Hamburger Hill CAST Frantz ---------- DYLAN McDERMOTT Worcester ------- STEVEN WEBER Beletsky -------- TIM QUILL Doc ------------ COURTNEY B. VANCE Languilli -------- ANTHONY BARRILE Lt. Eden -------- TEGAN WEST CREW Director --------- JOHN IRVIN Producers ------- MARCIA NASATIR, JIM CARABATSOS Director of Photography ----- PETER MACDONALD Screenwriter --------- JIM CARABATSOS Original Music ------- PHILIP GLASS LANGUILLI Come on, girl-san. Tell me how you say that one more time. BIENSTOCK Hey, why don't you ask her how to say 'jailbreak'...in Vietnamese? BELETKY Look at him man, who does he think he's kidding over there? BIENSTOCK Hey Languilli, you'd better get your arse back in this truck. Or her father's going to come out and cut your dick off. BELETSKY Who are you kidding man? You wouldn't know what to do with her if you do get her. GIRL You souvenir me this, I tell you. You number one. LANGUILLI Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. WORCESTER Hey troop! Your dick will fall off if you get any closer to that pussy. They'll keep you in the Philippines with the black VD. You'll never get home. Get your arse back on that truck! WORCESTER How you doing, Frants? I thought you bought a water buffalo and your own rice paddy to shit in. Where the hell have you been, young stuff? FRANTZ I met a nurse. WORCESTER Yeah. FRANTZ Round-eye. WORCESTER You didn't? FRANTZ She had her own trailer on the beach. WORCESTER Oh, no. FRANTZ I figured 'what can they do to me?' Send me to Vietnam? I moved in with her. SORCESTER A round-eye? FRANTZ There it is. The Mama's and Papa's found me on the beach. WORCESTER Surfing? What the hell are you wearing the that shit for? It's gonna dehydrate your arse and not do you any good. BELETSKY But, Sarge, they told us at Division training we had to wear... WORCESTER We had a...we had a short time at once. Johnny, I forget his name...he wore a flack jacket, two helmets...and armour underwear. Ashau Valley. If your time's up, your time's up. BELETSKY What's the Anshaw Valley? Gls Goddamn, look at this! WORECESTER I'm going to put the new guys in your squad. FRANTZ Oh shit! WORCESTER Hey, don't 'oh shit' me, troop. The old man has me breaking-in another new Lieutenant. He looks like Palmolive-fucking-soap. FRANTZ Yeah, well I don't need this f-n-g shit, Worcester. WORCESTER Yeah, well write you Congressman and you can tell him I need a steak...a bucket of cold beer and a round-eye to wrap my leg around. Lieutenant Eden. LT.EDEN Sargeant. How are you? GAIGIN Watch yer backs. Come on this isn't a parking lot for Christ's sake. Gls Come on Gaigin. GAIGIN Here you go. GALVAN That all you got? BELETSKY What did they say that signal for incoming rounds was? BIENSTOCK Hey man, I can't tell the difference between incoming and outgoing. I dove off the shitter up at Evans and it was our stuff going out. BELETSKY I think it's two long sirens. GALVAN Don't worry about it. BELETSKY Hey man, I'm not worrying about it. I just think that it's important to know the signals for incoming rounds, all right? LANGUILLI Don't worry nobody's getting in here tonight. BELETSKY What's the signal for ground attack? BIENSTOCK Three short ones. GALVAN Green star cluster. BIENSTOCK Did you know that bird shit and paratroopers are the only things that fall out of the sky? LANGUILLI Sarge. Are there any women here? BELETSKY Hey, I'm not screwing any whore. WASHBUTN Shit! BIENSTOCK What man, you'd eat her pussy. WASHBURN Hey man, if you can't try it, I don't eat it. BIENSTOCK A year is a long time, fellers. BELETSKY That's Clare. LANGUILLI If she's fucking for peace man, I'm on the wrong side. Gls A fight. GALVAN Stop it, back off. Cool it. BELETSKY I'm marrying her, man. LANGUILLI I meant nothing by it. GALVAN Beletsky. Languilli. Shake hands, Man. We're airborne. We don't start fights. We finish'em. LANGUILLI Vincent Languilli. BELETSKY Joseph Beletsky. DOC Brother blood. FRANTZ How's it going, Doc? DOC By hand, brother. MCDANIEL How're doing man? Buzz around camp is...Doc's just got back from R and R. FRANTZ And you're going to tell me all the horny, jacking off details. DOC Bangkok is not believable man. FRANTZ What happened after I got Med Evac-ed" MOTOWN Charley had the shit together. You hear me? FRANTZ Speedy. DOC Who? FRANTZ The shit burner from second squad. DOC Traumatic cranial contusion. I couldn't ventilate him. MCDANIEL Brother Jones got blown to shit. FRANTZ Who's Jones? DOC The FNG man. MOTOWN He knew everything the Temptations ever did. Make sure we got some brothers in the squad. I don't want to hear no more of that rebel. I lost my car on the mother fucking road. MOTOWN AND MCDANIEL And I'm crying over you. MCDANIEL Hey Sarge, Sarge. Look a minute. I've got a flash for you. Some brother I was hanging out with over at Delta camp. Drives iron raven. Don't shit me, Sarge. Rumor has it we're going back into the Ashau. Shit. Come on Sarge, man you know I'm too short for that shit. The Doc ain't gonna give me a profile. Why don't you see if there's a job for me over at headquarters. DOC They don't take niggers back at headquarters, brother. All the white mother fuckers are back there. FRANTZ All right, listen up. You people are not dying on me in combat. You fucking, new guys will do everything to prove me wrong. You'll walk on trails, kick cans...sleep on guard, smoke dope and diddely-bop...through the bush like you were back on the block. On guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ...and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Some hair head has her on her right now...and is telling her to fuck for peace. This is Han. Those of you who are foolish will think of him as...gook, slope, slant or dink. He is your enemy. He came over on the Chieu Hoi programme. And he will go back there after he fattens on C- rations. And he will be hunting your young arses in the Ashau Valley. Now forget about this Viet Cong shit. What you'll encounter out there is... hard core NVA, north Vietnamese...motivated, highly trained and well equipped. If you meet Han or his cousins, you will give him respect. And refer to those little bastards as the Nathanial Victor. People, I am tired...of filling body bags with your dumb fucking mistakes. Do you think this funny? Alphabet. LANGUILLI Languilli. FRANTZ Han is closing in on your position. It's night, look at me. I'm gonna save your life and your gonna save mine. It's night, it's raining. While your thinking about peace, love and whether or not we should be in Vietnam...Han is going to cut your fucking throat. And your sleeping. GALVAN No Sergeant. FRANTZ You've been humping the boonies for months. Your turn to sleep, your allowed to sleep. What do you think Han is going to do? Is he going to wake up Alphabet and smile? And talk about women? Mister Nathanial Victor gets his rocks off watching you die. Some of you think you have problems because your against the war. You demonstrated in school...you wear peace symbols on your steel. And you have attitudes. I'm orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister. Mum drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, emersion foot...the incurable crud and the draught ruined my chances of being a brain surgeon. People. You have no problem. Except me. And him. MOTOWN I smile at my Mamma. Great meal, Ma. Would you please pass the fucking potatoes. The ham is fucking A, Ma. You don't know how...how fucking great it is to be home. How you going to act, huh? MCDANIEL You really want to know, Motown? I'm going to walk down Central Avenue. My jump boots, my medals. Shit man it's going to be all right. BELETSKY You'd better not wear your uniform DOC Who's talking to you? This man...had been fighting for the fucking United States of white America. And you going to try to advise him...that he can't wear his jump boots. You guys...don't know shit. FRANTZ Who is it? DOC How the hell do I know. He's got no goddamn head. It's one of the new guys. You got to tell these men to put an extra set of I.D. tags on their boots. One each, then this kind of shit wouldn't happen. How the hell am I supposed to identify these people. FRANTZ Now you take it easy Doc. DOC I'll take it any way I can. I've got to know who you are. LANGUILLI We did good today, didn't we? We got our cherries busted today, didn't we Sarge? FRANTZ One of my people got killed. That's all that happened today. DOC You knew that man wasn't going to slack off because he was short. You knew that brother was going do his job. FRANTZ Then why didn't you put him on profile. DOC Because...he is one healthy individual. I've got people in this fucking platoon who are so sick they wouldn't be allowed in the hospital. But out here they have to ruck up, move out and press on. MOTOWN It don't mean nothing, man. It don't mean nothing...Come on, man...You owe it to yourself. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing man. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing. It don't mean nothing. Not a thing. DOC It don't mean nothing. Not a thing. DOC&MOTOWN It don't mean nothing. Not a thing. WASHBURN Right. DOC,MOTOWN&WASHBURN You don't mean nothing-not a thing. WORCESTER Battalion wants us to go back to where Frantz made contact today. They say there are some stragglers left on this area Hill 937. FRANTZ Those KIA's were clean and well equipped. They weren't stragglers. LT. EDEN Military Intelligence says there is no organized... FRANTZ Military Intelligence could fuck up a wet dream , sir. WORCESTER All right man, let's call it. All right? We're on the same side here, right? Tomorrow morning we'll just get our people quietly off this hill. Tomorrow we'll recon 937, call in a log bird for hot chow and clean socks. Isn't that right, Lieutenant? Lt.EDEN Roger that. FRANTZ Push in on the bullshit net. BELETSKY What's the bullshit net? MURPHY Hanoi Hanna. Best sounds in the valley. And boy does she have a rap. We love you too much...drop your weapons and Uncle Ho will give you a water buffalo...your own rice paddy to shit in. Sometimes they get American arseholes...to tell us what arseholes we are. No lie, man. It's a trip. HANOI HANNA American soldiers...and marines embrace the heroic people of Vietnam...like many of your heroic countrymen...why fight the heroic people's army...while your own Government betrays you...and the heroic American friends of Vietnam... FRANTZ If you have to smoke it at night put a poncho over your head. HANOI HANNA ...and I would like to send this special dedication...to the Screaming Eagles in the Ashau Valley. You may be killed anytime day or night...like your shadow, death is following you...everywhere. FRANTZ All right, on your feet, wake up...it's time to earn your combat pay. DUFFY Come on. BELETSKY I thought we were pulling off this hill today. MOTOWN Don't think. BELETSKY Hey Motown, fuck you! GAIGIN I need some goddamn boots, Sarge. WASHBURN My whole fucking body hurts. BIENSTOCK My dick hurts! FRANTZ Then drop ten and beat it. I don't want to hear anymore of this shit. Now you get your head out of your arses...Black Jack wants us to take this hill. DOC What's he going to do with it? PRANTZ Pave it and turn it into a goddamn parking lot. Now move out. MOTOWN You put the tape in there...and you press that button. MOTOWN Just don't use all my juice. LANGUILLI Now that's immoral, unjust and illegal. Get this Beenie. BIENSTOCK What? Oh my God they're huge. LANGUILLI She likes to lie naked on the beach. And have her boyfriend read the profit to her. BIENSTOCK Oh yeah, he's probably a long haired, foureyed faggot. CLARE I just don't know what to say. I-I don't know what time it is where you are. LANGUILLI I'd like to wrap his long hair around my body...while he makes love to me all night long. CLARE I had dinner with your Mum and Dad. We read all your letters and looked at the pictures you sent. LANGUILLI She became his love prisoner. She would do anything for him. BIENSTOCK Jesus Christ, I'm never going to get another haircut as long as I fucking live. CLARE If you can...Joe. Try to smile more in the pictures. It would help your Mother. Your dad Katherine says...he gets up early every morning and...watches the news. And he eats his dinner in front of the TV...at night. I think he's looking for you. I'm glad you have such good friends like...like Bienstock and Langarelli. LANGUILLI Languilli. CLARE Galvan and Frantz. I, I want you to know one thing...I'll always be true to you. I'll wait there and...if you can't be true...if you can't wait...I'll understand. I know you love me. LANGUILLI I love this woman, she's telling him to get laid. CLARE I wish you weren't there. I wish none of you were there. But I'm proud of you Joe. I, I, I just don't think it's fair...that everybody is back here...acting...acting like nothing is going on. Their lives are the same. It's just not fair. And I don't believe what they say about you. Anyhow. I don't care because I love all of you. Especially you, my darling. Especially you... MOTOWN Take it easy with that. BELETSKY It's the goddamn nigger music you listen to. LANGUILLI All right, come on. Break it up. FRANTZ Alphabet, put shovel down. Now what's happening here? BELETSKY Wars happening. FORD Okay, let's get ready, let's take this squad. Teddy Ford. May 17. How long have you been on this hill, soldier? BIENSTOCK What? FORD Hey brother, how many times have you been up and down this hill? MOTOWN What are you doing here? FORD It's my job. MOTOWN Bullshit. DOC We've been up and down this hill...nine fucking times. FORD Hey, word down at Division is you guys can't take this hill. What do you have to say about that? In fact Senator Kennedy says you guys don't have a chance at all. FRANTZ You really like this shit, don't you? It's your job. A story. You're waiting here like a fucking vulture. Watching for somebody to die, so you can take a picture. FORD It's my job. FRANTZ I've got more respect for those little bastards up there. At least they take a side. You just take pictures. You probably don't even do your own fucking. No one ask my AO. FORD What? FRANTZ You listen to me. We're gonna take this fucking hill, Newman. I see you on the top taking pictures of any of my people...I will blow your fucking head off. Now you haven't earned the right to be here. Do you understand that? BIENSTOCK I should have gone to Canada. LANGUILLI All they got is Eskimo's up there, Beenie. DOC The smart white people go to college. BELETSKY Not me. I'm going my two years, getting married. And forgetting all about this shit. FRANTZ Never happen. DOC You people must be aware...that the brothers...are here. Because they cannot afford an education. BELETSKY What am I doing? Sitting in some...fucking country club sipping on seven and sevens...and eating a steak. Take a look around I see all kinds of white faces here. DOC Okay. The war started for you...when you farted...and said good morning Vietnam. See now I was born into this shit. BELETSKY And they pulled the gold fucking spoon...out of mouth so I could come here. And see how you low class eleven boos live. Is that it? LANGUILLI Hey, how'd you get here, Sarge? BIENSTOCK Oh, the Sarge...the Sarge volunteered for this shit. FRANTZ No man. I was drafted, sworn in...and had my haircut before I was sober. The only reason I went airborne is Collins. Gls Who the fuck is Collins? FRANTZ We volunteered for the reality of it. Don't you think I chased woman and good time...before I got into the green machine. We got our orders from the big puddle. Collins says...he's not going. And this one strac. BELETSKY You got to respect that. FRANTZ No way. If you don't want to pull on the little people. No sweat. Don't use your weapon. All I want from anybody is...to get their arse in the grass with the rest of us. You don't have to like it. But you have to show up. Gls No FNG's, no war. LANGUILLI There it is. FRANTZ All right, let's you straight. You've got a good one man. You're going home. DOC See you at home. He's all right blood. I don't feel a thing. I am beaucoup doped up. FRANTZ Now, come on now. You owe this to yourself, all right? DOC Black Jack...won't be happy...'til he gets all my people...killed. MOTOWN Hey, how are you going to act man, how are you going to act? You're going back to the real world. FRANTZ Now come on, you stop that shit. DOC I'm not omitting you, blood. We're all no good...dumb niggers on this hill. Blood. And soul. Types. But we are going to fool them this time, aren't we? FRANTZ Fucking A man. Fucking A. DOC We've been up that hill...ten times...and they still don't think we're serious. Who are we? BELETSKY Hey Doc, come on. DOC Come on. Who are we? MOTOWN A hundred and first. FRANTZ Screaming Eagles, man. DOC Fucking buzzards. Take the hill. And those bastards back in the world...can never take that from me. FRANTZ Hold on man. Hold on man. MOTOWN Now you hold on there, Doc. Hold on now. BELETSKY We gotta get out of here. Sergeant. Sergeant, we've got to get the fuck out of here. Sergeant. Ruck up. Sergeant. Ruck up, Sergeant. Ruck up, Sergeant. FRANTZ It don't mean nothing. BELETSKY Keep up. Keep up, we're going to take these gook fucks. LANGUILLI Let's go, let's go, let's go, man...