I *hate* organised shoots like Hazell's. Why? Because they're unnatural. I mean, they're...
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William Smith:
I *hate* organised shoots like Hazell's.
Danny:
Why?
William Smith:
Because they're unnatural. I mean, they're against nature. Do you know why he's got so many pheasants? Because he buys them as chicks. He puts them in pens and the keepers feed them like... like pets. And when they're released, they're practically tame. Then on the big day of the shoot, an army of beaters crashes through the wood and frightens them all up into the air and a load of rich idiots, who couldn't hit a barn at fifty paces, blasts the senses out of them. Well, that's disgusting, that's organised slaughter. Poaching on the other hand is a quite different matter. It's one man on his own. It's the hunter and his prey. And the pheasants have a chance, it's not easy to catch a pheasant. And anyway, there's the added spice of the keepers lurking behind the trees with loaded shotguns.
Danny:
Guns? They wouldn't shoot you, would they?
William Smith:
Well, Hazell's keepers might. In the old days they just used to pepper your backside a bit. Your old grandfather had a backside like a pin cushion.
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I hate organised shoots like Hazell's!
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- Why?
- They're unnatural. Against nature.
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Do you know why he's got so many
pheasants? He buys them as chicks.
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He puts them in pens and the keepers
feed them like...like pets.
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They're practically tame!
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On the day of the shoot, an army
of beaters crashes through the wood
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and frightens them up into the air
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and rich idiots
blast the senses out of them.
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That's organised slaughter. (Sniffs)
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Poaching is quite a different matter.
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It's one man on his own.
It's the hunter and his prey.
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The pheasants have a chance.
It's hard to catch one.
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And there's the added spice
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of the keepers lurking behind trees
with shotguns.
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Guns?
They wouldn't shoot you, would they?
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Hazell's keepers might. In the old
days they peppered your backside.
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Your grandpa had a backside
like a pin-cushion.
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Grandpa was a poacher?
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He studied the art of poaching like...
like a scientist.
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He discovered
one of the great secrets of poaching.
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What was that?
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- Time you were in bed.
- Oh, Dad, please. I'm all right.
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- No, Danny, it's a secret.
- Please!
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Well...
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I suppose my dad told me...
so that I should tell you.
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Pass it on, so to speak.
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Like a family heirloom.
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The thing he discovered, Master Daniel,
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was that pheasants...love...
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Pheasants love raisins.
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(Echo) Pheasants love raisins...
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Pheasants love raisins...
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(William) Now keep very still.
Don't let them see you.
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If we just stay here a minute.
Chickens like raisins, too.
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Not as much as pheasants, though.
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They adore them.
My old dad didn't stop there.
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He thought about it
and one day the idea hit him.
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Watch.
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Watch that one.
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Gotcha! Come on.
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(Chickens cluck)
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You can prod her. Stroke her, go on.
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Do anything you like to her.
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She won't move.
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If she was a pheasant,
we could snaffle her right now.
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That's the beauty of it. That's the poetry.
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It's completely silent.
Clip duration: 199 seconds
Views: 301
Timestamp in movie: 00h 23m 56s
Uploaded: 19 September, 2021
Genres: adventure, drama, family
Summary: Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, widowed father William Smith (Jeremy Irons) and his son Danny (Samuel Irons) live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to ...
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