Last night, (I have been using the DVR function on my TV) I was watching Apocolypse Now Redux and a PBS special on Jeff Bridges. The show had excerpts from all of his movies including The Big Lebowski. I had forgotten how much I liked the character of the Dude. Continue reading
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Platoon
Thank you Oliver Stone:
RHAH
Baaaa! Fuck it, they sold us out – so what! What’d
you’all expect? Civilian life is phoney BULLSHIT
man. They’re ROBOTS man – watchin’ dopey television
and drivin’ dopey cars, and they fuck up, nobody
dies. That’s all right, you keep fuckin’ up,
politicians keep lyin’. Cause it don’t really
matter. Don’t mean shit. So what! Whatcha want – a
parade! Fuck that too! No war time no grunt never
got no respect. Till he was dead – and even THEN!
You’re fighting for YOURSELF man! You’re fighting
for your SOUL, dat’s all. Remember dat. And it’s
some goddamn battle too – if you’se a man, wrestle
with that angel …
(swings his entrenching tool in a rhythmic chain-gang style)
… Love and Hate – the whole shitbang show, that’s
the story then and now and it ain’t hardly gonna
change …