it was mainly the one writer, and for some reason they never wrote it down and made a book out of it, but a book version of this whole series would have been amazing! and the writer never really did much of anything else! what a waste.
@@EthanAnthony907 I believe this was the best show ever. As good as Sopranos was, I found it somewhat boring at times. But Deadwood always had the many underlying plots and incredible tension, as well as fantastic dialogue.
I love the fact that when the sound of a gunshot hits the air, Bullock swipes back his coat to reach for a gun while Al takes another swig of (I'm guessing) whiskey.
I love how the subtle music comes in.. that music that is only unique to this show... can't even identify the instruments... but you know it when you hear it.. that shit is about to go down
This right here is why I'd have never belonged in the XIXth century. Thin-skinned as I am if Swearengen fed me the "mid-thrust at other business" line I'd be laughing my head off right there in the street.
You're from the time of cowards, as I am. Back than you could beat a man for making a snide remark or build a business with your bare hands and it could flourish because the community needed you.
Loved Al in this scene, i used part of it for a msg tone for my phone. " Taken by a vision" look at my phone to see who it's from " You would not want to be staring like that.......at me " :-P
Bullock is indeed a 'randy maniac bishop' under the surface constantly straining against a thin penumbra of composure. Al is completely inverse to this with his outer bluster and ability to be merciless covering a sensitive, good man beneath all of the protective armor and walls, complete with moat and drawbridge.
On the surface, it seems Al is drunk, fired up and acting out. But Al had plenty of intent here. For the first half of the scene, Al is lamenting that Bullock was supposed to be the perfect choice for Sheriff and yet is dishonouring himself by having an affair with the widow Garrett. Everyone in the camp knows about it, and says nothing. Bullock's behaviour and the town's ignorance are not good signs - it can lead to further corruption within the growth of the town, which wouldn't help convince Yankton, who are already "afraid of Bullock", and therefore hinder Al's plan for annexation, and therefore Deadwood's prosperity and evolution. So Al believed he had to call Seth out on his behaviour publicly, and even fight him if needed, in order to get Bullock to come to his senses and get back to business. Like "pull your dick out bro, we've got plans here!" Best show ever.
Al detested the idea that Alma and Seth were lovers - and that Seth would protect Alma and her claim rights to a gold mine that Al tried to steal from her husband. Seth would also beat the hell out of any man besmirching or accosting her. Alma was shrewd and she was smart enough to know who was out to steal her wealth.
I think the bigger problem was that Seth was mid-thrust at other business when he was supposed to be held to a higher standard - as sheriff. It was a total neglect of his other duties.
Al detested that Bullock was distracted and continuing his affair with Alma. He needed him to actually be the upstanding man behind the badge and a weakness like that could be exploited.
Now that I've finished this season (not the series) I always wondered looking back at this sequence. Do you think Al regretted calling Bullock out there? I think he handled the smoke well enough, but did he really need it? If it wasn't for Dan maybe Bullock would have killed Al, and Al deals with health issues stemming from this and the kidney stones for the next few eps. Obviously him and Bullock form enough of an alliance after the fact, but for someone who chooses his words and battles so carefully I always sort of saw this as Al getting a little carried away with himself. I don't think he set out that AM to get in a fist fight with Bullock but who knows.
The Al of S3 probably would not have done it to Bullock, knowing a bit more about what makes him tick, but he always would have taunted an enemy, if only to throw them off of their game. "If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him." - Sun Tzu / Tony Soprano
He may have regretted the outcome, but at this point he's not entirely aware of just how unbalanced Bullock is, but he wouldn't regret the calling him out part. I reckon Al's root gripe with Bullock was the hypocrisy of representing Justice and Honor and raising his nose at types like Al, while simultaneously engaging in behaviors that made him no saint, to put it gently. Al sees a lot of himself in Bullock and is pissed off that he gets the label of POS human being while Bullock gets to stride around amidst adoration.
He definetly regrets it instantly look at his reaction once bullocks back is turner he hangs his head and sighs then remembers himself and shoots up straight as not to let Dan and co see his regret.
Y'know, I'm pretty sure this is one of only two times in the whole show and film that there are three characters on Al's balcony at the same time....and if my memory's right its Dan and Silas that are with Al the other time too 😂😂😂
It was, it's still my favorite scene from the entire series. Swerengen knows he needs Bullock for the good of the camp, but also sees that his relationship with Alma has completely clouded his sense of duty to the camp. He provoked the fight to bring Bullock back to reality. But the dialog in these two minutes rivals Shakespeare.
Thanks for this. It's been a while since I watched the show, and I was confused as to why he was so pissed at Bullock. Guess Swearengen thought Bullock and Alma would leave the camp.
@SchizoKnight12 Yes, because it's Dan, Johnny, and Adams that make all the plans. Al is the most clever person in camp; Dan, Johnny, and Adams are his henchmen.
Why was Al so angry at Bullock in that moment. I mean, more than usual. And did he provoke him to fight on purpose? Did he want to kill him or did the later knife pull happen in the heat of anger during the fight? If he did want to provoke a fight to kill Bullock, was it against his medium to long term interests and due to being in an especially foul mood? Or was it due to Bullock preventing Al's road agents from getting at the gold?
Al’s mad at Bullock because Bullock is allowing himself to get distracted by Alma. Bullock carries himself as the upstanding sheriff, but everyone in town knows that, despite his wife and kid coming, Bullock is not only screwing around with Alma, but also allowing Alma to send the gold to go to Denver (as opposed to convincing her to keep it in the town and reinvest it to grow the camp). Al also has the governor’s ambiguous letter and pain from the stones on his mind, and it looks like he drinks most of that bottle he’s holding so he’s probably drunk, too.
Just occurred to me for the first time that a lot of McShane's delivery as Swearengen reminds me of Pacino. But I'm pretty sure Pacino couldn't have held me enthralled through multiple seasons.
@quicklern818 It was originally supposed to have 4 seasons, but the budget was too high for them. They are forgiven for continuously making kick-ass shows, though.
There was a possible misstep with the conflict between The Law dog & The Saloon keeper..Fact: You don't keep in Business nor Living doing that. Just talk right..put the man on the Payroll..:)
Language was likely much sillier/more tame compared to now (think confound it, shit, hell, damn) but those words carried more weight. The writers needed to use words that had “bite” so they went with more contemporary profanity
in responce to your wanting to talk like that. the first thing i advise is to buy a dictionary and learn all of the words that americans have seem to have forgotten. most of the dialect in this show is a more victorian style of speech, and hard to use unless you are good at english. also i suggest getting a much bigger vocabulary and prepare to use bigger words.
Does it? Because most of us who are not delicate flowers, with our soft pedals bent over backwards by the wind, find it quite clever that the writers could use a simple device like using cursing as a sort of punctuating and exclamation of the dialogue. To let it impart a sense of a time and of a place that was without any laws at all. Written laws, unspoken laws of decency and of civility. That it showed that they hadn't any need for the self-censoring of their true thoughts; as their words could be born into the world, wild and free, strong and unaffected. Just like America was meant to be, before prissy people started telling other people what was plain and what was stupid; what was good and what was bad, as if they even know the difference.
William Mount Your sensitivity is just plain stupid. It makes complete sense for guys like these to go around swearing all the time because these are the kind of people who have to deal with and do some dirty nasty shit so they are not going to sound like a bunch of gentlemanly saints for fuck sake. Grow a fucking pair and get used to it sissy.
"Look at him, striding out like some randy maniac bishop.... " God the writers for this show were amazing, the dialogue is just golden.
One of the best tv shows ever. This, Rome and The Sopranos, the golden age of television.
it was mainly the one writer, and for some reason they never wrote it down and made a book out of it, but a book version of this whole series would have been amazing! and the writer never really did much of anything else! what a waste.
blackelk7373 ppp
@@cheifburninggrass Um, excuse you?
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@@EthanAnthony907 I believe this was the best show ever. As good as Sopranos was, I found it somewhat boring at times. But Deadwood always had the many underlying plots and incredible tension, as well as fantastic dialogue.
"Luck trouble didn't jump out sooner. Might have found you mid-thrust at other business."
“You would not want to be staring like that... at me.”. Al was a scary bastard.
He regretted those words though lol
I love the fact that when the sound of a gunshot hits the air, Bullock swipes back his coat to reach for a gun while Al takes another swig of (I'm guessing) whiskey.
Yes! And who knows what he's drinking. Probably whiskey laced with, I don't know, whiskey and stuff.
“I hope it ain’t Tom Nuttal taking the quick fucking way out” 😂
you would not wanna be staring like that at me i fucking love deadwood
"Be where i can find you." Al had an entirely different tone when Seth came back to his office 😂
Imagine getting shot and the guy fetching help says "it's only Bummer Dan"...
Lol same thing with what happens to Slippery Dan.
Al's eloquence of the English language is unparalleled.
Ever time you see Ian McShane in action you are left in awe.
Perfect pick for John Wick.
That's gotta be my favorite scene in the entire series And the series was filled with epic scenes!
Agreed.
Walking around without swinging your arms never looked sooo damn cool . Only Bullock can pull that off.
It helps to have a revolver hanging at reach too
So can Raylan Givens
One of Al's best lines ever.
I love how the subtle music comes in.. that music that is only unique to this show... can't even identify the instruments... but you know it when you hear it.. that shit is about to go down
man i miss this show... i watched the entire first season in 1 sitting one weekend when I first found out about it... I couldnt walk away
Brian Greene I couldn't get the c words out of my head lol
*"Be where I can find ya'."*
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This right here is why I'd have never belonged in the XIXth century. Thin-skinned as I am if Swearengen fed me the "mid-thrust at other business" line I'd be laughing my head off right there in the street.
Not if you were raised in the time though. Methinks words carried more weight back then.
You're from the time of cowards, as I am. Back than you could beat a man for making a snide remark or build a business with your bare hands and it could flourish because the community needed you.
He knew how to get under people’s skin, if that wouldn’t have worked on you he would have used a different angle. Al was a real “people person.”
Loved Al in this scene, i used part of it for a msg tone for my phone.
" Taken by a vision"
look at my phone to see who it's from
" You would not want to be staring like that.......at me " :-P
Bullock is indeed a 'randy maniac bishop' under the surface constantly straining against a thin penumbra of composure.
Al is completely inverse to this with his outer bluster and ability to be merciless covering a sensitive, good man beneath all of the protective armor and walls, complete with moat and drawbridge.
A few more seconds and you can almost see Al think to himself, What the fuck did I say that for.
“I am stupidest when I try to be funny.” And yet Al can’t help but try to be funny with everyone that had no sense of humor. lol
What he said it for? Nurse his ego. Why? Whiskey. LOL
If you rewatch the episode Al was angry about the Pinkertons and other things. He happened to lash out at Bullock big mistake
On the surface, it seems Al is drunk, fired up and acting out. But Al had plenty of intent here. For the first half of the scene, Al is lamenting that Bullock was supposed to be the perfect choice for Sheriff and yet is dishonouring himself by having an affair with the widow Garrett. Everyone in the camp knows about it, and says nothing. Bullock's behaviour and the town's ignorance are not good signs - it can lead to further corruption within the growth of the town, which wouldn't help convince Yankton, who are already "afraid of Bullock", and therefore hinder Al's plan for annexation, and therefore Deadwood's prosperity and evolution. So Al believed he had to call Seth out on his behaviour publicly, and even fight him if needed, in order to get Bullock to come to his senses and get back to business. Like "pull your dick out bro, we've got plans here!"
Best show ever.
Best fucking dialogue ever.
I will name my first born Al Swearengen...I hope its a girl
I too have a desire to stride out like some randy maniac bishop.
When I was in prison I used that line before...half joking and half serious. "Taken by a vision?? You would not want to be staring like that, at me!"
ha ha "him, her snatch, and his stupid fuckin badge!"
Al detested the idea that Alma and Seth were lovers - and that Seth would protect Alma and her claim rights to a gold mine that Al tried to steal from her husband. Seth would also beat the hell out of any man besmirching or accosting her. Alma was shrewd and she was smart enough to know who was out to steal her wealth.
I think the bigger problem was that Seth was mid-thrust at other business when he was supposed to be held to a higher standard - as sheriff. It was a total neglect of his other duties.
Naah.
Al. Was way smarter than that
Al detested that Bullock was distracted and continuing his affair with Alma. He needed him to actually be the upstanding man behind the badge and a weakness like that could be exploited.
Now that I've finished this season (not the series) I always wondered looking back at this sequence.
Do you think Al regretted calling Bullock out there? I think he handled the smoke well enough, but did he really need it? If it wasn't for Dan maybe Bullock would have killed Al, and Al deals with health issues stemming from this and the kidney stones for the next few eps.
Obviously him and Bullock form enough of an alliance after the fact, but for someone who chooses his words and battles so carefully I always sort of saw this as Al getting a little carried away with himself. I don't think he set out that AM to get in a fist fight with Bullock but who knows.
He was pissed off and frustrated that Bullock wasnt doing his job, added with the kidney stones put him in a foul mood.
The Al of S3 probably would not have done it to Bullock, knowing a bit more about what makes him tick, but he always would have taunted an enemy, if only to throw them off of their game.
"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him." - Sun Tzu / Tony Soprano
@@ZCherish I love Paulie mispronouncing Sun Tzu lol. The movie wasn't half bad either.
He may have regretted the outcome, but at this point he's not entirely aware of just how unbalanced Bullock is, but he wouldn't regret the calling him out part. I reckon Al's root gripe with Bullock was the hypocrisy of representing Justice and Honor and raising his nose at types like Al, while simultaneously engaging in behaviors that made him no saint, to put it gently. Al sees a lot of himself in Bullock and is pissed off that he gets the label of POS human being while Bullock gets to stride around amidst adoration.
He definetly regrets it instantly look at his reaction once bullocks back is turner he hangs his head and sighs then remembers himself and shoots up straight as not to let Dan and co see his regret.
@StyrbjornStarke you should finish watching the series... Bullock eventually became Al's greatest ally against Hearst.
The next scene was great too, when they all trudged back into Al's office and they're moving slow and wary, like, "Oh, damn, what did AL just do?"
Thats what I came here to see to make sure I remembered it correctly, but it's cut off.
One of my favorite scenes from Deadwood.
DAMN GOOD SHOW..
@vishan26 it;'s not Al Swearengen, it's Al Swear Engine.
They don't make swear engines like that anymore they don't!
I wish we could have more Old Western shows..
As great as this scene is it's only setting up one of the funniest scenes ever. Poor Bummer Dan....
Y'know, I'm pretty sure this is one of only two times in the whole show and film that there are three characters on Al's balcony at the same time....and if my memory's right its Dan and Silas that are with Al the other time too 😂😂😂
Was this just before the classic balcony drop fight at the start of season 2?
It was, it's still my favorite scene from the entire series. Swerengen knows he needs Bullock for the good of the camp, but also sees that his relationship with Alma has completely clouded his sense of duty to the camp. He provoked the fight to bring Bullock back to reality.
But the dialog in these two minutes rivals Shakespeare.
Thanks for this. It's been a while since I watched the show, and I was confused as to why he was so pissed at Bullock. Guess Swearengen thought Bullock and Alma would leave the camp.
... Hoopleheads ;-)
SQUARE HEAD
i....aint going no-where. love it
striden out like some randy maniac bishop.... the wrint is not comparable.
You do not want to be starin like that,,,at me. one of the great all time bad ass lines
@SchizoKnight12 Yes, because it's Dan, Johnny, and Adams that make all the plans. Al is the most clever person in camp; Dan, Johnny, and Adams are his henchmen.
From Parts Unknown...Randy "Maniac" Bishop!
Why was Al so angry at Bullock in that moment. I mean, more than usual. And did he provoke him to fight on purpose? Did he want to kill him or did the later knife pull happen in the heat of anger during the fight?
If he did want to provoke a fight to kill Bullock, was it against his medium to long term interests and due to being in an especially foul mood? Or was it due to Bullock preventing Al's road agents from getting at the gold?
Al’s mad at Bullock because Bullock is allowing himself to get distracted by Alma. Bullock carries himself as the upstanding sheriff, but everyone in town knows that, despite his wife and kid coming, Bullock is not only screwing around with Alma, but also allowing Alma to send the gold to go to Denver (as opposed to convincing her to keep it in the town and reinvest it to grow the camp). Al also has the governor’s ambiguous letter and pain from the stones on his mind, and it looks like he drinks most of that bottle he’s holding so he’s probably drunk, too.
I want to learn to talk that intimidating.
This scene is too cool!
oh awesome show. favorite is bullock. kind hearted but one crazy sob if you messed with him or his. lol gotta love it.
Just occurred to me for the first time that a lot of McShane's delivery as Swearengen reminds me of Pacino. But I'm pretty sure Pacino couldn't have held me enthralled through multiple seasons.
@quicklern818 It was originally supposed to have 4 seasons, but the budget was too high for them. They are forgiven for continuously making kick-ass shows, though.
There was a possible misstep with the conflict between The Law dog & The Saloon keeper..Fact: You don't keep in Business nor Living doing that. Just talk right..put the man on the Payroll..:)
Al was bad to the bone
cack socker....lol-mr woo.
What is it?! Taken by a vision?
The men in this show were so bristly, it must have been exhausting to be so wound up all the time.
@chopin999 disappointed in the way BOTH shows ended though
I would like to see a video game based on Deadwood.
Rdr2 is as good as it gets. And it's pretty fucking good.
@@LoudaroundLincoln Valentine reminds me of the town of Deadwood.
Loudmouth believe they can take on the world until it comes knocking
@vishan26 They finished the story.
This series ended way too soon.
Damn rght you aint goin' no place...
Did they really drop the F-bomb that much back in the old west, or is it that I am just used to westerns that were clean?
fuck is all the way back to englando tho
Language was likely much sillier/more tame compared to now (think confound it, shit, hell, damn) but those words carried more weight. The writers needed to use words that had “bite” so they went with more contemporary profanity
in responce to your wanting to talk like that. the first thing i advise is to buy a dictionary and learn all of the words that americans have seem to have forgotten. most of the dialect in this show is a more victorian style of speech, and hard to use unless you are good at english. also i suggest getting a much bigger vocabulary and prepare to use bigger words.
Name a better drama series….ever. Sure you can name MASH but it’s a sitcom..
dead wood is fine but i think i'm in love with game of thrones :)
Wait until the Deadwood movie comes out at the end of May
The constant swearing makes this program just plain stupid
That's how they talked back then in that area. It's historical record.
Does it? Because most of us who are not delicate flowers, with our soft pedals bent over backwards by the wind, find it quite clever that the writers could use a simple device like using cursing as a sort of punctuating and exclamation of the dialogue. To let it impart a sense of a time and of a place that was without any laws at all. Written laws, unspoken laws of decency and of civility.
That it showed that they hadn't any need for the self-censoring of their true thoughts; as their words could be born into the world, wild and free, strong and unaffected. Just like America was meant to be, before prissy people started telling other people what was plain and what was stupid; what was good and what was bad, as if they even know the difference.
Well said, my good man.
Actually... They did not. The actual profanities back in that day would sound ridiculous today, so they opted to use modern day swearing.
William Mount
Your sensitivity is just plain stupid.
It makes complete sense for guys like these to go around swearing all the time because these are the kind of people who have to deal with and do some dirty nasty shit so they are not going to sound like a bunch of gentlemanly saints for fuck sake.
Grow a fucking pair and get used to it sissy.