"This is Ennis del Mar: about twenty, but nonetheless compelling, not light or frivolous in disposition, appearance or manner, uncommonly quick reflexes -- a high-school drop-out country boy with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Has outgrown his faded cowboy shirt, his wrists stick well out of the sleeves, the buttons gap." [screenplay]