Patton, Jr.(George C.Scott) was featured in the opening scene before the backdrop of a huge American flag.He was addressing Allied US troops of the Third Army (off-screen) in a memorable, brilliant pep-talk monologue to raise morale just before they were deployed overseas at the start of WWII.CIA spy plane photographs confirmed that Nemerov did not respond to US-NATO actions by mobilizing his military, and Ryan again speculated that Nemerov was sending a message: "He didn't bomb Grozny.Your grandfather - he died in Australia in a penal colony.And your father, he was a good man too.Bad accident that.And your mother?Sean: She's dead.America, when I was twelve.Father Lonergan: (piously) I'll remember her in the mass tomorrow, Sean.(sternly) You'll be there, seven o'clock.Sean: Sure I will.In one of the film's most fanciful, breathtaking, painterly scenes of the picturesque, pastoral Irish countryside (and the entrance scene for the film's star actress), Sean walks to an emerald-green grassy area of foliage where black-faced sheep are herded by a collie.Rocky ordered Paulie to cut his gloves off and then climbed back into the ring.He was able to punch back like a streetfighter with pounding fists to Thunderlips' midsection, and put his towering opponent into a stranglehold.When he camera came to rest on his face, it was revealed to be Tom Cruise ("Yeah, baby") with his motorcyclist partner Dixie Normous (Gwyneth Paltrow), who was asked: "Well, Miss Normous, shall we shag now or shag later?" Kevin Spacey also starred as the Dr.