He Left Only to Protect His Brother… | Best Scenes | Legends of the Fall (Brad Pitt)

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:16]Be careful.

[00:00:41]They are after you.

[00:01:25]Alfred.

[00:01:32]Goodbye.

[00:01:34]Don't worry, Father.

[00:01:36]Take care now.

[00:01:41]Samuel.

[00:01:46]Bring me back the Kaiser's helmet.

[00:01:48]Bring yourself back. That will please me more.

[00:01:52]Yes, sir.

[00:02:02]Listen.

[00:02:13]You take care, Samuel. I will.

[00:03:12]Colonel Ludlow told me ride with them to Calvary.

[00:03:18]Bring back the horses.

[00:03:20]Damn fools, he called them.

[00:03:23]Damn fools.

[00:03:25]The Colonel, he would not have his sons ride off to war on old nags. Damn fools or not.

[00:03:52]On the short.

[00:03:55]Bring your plate.

[00:04:01]You'll be back.

[00:04:03]May we join you?

[00:04:04]Sit down.

[00:04:06]Feeling lonely in there?

[00:04:09]>> [clears throat] >> What's her name, Tristan?

[00:04:15]Lady. Lady? Tristan's lady.

[00:04:18]In the story, Tristan's lady was his older. I know who his older was, don't you? No.

[00:04:24]Oh.

[00:04:25]Decker, your daughter is need of education. Well, she can read and write, Colonel.

[00:04:32]School might be awkward for her. No, no, no. I'll teach her myself. May I help?

[00:04:36]Uh-huh. Yeah.

[00:04:39]That is true. History, mathematics, and with your permission, of course, Decker, and and your respect.

[00:04:47]What do you think?

[00:04:49]Come here at sunset.

[00:04:55]What will she do with all this education? She'll live a richer, fuller life, of course.

[00:05:01]She's a half-breed, Colonel. Not in this house she's not a half-breed. Tristan calls me a half-breed. Tristan calls you a half-breed?

[00:05:08]He says I'm half gopher and half hawk.

[00:05:11]>> [laughter] >> After her chores, then.

[00:05:19]Yeah.

[00:05:21]To us all. To you, sir, and miss, and to the boys.

[00:05:28]And the boys.

[00:05:55]Tristan, get back to your unit.

[00:05:57]I'd have those boys at war.

[00:05:59]Rather have you watch my back.

[00:06:06]Now, mate.

[00:06:21]>> [music] >> February 3rd, 1915.

[00:06:32]Dearest Susanna, the horror of this place is indescribable.

[00:06:39]Nothing is as I thought it would be.

[00:06:45]Tonight, as I prayed for the souls of those who died so terribly but so bravely, I admit that I also prayed for personal glory.

[00:06:53]Is that wrong?

[00:06:54]To want to distinguish myself [music] gloriously in combat as my father did.

[00:06:59]Though Tristan and Alfred watch over me so carefully that I may never get the opportunity.

[00:07:27]Samuel!

[00:07:28]God damn it!

[00:07:30]>> [screaming] >> It's just a scratch.

[00:07:38]>> [groaning and screaming] >> Susanna, I see now not that my father was right, but that I was naive. Let me out, damn it! GET OUT! LET ME OUT!

[00:07:50]STILL, WE PLACE OUR BODIES IN GOD'S KEEPING.

[00:07:53]We go into battle honorably, full of confidence, with his name on our lips. WE'RE PINNED HERE! BUT WAIT.

[00:08:03]>> [screaming] >> COLONEL. Get my hand, you idiot.

[00:08:18]Help!

[00:08:21]Okay.

[00:08:26]No.

[00:08:27]>> [sighs] >> I don't think so.

[00:08:34]All right.

[00:08:38]>> [sighs] >> I can't.

[00:08:57]Susanna, I try to guard against despair, but there are moments when it seems that all human [music] decency has broken down.

[00:09:06]Alfred will recover from his wounds, but he and Tristan seem to have drifted apart, or worse, and I cannot understand it.

[00:09:15]I miss you more than you can imagine.

[00:09:18]You are all that is clean and cool and pure.

[00:09:23]I close my eyes and fix my thoughts on you.

[00:09:27]I now regret that we listened to everyone and agreed to wait to marry.

[00:09:31]Even more I regret that I left before we could be together as we planned to be together, my beloved.

[00:09:38]Please stay on at the ranch and wait for me.

[00:09:42]Don't let Father worry.

[00:09:45]I know that God's mercy will protect me, aided considerably by Tristan, who seems to have come to France less to fight the Germans than to act as a nursemaid to me.

[00:09:55]Be well, my Your own, Samwell.

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