London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Not having seen the show, I was relying on the IMDB ?
Generation Kill (new series from the Wire writers)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well worth a D/L.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I will look at it, I'm sure.
Atm, I'm still working through S5 (of The Wire) for the first time, as slowly as I can . . . E5 probably tonight or tomorrow
I'm waiting until it finishes so I can just sit and do a 7-hour marathon.
I did that with Heroes
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Up to E5 now, just keeps getting better, with some superb monologues:
'You know what this war's about? Pussy.'
'People back home think Iraq is a dangerous place. But tell me, would you say that the area behind this tyre is safe? So as you can see, this part of Iraq is very safe.'
Ep 3 is where I started to get the characters. Not quite as good as The Wire, but it's up there close, nuzzling it's hindquarters.
'You know what this war's about? Pussy.'
'People back home think Iraq is a dangerous place. But tell me, would you say that the area behind this tyre is safe? So as you can see, this part of Iraq is very safe.'
Ep 3 is where I started to get the characters. Not quite as good as The Wire, but it's up there close, nuzzling it's hindquarters.
It isn't monologue if people are having a conversation, you fucking idiot. D I A L O G U E. Dialogue, a conversation between characters.
Monologue is a a long speech given by one character to the other characters. What you just quoted is a line taken out of the dialogue, you... that's right, you fucking idiot.
Jesus wept.
Monologue is a a long speech given by one character to the other characters. What you just quoted is a line taken out of the dialogue, you... that's right, you fucking idiot.
Jesus wept.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Thanks for that firky, the first quote is the start of a long speech to the other soldiers in Hitman 2 on war and pussy by Corporal Person. Hence, it's a monologue.
The other I just found was a funny little tale told to Mr Rolling Stone...
The other I just found was a funny little tale told to Mr Rolling Stone...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Person's speech on pussy is a monologue. It last over a minute. That's a monologue.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
ep 5 on d/l. thought four was ball-achingly funny. The Godfather is really starting to look like an arsehole.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
'Why do you talk like that?'
'I had throat cancer.'
'Oh'
'I had throat cancer.'
'Oh'
Yeah, but he's quite good at arguing his case and bringing people back around to his side... like there might (just might) be method in his madness. It's the ambiguity about him that keeps you doubting yourself that I like. As with the Wire... it's the (sometimes unexpected) complexity of the characters and your response to them that is just great imo.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
"Godfather wants you to unfuck this clusterfuck"
'Whats November Juliet?'
and also
'We are oscar mike'
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Does anyone else think they're over-egging it with the squaddies reading chomsky and the art of war?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Nah, they aint the norm, just one or two odd troopers. And it's not inconcievable that the elites would be intelligent enough to pursue such literary ends. They all consider themselves warriors after all. Theres that bit of speech 'worry about yer own honour dog and numerous other examples of them seeing themselves as the badass killers, the warriors. You don't join an elite unit by being thick and trained, you have to be intelligent and trained. Stands to reason that some might be sun zu readers
Why? They're marines. They're not your average squaddie - they actually have a brain. It has been seen in many films before; most obvious of which is the Joker's Duality of Man - the Jungian thing in Full Metal Jacket.
Born to kill. Peace.
Watched 1-5. Superb.
The sense of utter confusion is done brilliantly.
Ray is great. His sarcasm about the supply truck being nicked had me ROFL
Yeah the dialogue is the best I have seen since Pulp Fiction. Has me pissing myself laughing.
I'm reading the book at the moment. It says that while they were Camp Mathilda in Kuwait waiting for the invasion to start, the Marines were sat around "studying invasion maps or reading dog-eared copies of Sun Tzu, Elmore Leonard, Steven Pressfield's Greek military-historical novel Gates of Fire, and Hustler."
I like the red neck bloke, he gets the best lines and when he eats always has food all over his face
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I like the red neck bloke, he gets the best lines and when he eats always has food all over his face
the rip-fuel abuser with the runaway mouth? he's cool but I prefer his grim and icy mate whose constantly looking down that rifle scope ennit
The dude who sits in the passenger's seat and is always telling people to shut hte fuck up? I like him but the red neck is has the lines. The black dude and his hatred of white people is funny too
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