Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? I don't...
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Howard:
Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce?
Flophouse Bum:
I don't know. Because it's scarce.
Howard:
A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it.
Flophouse Bum:
I never thought of it just like that.
Howard:
Well, there's no other explanation, mister. Gold itself ain't good for nothing except making jewelry with and gold teeth.
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Answer me this, will you? Why is gold worth 20 bucks an ounce?
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I don't know. Because it's scarce.
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A thousand men go searching for gold.
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After six months one of them's lucky. One out of the thousand.
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His find represents not only his own labor but that of 999 others to boot.
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That's, uh, 6,000 months, 500 years ...
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scrambling over mountain,
going hungry and thirsty.
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The gold is worth what it is because of
the human labor that went into finding it.
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- Never thought of it like that.
- There's no other explanation.
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Gold ain't good for nothing except for making jewelry and gold teeth.
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Gold's a devilish sort of thing.
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You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25,000 worth of it.
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So help me Lord and cross my heart.
Fine resolution.
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After months of sweating, growing
short on provisions and finding nothing ...
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you finally come down to 15,000,
then 10.
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Finally you say, "Lord, let me just find $5,000 worth.
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I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life."
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Five thousand dollars is a lot of money.
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In this joint it seems like a lot.
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If you was to make a real strike,
you couldn't be dragged away.
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Not even death would keep you
from trying to add 10,000 more.
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Ten, you'd wanna get 25.
Twenty-five, you'd wanna get 50.
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Fifty, 100. Like roulette.
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One more turn, you know?
Always one more.
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It wouldn't be that way with me.
I swear, it wouldn't.
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I'd take only what I set out to get.
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Even if there was half-a-million dollars' worth lying around waiting to be picked up.
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I've dug in Alaska
and Canada and Colorado.
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I was in the British Honduras,
I made my fare back home ...
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and almost enough
to cure me of the fever I'd caught.
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Dug in California and Australia.
All over the world practically.
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Yeah. I know what gold does to men's souls.
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You talk as though you struck it rich sometime, pop.
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How about it?
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Then what are you doing in here, a down-and-outer?
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That's gold. That's what it makes us.
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Never knew a prospector yet that died rich.
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Make one fortune, he's sure to blow it trying to find another.
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I'm no exception to the rule.
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Ah, sure, I'm a gnawed old bone now, but don't you guys think the spirit's gone.
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I'm set to shoulder a pickaxe anytime
anybody's willing to share expenses.
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I'd rather go myself. Going alone is best.
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But you gotta have a stomach for loneliness. Some guys go nutty with it.
Clip duration: 134 seconds
Views: 282
Timestamp in movie: 00h 11m 31s
Uploaded: 07 October, 2021
Genres: adventure, drama, western
Summary: Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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