• 4 months ago
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00:00This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
00:04Do you like me to suggest what you can do with that promotion?
00:31Colonel Dax, you will apologize at once or I shall be placed under arrest.
00:37I apologize for not being entirely honest with you.
00:41I apologize for not revealing my true feelings.
00:45I apologize, sir, for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate,
00:48sadistic old man, and you can go to hell before I apologize to you now or ever again.
00:53Since the publication of the book 25 years ago, no one dared to make this movie.
01:04It was too shocking, too frank.
01:06What sort of casualties do you anticipate, sir?
01:09Let's say 5% killed by our own barrage.
01:12It's a very generous allowance.
01:1410% more getting through no man's land and 20% more getting through the wire.
01:19That leaves 65% for the worst part of the job over.
01:23Let's say another 25% in actually taking the anthill.
01:27We're still left with a force more than adequate to hold it.
01:30General, you're saying that more than half my men will be killed.
01:33Aside from the inescapable fact that a good medieval man never left the trenches,
01:36there's the question of the troops' morale.
01:37Don't forget that.
01:39The troops' morale.
01:40Certainly.
01:40These executions will be a predictonic for the entire division.
01:43There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
01:52Where in heaven's name are they?
01:58On the left.
01:59Where are the rest?
02:00Zero plus one and they're still in the trenches.
02:02They're not advancing.
02:03Miserable cowards.
02:05They're not advancing.
02:06The barrage is getting away from them.
02:07They're still in the trenches.
02:09Yes, sir.
02:13Captain Nichols.
02:14Yes, sir.
02:16Order the 75s to commence firing on our own positions.