More on Goats

[wowie]

Frank T. Hopkins: Tell him to fetch more water.
[Yusef yells at the slave boy in Arabic and sends him off with a kick]
Frank T. Hopkins: Hey.
[hands Yusef another bucket]
Frank T. Hopkins: You, too.
Yusef: Why do you buy this boy, anyway?
Frank T. Hopkins: Someone has to do your work, goatherder!

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The devotion to the craft of storytelling resulted in a blatant but good-natured exaggeration of facts on a few occasions.

"There was something that we threw in, we just made up, that's really ridiculous if you know anything about horses," Mortensen says and smiles a little, preparing to share some of the private jokes and liberties taken on-set. "The goat herder says to him, 'I was born to be a goat herder - you were not born to win this race.' And [Frank] turns around and says, 'You know, I once had a three-legged colt - it was born that way, and it turned out to be the best roping horse I ever had,' Mortensen laughs out loud. "Which is absurd. ... That's just a line I made up to say, 'Don't count yourself out, ever.'"

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26 Feb '04

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and from what I posted the other day that started my goatboy fascination...

(Upon getting his first starting role in the movie 'Prison' in 1988 Viggo comments on his plans for the future):
"After this movie wraps, I'm thinking about going into goat herding, like my mother and her mother before her.."

thanks to the Many Faces site for the transcription

Comments

[wowahwa.livejournal.com]

I just read this all the way through ... isn't it just like Viggo to come up with something like that implying "don't count yourself out, ever". I wuv this guy ;-)