The Generation Kill Transcript Project
July 28, 2016 11:30 PM Subscribe
Full transcripts of all seven Generation Kill episodes.
"Goddamn it, Rudy. Go to your little quiet place and chant, motherfucker."
"Goddamn it, Rudy. Go to your little quiet place and chant, motherfucker."
I loved this show way more than I should have, but... Why is this?
posted by ominous_paws at 11:56 PM on July 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ominous_paws at 11:56 PM on July 28, 2016 [1 favorite]
Probably because it has combat jacking, pooping in a hole, Alexander Skarsgård mostly naked, and a "run serpentine" reference.
posted by longbaugh at 12:07 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by longbaugh at 12:07 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
Great show. On my yearly rewatch list.
posted by ST!NG at 1:09 AM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ST!NG at 1:09 AM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
I love how the last episode explains and ties together a lot of the interpersonal dynamics.
posted by flippant at 1:39 AM on July 29, 2016
posted by flippant at 1:39 AM on July 29, 2016
CAN YOU GUYS KEEP IT DOWN I'M HAVING TROUBLE HEARING THE ARTILLERY!?!?
posted by vbfg at 3:15 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by vbfg at 3:15 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
This show is built on the patter, wonderful to have the transcript
posted by eustatic at 5:05 AM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by eustatic at 5:05 AM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
It feels like someone worked really hard on this, but maybe all they needed was a *.sub/*.srt extract from the Blu-Rays.
posted by kuanes at 5:58 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by kuanes at 5:58 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
Maybe this is more suited to AskMefi, but can anyone explain this line:
FICK
[addresses all the men] I only get what's passed down to me from Godfather, and the only word he gets is from the BBC. If we're lucky, Saddam will back down, let the inspectors in, and we can go home. The important thing is, we are doing our jobs by being here. All of you should be proud.
At no point in the run-up to the 2003 war were the inspectors waiting for Saddam to let them in - they were in Iraq the whole time, with access to everywhere, and the fear at the time was that the USA would pull the inspections out and just invade. MoveOn was running an ad campaign "Let the Inspections Work" to build public pressure on the US administration to not block the inspectors.
So my question: Is this dialogue meant to reflect that the marines were mislead/misinformed/confused? Or is it an anachronism - a scriptwriter falling victim to a popular history revisionism that later occurred? Or was it some kind of hinge-on-a-technicality weasel words, eg perhaps the UN inspection team was operating freely Iraq but maybe some American CIA people weren't, and the CIA was the "inspectors" that should be let in? Had the BBC reported falsely? Something else?
(Bush himself also seemed to be believe (to the visible shock of UN Sec Kofi Annan standing right behind him) that Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors in. Were some people just living in a alternate reality?)
posted by anonymisc at 11:23 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
FICK
[addresses all the men] I only get what's passed down to me from Godfather, and the only word he gets is from the BBC. If we're lucky, Saddam will back down, let the inspectors in, and we can go home. The important thing is, we are doing our jobs by being here. All of you should be proud.
At no point in the run-up to the 2003 war were the inspectors waiting for Saddam to let them in - they were in Iraq the whole time, with access to everywhere, and the fear at the time was that the USA would pull the inspections out and just invade. MoveOn was running an ad campaign "Let the Inspections Work" to build public pressure on the US administration to not block the inspectors.
So my question: Is this dialogue meant to reflect that the marines were mislead/misinformed/confused? Or is it an anachronism - a scriptwriter falling victim to a popular history revisionism that later occurred? Or was it some kind of hinge-on-a-technicality weasel words, eg perhaps the UN inspection team was operating freely Iraq but maybe some American CIA people weren't, and the CIA was the "inspectors" that should be let in? Had the BBC reported falsely? Something else?
(Bush himself also seemed to be believe (to the visible shock of UN Sec Kofi Annan standing right behind him) that Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors in. Were some people just living in a alternate reality?)
posted by anonymisc at 11:23 AM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
So my question: Is this dialogue meant to reflect that the marines were mislead/misinformed/confused?
yeah, i think it's this. iirc he later wrote something about that in his book One Bullet Away.
posted by poffin boffin at 3:42 PM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
yeah, i think it's this. iirc he later wrote something about that in his book One Bullet Away.
posted by poffin boffin at 3:42 PM on July 29, 2016 [1 favorite]
altho i 100% admit i might instead be recalling a fanfic
posted by poffin boffin at 3:42 PM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 3:42 PM on July 29, 2016 [2 favorites]
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