I often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead?...
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Clive Candy:
I often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead? Does my knowledge count for nothing, eh? Experience? Skill? You tell me!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive. The enemy is different, so you have to be different, too.
Clive Candy:
Are you mad? I know what war is!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
I don't agree.
Clive Candy:
You...!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. You commented on Nazi methods--foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots--by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.
Clive Candy:
So I would!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods *but* Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They'll think you're weak, decadent! I thought so myself in 1919!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
[he pats Clive's shoulder]
You mustn't mind me, an old alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten - and is now immune.
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Nor am l. Just starting.
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I've often thought, a fellow like me dies -
special knowledge - awful waste.
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Well, am I dead?
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Does my knowledge count for nothing?
Experience, skill?
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You tell me.
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It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive.
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The enemy's different,
so you have to be different too.
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Are you mad? I know what war is.
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- I don't agree.
- You...
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I read your broadcast up to the point
where you described the collapse of France.
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You commented on Nazi methods -
foul fighting, bombing refugees,
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machine-gunning hospitals,
lifeboats, bailed-out pilots and so on -
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by saying that you despised them,
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that you would be ashamed to fight on their side
and that you'd sooner accept defeat than victory
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if it could only be won by those methods.
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So I would.
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Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them
just because you are too fair to hit back
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the same way they hit at you,
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there won't be any methods but Nazi methods.
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If you preach the rules of the game while they
use every foul and filthy trick against you,
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they'll laugh at you.
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They'll think you are weak, decadent.
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I thought so myself in 1 91 9.
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I heard all that in the last war.
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They fought foul then
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and who won it?
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I don't think you won it.
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We lost it, but you lost something too.
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You forgot to learn the moral.
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Because victory was yours,
you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago.
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And now you have to pay the school fees again.
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Some of you will learn quicker
than the others. Some will never learn it.
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Because you've been educated to be a
gentleman and a sportsman in peace and in war.
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But, Clive...
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..dear old Clive...
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..this is not a gentleman's war.
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This time you are fighting for your very existence,
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against the most devilish idea
ever created by a human brain.
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Nazism.
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And if you lose...
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..there won't be a return match next year.
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Perhaps not even for a hundred years.
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Oh, you...
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you mustn't mind me, an alien, saying all this.
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But who can describe hydrophobia better
than one who's been bitten...
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..and is now immune?
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Well, you see, Angela,
even one's best friend lets one down.
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I don't think so, sir.
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You too, eh?
Kick a fellow when he's down, what?
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Nobody would ever kick you, sir.
You've just got to change over, that's all.
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Change over? To what?
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Well, a new job. It's easy enough for a man.
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You think so, eh? Swap horses in midstream.
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A lot of people have had to do it in this war, sir.
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- It's better than drowning.
- Bravo, Angela. I shall call you Johnny in future.
Clip duration: 214 seconds
Views: 266
Timestamp in movie: 02h 18m 17s
Uploaded: 07 October, 2021
Genres: drama, romance, war
Summary: From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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