intertribal (
intertribal) wrote2011-01-27 03:06 pm
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a Catch-22-ish scene from Deathwatch
Shakespeare: Private First Class Shakespeare falling in for inspection, sir!
Fairweather: Corporal Fairweather falling in for inspection, sir!
Captain Jennings: Very good. Hmm. Doesn't do to let standards slip, Corporal, you have a responsibility to these young men.
Fairweather: Yes, sir.
Quinn [unseen]: AAAHHHHH!
Captain Jennings: What is that god awful racket?
Quinn: AAAHHHHH!
Shakespeare: That's Private Quinn, sir.
Captain Jennings: Why is he not here for inspection? Sergeant! Why is Private Quinn not here for inspection?
Sergeant Tate: ...
Quinn: RRAAAHHHH...
Captain Jennings: Right. Well done, men, you fall out. I'm gonna go have a word with Private Quinn.
Fairweather: Please don't do that, sir.
Shakespeare: He'll kill you, sir!
Quinn: AAAAAHHHH...
Captain Jennings [incredulous]: I'm an officer!
Good movie about the machine of war that I think Virilio would approve of, personified by a deep muddy trench filled with soldier-skewering barbed wire (so that's where Silent Hill got it from), soldier-eating mud, and suspicious red mist that seems too sentient to be gas. Also nicely absurd, and Charlie Shakespeare's character reminded me very strongly of my novel's protagonist, so that was fun to sort of "see him in action," so to speak, in an alternate universe where he's a British soldier in WWII.
Fairweather: Corporal Fairweather falling in for inspection, sir!
Captain Jennings: Very good. Hmm. Doesn't do to let standards slip, Corporal, you have a responsibility to these young men.
Fairweather: Yes, sir.
Quinn [unseen]: AAAHHHHH!
Captain Jennings: What is that god awful racket?
Quinn: AAAHHHHH!
Shakespeare: That's Private Quinn, sir.
Captain Jennings: Why is he not here for inspection? Sergeant! Why is Private Quinn not here for inspection?
Sergeant Tate: ...
Quinn: RRAAAHHHH...
Captain Jennings: Right. Well done, men, you fall out. I'm gonna go have a word with Private Quinn.
Fairweather: Please don't do that, sir.
Shakespeare: He'll kill you, sir!
Quinn: AAAAAHHHH...
Captain Jennings [incredulous]: I'm an officer!
Good movie about the machine of war that I think Virilio would approve of, personified by a deep muddy trench filled with soldier-skewering barbed wire (so that's where Silent Hill got it from), soldier-eating mud, and suspicious red mist that seems too sentient to be gas. Also nicely absurd, and Charlie Shakespeare's character reminded me very strongly of my novel's protagonist, so that was fun to sort of "see him in action," so to speak, in an alternate universe where he's a British soldier in WWI