Prophecy (1979)

Armand Assante: John Hawks

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Quotes 

• Dr. Robert Verne : Can these people help us?

  [Dr. Verne after saving a dieing mutant cub and treating it in a tent at the Indian site referring to some Indian men who are with Hawks] 

  John Hawks : They can send someone from the village.

  Dr. Robert Verne : Send them. Tell them to get people here. I want people to see this. Is there a newspaper in town?

  John Hawks : Yes.

  Dr. Robert Verne : Get them here with a camera... and people from that paper mill... and that sheriff.

  John Hawks : Not that sheriff. I can't do that.

  Dr. Robert Verne : Hawkes! He'll see the truth here and you have more here at stake in this truth than I have.

• M' Rai : This camp is as the old people did it. I'm teaching these young people so that someone here will remember. There are underground tunnels beneath the frost line to store perishables. The forest provides more food than a man could possibly need. Here, everything grows big... real big.

  Dr. Robert Verne : Well, I saw a salmon that, uh, took my breath away.

  M' Rai : It is the garden of Eden. I've let no one come here. You are the first to see it.

  Maggie Verne : It's magical.

  John Hawks : We were once a magical people.

  Ramona : It's true. When I was a child, every rock, every tree had a story. The whole forest was filled with legends.

  Maggie Verne : We heard about one of them.

  Ramona : Yes?

  Maggie Verne : Uh, katydah, something.

  Ramona : Katahdin.

  M' Rai : Katahdin is no legend.

  Ramona : My grandfather is the oldest person in our tribe. It's his duty to foster these beliefs.

  M' Rai : I have seen him.

  Maggie Verne : And what does he look like?

  M' Rai : He is part of all things created. And he bears a mark of each of God's creatures.

  Maggie Verne : You say that with great affection.

  M' Rai : He has awakened to protect us.

• John Hawks : The environment is us. And it's being mangled. And I'm gonna make something very clear to you. My people are violently ill. They're beginning to lose their faculties. They stagger and they fall, and this has nothing to do with alcohol, as these villagers claim. My people are fishermen; their lives are clean.

  Ramona : I'm a midwife, and I've seen children born dead, born deformed.

  John Hawks : So badly, some have had to be put to death.

  Ramona : Three times we have been to the Government, and three times they've turned us away.

  John Hawks : You see, the end of this forest is the end of my people. Don't talk about the environment as though it had nothing to do with us.

• Isley : [referring to Dr. Robert Verne and Maggie]  These people are from the Environmental Protection Agency. I'd appreciate being let through.

  John Hawks : No car from the lumber company gets through here.

  Isley : This is against the law, John.

  John Hawks : The law has not brought justice.

  Isley : The Supreme Court has issued a restraining order against this blockade.

  John Hawks : And which Supreme Court is that, Mr. Isley?

  Isley : The Supreme Court of the United States.

  John Hawks : Yes, we've tried that Supreme Court. Now we're going to one that's higher.