This Is What I Think.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Hamburger Hill (1987)




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Hamburger Hill


FRANTZ
One of my people got killed. That's all that happened today.

DOC
You knew that man wasn't going to slack off because he was short. You knew that brother was going do his job.

FRANTZ
Then why didn't you put him on profile.

DOC
Because...he is one healthy individual. I've got people in this fucking platoon who are so sick they wouldn't be allowed in the hospital. But out here they have to ruck up, move out and press on.

MOTOWN
It don't mean nothing, man. It don't mean nothing...Come on, man...You owe it to yourself. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing man. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing.

DOC
It don't mean nothing. Not a thing.

DOC&MOTOWN
It don't mean nothing. Not a thing.

WASHBURN
Right.

DOC,MOTOWN&WASHBURN
You don't mean nothing-not a thing.

WORCESTER
Battalion wants us to go back to where Frantz made contact today. They say there are some stragglers left on this area Hill 937.

FRANTZ
Those KIA's were clean and well equipped. They weren't stragglers.

LT. EDEN
Military Intelligence says there is no organized...

FRANTZ
Military Intelligence could fuck up a wet dream , sir.

WORCESTER
All right man, let's call it. All right? We're on the same side here, right? Tomorrow morning we'll just get our people quietly off this hill. Tomorrow we'll recon 937, call in a log bird for hot chow and clean socks. Isn't that right, Lieutenant?

Lt.EDEN
Roger that.

FRANTZ
Push in on the bullshit net.

BELETSKY
What's the bullshit net?

MURPHY
Hanoi Hanna. Best sounds in the valley. And boy does she have a rap. We love you too much...drop your weapons and Uncle Ho will give you a water buffalo...your own rice paddy to shit in. Sometimes they get American arseholes...to tell us what arseholes we are. No lie, man. It's a trip.

HANOI HANNA
American soldiers...and marines embrace the heroic people of Vietnam...like many of your heroic countrymen...why fight the heroic people's army...while your own Government betrays you...and the heroic American friends of Vietnam...

FRANTZ
If you have to smoke it at night put a poncho over your head.

HANOI HANNA
...and I would like to send this special dedication...to the Screaming Eagles in the Ashau Valley. You may be killed anytime day or night...like your shadow, death is following you...everywhere.

FRANTZ
All right, on your feet, wake up...it's time to earn your combat pay.

DUFFY
Come on.

BELETSKY
I thought we were pulling off this hill today.

MOTOWN
Don't think.