The Quiet Man

Kameron 2022-10-02 14:15:59

Thornton is the heavyweight champion. He has since retired from boxing after he killed his opponent with a fatal blow. He returned to his hometown of Ireland from the United States. It is the phantom produced by thirst. Mary secretly helped Thornton clean the ancestral property. With this expression, Thornton told McLean as a matchmaker, but Mary's brother Will blocked it. Thanks to the help of Father Ronnagen and Pastor Prevor, she got married. Will likes the widow of Tyran, so he asks Mary to marry him. After the risk is found out, he becomes angry and only gives Mary a little dowry. The Irish folklore is conservative. Mary thinks that withholding the dowry is an insult to her husband, and she often complains and asks for it to be taken back, but Thornton has no intention of fighting for fame and wealth. Mary thinks that her husband is a coward, afraid that the villagers will make fun of her and want to escape her hometown. Thornton drags her back to her natal home. Fighting with Will, a fierce fight Will was convinced by the beating, Mary realized that her husband was not a coward, and she was as good as ever...

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  • Mary Kate Danaher: Father, could I... tell you in the Irish?

    Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [distracted, fishing] Sea, sea.

    Mary Kate Danaher: [very hesitantly] Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!

    Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: Céad é sin? "Bag?"

    Mary Kate Danaher: Sleeping bag, Father, with... with buttons! Más breá é, níor rith sé ar a shon. An peaca é?

    Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [exasperated] Woman, Ireland may be a poor country, God help us. But here, a married man sleeps in a bed, not a bag!

  • Michaleen Flynn: I have... I have come.

    Mary Kate Danaher: Oh, I can see that. But from whose pub was it?

    Michaleen Flynn: Pub? Pub? You've the face of an angel with the tongue of an adder. I have a good mind to go about me own business and tell Thon Shorton he's better off without ya!

    Mary Kate Danaher: Wait a minute, what was that?

    Michaleen Flynn: Well ye be listenin' then and not interrupting the shockelhorn - the matchmaker... I have come at the request of Thon Shorton...

    Mary Kate Danaher: Sean Thornton.

    Michaleen Flynn: Shut up... bachelor and party of the first part, to ask if you, uh - strictly informally, mind you - eh, Mary Kate Danaher, spinster, and party of the second part.

    Mary Kate Danaher: Well. Go on. You were sayin'?

    Michaleen Flynn: Actually... me mouth is like a dry crust and the sun is that hot on me pate.

    Mary Kate Danaher: Will you be steppin' into the parlor? The house may belong to my brother, but what's in the parlor belongs to me.

    Michaleen Flynn: I will then... and I hope there's a bottle there, whoever it belongs to...