The Men Who Stare at Goats Page #7

Synopsis: A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.
Genre: Comedy, War
Director(s): Grant Heslov
Production: Overture Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2009
94 min
$32,400,000
Website
240 Views


This one's off a turkey.

You just die the tip black.

Don't tell Lyn.

It isn't real.

None of it was real.

Lyn told me about the curse.

That by killing the goat,

he put a curse on all of you.

What's Larry gonna do

with these goats?

Do you believe in redemption, Bill?

Sorry.

Didnt mean to wake you.

How did you find it?

I told you,

I remote viewed you.

Scotty Mercer told you, didn't he?

Yeah, he did.

We told Scotty

we were coming over here,

...asked him

if he wanted some work.

I haven't seen Scotty.

That's funny, because he told me

he'd run into you and mentioned that

...there might be some jobs

going over with.

Isn't that why you came,

really, Lyn?

You want back in, don't you?

It can happen.

You've only got to say the word.

This could be the new Golden Age

for psi research.

You, me and Bill,

back together again.

Like the old days.

You don't have to make a

decision now.

Tell me in the morning.

Mother Earth,

you're my life support system.

As a soldier

I must drink your blue water,

...live inside your red clay

and eat your green skin.

Help me to balance myself.

As you hold in balance,

the Earth, the sea,

...and the space environments.

Help me to open my heart...

...knowing that

the Universe will feed me.

I pray my boots

will always kiss your face...

...and my footsteps match

your heartbeat.

Carry my body through

space and time.

You're my connection to the Universe

and all that comes after.

I'm yours and you are mine.

I salute you.

I salute you.

Bill?

Bill! Bill?

Bill? Are you okay?

I just saw Timothy Leary.

Timothy Leary is dead.

I know.

He'd got an idea.

Good evening, gentlemen.

Gonna get some ice-cream.

Don't eat the eggs.

- What?

- Don't eat the eggs.

What's going on?

We put LSD in the eggs.

Bill showed me where Larry

had some bottles of LSD and...

We put some in the

powdered eggs last night.

And in the water.

What?

I put it in the main water tank

as well.

But we drank the water.

Yeah.

Right. Hold on.

The weather today is gonna be...

...hot.

I mean, yeah,

I'm guessing that.

I really didn't looked

at the thing but...

...I'd say it's gonna be

f***ing hot out here!

Yeah. What else?

I mean, it's a f***ing shocker, right?

It's gonna be hot again.

It would have been a good idea

if we hadn't drunk the f***ing water?

Well, that might have aroused suspicion.

But don't worry.

Over the years,

I've built up a massive tolerance

to all narcotics.

You're going to hit the gates!

You're going to hit the gates!

That's cool!

You missed it!

In the name of the New Earth Army

and loving people everywhere,

...I'm liberating you!

I'm liberating this base!

Come on!

Go! Go!

Come on! Move!

Move on! Come on!

Put the gun down, Larry.

No!

Wow, I'm really hungry.

- Come on!

- Let's go! Come on!

Come with me!

Don't worry about this guards.

Be free!

Wait! Wait! Wait!

Wait for me!

Where are you going?

What about the mission?

You are the mission, Bob!

Tell them what happened.

Tell everybody what happened.

It's your job now.

At the time I was hurt that

Lyn hadn't taken me with him.

But now I know,

...it was because he and Bill

had already seen what was to come.

Nobody exactly knows

what happened.

The official story is that

their helicopter must have crashed,

...either because they were hit

by an RPG or because...

Well, that's what happens...

...when you fly a helicopter

while you're tripping on acid.

All I know is that

they've never been seen since.

Like all Shaman,

they returned to the sky.

When I got back,

I wrote the story up.

Everything.

Lyn had handed a mission on

to me and I'd see through it.

I would tell everyone

what happened.

I understood now that...

...Debora and I werent

meant to be together and...

...I was at peace with that.

It wasn't in my destiny to return

to the life I had before.

The Universe has other plans for me.

I sent the story to the newspapers

and TV stations.

I didn't care what the authorities

did to me.

I was ready to go to prison

as long as the truth came out.

But they didn't put me in prison.

They did something much worse.

...unusual tool to break

the resistance of Iraqi POWs

...and trust me,

a lot of parents would agree!

Some prisoners are being forced

to listen to Barney...

...the Purple Dinosaur

sing the "I Love You song",

...for twenty four straight hours.

And that was it.

That was the only bit of my story

that ran anywhere.

And it was a joke.

And if I ever needed proof

of how the Dark Side have...

...taken the beautiful dream

of what a nation could be...

...and had twisted it,

destroyed it.

Well, that was it.

But I won't stop.

I won't give up.

Because when I look at what is

happening in the world,

I know that now,

more than ever,

...we need to be

all that we can be.

Bob?

Now, more than ever,

...we need the Jedi.

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Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories. His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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