Full Metal Jacket part 2

FADE IN: 51 EXT. DA NANG STREET, VIETNAM--DAY Motorcycles, cars, Vietnamese civilians. Swinging her hips with exaggerated sexiness, an attractive HOOKER in a mini-skirt walks toward a cafe' table on the pavement where JOKER and RAFTERMAN are seated. Music: Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walking." The girl stops at JOKER's table. HOOKER Hey, baby, you got girlfriend Vietnam? JOKER Not just this minute. HOOKER Well, baby, me so horny. Me so horny. Me love you long time. You party? JOKER Yeah, we might party. How much? HOOKER Fifteen dolla. JOKER Fifteen dollars for both of us? HOOKER No. Each you fifteen dolla. Me love you long time. Me so horny. JOKER Fifteen dollar too boo-coo. Five dollars each. HOOKER Me suckee-suckee. Me love you too much. JOKER Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend. HOOKER Okay! Ten dolla each. JOKER What do we get for ten dollars? HOOKER Everything you want. JOKER Everything? HOOKER Everything. JOKER Well, old buddy, feel like spending some of your hard-earned money? RAFTERMAN Just a minute. RAFTERMAN raises his Nikon and starts photographing JOKER and the HOOKER. The girl strikes quick poses for the camera and coughs. JOKER puts his arm around her. JOKER You know, half these gook whores are serving officers in the Viet Cong. The girl coughs again. JOKER The other half have got T.B. Make sure you only fuck the ones that cough. A young vietnamese boy walks up behind RAFTERMAN and grabs the Nikon camera from his hands. The boy runs to an accomplice sitting on a waiting motorbike and tosses the camera to him. Then in mockery the BOY excecutes a few, Bruce Lee moves before jumping on the bike and zooming off: JOKER laughs. DISSOLVE TO 52 EXT. U.S. MARINE BASE--DAY The main gates of the base. High-security fencing. Tanks, jeeps, trucks. A military helicopter lands. DISSOLVE TO: 53 EXT. DA NANG BASE--DAY JOKER and RAFTERMAN walk down the base street past rows of hootches and other buildings. In the background some marines play basketball. JOKER That little sucker really had some moves on him, didn't he? RAFTERMAN Yeah ... You know what really pisses me off about these people? JOKER What? RAFTERMAN We're supposed to be helping them and they shit all over us every chance they get ... I just can't feature that. JOKER Don't take it too hard, Rafterman. It's just business. RAFTERMAN I hate Da Nang, Joker. I want to go out into the field. I've been in this country almost three months, and all I do is take handshake shots at awards ceremonies. JOKER You get wasted your first day in the field and it'd be my fault. RAFTERMAN A high school girl could do my job. I want to get out into the shit. I want to get some trigger time. JOKER If you get killed, your mom will find me after I rotate back to the world and she'll beat the shit out of me. That's a negative, Rafterman. 54 INT. SEA-TIGER HUT--DAY A Quonset hut. An editorial meeting of The Sea Tiger, the official marine newspaper, is in progress presided over by LIEUTENANT LOCKHART. JOKER, RAFTERMAN, and six other marine correspondens are seated around a large messy table covered with cameras, photographs, newspapers artd magazines. LOCKHART Okay, guys, let's keep it short and sweet today. Anybody got anything new? JOKER There's a rumor going around that the Tet ceasefire is gonna be cancelled. LOCKHART Rear-echelon paranoia. JOKER A bro in Intelligence says Charlie might try to pull off something big during the Tet holiday. LOCKHART They say the same thing every year. JOKER There's a lot of talk about it, sir. LOCKHART I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. The Tet holiday's like the Fourth of July, Christmas and New Year all rolled into one. Every zipperhead in Nam, North and South, will be banging gongs, barking at the moon and visiting his dead relatives. LOCKHART All right ...Ann-Margret and entourage are due here next week. I want someone to be there on the airfield and stick with her for a couple of days. Uh, Rafterman, you take it. RAFTERMAN Aye-aye, sir. LOCKHART Get me some good low-angle stuff. Don't make it too obvious, but I want to see fur and early morning dew. RAFTERMAN Yes, sir. LOCKHART (reading) "Diplomats in Dungarees--Marine engineers lend a helping hand rebuilding Dong Phuc villages . . ." Chili, if we move Vietnamese, they are evacuees. If they come to us to be evacuated, they are refugees. CHILI I'll make a note of it, sir. LOCKHART (reading) "N.V.A. Soldier Deserts After Reading Pamphlets --A young North Vietnamese Army regular, who realized his side could not win the war, deserted from his unit after reading Open Arms program pamphlets." That's good, Dave. But why say North Vietnamese Army regular? Is there an irregular? How about North Vietnamese Army soldier? DAVE I'll fix it up, sir. LOCKHART Lawrence Welk Show's gonna go out on TV in two weeks. Dave, do a hundred words on it. AFTV'll give you some background stuff. DAVE Yes, sir. LOCKHART (reading) "Not While We're Eating--N.V.A. learn marines on a search and destroy mission don't like to be interrupted while eating chow." Search and destroy. Uh, we have a new directive from M.A.F. on this. In the future, in place of"search and destroy," substitute the phrase "sweep and clear." Got it? JOKER Got it. Very catchy. LOCKHART And, Joker ... where's the weenie? JOKER Sir! LOCKHART The Kill, JOKER. The kill. I mean, all that fire, the grunts must've hit something. JOKER Didn't see 'em. LOCKHART Joker, I've told you, we run two basic stories here. Grunts who give half their pay to buy gooks toothbrushes and deodorants--Winning of Hearts and Minds--okay? And combat action that results in a kill--Winning the War. Now you must have seen blood trails ... drag marks? JOKER It was raining, sir. LOCKHART Well, that's why God passed the law of probability. Now rewrite it and give it a happy ending--say, uh, one kill. Make it a sapper or an officer. Which? JOKER Whichever you say. LOCKHART Grunts like reading about dead officers. JOKER Okay, an officer. How about a general? A few laughs. LOCKHART Joker, maybe you'd like our guys to read the paper and feel bad. I mean, in case you didn't know it, this is not a particularly popular war. Now, it is our job to report the news that these why-are-we-here civilian newsmen ignore. JOKER Sir, maybe you should go out on some ops yourself. I'm sure you could find a lot more blood trails and drag marks. Some laughs. LOCKHART JOKER, I've had my ass in the grass. Can't say I liked it much. Lots of bugs and too dangerous. As it happens, my present duties keep me where I belong. In the rear with the gear. DISSOLVE TO: 55 EXT. DA NANG BASE--DUSK Rows of hootches. In the distance, fireworks. JOKER (voiceover) Tet. The Year of the Monkey. Vietnamese Lunar New Year's Eve. Down in Dogpatch, the gooks are shooting off fireworks to celebrate. DISSOLVE TO: 56 INT. HOOTCH--NIGHT JOKER, RAFTERMAN, PAYBACK and the others are in their bunks, reading, lazing, smoking grass. JOKER is writing in a notebook. JOKER (yawns and stretches) I am fucking bored to death, man. I gotta get back in the shit. I ain't heard a shot fired in anger in weeks. PAYBACK Joker's so tough he'd eat the boogers out of a dead man's nose ... then ask for seconds. Some laughs. JOKER (John Wayne voice) Listen up, pilgrim. A day without blood is like a day without sunshine. PAYBACK Shi-i--i-t! Joker thinks the bad bush is between old mama-san's legs. Some laughs. PAYBACK He's never been in the shit. It's hard to talk about it, man. It's like on Hastings. CHILI Aw, you weren't on Operation Hastings, Payback. You weren't even in country. PAYBACK Eat shit and die, you fucking Spanish- American! You fucking poge! I was there, man. I was in the shit with the grunts. JOKER (John Wayne voice) Don't listen to any of Payback's bullshit, Rafterman. Sometimes he thinks he's John Wayne. PAYBACK You listen to Joker, new guy. He knows ti ti. Very little. You know he's never been in the shit,cause he ain't got the stare. RAFTERMAN The stare? PAYBACK The thousand-yard stare. A marine gets it after he's been in the shit for too long. It's like ... it's like you've really seen beyond. I got it. All field marines got it. And you'll have it too. RAFTERMAN I will? STORK Hey, Payback. How do you stop five black dudes from raping a white chick? PAYBACK Fuck you, Stork. STORK Throw'em a basketball. Laughter. They are startled by the dull boom of mortar shells outside. DAVE Incoming. PAYBACK Oh, shit! CHILI They're outgoing. DAVE That ain't outgoing! Some closer explosions, much louder. CHILI That ain't outgoing! DAVE Now what I just say? The men grab their helmets, flak jackets and weapons and run outside. RAFTERMAN Joker, is this for real? JOKER Yes, it is, Rafterman. 57 EXT. DA NANG BASE--NIGHT Men running everywhere. Sirens. A mortar round lands in the distance, then others nearer. Fires are breaking out. 58 INT. BUNKER--NIGHT JOKER loads an M-60 machine gun, then hunches down watching the main gate of the perimeter. JOKER Hey, I hope they're just fucking with us. I ain't ready for this shit. STORK Amen. The sound ofa truck approaching. The marines get set. The truch smashes though the gates. The marines open fire. The truck is hit by a hail of automatic fire; it explodes and starts burning. N.V.A. troops follow the truck through the gate. The attackers are cut down by a withering fire from the marines. The attack peters out. People yell, "Cease fire." The firing trails off: DISSOLVE TO: 59 EXT. DA NANG BASE--DAWN JOKER and RAFTERMAN walk through the wreckage of the night's battle. Prisoners are led past. LOCKHART (voice over) The enemy has very deceitfully taken advantage of the Tet ceasefire to launch an offensive all over the country. So far, we've had it pretty easy here. But we seem to be the exception. 60 INT. SEA-TIGER OFFICE--DAWN Dirty and still in. their combat gear, JOKER, RAFTERMAN, PAYBACK and the other correspondents are slumped in, their chairs around the table. LOCKHART (walking) Charlie has hit every major military target in Vietnam, and hit 'em hard. In Saigon, the United States Embassy has been overrun by suicide squads. Khe Sahn is standing by to be overrun. We also have reports that a divi- sion of N.V.A. has occupied all of the city of Hue south of the Perfume River. In strate- gic terms, Charlie's cut the country in half... the civilian press are about to wet their pants and we've heard even Cronkite's going to say the war is now unwinnable. In other words, it's a huge shit sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite. Long, serious pause. JOKER Sir ... does this mean that Ann-Margret's not coming? Laughter. LOCKHART (pissed off) Joker.... I want you to get straight up to Phu Bai. Captain January will need all his people. JOKER Yes, sir. LOCKHART And Joker, you will take off that damn button. How's it gonna look if you get killed wearing a peace symbol? RAFTERMAN Sir? Permission to go with Joker? LOCKHART Permission granted. RAFTERMAN Thank you, sir. JOKER Sir, permission not to take Rafterman with me? LOCKHART You still here? Vanish, Joker, most ricky-tick, and take Rafterman with you. You're responsible for him. 61 EXT. HELICOPTER SHOTS--DAWN A military helicopter flies past a huge sun. 62 INT. AERIAL HELICOPTER--DUSK JOKER Sits looking out the door. RAFTERMAN is frightened and airsick. The DOORGUNNER laughs and yells as he fires his M-60 machine gun. We see Vietnamese below running and falling. DOORGUNNER Get some ... get some ... get some ... get some ... yeah ... yeah ... get some ... get some. After a while the DOORGUNNER stops firing and grins at JOKER. DOORGUNNER (shouting to be heard) Anyone who runs is a V.C. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined V.C. (laughs) You guys oughtta do a story about me sometime. JOKER Why should we do a story about you? DOORGUNNER Cause I'm so fucking good! That ain't no shit neither. I've done got me one hundred and fifty-seven dead gooks killed. And fifty water buffaloes, too. Them're all certified. RAFTERMAN gags. JOKER Any women or children? DOORGUNNER Sometimes. JOKER How can you shoot women and children? RAFTERMAN gags. DOORGUNNER Easy. You just don't lead 'em so much. (laughs) Ain't war hell? DISSOLVE TO: 63 EXT. LZ HUE--DAY The helicopter lands. JOKER and RAFTERMAN jump out, duck down low and move away through pink smoke blown by the rotor blades. Marines run by carrying wounded on stretchers. JOKER (to a sergeant) Top, we want to get in the shit. MASTER SERGEANT Down the road, two-five. JOKER Two-five. Outstanding! Thanks, Top. DISSOLVE TO: 64 EXT. ROAD TO HUE--DAY A road next to a small canal on the outskirts of Hue. Tanks, trucks and marines are moving into the city past a column of refugees heading the other way. JOKER and RAFTERMAN catch up to a Lieutenant, salute him and walk alongside. JOKER Excuse me! Sir ... we're looking for First Platoon, Hotel two-five. I got a bro named Cowboy there. TOUCHDOWN You people one-one? JOKER No, sir. We're reporters for Stars and Stripes. TOUCHDOWN Stars and Stripes. JOKER Yes, sir. TOUCHDOWN I'm Cowboy's platoon commander. Cowboy's just down the road in the platoon area. JOKER Oh. You mind if we tag along, sir? TOUCHDOWN No problem. Welcome aboard. By the way, my name's Schinoski. Walter J. Schinoski. My people call me Mister Touchdown. I played a little ball for Notre Dame. JOKER Notre Dame? TOUCHDOWN (laughing) Yeah. JOKER All right! TOUCHDOWN You here to make Cowboy famous? JOKER Ha! Never happen, sir. TOUCHDOWN Well, if you people came looking for a story, this is your lucky day. We got Condition Red and we're definitely expecting rain. JOKER Outstanding, sir. We taking care of business? TOUCHDOWN Well, the N.V.A. are dug in deep. Hotel Company's still working this side of the river. Street by street and house by house. Charlie's definitely got his shit together. But we're still getting some really decent kills here. JOKER We heard some scuttlebutt, sir, about the N.V.A. executing a lot of gook civilians. TOUCHDOWN That's affirmative. I saw some bodies about half a klick this side of Phu Cam Canal. JOKER Can you show me where, sir? TOUCHDOWN Here's the canal... 65 EXT. MASS GRAVE--DAY JOKER stands looking down into a large open grave at a row of white, lime-covered corpses. Journalists, marines and civilians are grouped around the grave. A work detail leans on their shovels, their faces covered with bandanas against the stench. JOKER (voice over) The dead have been covered with lime. The dead only know one thing. It is better to be alive. JOKER approaches a young lieutenant-- CLEVES. JOKER Excuse me. Good morning, Lieutenant. LT. CLEVES Good morning. JOKER I make it twenty. Is that the official body count, sir? LT. CLEVES (sharply) What outfit are you men with? JOKER Sir, we're reporters from Stars and Stripes. LT. CLEVES (warms up) Oh, I see. JOKER I'm Sergeant Joker and this photographer's Rafterman. RAFTERMAN starts shooting pictures of the Lieutenant. LT. CLEVES I'm Lieutenant Cleves. I'm from Hartford, Connecticut. JOKER Have you got a body count, sir? LT. CLEVES We think it's twenty. JOKER Do you know how it happened, sir? LT. CLEVES Well, it seems the N.V.A. came in with a list of gook names. Government officials, policemen, ARVN officers, schoolteachers. They went around their houses real polite and asked them to report the next day for political re-education. Everybody who turned up got shot. Some they buried alive. A marine COLONEL who has been watching JOKER turns from the group arourzd the grave and strides up. JOKER snaps to attention. COLONEL Marine ! LT. CLEVES Colonel. COLONEL Marine, what is that button on your body armor? JOKER A peace symbol, sir. COLONEL Where'd you get it? JOKER I don't remember, sir. COLONEL What is that you've got written on your helmet? JOKER "Born to Kill," sir. COLONEL You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?! JOKER No, sir. COLONEL You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you! JOKER Yes, sir. COLONEL Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man. JOKER I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir. COLONEL The what? JOKER The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir. COLONEL Whose side are you on, son? JOKER Our side, sir. COLONEL Don't you love your country? JOKER Yes, sir. COLONEL Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win? JOKER Yes, sir! COLONEL Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over. JOKER Aye-aye, sir. DISSOLVE TO: 66 EXT. FIELD--DAY JOKER and RAFTERMAN Walk through a field toward a pagoda. 67 EXT. PAGODA--DAY Marines are moving supplies. Some men are rest- ing on the ground. A helicopter flies overhead. Music: Sam the Sham's "Wooly Bully." JOKER Hey, bro, we're looking for First Platoon, Hotel two-five. MARINE Around the back. JOKER and RAFTERMAN lualk to the back of the building. JOKER (to another marine) First Platoon? MARINE Yeah, through there. 68 INT. PAGODA COURTYARD--DAY Through a moon-door opening on to the pagoda courtyard, We see COWBOY shauing. Other marines are sprawled around the courtyard walls. JOKER walks up behind COWBOY. JOKER Hey, Lone Ranger. COWBOY Holy shit! JOKER You old motherfucker. COWBOY It's the JOKER. JOKER What's happenin'? They hug each other. COWBOY Boy, I hoped I'd never see you again, you piece of shit! JOKER (laughs) What's happening, man? COWBOY Oh, I'm just waiting to get back to the land of the big PX. JOKER Yeah? Well, why go back? Here or there, samey-same. COWBOY Been getting any? JOKER Only your sister. COWBOY Well, better my sister than my mom, though my mom's not bad. COWBOY leads JOKER to the center of the courtyard. COWBOY This is my bro Joker from the Island. And this is... JOKER Rafterman. COWBOY ...Rafterman. They're from Stars and Stripes. They'll make you famous. Adlibs of "All right!" COWBOY We're the Lusthog Squad. We're life-takers and heartbreakers. Adlibs. COWBOY We shoot 'em full of holes and fill 'em full of lead. Adlibs of "Yeah!" etc. A big grunt, ANIMAL MOTHER, approaches JOKER. Trouble. ANIMAL MOTHER Are you a photographer? JOKER No ... I'm a combat correspondent. ANIMAL MOTHER (smiles) Oh, you seen much combat? JOKER returns the smile. JOKER Well, I've seen a little on TV. The other marines laugh. ANIMAL MOTHER You're a real comedian. Some more laughs. JOKER (pause) Well, they call me the JOKER. Adlibs. "Oooooooooo!" and laughter. ANIMAL MOTHER (moves closer) Well, I got a joke for you. I'm gonna tear you a new asshole. Adlibs, laughter. JOKER (John. Wayne voice) Well, pilgrim ... only after you ... eat the peanuts out of my shit! Loud laughs and shouts. ANIMAL MOTHER (moves in close) You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk? Anticipatory adlibs of "Ooooh!" and "Whoooa!" EIGHTBALL, a black grunt, gets up and steps between JOKER and ANIMAL MOTHER. EIGHTBALL (to JOKER) Now you might not believe it but under fire Animal Mother is one of the finest human beings in the world. Laughter. EIGHTBALL All he needs is somebody to throw hand grenades at him the rest of his life. Laughter. EIGHTBALL leads ANIMAL MOTHER away. COWBOY (laughing) Come on, sit down. Come on, new guy. EIGHTBALL and ANIMAL MOTHER sit down together. ANIMAL MOTHER Hey, jungle bunny. Thank God for the sickle cell, huh? EIGHTBALL Yeah, mother. CRAZY EARL sits on the ground next to a figure sprawled in a chair. CRAZY EARL Hey ... photographer! You want to take a good picture? Here, man ... take this. This ... is my bro. CRAZY EARL lifts the hat which has been, covering the man's face. We see he is a dead N.V.A. soldier. Laughter. CRAZY EARL This is his party. He's the guest of honor. Today ... is his birthday. Adlibs: "Happy Birthday, zipperhead!" etc. CRAZY EARL I will never forget this day. The day I came to Hue City and fought one million N.V.A. gooks. I love the little Commie bastards, man, I really do. These enemy grunts are as hard as slant-eyed drill instructors. 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. 69 EXT. A FIELD, OUTSKIRTS HUE CITY--DAY COWBOY's platoon, advancing towards the city in a sweep formation behind tanks. Cuts of the squad, nervous and alert. Mortar rounds explode ahead. LIEUTENANT TOUCHDOWN is hit and goes down. The platoon dives for cover. DOC JAY crawls to him and starts mouth-to-mouth. SERGEANT MURPHY crawls up, has a look, moves to the back of the tank and picks up a field radio. The platoon stays flat. MURPHY Delta Six Actual, this is Murphy. Over. Delta Six Actual, this is Murphy. Over. DELTA SIX (o.s.) Delta Six. MURPHY Delta Six, we are receiving incoming fire from the ville. The Lieutenant is down. We're going to stop here and check out what's in front of us. Over. CRAZY EARL, keeping low, scrambles up to the LUSTHOG SQUAD. CRAZY EARL Okay. Lusthog Squad, listen up! We're gonna move up these two roads here and check the ville. I want the third team up this road here. First and second fire team behind me up this other road, okay? Adlibs of "Right!" and "Okay!" CRAZY EARL Let's go! Let's get it done! Bending low the squad moves out past the tanks, leapfrogging toward some ruined buildings a couple of hundred yards in front of them. HAND JOB peers cautiously around the corner of a house and is killed instantly by a burst of automatic fire. ANIMAL MOTHER opens fire with his M-60 machine gun at some windows where the shots came from. Everyone opens fire, blasting chunks out of the building with a zillion rounds. T.H.E. ROCK fires an M-79 grenade, blowing out a window. RAFTERMAN photographs the action, his Nikon violently shaking. The fire slackens. Then it gets quiet. All their senses alert, everyone watches the building, listening hard. They reload. As CRAZY EARL reloads he spots six V.C. dashing across the street fifty yards away. They are out of sight in a second. Having missed his first chance, CRAZY EARL gets set hoping for another. Two more V.C. rush out into the open. He fires a long burst from his M-16 and they both go down. CRAZY EARL turns to the squad with a big grin. Music: "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen. This car- ries over through the next scene. 70 EXT. LOW WALL--DAY The platoon are hunched down behind a low wall. Tanks fire at some distant buildings. A three-man TV crew, ducking low, moves past them, filming. JOKER (John Wayne voice) Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? COWBOY Hey, start the cameras. This is "Vietnam-- the Movie!" EIGHTBALL Yeah, Joker can be John Wayne. I'll be a horse! DONLON T.H.E. Rock can be a rock! T.H.E. ROCK I'll be Ann-Margret! DOC JAY Animal Mother can be a rabid buffalo! CRAZY EARL I'll be General Custer! RAFTERMAN Well, who'll be the Indians? ANIMAL MOTHER Hey, we'll let the gooks play the Indians! Laughter. 71 EXT. HUE CITY RUINS--DAY The bodies of LIEUTENANT TOUCHDOWN and HAND JOB laid out on ground sheets. The LUSTHOG SQUAD are gathered around them. The camera moves to each man, pausing for them to speak. T.H.E. ROCK You're going home now. Camera move. CRAZY EARL Semper fi. Camera move. DONLON We're mean marines, sir. Camera move. EIGHTBALL Go easy, bros. Camera move. ANIMAL MOTHER Better you than me. RAFTERMAN Well, at least they died for a good cause. ANIMAL MOTHER What cause was that? RAFTERMAN Freedom. ANIMAL MOTHER Flush out your head gear, new guy. You think we waste gooks for freedom? This is a slaughter. If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word ... my word is "poontang." COWBOY Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical. JOKER What was the matter with him? COWBOY He was jerkin' off ten times a day. EIGHTBALL It's no shit. At least ten times a day. COWBOY Last week he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazy fucker starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear division. 72 EXT. HUE CITY--VARIOUS PLACES--DAY The television crew interviews members of the LUSTHOG SQUAD. REPORTER You ready? CAMERAMAN Yeah. REPORTER Turnover. CAMERAMAN Rolling. REPORTER Hue City interviews. Roll thirty-four. ANIMAL MOTHER Well ... like, like you see, you know, it's a major city, so we have to assault with, uh ... tanks. So, they send us in first squad ... to make sure that there are no little Vietnamese waiting with, like, B-40 rockets that blow the tanks away. So we clear it out and we roll the tanks in and ... basically, blow the place to hell. (chuckles) COWBOY When we're in Hue ... when we're in Hue City ... it's like a war. You know like what I thought about a war, what I thought a war was, was supposed to be. There's the enemy, kill 'em. RAFTERMAN Well, I don't think there's any question about it. I mean we're the best. I mean all that bullshit about the Air Cav ... When the shit really hits the fan, who do they call? They call Mother Green and her killing machine! CRAZY EARL Do I think America belongs in Vietnam? Um ... I don't know. I belong in Vietnam. I'll tell you that. DOC JAY Can I quote L.B.J.? REPORTER Sure. DOC JAY (imitating L.B.J.) "I will not send American boys eight or ten thousand miles around the world to do a job that Asian boys oughtta be doin' for themselves." EIGHTBALL Personally, I think, uh ... they don't really want to be involved in this war. I mean ... they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know. But they don't want it. They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards. COWBOY Well, the ones I'm ... I'm fighting at are some pretty bad boys. I'm not real keen on ... some of these fellows that are . . . supposed to be on our side. I keep meeting'em coming the other way. Yeah. DONLON I mean, we're getting killed for these people and they don't even appreciate it. They think it's a big joke. ANIMAL MOTHER Well, if you ask me, uh, we're shooting the wrong gooks. RAFTERMAN Well, it depends on the situation. I mean, I'm--I'm here to take combat photos. But if the shit gets too thick, I mean, I'll go to the rifle. ANIMAL MOTHER What do I think about America's involvement in the war? Well, I think we should win. COWBOY I hate Vietnam. There's not one horse in this whole country. They don't have one horse in Vietnam. There's something basically wrong with that. (laughs) ANIMAL MOTHER Well, if they'd send us more guys and maybe bomb the hell out of the North, they might, uh, they might give up. JOKER I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the 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. 73 EXT. WRECKED MOVIE THEATER--DAY The marines are seated outside the theater on rows of broken movie seats. A motor-scooter, driven by a young ARVN soldier with a pretty teenage Vietnamese HOOKER sitting behind him, and pulls up in front of the LUSTHOG SQUAD. The girl gets off slowly, swinging her hips as she walks. Adlibs, hoots anal hollers. COWBOY Ten-hut! More hoots and hollers. COWBOY Good morning, little schoolgirl. I'm a little schoolboy, too. Adlibs and laughter. COWBOY What you got there, chief! The girl stands facing them, hands on hips. ARVN PIMP Do you want number one fuckee? Adlibs and laughter. COWBOY Hey, any of you boys want number one fuckee? Adlibs. JOKER Oh, I'm so horny. I can't even get a piece of hand. DONLON Hey! Hey! Me want suckee. ARVN PIMP Suckee, fuckee, smoke cigarette in the pussy, she give you everything you want. Long time. Laughter. COWBOY Everything you want! All right! How much there, chief! ARVN PIMP Fifteen dolla each. Adlibs: "Nooooooo!" COWBOY Number ten. Fifteen dolla beaucoup money. Laughter. COWBOY Five dolla each. ARVN PIMP Come on. She love you good. Boom-boom long time. Ten dolla. COWBOY Five dolla. ARVN PIMP No. Ten dolla. COWBOY Be glad to trade you some ARVN rifles. Never been fired and only dropped once. Laughter and derisive adlibs. ARVN PIMP (angry) Okay, five dolla. You give me. Adlibs. COWBOY Okay, okay! EIGHTBALL, a black grunt, walks up to the girl. EIGHTBALL Let's get mounted. HOOKER (speaks in Vietnamese) ARVN PIMP (argues in Vietnamese) EIGHTBALL Something wrong there, chief? ARVN PIMP She says, uh, no boom-boom with soul brotha. EIGHTBALL Hey, what the mother fuck? ARVN PIMP She say soul brotha too boo-coo. Too boo-coo. EIGHTBALL Hey, what is this, man? COWBOY (breaiting up) I think what he's trying to tell you is that you black boys pack too much meat. Laughter. ARVN PIMP Too boo-coo. Too boo-coo. EIGHTBALL Oh, shi-i-i-t! (laughs) This baby-san looks like she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. Laughter. ARVN PIMP She say too boo-coo. Too boo-coo. EIGHTBALL Uh, excuse me, ma'am. Now what we have here, little yellow sister, is a magnificent... (takes out his dick) . . specimen of pure Alabama blacksnake. But it ain't too goddamn boo-coo. The girl looks at it. Hoots and catcalls. TEENAGE HOOKER Okay. Okay. Emjee. More hoots. COWBOY (mimicking Vietnamese word) Okay! Okay! Emjee! Emjee! Adlibs of "Emjee." EIGHTBALL starts to lead her away. EIGHTBALL All right! This is my boogie! COWBOY Hey, we need a batting order. ANIMAL MOTHER grabs the girl's arm, EIGHTBALL holds on to the other one. ANIMAL MOTHER I'm going first. EIGHTBALL Hey, now back off, white bread. Don't get between a dog and his meat. ANIMAL MOTHER slaps EIGHTBALL on the wrist like he's a naughty boy and pushes the girl into the movie theater. ANIMAL MOTHER (jokingly) All fucking niggers must fucking hang. Adlibs of "Fuck you!" and laughter. ANIMAL MOTHER Hey, hey! I won't be long. I'll skip the foreplay.