Christopher Hitchens - JFK 1991 - Martin Amis - Stonewall Jackson - Andrew Johnson - Abraham Lincoln - Idi Amin - Carlitto’s Way 1993 - They Shall Not Grow Old TV -
The bullet had gone right through. It had missed his [George Orwell] larynx, it had missed his carotid artery, it had missed his spinal chord, and it only grazed his vocal chords. And all of them said the same thing. Can you guess what it was? That was lucky. And he said, If I was lucky, I wouldn’t have got shot in the throat at all. Christopher Hitchens, lecture Commonwealth Club 1981, ‘Why Orwell Matters’
Now a single bullet remains; a single bullet now has to account for the remaining seven wounds in Kennedy and Connally ... We’ve come to know it as the Magic Bullet theory. JFK ***** 1991 starring Kevin Costner & Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones & Kevin Bacon & Laurie Metcalf & Gary Oldman & Michael Rooker & Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau & Joe Pesci & John Candy et al, director Oliver Stone Garrison to jury
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. Stonewall Jackson
If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. Andrew Johnson
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. Abraham Lincoln
You cannot move faster than a bullet. Idi Amin
Favour will kill you faster than a bullet. Carlitto’s Way 1993 staring Al Pacino & Sean Penn & Penelope Ann Miller & Luis Guzman & Jorge Porcel & James Rebhorn & John Leguizamo & Ingrid Porcel & Ara Gelici & Joseph Siravo & John Augstin Ortiz & Al Israel et al, director Brian de Palma
Machine gun bullets came at us like hailstones. They Shall Not Grow Old, soldier, BBC 2018