The Americanization of Emily Page #9

I'm not.

You're the most terrified woman

I've ever met.

You're even scared to get married.

I've already been married.

Sure. You married him three days before

he went to Africa.

Thank God he never came back.

You're forever falling in love with men

on their last nights of furlough.

That's the limit of your commitments.

One night, a day, a month!

You prefer lovers to husbands,

hotels to homes.

You'd rather grieve than live.

You're not only cowardly and selfish,

you're remarkably cruel as well.

Come off it.

The only immoral thing

you have against me is I'm alive.

I'm going to slap your face, Charlie.

Go ahead. I won't hit you back.

I'm a coward.

On the other hand, I'm selfish.

I don't easily give up what's mine.

You're mine, Emily,

and I'm not going to let you go.

All you have to say is, "I don't love you. "

I don't love you, Charlie.

Come on, Charlie! It's time to go!

Well, you're a good woman.

You've done the morally right thing.

God save us all from people

who do the morally right thing.

It's the rest of us who get broken in half.

You're a b*tch.

I want you to remember

that the last time you saw me...

I was unregenerately eating a Hershey bar.

- What the hell is this all about?

- Sir?

What is this,

some featherheaded gag, Commander?

The demolition units sailed two hours ago.

You featherheads in London,

all you want to do is make movies.

Who's running this featherheaded war?

Ginger Rogers?

The demolition units are halfway across

the English Channel.

The invasion started two hours ago.

Heavens. Movies.

All right, Edwards,

hide these Hollywood people...

somewhere where they're out

of my feather heading way.

But, sir, we didn't know.

We'll have to put you up

in one of the supply depots, sir.

It's D-day, Charlie. Tonight's D-day.

Can't you get that through your head?

Looks like the feather heading balloon

just went up without us.

Boatswain, take these officers to a depot...

and find some cots for them.

How's the invasion going, boatswain?

They called it off, sir. Didn't you know?

What do you mean, they called it off?

The visibility never cleared up enough

for the airborne troops.

The whole fleet turned around

in mid-channel and came back.

Looks as if we got to do

the whole thing again tonight.

What do you mean

the fleet turned around in the Channel?

What do you mean,

we got to do it all over again tonight?

Get your pants on, Mac.

Hey, Charlie!

- I've got one camera, anyway.

- What happened?

- What do you mean, what happened?

- What do you think I mean?

You mean to tell me that 5,000 boats

filled with 1,000,000 men...

tanks, airplanes, bombers,

the whole sphere, just turned around...

- in the middle of the ocean and came back.

- Moon didn't come out.

What do you mean, the moon...

The moon didn't come out?

How could you do this to me?

Mac, you get some clothes on.

- Commander Madison?

- Yeah.

I was told to report to you, Sir.

- What for?

- I don't know.

Lt. Cmdr. Cummings,

he comes in the galley...

and he says, "Anybody here know

anything about cameras?"

I say, "Sure, I've made

a lot of home movies. "

He says, "Okay, you report

to Cmdr. Madison...

"Squad Room 6, naval engineers. "

Yeah.

- Yeah, what?

- Yeah, that's what happened to me.

What's this all about, Commander?

If I told you, you'd rap me in the mouth.

- Here, you men better have a drink of this.

- Yes, sir.

Commander, we're running

a little low here.

Men, this is the deal.

At 1700, we get ferried out to an LST...

to join the six naval engineers

who are already on board.

At 2000 hours, we shove off.

At 0500, tomorrow morning...

we transfer into an LCVP...

with the engineers.

We'll be about 3,000 yards

off Omaha beach.

We start moving toward the beach...

until we get to the minefields

and barricades.

Then the engineers get into the water...

and start clearing out those minefields

and those barricades.

We get into the water with them.

What for?

We're going to make movies.

We're going to shoot movies

of those engineers...

clearing out those minefields

and barricades all the way to the beach.

Mostly we want to shoot movies

of engineers getting killed...

especially the first body

that washes up on Omaha beach.

That's the deal.

What do you think of that, mates?

Commander, I think you're out

of your ever-loving mind.

You can say that again.

What's this?

That's a camera.

How do you work it?

How the hell do I know?

This is a pretty intricate camera.

At home I got a little old

I never saw anything like this before.

That's what they gave me.

I can see the ceiling.

I'll tell you one thing.

You got to put film in this camera.

Are you sure of that?

For the love of Mike,

what's the matter with you?

If you're going to make a movie,

you got to put film in the camera.

Even I know that.

No. We're going to make this movie

without film.

This movie, sailor, cannot be made.

There's no reason it for being made.

None of us know how to make a movie.

So what is the sense in using film?

Makes sense.

I'm cutting out of here.

Hey, Commander?

Do you see that little kid on the floor?

Well, him and me, we've been stoned

for two days.

We started off with

three bottles of vanilla extract...

and then we got in with

a bunch of submarine fellas...

and we finished off

a Number 10 can of torpedo alcohol.

You got to be pretty stoned

after that, right?

I would think so.

Commander, we ain't that stoned.

We're not that stoned

that we're going to go the beach...

and take any pictures of

the dead bodies floating in...

with no film in the camera.

Then what do you say

we just don't make this movie?

Ain't that swell?

All right, men, up and at 'em.

You're crocked. You're all crocked.

Madison, get this man on his feet.

Hold on now, he just fell over on...

Now, you listen to me.

Get into these clothes

and get into them fast...

or so help me, I'll have you all shot.

Stand up in the presence of an officer.

How am I going to get you drunks

on board that LST?

How's the weather up there, sailor?

Why don't you guys go to France?

Help me out. Thank you.

- Now hear this...

- How many days we've been on this tub?

- We already heard it!

- At ease, gentlemen.

All right, Charlie, here's your camera.

I'll be back in a minute

with your battery pack.

You are about to embark

on a great crusade...

toward which we have striven

these many months.

The hopes and prayers of

liberty-loving people everywhere...

go with you.

Can it!

Lieutenant, can't you

keep your men quiet?

All right, you men, shut up!

You already read us

about the great crusade.

I know. Now he's reading it. So shut up.

All right, now hear this.

The hopes and prayers of

liberty-loving people everywhere...

I'm gonna be sick.

Accompanied with our brave allies...

brothers in arms on other fronts...

you are bringing about the destruction

of the German war machine...

the elimination of Nazi tyranny

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