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thehefnerRANGER SMITH: Why did you kill him?
BOO BOO BEAR: Well, he was gonna kill me.
RANGER SMITH: So you were scared and that's the only reason?
BOO BOO BEAR: Yeah. And the reward money.
[long pause]
RANGER SMITH: Do you want me to change the subject?
BOO BOO BEAR: You know what I expected? Applause. [laughs to himself] I was only twenty years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. I was surprised by what happened. They didn't applaud.
NARRATOR: He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case: that he truly regretted killing Yogi, that he missed the bear as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary.
Seriously, if you haven't seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I beg you to track it down. Hopefully I won't have already ruined the experience for you here.
BOO BOO BEAR: Well, he was gonna kill me.
RANGER SMITH: So you were scared and that's the only reason?
BOO BOO BEAR: Yeah. And the reward money.
[long pause]
RANGER SMITH: Do you want me to change the subject?
BOO BOO BEAR: You know what I expected? Applause. [laughs to himself] I was only twenty years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. I was surprised by what happened. They didn't applaud.
NARRATOR: He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case: that he truly regretted killing Yogi, that he missed the bear as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary.
Seriously, if you haven't seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I beg you to track it down. Hopefully I won't have already ruined the experience for you here.
