On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> ***** FULL METAL JACKET
> The screenplay by
> Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford
> Based on the novel The short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
> 1987
>
> . . .
>
> 34 EXT. BLEACHERS--DAY The platoon sits on bleachers facing HARTMAN.
>
> HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was?
>
> [No response.]
>
> HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
>
> [COWBOY raises his hand.]
>
> HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
>
> COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower
> in Austin, Texas, sir!
>
> HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from
> a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas
> from distances up to four hundred yards.
>
> [HARTMAN looks around.]
>
> HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
>
> [Almost everybody raises his hand.]
>
> HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
>
> SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
>
> HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
>
> SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building,
> sir!
>
> [The recruits laugh at "suppository."]
>
> HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was
> two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target.
> Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in
> only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of
> you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
>
> [JOKER raises his hand.]
>
> HARTMAN: Private Joker?
>
> JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
>
> HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what
> one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies
> leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
>
> <http://www.sawnoff.demon.co.uk/script.txt> ***** -- Yoshie
>
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