A while back I purchased a copy of the DVD for this 1983 film "Blue Thunder" but I am only now watching it for the first time having just now paused it after the first demonstration of the so-called "Blue Thunder" helicopter.
The dialog reminds me of something I have been thinking about for the past few days and especially in the context of real or imagined comments from co-workers at First Union: I'm not such a nice guy.
Nobody ever said that to me specifically but I can recall that people would often, over the course of my life, refer to me as being a nice guy.
The premiere date of this film was a few weeks before I signed up for the Delayed Entry Program of the United States Navy. That year 1983 was when I finished the eleventh grade in Ashdown Arkansas and of the memorable events from that junior year ending at the beginning of the summer of 1983 I had been the class president and I had received that American Legion award from the Ashdown Arkansas public school.
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Blue thunder
The red dummies are terrorists, white are civilians. Innocent bystanders.
The object is for our pilot to knock out...
...the red dummies and the black cars.
He shouldn't touch any of the others.
In a riot situation, we just want to get the bad guys...
...and protect the innocents.
Oh, my God!
That kind of firepower would be used in our worst-case scenario...
...like armed insurrection.
It's comforting to know you got it on tap.
Gentlemen, your attention.
Notice the selectivity of the firing.
This is not a strafing run where you tear up a whole street.
This little lady picks her targets carefully. Now you watch.
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Blue thunder
Friend of yours?
An old war buddy. The bastard tried to have me court-martialled once.
Sorry I brought it up.
Look who it isn't.
Colonel, this is Captain Braddock of Astro Division.
And Frank Murphy. He'll do the actual testing over the city.
Finally made colonel?
If you're nice, nice things happen to you.
I'll try to remember that.
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Frank Murphy: Finally made Colonel, eh?
Col. F.E. Cochrane: If you're a nice guy, nice things happen to you.
Frank Murphy: I'll try to remember that!
From 11/6/1963 ( premiere US film "Gunfight at Comanche Creek" ) To 5/13/1983 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Blue Thunder" ) is 7128 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/9/1985 ( while he was averting the Soviet Union Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire maritime bomber force targeting for destruction his US Navy aircraft carrier United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot that was attacked by hostile Soviet Union air forces and his United States Navy RIO flight officer crewman is killed by enemy fire from Soviet Union forces and as instigated by Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush the known accomplice of communist China and Soviet Union and the International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States of America federal government ) is 7128 days
From 6/7/1981 ( the 3rd United States Navy Medal of Honor hijacked from my brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Tom Reagan and the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site destroyed by Israeli Air Force with the personal assistance of United States Navy Fleet Admiral Tom Reagan the F-16 Falcon pilot flying combat to destroy the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site ) To 5/13/1983 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Blue Thunder" ) is 705 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/8/1967 ( premiere United Kingdom TV series "The Prisoner"::series premiere episode "The Chimes of Big Ben" ) is 705 days
From 6/7/1981 ( the 3rd United States Navy Medal of Honor hijacked from my brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Tom Reagan and the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site destroyed by Israeli Air Force with the personal assistance of United States Navy Fleet Admiral Tom Reagan the F-16 Falcon pilot flying combat to destroy the Iraq-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush Baghdad Osirak terrorist nuclear weapons construction site ) To 5/13/1983 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Blue Thunder" ) is 705 days
From 11/2/1965 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/8/1967 ( Clement Attlee - deceased ) is 705 days
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Release dates for
Blue Thunder (1983)
Country Date
USA 13 May 1983
UK 25 August 1983
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Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche
The Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was an advanced five-blade armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the U.S. Army. The RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004 after nearly $7 billion was spent on the program, before production started.
During the early 1980s, the U.S. Army began formulating a requirement for a replacement of its helicopters then in service, resulting Light Helicopter Experimental program. In 1991, the Boeing-Sikorsky team was chosen to produce prototypes. The Comanche would incorporate stealth technologies, featuring a number of designs previously untried. It was to employ advanced sensors in its reconnaissance role, and was intended to designate targets for the AH-64 Apache. The aircraft is also armed with missiles and rockets to destroy armored vehicles. The two RAH-66 are now museum exhibits.
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Country Date
USA 6 November 1963
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
Audie Murphy ... Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
Release Date: 6 November 1963 (USA)
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The Prisoner (TV series 1967–1968)
The Chimes of Big Ben (#1.1)
Patrick McGoohan ... Number Six
Release Date: 8 October 1967 (UK)
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"The Prisoner"
The Chimes of Big Ben (1967)
[Big Ben is chiming]
Colonel J.: Question one, why did you resign?
Number Six: I resigned because, for a very long time I s... Just a minute. Eight o'clock.
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Blue thunder
Airship-12 rolling out at 1959 hours.
No, make that 2000 hours. Murphy and Lymangood.
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Lymangood: Sir, what was that business with the watch? Back in the ready room, with the watch?
Frank Murphy: It's sort of a test.
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Sir, what was the business with the watch?
Back in the Ready Room, with the watch?
Sort of a test.
If you think you're going over the edge...
...you lose your sense of time.
With your eyes shut, you can't tell 25 seconds from 5.
I get it, sir. Yes, sir.
Stop calling me "sir." You sound like David Copperfield.
Yes, sir. I mean, okay, sir.
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Clement Attlee
Born: 3 January 1883 in Putney, London
Died: 8 October 1967 at Westminster Hospital, London
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Blue thunder
Friend of yours?
An old war buddy. The bastard tried to have me court-martialled once.
Sorry I brought it up.
Look who it isn't.
Colonel, this is Captain Braddock of Astro Division.
And Frank Murphy. He'll do the actual testing over the city.
Finally made colonel?
If you're nice, nice things happen to you.
I'll try to remember that.
Step this way for any questions.
How did we draw him?
He and his observer were assigned to us.
-I didn't realize you were acquainted. -Only too well, I'm afraid.
I'd have had him up on charges if he hadn't caught some shrapnel.
He's totally unsuitable for our purpose.
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Blue thunder
I understand you flew in Nam, Frank.
That's right.
-Two tours, was it? -One and a half.
Why the foreshortened tour?
You know what they say about a second chest wound.
It's nature's way of telling you it's time to go home.
Tell us about this special detail.
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Jack Braddock: I had twenty years in this outfit, when your idea of a good time was sittin' in front of the TV tube, watchin' Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your fudgcicle.
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Blue thunder
I had 20 years in this outfit when you were sitting in front of the TV...
...watching Bugs Bunny, gnawing on your Fudgsicle.
Remember, Officer Murphy, there are people who don't like police officers.
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Windtalkers (2002)
Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: Do your johns have any thing to do with these Navajo radiomen?
Joe Enders: I'm not at liberty to say.
Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: [notices a new stripe on his uniform] See you got a new stripe on, me too. So I'm guessin the same orders i aint liberated to tell you is the same orders you aint liberated to tell me.
Joe Enders: This is no democracy Sergant, this is the Marines. They look pretty normal I guess, expectin them to wear war paint.
Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: Well we might want to go and introduce ourselves they look a little lost.
Joe Enders: Anderson, I wouldn't get too friendly.
