Red Dawn (1984)
C. Thomas Howell: Robert
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Quotes
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Col. Andy Tanner : All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid.
Robert : It keeps me warm.
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Col. Andy Tanner : [Describing the invasion on a crude diorama on the ground] West Coast. East Coast. Down here is Mexico. First wave of the Soviet attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights the same way they did in Afghanistan back in December of 1979. Only these were crack Airborne paratroop outfits. Now, they took these mountain passes along here in the Rockies.
Jed Eckert : So, that's what hit Calumet?
Col. Andy Tanner : I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought. They took out the silos here in the Dakotas, and key points of communication.
Darryl Bates : Like what?
Col. Andy Tanner : Oh, like Omaha, Washington DC, Kansas City.
Darryl Bates : Gone?
Col. Andy Tanner : Yeah. That's right. Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan and Latin American armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.
Robert : How far did they get?
Col. Andy Tanner : Cheyenne, Wyoming... across to Kansas. We held them at the Rockies and the Mississippi River. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came down across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold here. The lines have pretty much stabilized now.
Robert : What about Europe?
Col. Andy Tanner : I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long.
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Jed Eckert : [the Wolverines discover that Daryl has been "bugged" by the Russo-Cubans] Daryl... Where is it? Where is it?
[Jed grabs Daryl, gets in Daryl's face and shouts]
Jed Eckert : GOD DAMN IT, WHERE'S THE BUG?
Darryl Bates : They made me swallow it.
Matt Eckert : Daryl, what have you done?
Darryl Bates : [nearly in tears] I went into town... and got caught.
Jed Eckert : [shaking him and screeching with rage] YOU WENT AND GOT CAUGHT? WHY?
Darryl Bates : [His voice breaks] You said we couldn't... I... I wanted to see my father. Talk to him...
Robert : You told them where we were, didn't you? You told them!
Darryl Bates : [sobbing] No! My father turned me in. Oh God, they do things you can't imagine.
Jed Eckert : [throws him down, growling with rage] AAAAGGHHH! You SON OF A BITCH!
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Jed Eckert : [at the execution of Daryl Bates and Stepan Gorsky] Do you want blindfolds?
Stepan Gorsky : This violates the Geneva convention.
Jed Eckert : I never heard of it!
Stepan Gorsky : Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies!
Robert : I've seen it before, pal.
Danny : [who is tied up in the distance, with the horses] This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!
Jed Eckert : Shut up, Danny! Shut up!
Robert : He told them where we were!
Jed Eckert : He did. Now get your rifles.
Matt Eckert : *No!*
Jed Eckert : WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Matt Eckert : *We're not doing it!*
Stepan Gorsky : [to Daryl] Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.
Matt Eckert : What's the difference, Jed?
Robert : I'll do it.
Matt Eckert : Shut up, Robert!
[to Jed]
Matt Eckert : *Tell me what's the difference between us and them!*
Jed Eckert : Because WE *LIVE* HERE!
[kills Stepan; Robert kills Daryl]
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Tom Eckert : Boys.
Matt Eckert : Daddy. Dad.
Tom Eckert : Don't talk. Don't say anything. Let me look at ya. I knew I was right. I knew it. You're alive. I was tough on both of you. I did things that made you, made you hate me sometimes. You understand now, don't you?
Jed Eckert : What happened, Dad? Why are you here? What'd you do?
Tom Eckert : It doesn't matter. One way or another, for one reason or another, we're all gone. It's all gone. Remember. Remember when you used to go in the park and play, and I used to put you two on the swings? Both of you were so damn little.
Jed Eckert : I remember. I remember all of it.
Tom Eckert : Well, I won't be there to pick you up when you fall now. Both of you have to take care of each other now.
Matt Eckert : We'll never see you again, Dad.
Tom Eckert : Yes, you will. I don't want to hear that, Maddy.
Matt Eckert : What happened to mom, Dad? Where is she?
Tom Eckert : She's not here. I don't know where they took her. You can't afford to be crying anymore now. I don't want either one of you to ever cry for me again. Don't ever do it. Not as long as you live.
Robert : Where's my dad, Mr. Eckert? Is he here?
Tom Eckert : I don't know, son. I don't know. You all get going. Get out before they find you.
Jed Eckert : Dad, I love you.
Tom Eckert : I know you do, son. I love you too.
[Tom, Jed, and Robert leave]
Tom Eckert : Boys! Avenge Me! Avenge Me!
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Jed Eckert : [in the mountains] Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad our whole lives. We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time.
Robert : How long, Jed?
[fighters and bombers pass overhead]
Jed Eckert : [indicating the jets above them] Until we don't hear *that* no more.
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Robert : Wolverines!
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Mr. Mason : [the Wolverines arrive at the Mason house, where they will be joined by Toni and Erica] We got us some outlaws here.
Jed Eckert : Wow, a house.
Mr. Mason : Go on and find a chair.
Robert : Last time we were in a house was five weeks.
Mr. Mason : You look it.
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Col. Andy Tanner : [using a crude diorama, the Wolverines prepare for an assault on the Calumet Drive-In, which is now a Russo-Cuban "Re-education Camp"] All right. Four planes, Cuban bunker, Russian bunker, munitions dump, troop tents. Four machine gun bunkers. Back here by the drive-in screen are your political prisoners. We'll cause a diversion over here... cut holes in the wire here, fire on all these machine gun positions. The B-Group comes across this area in a flanking maneuver... and when you reach this bunker, you lay down grazing fire on this defilade. I think that's pretty simple. Anybody got any questions so far?
Aardvark : What's a "flank?"
Toni : What's a "defilade?"
Robert : What's "grazing fire?"
Col. Andy Tanner : [out loud, to himself] I need a drink.
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Erica : [to Stepan] Sprechen sie Deutsch?
Matt Eckert : So what if he does? You don't.
Stepan Gorsky : Gorsky, Stepan Yevgenyvitch...!
Robert : NOBODY GIVES A DAMN WHO YOU ARE!
[He and his fellow Wolverines proceed to beat up Stepan]
Danny : [as he and Toni look on] They're gonna hurt him!
Toni : Good!
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Mr. Mason : We all figured you boys had headed for FA by now.
Robert : What's FA?
Mr. Mason : Free America. That's the safe zone.
Jed Eckert : Well, where are we?
Mr. Mason : Hell, you boys is in the occupied territory. You're 40 miles behind enemy lines. That's smack dab in the middle of World War III.
