskri & Pierre Benoist & Valerie Dashwood & Virgile Bramly et al, director Fred Cavaye, detective rozzer gone bad
I want you to shoot my husband. They Made Me a Fugitive 1939 starring Trevor Howard & Charles Farrell & Sally Gray & Griffith Jones & Rene Ray & Mary Merrall & Michael Brennan & Cyril Smith et al, director Alberto Cavalcanti, wife to Howard
It’s great not to be afraid of shooting people. Sonatine 1993 starring Takeshi Kitano & Aya Kokumai & Tetsu Watanabe & Masanobu Katsumura & Susumu Terajima & Ren Osugi & Tonbo Zushi et al, director Takeshi Kitano, bird
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo] 1966 starring Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef & Eli Wallach & Aldo Giuffre & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchillio & Sandro Scarchilli & Antonio Molion Rojo et al, director Sergio Leone, Tuco
He not only plays he can shoot too. Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era Una Volta Il West] 1968 starring Henry Fonda & Charles Bronson & Claudia Cardinale & Jason Robards & Gabriele Gerzetti & Paolo Stoppa & Woody Strode & Jack Elam & Keenan Wynn & Frank Wolff & Lionel Stander et al, director Sergio Leone, cowboy to cowboy
If my pa wants to, he can shoot you too. 3:10 To Yuma 1957 starring Van Heflin & Glenn Ford & Felicia Farr & Robert Emhardt & Leora Dana & Henry Jones & Richard Jaeckel & George Mitchell & Robert Ellenstein & Ford Rainey et al, director Delmer Daves, boy to prisoner
Jesse James Killed By Ford Brothers. Shot in Back by Men He Had Befriended. The Return of Frank James 1940 starring Henry Fonda & Gene Tierney & Jackie Cooper & Henry Hull & John Carradine & Charles Tannen & J Edward Bromberg & Donald Meek et al, director Fritz Lang, newspaper caption
But to be shot in the back by a couple of fellas who were like brothers to ya. ibid. pressman to Frank James
He’s American? OK under no circumstances – even if he comes out with guns blazing – are any of your men to shoot an American. Countries have been bombed for less. Whole Lotta Sole 2011 starring Brendan Fraser & Colm Meaney & Martin McCann & Yaya DaCosta & Michael Legge & David O'Hara & Conor MacNeill & Emma Hamilton & Michael Legge & Jonahan Harden et al, director Terry George, Ministry man
Listen to me – shoot Ross. Shoot the traitor now. The Ipcress File 1965 ***** starring Michael Caine & Guy Doleman & Nigel Green & Sue Lloyd & Gordon Jackson & Aubrey Richards & Frank Gatliff & Thomas Baptiste & Oliver MacGreevy & Freda Bamford & Pauline Winter et al, director Sidney J Furie, Dalby to Palmer
Take a deep breath. You only have one shot. Make it count. Quantum of Solace 2008 starring Daniel Craig & Olga Kurylenko & Judi Dench & Mathieu Amalric & Giancarlo Giannini & Gemma Arterton & Jeffrey Wright & Anatole Taubman & Jesper Christensen & Rory Kinnear et al, director Marc Forster, Bond
Take the shot. I said take the shot. Take the bloody shot. Skyfall 2012 starring Daniel Craig & Judi Dench & Ralph Fiennes & Javier Bardem & Naomie Harris & Berenice Lim Marlohe & Albert Finney & Ben Whishaw & Rory Kinnear et al, director Sam Mendes, M
Mexican: You shoot me?
Pitt: It’s the American way. The Mexican 2001 starring Brad Pitt & Julia Roberts & James Gandolfini & Gene Hackman & Bob Balaban & J K Simmons & Sherman Augustus & Michael Cerveris & David Krumholtz et al, director Gore Verbinski
Odo: You’d shoot a man in the back?
Garak: Well, it’s the safest way, isn’t it? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e26: A Call To Arms *****
Dax: Killed how?
Bashir: It appears someone shot him. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e13: Field of Fire
Take him out and shoot him … You mean I can’t shoot whoever I want to? Catch 22 1970 Starring Alan Arkin & Martin Balsam & Richard Benjamin & Arthur Garfunkel & Jack Gilford & Anthony Perkins & Martin Sheen & Jon Voight & Orson Welles & Buck Henry & Bob Newhart & Paula Prentiss et al, director Mike Nichols, General
He said, ‘Excuse me, are you game?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ So he shot her. Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me, BBC 2008
I want you to shoot me. Last Night 1998 starring Don McKellar & Sandra Oh & Callum Keith Rennie & Sarah Polley & David Cronenberg & Genevieve Bujold & Arsinee Khanjian & Jackie Burroughs & Tracy Wright et al, director Don McKellar
But before we have our duel will you please show me how to use the damned things. I’ve never even touched one before. Chekhov: Comedy Shorts: The Bear starring Julian Barratt & Julia David & Reece Shearsmith, widow to debt collector, Sky Arts 2010
I won’t rest until I’ve put a bullet through your thick head. ibid.
Marry you? I intend to shoot you on the field of honour. ibid.
You are all marksmen – don’t one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes. Israel Putnam, at Bunker Hill 1775
There exists no proof as
To who shot William Rufus,
But shooting him would seem
To have been quite a sound scheme. Edmund Clerihew Bentley, 1875-1956
‘Shoot, if you must, this old grey head,
But spare your country’s flag,’ she said. Barbara Fritchie, 1863
I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self defence.
I shot the sheriff
And they say it was a capital offence … Bob Marley, I Shot the Sheriff
You ever shoot a guy in his eyeball? Seven Psychopaths 2012 starring Colin Farrell & Sam Rockwell & Christopher Walken & Woody Harrelson & Tom Waits & Abbie Cornish & Olga Kurylenko & Zeljko Ivanek & Linda Bright Clay & Long Nguyen & Harry Dean Stanton et al, director Martin McDonagh, Tommy
I have been condemned unheard. This slow torture, this killing in detail, is much less humane than if they had ordered me to be shot at once. Andrew Roberts, Napoleon III, Napoleon, BBC 2018
1996: If anyone sees me go anywhere near a boat you’ve got my permission to shoot me. Stephen Redgrave
Shoot me, you coward! You are only going to kill a man. Che Guevara
50 of your officers were shot while escaping. The Great Escape 1963 starring Steve McQueen & James Garner & Richard Attenborough & James Donald & Charles Bronson & Donald Pleasence & James Coburn & Hannes Messemer & David McCallum & Gordon Jackson & John Leyton & Angus Lennie & Nigel Stock et al, director John Sturgess, German Colonel to Ramsey
Those who write don’t shoot, and those who shoot don’t write. Robert Kennedy
The green strangers pressed closer. An inch from his ear a rifle exploded. The ball smashed into Torrance’s appalled face, blew off his nose, and ploughed up between his eyes, into his forehead, and out at the top of his head. The Byronic boy squirmed gobbling in the dust, and spouted blood and brains. John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal p214
And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering. John Steinbeck, of Mice and Men
It has a strange, quick jar upon the ear,
That cocking of a pistol, when you know
A moment more will bring the sight to bear
Upon your person, twelve yards off or so. Lord Byron, Don Juan
We tried to dig the fucker up so I could shoot him again. We Still Kill the Old Way 2014 starring Ian Ogilvy & Alison Doody & Danny Boy Hatchard & Chris Ellison & Lysette Anthony & Tony Denham & Red Madrell & Nicky Henson & Stephen Berkoff & Danni Dyer & Adele Silva & James Cosmo et al, director Sacha Bennett
My fucking wife took a bullet meant for me! Peaky Blinders s3e3, Tommy