The Old Way (2023)

Nicolas Cage: Colton Briggs

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• Colton Briggs : [about grave marker]  Nothing belongs to the dead, because the dead don't need anything. Only the living need to possess things. The living need food, water, shelter, clothes, family, money, land. But the dead, the dead have already been tended to. Once they're put in the ground, they have all they need. They're not selfish. I like the dead.

• Colton Briggs : Even though I could recognize fear in men, even to a point where I could use it against them, I can honestly say I had no idea what it actually felt like. It was as if I'd been born dead inside. But I didn't care, 'cause I was dead inside.

  Brooke Briggs : How did mama change that?

  Colton Briggs : When I met your mother, there was no introduction. There was no getting to know each other. And in that first moment I saw her, I... I felt something. Something I never felt before.

  Brooke Briggs : Love?

  Colton Briggs : Fear. Fear she wouldn't talk to me. Fear she wouldn't love me. Fear I couldn't make her my wife. Fear of losing her. She was the only thing I ever feared. And the only thing I ever loved.

• Colton Briggs : No reason to hurry. Gunshots might have a way of speeding some folks up, but they have a nasty habit of slowing other folks down.

• Brooke Briggs : My teacher at school is sick. If it's pox, she could be sick for days. She could die.

  Colton Briggs : We'll get new teacher.

  Brooke Briggs : We forgot my school books. Think they burned up in the fire.

  Colton Briggs : We'll get new books.

  Brooke Briggs : What about my clothes?

  Colton Briggs : We'll get new clothes.

  Brooke Briggs : Why did we burn the old ones?

  Colton Briggs : Because we're not going back! We're not going back. As soon as I finish what I have to do, we'll find a new place, and we'll replace everything you lost.

  Brooke Briggs : Except mama.