Le maître de guerre (1986)

Moses Gunn: Staff Sgt. Webster

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Quotes 

• Sergeant Webster : Major Powers and I are building an e-lite company of fighting men.

  Highway : The only thing you could build, Webster... is a good case of hemorrhoids.

• Sergeant Webster : Highway, I heard you was back.

  Highway : Webster.

  Sergeant Webster : These retards couldn't fight their way out of a shit house.

  Highway : That where you been keeping yourself lately?

  Highway : Major Powers and me are building an elite company of fightin' men.

  Highway : Webster, the only thing you could build is a good case of hemmorhoids.

  [taps Fragatti on the head] 

  Lance Corporal Fragatti : What? What?

  Highway : Well, you're blowing away all of your ammunition, Fag-eddy. Miss I ain't America's gonna make Swiss cheese out of you.

  Lance Corporal Fragatti : It's not my fuckin' fault, man. The fuckin' weapon's fuckin' fucked up.

  Highway : [takes rifle and fires at target]  There's nothing wrong with that rifle. Keep it tight.

  [moves down to Jones] 

  Highway : You wake up this morning with a piss pot on your head?

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Uh, no, Gunny, I wore this in your honor.

  Highway : Is that right?

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Yeah, you know, Sands of Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill, Kason, all that old antique shit. Sort of a tribute to an aging veteran close to retirement such as yourself.

  Highway : Well, I'm touched.

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Yeah, you know, sort of a recon way of saying welcome and ineveitably, goodbye.

  Highway : And the kevlar helmet you were issued, that didn't by chance find it's way into one of the local pawn shops in town now did it?

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Hey, hey, yo, that's a serious implication, Gunny. You know, we're financially responsible for these bad boys.

  Highway : That's right, you are, that's why I want to see kevlar on your head by 1900 hours or you won't have a head to put it on.

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Yes, sir, Gunny Highway Sergeant, sir!

  Profile : Hey, Gunny. My weapon's jammed!

  [stands and the rifle goes off] 

  Sergeant Webster : [as the platoon is marching back]  Major Powers' gonna teach you how to discipline your men.

  Highway : Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden stop your face is gonna go half way up his ass.

  Lance Corporal Fragatti : Profile's never gonna make it back to the barracks.

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Powers is cold blooded, man.

  Highway : [after Profile falls]  Come on, Profile. You can make it. Don't give the prick the satisfaction.

• Sergeant Webster : This gonna go hard on all y'all if you don't cooperate.

  Lance Corporal Fragatti : We ain't got nothing to say to you, Webster.

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Why don't you go on back to that faggot first platoon and

  [imitating Highway] 

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Don't go away mad. Just... just go away. You've been told.

• Highway : You're dead, marine. You just stepped on four booby traps that blew your legs off and we'll have to send out a search party for your testicles. Now, where the hell's your backup?

  Lance Corporal Fragatti : Profile.

  Highway : What the fuck good you doin' back there? Without any cover fire, I get my ass blown off! While you guys are sittin' there pumpin' the neighbor's dog, we'll get every swinging dick in this platoon killed!

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Hey, chill out, man. That's what we're here for.

  Highway : Say, what?

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : We're here for that, man. We've ambushed Major Powers three times, and always right here. We know what we're doing.

  Highway : Well, shit-for-brains, who says we're gonna ambush Major Powers right here?

  Corporal 'Stitch' Jones : Hey, didn't you hear Lieutenant Ring? Major Powers wants us to die in a loud, grotesque, military manner.

  Highway : I don't give a fuck about Major Powers. My job is to keep you men alive, now let's move on.

  [1st Platoon is approaching the ambush site] 

  Maj. Malcolm A. Powers : We'll come to the ambush site over the next hill.

  Sergeant Webster : Roger that.

  Choozoo : Sure does help knowing when and where you're gonna be hit, sir.

  [Recon watching 1st Platoon pass through a valley] 

  Highway : Easy. Give them a few more yards and we'll nail the coffin shut. Now.

  [Recon begins firing] 

  Maj. Malcolm A. Powers : [Reacting to his MILES gear going off]  You're in the wrong ambush site! Cease fire! You're in the wrong ambush site!

  [Sees Highway grinning at him] 

  Maj. Malcolm A. Powers : Sergeant Major, turn this damn thing off.

  Choozoo : Makes a hell of a racket, doesn't it, sir?

• Sergeant Webster : Major Powers will teach you how to discipline your men.

  Highway : Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden halt your face is gonna go halfway up his ass.