You don't understand our mentality - the French officer mentality. At first, we lose in...
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Hubert:
[rebuffing Willard's inquiry as to when his family might return home to France]
You don't understand our mentality - the French officer mentality. At first, we lose in Second World War. I don't say that you Americans win, but we lose. In Dien Bien Phu, we lose. In Algeria, we lose. In Indochina, we lose! But here, we don't lose! This piece of earth, we keep it. We will never lose it, never!
Gaston de Marais:
You Americans. In 1945, yeah, after the Japanese war, your president Roosevelt didn't want the French people to stay in Indochina. So, you Americans implant the Vietnam.
Willard:
[to Hubert]
What's he mean?
Hubert:
Yeah, that's true. The Vietcong were invented by the Americans, sir.
Willard:
The Americans?
Gaston de Marais:
And now you take the French place. And the Vietnam fight you. And what can you do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Hubert:
The Vietnamese are very intelligent. You never know what they think. The Russian ones who help them, "come and give us their money. We are all Communists. Chinese give us guns. We are all brothers."... They hate the Chinese! Maybe they hate the American less than the Russian and the Chinese. I mean, if tomorrow the Vietnamese are Communists they will be *Vietnamese* Communists. And this is something you never understood, you American.
Gaston de Marais:
I don't know. Maybe in the future we can make something with the Vietnam.
Philippe de Marais:
Don't you understand? The VC say, "go away, go away". That's finish for all the white people in Indochina. If you're French, American, that's all the same. "Go." They want to forget you. Look, Captain. Look, this is the truth. An egg.
[cracks it, draining the egg white]
Philippe de Marais:
The white left, but the yellow stays.
[stomps off]
Transcript
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You don't understand our mentality the French Officer mentality
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At first we lose in Second World War
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I don't say that you Americans win but we lose
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In Dien Bien Phu we lose In Nigeria we lose
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In Indochina we lose
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But here we don't lose
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This piece of earth we keep it We will never lose that never
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The Americans
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 251
Timestamp in movie: 02h 05m 30s
Uploaded: 20 February, 2022
Genres: drama, mystery, war
Summary: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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00:10 Captain
00:30 Why don't you Americans learn from us From our mistakes
00:06 He likes you 'cause you're still alive He's...
00:06 There's mines over there and mines over there too
00:08 The crew were mostly just kids
00:05 This sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle of this...
00:33 He can be terrible he can be mean and he can be right
00:06 What do you know about surfing Major You're from...
00:30 Why Why would a nice guy like you wanna kill a genius
00:24 Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would...
00:05 The war will be still here tomorrow
00:35 Then I was supposed to go to Paris study at the Escoffier...
00:07 No Then you're like us
00:04 Don't look at the camera Just keep Go on Keep going
00:11 Captain I don't know how you feel about this shrimp
00:10 As long as cold beer hot food rock 'n' roll
00:04 Run Charlie
00:04 A spear
00:16 Well he wasn't a bad officer I guess
00:07 God damn it you stepped in my face We thought you were dead