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Synopsis: Two-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad - contrasting the realities of the war with America's perceptions. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping him dramatize war in a way never seen before. Lee directed and produced the film, from a screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castell
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Ang Lee
Production: Sony Pictures
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
R
Year:
2016
113 min
$1,736,708
Website
739 Views


- the pride of the United States...

- Like lambs to the slaughter.

I f***in' knew it, man.

The intrepid young soldiers of Bravo!

Ooh

Can you make me

Lose my breath?

Baby, make me

Lose my breath

Beyonc!

Damn, this make me

Lose.

Make me lose my breath

Hit me!

And now, ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome Kelly, Michelle and Beyonce,

the hit singing sensation,

Destiny's Child!

Can you keep UP?

Baby boy, make me lose my breath

Bring the noise, make me lose my breath

Hit me hard, make me lose my breath

Ooh

I put it right there

Made it easy for you to get to

- Whoa!

- F***! F***, man!

It's okay. Keep going! Come on.

Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

Get the f*** off me!

I'm sorry, man. Just trying to help.

It's just fireworks, dude! It's cool!

Hey, man, this is all kinds of f***ed up.

- Twelve o'clock, what do you see'?

- Shadows...

Beyonc. Destiny's f***ing Child, dude,

right in front of you.

Ignore all the other sh*t.

Keep your eyes focused

on the good stuff, all right?

Let's go! Let's go!

Can you keep UP?

- Baby boy, make me lose my breath

- Out of the way, please! Out of the way!

Bring the noise, make me lose my breath

Ooh

- Come on.

- Two things I don't like

When I'm trying to get my groove

What the hell is going on?

Come on, let's stick together!

- Sykes, are you all right?

- I'm fine, Sergeant.

There you are!

Okay, that was kind of hairy,

but you guys made it.

Now, when this screen flies up,

I want you guys to step out

and march down the stairs.

And for you, you have an extra cue.

You know "Soldier"?

The song Soldier.

In the first bridge where they sing,

"They wanna spend that on me,"

that's your signal to move

to your special mark downstage.

Now, here's the important part.

Once y'all hit your marks,

you have to stay absolutely still

until the show's over

no matter what is going on around you.

Think you can manage?

All right, let's get you

in a nice straight line.

- Straight line.

- On your marks.

Come on, come on...

What the f*** did she just say?

I Want a soldier

I want a soldier

If his status ain't hood,

I ain't checkin' for him

Betta be street if he lookin' at me

I need a soldier

That ain't scared to stand up for me

Gotta know to get dough

And he betta be street

- I know some soldiers in here

- Where they at, where they at

- They wanna spend that on me

- Where they at

- I know some soldiers in here

- Where they at, where they at

- Wouldn't mind putting that on me

- Where they at

If his status ain't hood,

I ain't checkin' for him

Betta be street if he lookin' at me

F*** off.

That ain't scared to stand up for me

Known to carry big things

If you know what I mean

If his status ain't hood,

I ain't checkin' for him

Betta be street If he lookin' at me

I need a soldier

that ain't scared to stand up for me

Gotta know to get dough

and he betta be street

I like them boys over there

they looking strong tonight

Strong tonight

He the type that might change my life

Change my life

Every time he look at me my girls be like

Girls be like

That one may be the one tonight

If his status ain't hood,

I ain't checkin' for him

Betta be street if he lookin' at me

I need a soldier

that ain't scared to stand up for me

Gotta know to get dough

and he betta be street

- Contact front!

- Get that gun in this fight!

Control your fire!

Control your fire!

- Down! Down!

- Control your fire!

- Control your fire!

- Control your fire!

- Control your fire!

- Cease fire!

RPG!

Get down!

F***! F***!

Cease fire! Cease fire!

- Cease fire!

- Call out targets!

Muzzle flashes, second floor!

He's coming out of the back!

Get some f***in' fire

on that building!

Get that second-story window!

Watch that stairway!

F***, yeah! I'm at reload!

We knocked 'em back!

We need to move out!

Holliday, get the .50s up here

to cover our movement!

- Let's go!

- Bravo team, on me!

Put some smoke in

their f***in' faces!

Mango, Sykes, get their heads down!

- Smoke out!

- Smoke out!

Let's get ready to move!

Okay, let's go!

Down to that rock pile

and through the gate!

- Alpha team, when we move, shift fire!

- Hooah!

Lynn, Foo, when we get to that pile,

throw everything you got on that gate!

Dime, you and Crack

start working your way to the wounded!

- Mango!

- Hooah!

It's going down.

What?

I'm going down.

Sh*t!

Damn it, where the f*** did that come from?

Two o'clock in that building!

Foo, prep those AT4s.

- Level that motherf***er!

- Roger that, Sarge!

Damn it, Sykes, get down!

- He's down there!

- F***!

What the f***?

- Call out the building!

- F***.

Call out the building!

He's hit!

- Shroom's been hit!

- Fire those motherfuckers now!

Get those f***ers in there!

Backblast area clear!

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Backblast area clear!

F***, yeah!

- Put that on my tab, motherf***er!

- Shut the f*** up!

Crack, get down!

- Okay!

- Bravo, on me!

Let's push up, set security. Mango,

Sykes, cover our movement.

Get ready to move to Breem. On me.

Goddamn it, Lynn! Cover him!

Hang in there, Sergeant.

Medic!

Billy.

Hey, Billy.

Halftime show's over.

Dude, we finally saw Beyonc.

Yeah, well, ain't we f***in' special.

Sergeant, I feel bad.

That was some kind of f***ed-up sh*t.

Just another normal day in America, Billy.

We strike the set in nine minutes.

You guys have to go.

F*** off.

Hey. I told you get the hell off my stage.

- Dude, don't touch me.

- Chill out, chill out.

- Nobody told us where to go.

- Come on.

I don't give a f*** where you go.

You can't stay here.

Second half starts in nine minutes.

All right, Rufus, I'll tell you what.

We'll go right after

you're done sucking my dick.

How about...

- What the f***, man?

- Stand down!

F*** off!

- Hey, break it up!

- What the hell is going' on?

F***ers didn't move when I asked them to.

We got f***ing work to do!

I suggest you get back to it. Now.

- F*** is wrong with you?

- We're good.

I'm frankly astonished

to see our military behaving...

Sir!

Excuse me, sir.

That is so not the way we treat our guests.

These are American heroes,

here at the personal invitation

of Mr. Norman Oglesby.

We'll take charge now, thank you very much.

Come on, guys.

- Nice work, dude.

- Hey, girl.

- Hi.

- Sorry about that.

- Hey, fellas.

- You're my best friend.

- Hi, there.

- Hi.

I can't believe

they just left y'all stranded there.

And what happened to your nice uniforms?

Stage manager said we should look

more "battle-ready" for halftime.

Well, ready or not,

you still look pretty darn cute.

Really?

And you looked great.

That trippy little step

you were doing earlier.

- Come on.

- What's wrong with him?

Sykes is kind of an emotional guy.

He just misses his wife and kids.

Sheesh.

The sacrifices you guys make.

Sometimes I wonder if we really deserve

what y'all are doing for us.

I mean, before I met you,

I'd be worried about

silly little stuff like my car's engine

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Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012). more…

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