Platoon (1986)

Chris Pedersen: Crawford

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• King : [while cleaning the latrines]  I'm too short for this shit, man. 39 and a wake-up, a pause for the cause and I'm a gone motherfucker. Back to the world!

  Crawford : Hey, I broke a hundred the other day, 92 left to go. April 17th, home to California, checkin' out the babes on the beach... the surfin's gonna be good.

  King : March, man, in Tennessee... sniff the pines... sniff that cross-mounted pussy down by the river, hot damn! Hey Taylor, how many days you got left? Three hundred and what?

  Chris Taylor : Thirty two. 332 days.

  Crawford : Shit, I can't even remember when I was 332, man. You gotta like, count backwards or something, you know like you got 40 days in? Think positive, dude.

• King : Hey, Taylor. How in the fuck you get here anyway? Why, you look educated.

  Chris Taylor : I volunteered for it.

  King : You did what?

  Chris Taylor : I volunteered. I dropped out of college, and told them I wanted the infantry, combat, and Vietnam.

  Crawford : You volunteered for this shit, man?

  Chris Taylor : You believe that?

  King : You's a crazy fucker, giving up college.

  Chris Taylor : It didn't make much sense. I wasn't learning anything. I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it?

  King : Oh, I see. What we got here is a crusader.

  Crawford : Sounds like it.

  King : Shit. You gotta be rich in the first place to think like that. Everybody know the poor are always being fucked over by the rich. Always have, always will.

• King : Thirty nine and a wake-up, a pause for the cause, and I'm a gone motherfucker! Back to the world!

  Crawford : I hear you, man. Broke 100 the other day.

  King : No shit.

  Crawford : Ninety-two left to go. April 17, heroes, man. Home to California. I'll be sitting outside, checking out the babes on the beach. The surfing's gonna be good.

  King : March, man, in Tennessee. Sniff the pines, sniff that cross-mounted pussy down by the river. Whoo, hot damn! Hey, Taylor, how long you got left? Three hundred and what?

  Chris Taylor : Thirty-two. Three hundred and thirty-two days.

  King : Xin loi, my boy!

  Crawford : I can't even remember when I was 332, man. You gotta, like, count backwards or something. You know, like, you got 40 days in. I mean, think positive, dude.

• Crawford : [after getting shot]  Kiss my ass. I never thought I'd get hit.

• Crawford : That O'Neill's got his nose so far up Top's ass he's gotta be Pinocchio. Why do WE always get fuckin' ambush?

  Francis : 'Cause it's politics, man, politics.