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Full Metal Jacket Page #8
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an
officer. Which?
JOKER:
Whichever you say.
LOCKHART:
Grunts like reading about dead officers.
JOKER:
Okay, an officer. How about a general?
A few laughs.
LOCKHART:
Joker, maybe you'd like our guys to read the
paper and
feel bad. I mean, in case you didn't
know it, this is not a
particularly popular war.
Now, it is our job to report the news that
these why-are-we-here civilian newsmen
ignore.
JOKER:
Sir, maybe you should go out on some ops
yourself. I'm sure you
could find a lot more
blood trails and drag marks.
Some laughs.
LOCKHART:
JOKER, I've had my ass in the grass. Can't say
I liked
it much. Lots of bugs and too
dangerous. As it happens, my present
duties
keep me where I belong. In the rear with the
gear.
DISSOLVE TO:
Rows of hootches. In the
distance, fireworks.
JOKER:
(voiceover)
Tet.
The Year of the Monkey. Vietnamese
Lunar New Year's Eve. Down in
Dogpatch, the
gooks are shooting off fireworks to celebrate.
DISSOLVE TO:
56 INT. HOOTCH--NIGHT
JOKER, RAFTERMAN, PAYBACK and the
others are in
their bunks, reading, lazing, smoking grass. JOKER
is
writing in a notebook.
JOKER:
(yawns and
stretches)
I am f***ing bored to death, man. I gotta get
back
in the sh*t. I ain't heard a shot fired in
anger in weeks.
PAYBACK:
Joker's so tough he'd eat the boogers out of a
dead
man's nose ... then ask for seconds.
Some laughs.
JOKER:
(John Wayne voice)
Listen up, pilgrim. A day without blood is like
a day without sunshine.
PAYBACK:
Shi-i--i-t! Joker
thinks the bad bush is
between old mama-san's legs.
Some laughs.
PAYBACK:
He's never been in the sh*t. It's hard to talk
about
it, man. It's like on Hastings.
CHILI:
Aw, you weren't
on Operation Hastings,
Payback. You weren't even in country.
PAYBACK:
Eat sh*t and die, you f***ing SpanishAmerican!
You
f***ing poge! I was there,
man. I was in the sh*t with the grunts.
JOKER:
(John Wayne voice)
Don't listen to any of
Payback's bullshit,
Rafterman. Sometimes he thinks he's John
Wayne.
PAYBACK:
You listen to Joker, new guy. He knows
ti ti.
Very little. You know he's never been in the
sh*t,'cause
he ain't got the stare.
RAFTERMAN:
The stare?
PAYBACK:
The thousand-yard stare. A marine gets it
after he's
been in the sh*t for too long. It's like
... it's like you've really
seen beyond. I got it.
All field marines got it. And you'll have it
too.
RAFTERMAN:
I will?
STORK:
Hey,
Payback. How do you stop five black
dudes from raping a white chick?
PAYBACK:
F*** you, Stork.
STORK:
Throw'em a
basketball.
Laughter.
They are startled by the dull boom of mortar
shells
outside.
DAVE:
Incoming.
PAYBACK:
Oh, sh*t!
CHILI:
They're outgoing.
DAVE:
That ain't outgoing!
Some closer explosions, much louder.
CHILI:
That ain't outgoing!
DAVE:
Now what I just
say?
The men grab their helmets, flak jackets and
weapons and run
outside.
RAFTERMAN:
Joker, is this for real?
JOKER:
Yes, it is, Rafterman.
Men
running everywhere. Sirens. A mortar round
lands in the distance, then
others nearer. Fires
are breaking out.
58 INT. BUNKER--NIGHT
JOKER:
loads an M-60 machine gun, then hunches
down watching the main gate of
the perimeter.
JOKER:
Hey, I hope they're just f***ing
with us. I
ain't ready for this sh*t.
STORK:
Amen.
The sound ofa truck approaching.
The marines get set.
The truch
smashes though the gates.
The marines open fire.
The truck is hit
by a hail of automatic fire; it
explodes and starts burning.
N.V.A.
troops follow the truck through the gate.
The attackers are cut down
by a withering fire
from the marines.
People yell, "Cease fire."
DISSOLVE TO:
59
JOKER and RAFTERMAN walk through the wreckage
of the night's battle.
Prisoners are led past.
LOCKHART:
(voice over)
The enemy has very deceitfully taken
advantage of
the Tet ceasefire to launch an
offensive all over the country. So
far, we've
had it pretty easy here. But we seem to be
the
exception.
60 INT. SEA-TIGER OFFICE--DAWN
Dirty and still in. their
combat gear, JOKER,
RAFTERMAN, PAYBACK and the other correspondents
are slumped in, their chairs around the table.
LOCKHART:
(walking)
Charlie has hit every major military target
in
Vietnam, and hit 'em hard. In Saigon, the
been overrun by
suicide squads. Khe Sahn is standing by to
be
overrun. We also have reports that a division
of N.V.A. has
occupied all of the city of
Hue south of the Perfume River. In
strategic
terms, Charlie's cut the country in
half... the
civilian press are about to wet
their pants and we've heard even
Cronkite's
going to say the war is now unwinnable.
In other
words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich,
and we're all gonna have to take a
bite.
Long, serious pause.
JOKER:
Sir ... does this
mean that Ann-Margret's not
coming?
Laughter.
LOCKHART:
(pissed off)
Joker.... I want you to get
straight up to Phu
Bai. Captain January will need all his people.
JOKER:
Yes, sir.
LOCKHART:
And Joker, you will take
off that damn button.
How's it gonna look if you get killed wearing
a peace symbol?
RAFTERMAN:
Sir? Permission to go with
Joker?
LOCKHART:
Permission granted.
RAFTERMAN:
Thank you, sir.
JOKER:
Sir, permission
not to take Rafterman with
me?
LOCKHART:
You still
here? Vanish, Joker, most ricky-tick,
and take Rafterman with you.
You're
responsible for him.
61 EXT. HELICOPTER SHOTS--DAWN
A:
military helicopter flies past a huge sun.
62 INT. AERIAL
HELICOPTER--DUSK
JOKER Sits looking out the door.
RAFTERMAN is
frightened and airsick.
The DOORGUNNER laughs and yells as he fires
his
M-60 machine gun.
We see Vietnamese below running and falling.
DOORGUNNER:
Get some ... get some ... get some ... get
some ...
yeah ... yeah ... get some ... get
some.
After a while the
grins at JOKER.
DOORGUNNER:
(shouting to be heard)
Anyone who runs is a V.C. Anyone who
stands still is a well-disciplined V.C.
(laughs)
You
guys oughtta do a story about me
sometime.
JOKER:
Why should we do a story about you?
DOORGUNNER:
'Cause
I'm so f***ing good! That ain't no
sh*t neither. I've done got me
one hundred
and fifty-seven dead gooks killed. And fifty
water
buffaloes, too. Them're all certified.
RAFTERMAN gags.
JOKER:
Any women or children?
DOORGUNNER:
Sometimes.
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