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A Bright Shining Lie Page #6
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- Year:
- 1998
- 118 min
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For you.
That's a picture.
- I'm in love.
- How old is she, 17?
17? She's 18, goes to college.
You have your teacher friend translate for you?
(Laughs) Well, you know me,
I can't help falling in love.
Yeah.
What?
My mother's dead.
John.
Come on. If you don't get moving
you're gonna miss the Tokyo connection.
It's your mother, John, you owe it to her.
That's funny.
I owe her.
My mother was a whore
and I'm her bastard son.
You know what my birth certificate says on it?
John Le Gay, a son of a b*tch.
That's why those god damned WASPs
at West Point wouldn't let me in.
F***ing bunch of hypocrites.
When I was a little kid growing up in Norfolk,
I used to see her screwing them in their cars.
Grunting and carrying on.
You know how she died?
Somebody cracked her skull open
with a whiskey bottle.
Go home and bury her, John.
(Man, muted)... whosoever believeth
shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
and hath given all things into his hand.
- Amen.
- (All) Amen.
(Sighs, sobs)
(John) Thank you.
(Man) My condolences.
- Thanks for coming.
- Sorry, son.
Hey, you need some money for a haircut?
What's the matter with him?
He's against the war.
You don't say.
(Sighs) I better have a word with him
before I head back tomorrow.
Wait a minute. I, erm...
What is it?
John, I wanna file for a divorce.
- I just need to be free from you.
- Baby, come on, I need you.
You don't need anybody,
Myrtle made sure of that.
- And you have the war.
- Johnny.
- I'm truly sorry.
- Thank you.
- Your mama was very special to me.
- I appreciate that.
- You don't remember. I'm your cousin Artie.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'd like to introduce you to some friends
of mine. Danny Dykes.
- Our condolences.
- Thanks for coming.
- I'm sorry for your loss.
- This here's my wife Bella.
- How do you do?
- (Artie) I've been reading about you
in the Norfolk Leader,
all those battles he's been winning.
It's a great thing you're doing, son.
Imagine Myrtle's boy
advising the United States Army.
Who would ever have thought that?
Yeah, you need a hand,
you know who to call...
(Burnett) 1967, the year of delusion.
465,000 American troops fought
major battles from the delta to the DMZ,
while Westmoreland declared
the end was coming into view.
Vann knew better.
- (John) I thought we cleared this area.
- We had, sir,
then we discovered these tunnels. Here...
here... and here.
And here, sir, is where
we found the documents.
- What do they say?
- Last month we destroyed the Vietcong here
but according to this document
another VC battalion has replaced them.
(John) Where did they get
the manpower to do that?
I don't know, sir, I thought
we had killed them all.
I'm afraid we are back
to where we started, Mr Vann.
(John) Well, God damn it,
we'll just have to clear it out again.
Hey, get away.
Jesus, John,
now we're fighting schoolteachers.
She was never VC
until her village got bombed.
Er, John, how the hell do we have
a Thanksgiving dinner with these things?
- (Doug) What's the news?
Huh. Who said this? "I don't have
no personal quarrels with those Vietcong."
- Cassius Clay.
- Muhammad Ali.
His new name's Muhammad Ali.
I don't care what he calls himself. He dodges
the draft, no Negro soldier's gonna fight.
- Lock his ass up.
- Hey, can I just say, John,
what an extraordinary pad you've got here?
It's called harnessing
the best houses in Saigon.
- That's the new US aid programme.
- What the hell's that supposed to mean?
It's odd to see you in this context, that's all.
When I met you, rice paddies
and peasants and now...
What are you saying?
You accusing me of selling out?
- I read your articles.
- Oh, have you?
- Yeah. You're ready to surrender.
- Since when is criticism surrender?
Screw that. Nobody's been more critical
of how this war's been fought than me.
But you think it's your duty to spread
Oh, winning and losing,
that's what it's all about, isn't it?
A soldier's sole purpose is to win.
I got no argument but you're
not a soldier, you're a civilian.
- (Doug) Come on, guys.
- (Door opens)
Mr Vann?
Excuse me.
What sort of a man are you?
She was a good student. Now...
she's pregnant.
I love your daughter. I will take care of her.
Shall we?
(Lyndon Johnson, on radio)
I have asked General Westmoreland
what more he needs to meet
this mounting aggression.
He has told me and we will meet his needs.
There's incipient uprising in this country in
opposition to this war and it's gonna get worse.
This talk about sending over 100,000
to 200,000 more troops,
you're going to create a very serious difficulty
in this country if you go through with that.
- Captain, where can I find Doug Elders?
- Right over there.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Hey, Dr Doug.
- Hey.
- Jeez, you look like sh*t.
- Thanks.
I brought you something.
For the revolution.
- I'm going home, John.
- Home? What are you talking about?
- It's jaundice, you'll be out in a week.
- You see this sh*t?
Those are Marines.
Now we're the ones burning them out.
- It's just one damn photo.
- It's more than one photo.
- We're losing our souls here.
- Hell, do you think I agree with it?
I don't want to fight with you, John.
Come on, man,
we've been through a lot together.
John, I'm going home.
OK. OK.
Well, I'm not real good at goodbyes.
Don't get killed.
Gentlemen, as you all know,
until now the fifth division of the Vietcong
has had sole control
of the Saigon operational area.
- These captured VC documents indicate...
- Attention.
Carry on, gentlemen. Fred.
Please continue, Mr Vann.
I was saying that the intelligence
we now have indicates clearly
that divisions formerly positioned in the area
on the Cambodian border have been moved
to here, here, here and here
and now all share
the Saigon theatre of operations.
General, there's aerial evidence
of advanced movement to support this.
And what is your conclusion?
Well, sir, our conclusion is
the enemy is about to strike at the capital.
Gentlemen, that is exactly
what the enemy wants us to think
because they are going to lay siege
to the Marines here with regular forces,
trick us into believing that they are going
to invade the capital with the Vietcong,
we hold back our forces, they overrun
the Marines for a spectacular victory
just like they did the French.
That's not gonna happen
on my watch, gentlemen.
Fred, I want you to have every available man
ready to move at a moment's notice.
Sir, I don't believe
a strategist like General Giap
would risk his troops openly against us.
I appreciate your input, Mr Vann.
101st, 199, you have them ready, Fred.
Lee, what's wrong?
I haven't seen you for so long.
I'm worried.
Look, there's a lot going on right now.
Let's go away together. For Tet?
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