1:46:03
Yeah, you know.
1:46:05
I'm going to tell them the truth, Bus.
1:46:07
I'm going to tell anyone who asks
the plain, unattractive, not epic, truth.
1:46:11
We don't have very much time.
1:46:13
I'm going to tell them a deranged admiral
had a demented idea for a lunatic movie...
1:46:17
whose only purpose was to juice up
the Navy's bid for military appropriations.
1:46:21
And my gallant wounds
were inflicted on me...
1:46:24
by my brother officer, the fink...
1:46:26
You've got a legitimate beef
against me. Okay.
1:46:29
And that my last inspirational words...
1:46:31
as I led the charge
away from the beach were...
1:46:33
"Let's get the hell out of here."
1:46:35
I've had a bad week, Bus.
1:46:37
I was in battle
and I've heard the horror of it again.
1:46:40
I will not contribute
to your wretched hoax.
1:46:42
I will not help you
preserve the wonder of war.
1:46:44
I want people to know I was a coward.
1:46:46
I want them to know
the whole shabby story about my heroism.
1:46:50
I don't understand you.
Do you know what'll happen...
1:46:52
I know what'll happen.
1:46:53
I'll embarrass my country,
dishonor my service...
1:46:55
disgrace my admiral,
and humiliate my family...
1:46:57
and get thrown in the brig
for a couple of years.
1:47:00
Then why do it?
1:47:01
Because it's the right thing to do.
1:47:03
I can't believe it.
1:47:05
Is this the Charlie Madison who once said:
1:47:07
"God save us from all the people
who do the right thing...
1:47:10
"it's the rest of us
who get our backs broken?"
1:47:12
Are you seriously going to destroy...
1:47:14
everything that means anything to you...
1:47:15
in a futile gesture of virtue?
1:47:18
You're going to put yourself in jail,
are you?
1:47:20
- I don't care what happens to me.
- How bloody brave.
1:47:23
But you do care what happens to me.
At least you said you did.
1:47:27
What am I supposed to do...
1:47:28
whilst you sit in your prison cell
for five or six years...
1:47:31
admiring the glisten
of your own martyrdom?
1:47:33
Emily, I want the world to know
what a fraud war is.
1:47:36
But war isn't a fraud, Charlie. It's very real.
1:47:39
At least, that's what you've
always tried to tell me, isn't it?
1:47:42
That we shall never get rid of war
by pretending it's unreal.
1:47:45
It's the virtue of war that's the fraud,
not war itself.
1:47:48
It's the valor and the self-sacrifice...
1:47:51
and the goodness of war
that needs the exposing.
1:47:55
Here you are
being brave and self-sacrificing...
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positively clanking with moral fervor,
perpetuating the very things you detest...