Johnny Lingo (1969)

Makee K. Blaisdell: Johnny Lingo

Quotes 

• Moki : Three cows.

  [Everyone laughs] 

  Johnny Lingo : Three cows is many, but not enough for Mahana. I will pay eight cows.

  [everyone is astonished] 

  Johnny Lingo : I will bring them in the morning.

• Johnny Lingo : Then, always and forever when they speak of marriage settlements it will be remembered that Johnny Lingo paid 8 cows for Mahana.

  [Johnny walks away from Mr. Harris's outpost] 

  Trader Harris : So that's it. He's neither crazy nor blind. He's just vain. Poor vain fool...

• [At Johnny's hut] 

  Trader Harris : Johnny, I can't get over it, she's beautiful .

  Johnny Lingo : I have loved her ever since we were children, she was always beautiful. But tell me, do you think 8 cows was too high a price for her ?

  Trader Harris : Oh, no.

  [looking at Mahana in the distance] 

• Trader Harris : I see. In her father's hut, Mahana believed she was worth nothing.

  [last lines] 

  Johnny Lingo : Yes, and now she knows she is worth more than any other woman on the island.

• Johnny Lingo : Think what it must mean to a woman, her future husband meeting with her father to discuss the lowest price for which she can be bought. And later, when the women of the village gather, they boast of what their husbands paid for them - three cows, or five. How does she feel, the woman who was sold for one, or two? This could not happen to my Mahana.

  Trader Harris : Johnny, I've misjudged you. I thought you were thinking only of how important you would look to your friends, paying 8 cows for a wife. I didn't know you wanted to make Mahana happy.

  Johnny Lingo : More than happy, Mr. Harris. I wanted her to be an eight-cow woman.