Posted on 08/24/2012 5:35:00 PM PDT by djone
"...... with the climactic duel between Rob Roy and the villain Cunningham (Tim Roth) one of filmdom's greatest sword fights..... The scene that has always stayed with me is when Rob Roy's wife Mary tells him that she is pregnant as a result of her being raped by Cunningham, and asks him apprehensively what to do. In tears, she admits, "I could not kill it, husband." His response: "It is not the child who needs killing." .... If Todd Akin had recalled it to explain his pro-life position, rather than his crackpot "legitimate rape" irrelevancy, he'd still be an unknown politician beyond the borders of Missouri.
It's a terrific action flick, with the climactic duel between Rob Roy and the villain Cunningham (Tim Roth) one of filmdom's greatest sword fights. But that's not why I remember it. The scene that has always stayed with me is when Rob Roy's wife Mary (Jessica Lange) tells him that she is pregnant as a result of her being raped by Cunningham, and asks him apprehensively what to do. In tears, she admits, "I could not kill it, husband."
His response: "It is not the child who needs killing."
He steps outside the dark cottage into the daylight. Mary knows he is off to challenge Cunningham to the death, who is a far better swordsman than he. "What if you do not return to us?" she asks with fear in her eyes.
With a tender smile, he answers, "If it's a boy, call him Robert. If a lass, name her for my love - Mary MacGregor."
This is possibly the most touchingly pro-life scene in motion picture history. If Todd Akin had recalled it to explain his pro-life position, rather than his crackpot "legitimate rape" irrelevancy, he'd still be an unknown politician beyond the borders of Missouri.
If Todd Akin had recalled it to explain his pro-life position, rather than his crackpot "legitimate rape" irrelevancy, he'd still be an unknown politician beyond the borders of Missouri.Maybe Jesus doesn't want him to be "unknown."
I like the thought of Akin in the U.S. Senate and the Republicans having to then kiss his butt for every stinkin vote.
Wasn’t she not sure who the father was? They were romantic earlier in the film.
The article title is so cleaver. /sarc
They threw my congressman overboard in 08 for voting against TARP. The NRCC stripped him of funds and called him a lost cause and he lost the race by a whopping 2%. We got stuck with one of Nancy’s boys who voted for Obamacare (Thank you GOPe)
In 2010 we sent him back against the wishes of the GOPe and this year he beat his only GOP challenger by some 75% and the democrats aren’t even mounting a serious challenge.
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