A jack of all trades, a master of none, like they say.Rose: Could you make a torpedo?Charlie: How""s that, Miss?Rose: Could you make a torpedo?Charlie: A torpedo?.Many consider the masterpiece bewildering, boring, slow-moving or annoying, but are still inspired by its story of how man is dwarfed by technology and space.Now living the good life with caviar and champagne, Kringelein invited the Baron o his "beautiful room.Dunson kneels: "Wherever hey go, they""ll be on my land.My land.We""re here and we""re gonna stay here.Give me ten years and I""ll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas."As the scene dissolves to many years later after lots of hard work, Dunson predicts what the next decade and a half will bring with averbaldescription of the development of his sizable cattle enterprise - illustrated in a montage shifting almost fifteen years later to 1865:The big house will be down by the river and the corrals and the barns behind it.Although in a challenging bind with Hunsecker, the manipulative and aspiring Sidney is athletically resilient and resourceful - "Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off.