Aigle de fer (1986)

Louis Gossett Jr.: Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

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Quotes 

• Doug Masters : Anyone ever tell you that you talk too much?

  Chappy Sinclair : Yeah, my ex-wife.

• Chappy Sinclair : [after hearing Doug say that he didn't give a shit enough to help his father]  Now look, let me clue you in on something right now. I've given this country 22 damn, fucking years of my life. Twenty two years! I've seen young boys blown out of the air, over the Pacific. I've seen their guts sprawled all over the rice paddies in Vietnam, so whenever somebody dies for this country, believe me boy,

  [shouts] 

  Chappy Sinclair : I give a shit! Goddamnit, nobody talks to me like this and I'm not about to start now! You want to do something for your father, hmm? You be strong for your family, you stay *right here*!

• Chappy Sinclair : [Chappy's plane is damaged and is low on fuel]  Doug, I ain't gonna make it.

  Doug Masters : [Chappy's plane crashes]  CHAPPY!

• [trying to convince Chappy to help him] 

  Doug Masters : Jesus, Chappy, he's only got...

  Chappy Sinclair : Three days, and if you keep talking you're gonna waste one of 'em.

• Chappy Sinclair : [finding Doug watching TV instead of sleeping the night before the mission]  I thought I told you to get some sleep.

  Doug Masters : I'm just relaxing a little, watching some TV, I don't need much sleep for this anyway.

  Chappy Sinclair : Now how the hell do you know what you need?

  Doug Masters : I'm just saying I'm ready for this. You're ready aren't you Chap?

  Chappy Sinclair : You think it's gonna be so easy don't you?

  Doug Masters : No I don't think it's gonna be all that easy. I'm just saying I'm ready for it that's all

  Chappy Sinclair : You ain't ready for shit, boy!

  [goes over to a bookstand and pulls out a book and gives it to Doug] 

  Chappy Sinclair : Open it. Go ahead, open it.

  Doug Masters : [opens it to pictures of some kids]  Who are these guys?

  Chappy Sinclair : A bunch of kids that thought that they were ready too.

  Doug Masters : Pilots?

  Chappy Sinclair : All of them.

  Doug Masters : They look about 15, 16 years old.

  Chappy Sinclair : That's right. All of them.

  Doug Masters : So I don't know why you're so upset, Chappy. What makes them different than me?

  Chappy Sinclair : Because they're dead, all of them! I had laid awake at night thinking about how fast and how brutal they died. Parts of them burning on the land, parts of them landing in the sea, some part of them burning just into nothing in the middle of the air and all of them thought that they were ready for it. When it was all over, I promised myself I'd never be part of killing kids again. That's why it took me so long to come around to helping you. Now it looks like I have us both trapped into something...

  Doug Masters : [finishing Chappy's sentence]  That could kill us? I know that Chappy, and those kids, I don't know what you think anymore but they knew it too. Maybe I'm not all that ready for it but who in the hell is ever ready for it? You didn't get me into this I went to you, remember? I know what we're risking here and I'm proud to be able to fly with you. Maybe I'm not all that ready but I'm damn proud.

  Chappy Sinclair : [smiling]  Aww enough of this nonsense, I got some work to do where, did you put that tape recorder?

  Doug Masters : Ah it's in there with my stuff.

  Chappy Sinclair : Hey where are you going?

  Doug Masters : I just wanted to know what you're doing.

  Chappy Sinclair : Why don't you see what your pillow in bed is doing I want you to be in bed in five minutes, ok? Whoa whoa hold on a minute, I almost forgot.

  [pulls out a small case and Doug opens it to find a pair of wings] 

  Chappy Sinclair : It's my first pair I wanna loan them to you.

  Doug Masters : I'll bring them back, I promise.

  Chappy Sinclair : You better, now get to bed

  Doug Masters : Yes sir, colonel sir!

  Chappy Sinclair : [into the tape recorder]  It sure is strange making you this tape. I just got done talking to you. Look at that smile on your face, the look you had the first time I told you I'd help you with your father. I never told you this before. I always have a hard time talking about my feelings. But I want you to know now that you've got more courage than anyone I've ever met and you're gonna need every ounce of it to get through this thing. Now listen I'm proud to have been by your side, and whatever happens just remember we tried and no one can take that away from us!

• Chappy Sinclair : God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use. And he gave you The Touch. It's a power inside of you, down there where you keep your guts boy. It's all you need to blast your way in and get back what they took from you.

• Chappy Sinclair : And shut down that music!

  Doug Masters : It'll screw up my rhythm.

  Chappy Sinclair : If you don't shut it down, I'll screw up somethin' else!

• Doug Masters : How can you think with that music on?

  Chappy Sinclair : Aw come on, let's see what you got.

• [Doug is showing off his piloting skills to Chappy] 

  Doug Masters : How was that?

  Chappy Sinclair : I thought you was a pilot, not an astronaut!

• Doug Masters : Chappy, I got 'em, I got all three of the guns!

  Chappy Sinclair : Yeah, but one of them got me.

• Chappy Sinclair : Now, what do you do when one of them is flying straight at you?

  Reggie : You eject and start doing the backstroke.

• Chappy Sinclair : You like Italian?

  Doug Masters : Italian?

  Chappy Sinclair : Uh-huh. You can eat while you read.