Daily Dialogue — May 26, 2011
Door Gunner: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
Private Joker: Why should we do a story about you?
Door Gunner: ‘Cuz I’m so fuckin’ good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo, too! Them’s all confirmed!
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t war hell?
— Door Gunner (Tim Colceri), Private Joker (Matthew Modine), Full Metal Jacket (1987), screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Michael Herr & Gustav Hasford, based on Hasford’s novel
Actual clip here.
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is war. Full Metal Jacket suggested by fracturedsynapse.
Trivia: The term “full metal jacket” refers to the type of small arms ammunition used in warfare, as heard in Private Pyle’s famous line spoken on the toilet, “7.62 millimeter, full… metal… jacket.” Full metal jacket ammunition has a copper coating covering the lead core of its projectile.