David Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen) mistakes him for a 20th century Don Juan lothario and alcoholic, but he doesn""t dissuade his neighbor""s perception:The way you""re beltin"" that stuff, you must have a pair of cast-iron kidneys.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.With American co-screenwriter Diane Johnson, Kubrick moved from the conventions of traditional horror film thrillers, displacing them with his own, much more subtle, rich, symbolic motifs." Astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson (Himself) noted comparisons o Copernicus"" theories and Darwinian evolution, and how man""s primacy on Earth was now challenged: "And now we learn that we""re not even special in the entire universe because there is Superman.