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THE GOOD SHEPHERD?

rue to the slogan printed on his wallet, ’s hitman Jules Winnfield is the baddest of bad motherfuckers. He’s a foul-mouthed, hell-raising, bullet-spraying motherfucker who can quote the on cue. Or that’s what you’re led to believe when he launches into Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man,” he thunders, “is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.” It is one of the most quoted monologues of all time,, Sonny Chiba’s martial arts film of the seventies.

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