![]() ![]() He reaches Philip first and asks for the old “pistiola.” He then goes after Pugh. He crouches down and makes his way through the cornfield. Butch exits the trading post and notices that the car is empty. He crouches down and hides in a neighboring cornfield. Well, the gun turns out not to be loaded and when Pugh finds out he tries to do to Philip what he didn’t get to do with Mom. Now of course leaving a child with a loaded gun, or a creep like Pugh, is a terrible idea. He cocks the gun and tells Philip that if Pugh so much as moves to shoot him. He opts to leave Philip in the car with Pugh but just to be sure he gives Philip the gun they swiped from the guard. Butch volunteers to go in and buy some previsions. “Oh yeah,” says a grinning Butch, though one can’t help but think he’s telling the truth. “Would you drive off without him?” asks Philip. Before going to use the phone, Pugh swipes the car keys. They stop at a phone booth where Butch instructs Pugh to call his brother who, Pugh told Haynes, will provide them with a hideout. Soon they’re on a desolate stretch of highway. The three of them drive off in the same car they had before. He feels they will be less likely to shoot at them if they have a child in their custody. At first they plan to take the Mom hostage, but then Butch suggests the boy, much to the Mom’s horror. Just then a neighbor with a shotgun starts firing at the house (this is Texas after all). “Now say ‘stick ’em up’.” The boy nervously does as he’s told. “Pick up that pistiola,” he tells the boy. Butch walks in and intercepts Pugh, punching him in the head and knocking the gun out of his hand. But it’s soon clear that it’s not breakfast he’s after. “I take (my eggs) over easy,” he says to Philips Mom. While he’s scouting the neighborhood Pugh breaks in on Philip and his mother. They need to ditch the car and get a new one. Butch and Pugh drive up, sans the prison guard. The sun isn’t even up yet but Mom is ready to make her kids breakfast. They sneak up on him, take his gun, hide in the back seat of his car and hold him at gunpoint as he drives out of the penitentiary parking lot.Ī short while later Philip’s Mom wakes him up. Haynes times the escape so that it coincides with one of the guards ending his shift. Once we get out we go our separate ways.” “Get this straight,” Butch tells him before they escape. The kind of person that belongs in the hooskow. Pugh on the other hand is a mean, hateful, stupid piece of white trash. Butch may be a convict but he’s charming, polite and at least outwardly doesn’t look like a criminal. Butch makes it clear that he doesn’t like Pugh and it’s not hard to see why. They’re Terry Pugh (Keith Szarabakla, best known for a supporting role on The Equalizer TV-show) and the before mentioned Butch Haynes. Later that night two inmates at a nearby penitentiary break out of jail by escaping through the air ducts. She’s clearly a good mother and is doing what she genuinely believes is best for her children. ![]() They’re Jehovah’s Witnesses and their Mother (Jennifer Griffin) won’t allow it. The movie begins in a suburb of Huntsville, Texas. Still, Costner was persuasive and Eastwood took on the role of Garrett. He clearly was attracted to the idea of making a fairly small, intimet film about regular people. Costner had just run something of a cinematic decathlon, having won a Best Director Oscar of his own for Dances with Wolves and subsequently carrying the films Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK and The Bodyguard. Costner could no doubt sympathize with Eastwoods fatigue. He would end up winning the second award. Actually two of them, one for acting and one for directing. He had just wrapped In The Line of Fire and directed Unforgiven, the western that finally earned him an Oscar nomination. Eastwood wasn’t keen on getting back in front of the camera. At first Eastwood only wanted to direct the film but when he gave Kevin Costner a copy of the script by John Lee Handcock, the Field of Dreams star convinced Eastwood that he should also play the role of “Red” Garrett, the Texas Ranger charged with bringing Hayes to justice. “I’d pick you any day of the week.” And he most certainly means it.Ī Perfect World is one of many cinematic gems directed by that icon of Hollywood icons, Clint Eastwood. “If I had to pick between riding with you or him,” Butch tells Philip regarding the deceased. Philip just saw (well, heard) Butch shoot someone, albeit someone bad. Not that it isn’t justifiable questions under the circumstances. Fact is, the boy asks the question not with a feeling of impending doom but rather as a little boy asking his father for assurance. “No, me and you are friends,” says Robert “Butch” Haynes (Kevin Costner), an escaped convict who has taken Philip (T.J. ![]() “Are you going to shoot me?” Unless you’re an actor or a kid playing cops and robbers, that’s a question that no one should ever have to ask with any sincerity. ![]()
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