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"Gil Kopel - Stork"
"Vincent D'Onofrio - Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence"
"R. Lee Ermey - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman"
"Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother"
"Dorian Harewood - Private Eightball"
"Arliss Howard - Private/Sergeant "Cowboy" Evans"
"Kevyn Major Howard - Rafterman"
"Ed O'Ross - Lieutenant Touchdown / Walter J. Schinoski"
"John Terry - Lieutenant Lockhart"
"Kieron Jecchinis - "Crazy" Earl"
"Kirk Taylor - Payback"
"Peter Edmund - Private "Snowball" Brown"
"Tim Colceri - Doorgunner"
"[narrating] Parris Island, South Carolina—the United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot, an eight-week college for the phony tough and the crazy brave."
"[narrating] The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive."
"I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill."
"[narrating] Graduation is only a few days away, and the recruits of Platoon 3092 are salty. They are ready to eat their own guts and ask for seconds. The drill instructors are proud to see that we are growing beyond their control. The Marine Corps does not want robots. The Marine Corps wants killers. The Marine Corps wants to build indestructible men, men without fear."
"[narrating; last lines] We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today. We hump down to the Perfume River to set in for the night. My thoughts drift back to erect-nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming Fuck Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece, and short. I'm in a world of shit, yes, but I am alive. And I am not afraid."
"[To Private Pyle when he is unable to climb over an obstacle on a course] Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!"
"[Graduation speech to the platoon] Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on, until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever."
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong, you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead Marines. And then you will be in a world of shit. Because Marines are not allowed to die without permission! Do you maggots understand?"
"[Speech to the platoon on Christmas Day] Today is Christmas. There will be a magic show at 0930. Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few Marines. God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep Heaven packed with fresh souls. God was here before the Marine Corps. So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps!"
"Drop your cocks and grab your socks!"
"These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting."
"[after he and the other recruits have hazed Pyle by restraining and beating him] Remember, it's just a bad dream, fat boy!"
"In Vietnam, the wind doesn't blow. It sucks."
"Vietnam can kill me, but it can't make me care."
"Matthew Modine - Private/Sergeant James T. "Joker" Davis"
"Wen haben wir denn hier? Einen verkappten Komiker!"
"Die tödlichste Waffe der Welt ist ein Marine mit seinem Gewehr! Es ist euer Killerinstinkt, der voll da sein muss, wenn ihr im Kampf überleben wollt! Euer Gewehr ist nur ein Instrument! Töten kann nur ein Herz aus Stahl! Wenn euer Killerinstinkt nicht stark und rein ist, werdet ihr zögern, wenn es drauf ankommt! Dann werdet ihr nicht töten, dann werdet ihr tote Marines sein!"
"Ihr Arsch kommt auf meine Liste."
"Ihr werdet mich nicht mögen, weil ich hart bin."
""Private Joker ist ein Spinner und ein Ignorant, aber er hat Schneid, und das reicht uns!" zu Pvt. Schneewittchen"
""Sie sind so hässlich, Sie könnten glatt ein modernes Kunstwerk sein!" zu Pvt. Paula"
""Sind Sie vielleicht John Wayne?"
"Die Toten wissen nur eins: Es ist besser, am Leben zu sein."
"Hauptdarsteller:"
"Erschienen: 1987"
"Genre: Antikriegsfilm"
"Drehbuch: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.