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Slaughterhouse-Five Page #3
- R
- Year:
- 1972
- 104 min
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I didn't, I...
I'm sure you didn't.
I'll talk some turkey
to that boy.
- What happened to me?
- You passed out, and I brought you in here.
Here. Try some of this.
This will fix you up.
Kinda hot.
Thank you.
- Attaboy. Taste
pretty good? - Uh-huh.
You don't have to stay.
What the heck. Might as well.
I got some food
back there.
I don't mean to be impolite,
but how come you're in the army?
I couldn't stay out. Not
with the Nazis and Japanese...
threatening
to conquer the world.
I've got a boy your age seeing
action in the South Pacific.
Hey, that's really something. Yeah.
I used to tell my students there's
I got tired of telling them, and I joined up.
I thought you were a teacher. Oh, come on.
You have that confidence
and a very good way with words.
I'll tell you one thing. We don't mince
phraseologies at Boston Trade and Industrial.
Oh, boy.
I wonder if my father
Don't you ever
sell him short, son.
Mom would never
have let him.
You couldn't
blame her, could you?
But then
I'm lucky, I guess.
Margaret's a very
understanding woman.
We were
childhood sweethearts.
Hey, that's nice. You got a girl back home?
No one special.
Margaret's the only woman
I've ever known.
There's Margaret.
She's just about everything
a man could ask for.
Oh, oh. What's this?
That's my mom
in our backyard.
Oh, you have
a very nice-looking mother.
Yeah, she is.
Very nice.
That's a nice house too.
That's the back.
It's a nice yard.
Nice.
When did you enlist?
It wasn't quite like that. I was drafted. Oh?
It's not that I didn't want to go,
I just wanted to finish school first.
Where were you in school? First year
of the Ilium School of Optometry.
An optometrist.
That's a very good field.
Yes, 'cause you're doing things for people,
and there'll always be a need for optometrists.
Boy, what you just said...
is a very good
philosophical way of life.
What? I mean about filling
a need and helping people.
Why, that's self-determination and free
enterprise backing itself up all the way.
That's why we're in Europe
stopping Hitler.
My name's Edgar Derby, son.
What's yours?
Billy Pilgrim. Billy, it's
nice to have you aboard.
Thank you. You had enough of that?
Yes, I did.
Thank you.
The English gave me
these boots for ya.
Don't mind the silver paint. They
did that for a skit about Cinderella.
It was darn funny. It was a lot of
singin' and dancin' and crazy stuff.
Yeah, I admire the English.
They have a great
philosophical way of life.
Keep themselves going. Putting
on shows. Gilbert and Sullivan.
What's this?
#She's his sweetheart #
#He's her vow #
Happy anniversary.
#He's her Billy #
#She's his Val #
Oh, Billy!
# They were married # Your
diamond! Why did you do it?
#Never to part ## When I go
on this diet just for you,
I'm going to be so sexy.
I'll make you so happy.
Just wait and see.
Look. Isn't it divine?
Goodness!
This diamond
has a story to it.
Billy, tell 'em about it. Oh,
go ahead, darling, tell them.
No. Billy's too modest, so I'll tell you.
When he was a prisoner
in this...
Good boy, Billy.
Thanks.
They gave him
an awful coat to wear.
Congrats, Billy.
What was his name, hon?
Who? The one that was killed in Dresden.
- Edgar Derby.
- Oh, that's right.
Poor old Edgar Derby.
Oh, that was really awful.
They shot him for, uh...
What was it, Billy?
Well, anyway,
before that,
in the pocket of Billy's coat.
Lord knows how it got there, and Lord
knows why somebody didn't find it before.
It probably came
from some poor old Jew.
So many of them
Jesus, Dad!
I'm on the john.
My, God, Robert. There's a party
downstairs. Why don't you lock the door?
'Cause Mom broke the lock
the last time I locked it.
Can't I have any privacy?
What have you got there?
Where?
There.
Shouldn't be reading
that kind of junk, Robert.
Jesus!
Lads. Lads.
Hey, Billy!
- Billy. Over here.
Can I have your attention?
Please, please, please.
You're being transferred
to a camp in Dresden.
You're going to be leaving
for there this afternoon.
Actually, I'm
quite envious of you.
Dresden is a beautiful city.
before the war.
it's quite safe.
It's an open city without war
industries or troop concentrations.
It's by far the safest place to
be until we get this all over with.
Now then, you must elect a leader. He's
going to be in charge of all this group.
You'll all be under
his direct orders,
and he will be your line of
communication with the Germans.
Nominations are now open.
You need a leader.
I nominate
Paul Lazzaro.
Lazzaro. Right.
Anyone else?
Well, then...
Anyone else?
You'll be responsible,
to this man you elect,
and he'll be responsible
to the Germans.
So if you mess him up, he's
the one they're gonna be after.
Oh, yeah? Hey, pop, you
want it so bad; you got it.
I un-nominate Lazzaro.
I don't think it will come
as a surprise to anyone...
when I introduce our Lion's Club
president for the coming year.
Our own Billy Pilgrim.
- The floor's all yours. Good luck.
- Oh, shut up, will ya?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you. Mr. Walters. Fellow Lions.
I want you to know I will do
my best to live up to the...
Confidence you've showed by "chosing"...
choose... by having chose me here today.
- Uh, and I know that
my first responsibility...
Is to see that each of you
gets through this safely...
and are reunited
with your loved ones.
I'd like to ask you... I know
we're all of different faiths,
but we're all Americans...
Oh, God.
To bow our heads together
and pray.
Oh, go take a flying f***!
If that isn't
the most obscene vulgar... Oh!
Is my bath ready,
Silvio?
Yes, Miss.
My robe, Silvio.
Honestly, to show this kind of junk
at a family drive-in. It's disgraceful!
Why do you avert your eyes
from me, Silvio?
Why you wanted to take
the children to it is beyond me.
Massalina can give you
salvation from... Oh, Robert!
You shouldn't see that! Mom! Hey!
Do you find Massalina
unattractive?
- Oh, gross!
- Wow!
- That's enough!
- Jesus, Mom! They show more in health class.
Take us home. I don't want
to hear another word.
- Silvio. - Did
you hear me? - Sh*t!
I will not tolerate that kind of
language in front of me, goddamn it!
I am not going to subject
myself to that filth...
or allow my children
to be subjected to it.
Billy, I am talking to you!
Come on.
Silvio. Silvio.
Billy!
Billy. Billy!
Come here.
See how you like this one.
"Dear Meg,
"We're on our way to Dresden where we'll
have to do some work for the Germans.
"It won't be war work because the
Geneva Convention prohibits that,
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