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Show THE ZEPHYR/ APRIL-MAY 2007 REEL “I want you to bring your corps forward, attack the heights in the center and break WAR the Union line...the weak point is in the center...With general Longstreet, my old War Horse, in command, meeting the enemy on ground of his choosing, and with honor, we will prevail.” “Sit, with your permission, I’ve been a soldier ali my life. You know my service. But sir I must tell you now. I believe this attack will fail. No 15,000 men ever made could take that ridge.” “We do our duty, General Longstreet, We do what me must do.” MEMORABLE LINES FROM FILMS ABOUT WAR Lee & Longstreeet, early morning July 3. Reece RAR. ALDEN After the attack... “General Pickett...you must see to your division.” “General Lee...I have no division.” PATTON SCREENPLAY BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA EDMUND NORTH THE BRIDGE on the RIVER KWAI & DIRECTED BY FRANKLIN SCHAFFNER Screenplay by Michael Wilson & Carl Foreman STARRING GEORGE C SCOTT KARL MALDEN Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle Directed by David Lean 1970 Starring Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins “T want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country....Americans traditionally love to fight. They love the sting of battle. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing...is hateful.” William Holden “Here lies... You know Weaver, I’ve forgotten who we are burying.” “Thompson.” “Ah yes. Here lies Corporal Herbert Thompson, serial number 1234567. Valiant member of the King’s own, or the Queen’s own. Or something. He died of berry berry in the year of our Lord, 1943. For the greater glory of...what did he die for? “Ah come on. No need to mock the grave.” “J don’t mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little of it while he was alive.” “Look.at that gentlemen...Compared to war, all other human endeavors shrink to insignificance.” Patton General Bradley to Patton... “What happens to them? The ordinary combat soldier. He doesn’t share in your dreams of glory. He’s stuck here. He’s stuck living every day, day after day, with Death tugging at his elbow. There’s one big difference between you and me, George. I do this job because I’ve been trained to do it. You do it because...you love it.” POWs Shears and Weaver Somewhere in Burma To re-build the bridge... ~ “T tell you gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands. Thanks to the Japanese, we now command a rabble. There is no order. No discipline. Our task is to re-build the bat- “J love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life.” talion. Fortunately we have the means at hand...the bridge.” “You mean you really want them to re-build the bridge, sir?” “You're usually not so slow on the uptake, Evans.” GETTYSBURG “Colonel Green, this is Major Shears. He’s just volunteered to go back and help me blow up the Kwai Bridge.” “Good show! Jolly Good show!” Based on the novel “Killer Angels: By Michael Shaara “You make me sick with your heroics. There’s a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L pills...they go well together. And with you, it’s just one thing or the other. Destroy the bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game! This war. You and Colonel Nickelson, you're two of a kind. Crazy with courage. And for what? How to die like a gentleman? How to die by the rules. When the impor- Screenplay and Directed by Ronald Maxwell tant thing is how to live like a human being!” Starring Tom Berenger Martin Sheen Shears “Oh my God...what have I done?” Nickelson ‘Jeff Daniels “Do you know what's going to happen in the morning? The damn rebel army's going to be here. They’ll move through this town ajnd occupy the hills on the other side and our people will get here and Lee will have the high ground...and there will be the devil to pay. “Meade will come in slowly...cautiously. New to command. Washington will be on his back...Wire, hot with messages to attack! Lee's armies will be nicely entrenched behind fat rocks on the high ground. Meade will finally attack...straight up the hillside, in the open. We will charge valiantly and we will be butchered valiantly. “Afterwards, men in tall hats wearing gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was.” SAVING PRIVATE RYAN DIRECTED BY STEPHEN SPIELBERG STARRING TOM HANKS MATT DAMON TOM SIZEMORE Saving privale ryan Bera General John Buford July 1, 1863 “In the morning is the great battle. Tomorrow or the next day will determine the war. All the south is here. What will you do tomorrow? ...With the enemy out there, upon the hill, they'll be ready to finish the job. But I don’t know the ground...So it’s God’s will. Thy will be done.” Captain John Miller... m a school teacher. I teach English composition at this little town calledeile, Pennsylvania. I was coach of the baseball team in the springtime. Back home, when I tell people what I do, they say, “Well, that figures.’ But over here, it’s a big mystery. “So I guess I’ve changed. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve changed so much, whether my “Vm General Robert E. Lee July 2, 1863 wife will even recognize me, whenever it is I get back to her. And how I'll ever be able to tell her about days like today. “Ryan? I don’t know anything about Ryan. The man means nothing to me. But if going to Romelle and finding him so he can go back home...if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that’s my mission. “You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? Alright. I won't stop you. Vl even put in the paperwork. But just know that every man | kill, the farther away from home I feel.” “Soldering has one great trap. To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love... This war goes on and on and the price gets ever higher. We are adrift on a sea of blood and I want it to end.” Lee to General Longstreet, July 2, 1863 15 |