:18:19
We walked in the middle,
as we usually did as kids. . .
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...Paths of Glory.
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And myself and my friends,
who were war-film buffs. . .
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. . .we had never seen anything
quite like it, or quite like. . .
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. . .the tone of it.
We'd seen other anti-war films.
:18:35
But this one was so honest. . .
:18:37
. . .particularly the trial, and scenes
between Macready and Kirk Douglas.
:18:41
I ordered an attack.
Your troops refused to attack.
:18:45
They did attack,
but they could make no headway.
:18:47
Because they didn't try.
I saw it myself.
:18:50
Half of them never left the trenches.
:18:52
A third of them were pinned down
by the intense fire.
:18:55
Don't quibble over fractions.
:18:56
The fact remains that a good part of
them never left their own trenches.
:19:01
I'm going to have ten men
from each company in your regiment. . .
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. . .tried under penalty of death
for cowardice.
:19:07
-Penalty of death?
-For cowardice.
:19:10
They've skimmed milk in
their veins instead of blood.
:19:12
The reddest milk I've ever seen,
my trenches...
:19:15
-That's enough!
-I won't mince words...
:19:17
If you continue in this manner,
I shall have to put you under arrest.
:19:20
It was so honest that it was shocking.
:19:24
What made it even more shocking
was the nature of the way it was shot.
:19:30
The use of the tracking camera
in the trenches.
:19:33
There's something that's happening.
They're trying to be objective:
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"I'm just showing you this, man,
make up your own mind.
:19:38
I'm telling you right now,
this is what went down.
:19:42
It's bad, it's a lie, it's hypocrisy. "
:19:44
Maybe the attack against the anthill
was impossible.
:19:47
Perhaps it was an error of judgement
on our part. . .
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. . .but if your men had been
more daring, they might have taken it.
:19:54
Why should we have to bear any more
criticism than we have to?
:19:59
Aside from the fact that many
of your men never left the trenches. . .