They've got a murder they don't know what to do with. They need a whipping boy.

In the Heat of the Night

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Scapegoats

Speaker

Det. Virgil Tibbs

Actor

Sidney Poitier

Source

In the Heat of the Night

Medium

Film

Genre

Mystery (film) Drama (film) Mystery Drama

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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In the Heat of the Night. Directed by Norman Jewison, The Mirisch Corporation, 1967.

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It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

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Butcher's Crossing

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Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

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John Williams (novelist)
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Butcher's Crossing
Medium
Novel
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Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it!

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Col. Nathan R. Jessep
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Jack Nicholson
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A Few Good Men
Medium
Film
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Language
English
Time
1992 1990s 20th century
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A Few Good Men. Directed by Rob Reiner, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.