From Here to Eternity Page #3
Warden swings his chair around, absorbs himself in work at
his desk as if the Prew situation is too absurd to concern
himself with. Holmes speaks blandly, winningly.
HOLMES:
I've got a mighty sour Company
Bugler here... but I suppose you
wouldn't want that job.
PREY:
No, air.
HOLMES:
(smiles)
Well, we'll get your stripes back
for you, maybe an extra one for
good measure. You know why you were
sent over here when you requested
transfer?
PREW:
No, sir.
HOLDS:
I pulled a few strings. I'm the
Regimental Boxing Coach, Prewitt. I
saw your fight with Connors in the
Bowl year before last. With any
luck you should have won it. I
thought for a while, in the second
round, you were going to knock him
out.
PREW:
(tense)
Thank you, sir.
8.
HOLMES:
(bitterly)
My Regiment got beaten last year in
the finals, as you know.
(savage insistence)
But I mean to win this year. And I
will. All I've needed was a top
middleweight.
(waves at pictures)
Next year I'll hang your picture up
there with the others, my boy.
PREW:
I'm sorry, air. But I quit
fighting.
HOLMES.
Quit fighting? When? What for?
PREW:
I just stopped, sir... After --
happened...
HOLMEB:
You mean that fallow you hurt --
the one that went blind?
CLOSE SHOT PREW:
Prew's lips are drawn tight. He nods almost imperceptibly.
MEDIUM SHOT:
During this shot Maggio can be seen in b.g. through door to
Orderly Room. He pretends to be sweeping, but stops now and
then to listen.
HOLMES:
Yes, it's too bad about that. I can
understand how you feel. But those
things happen in this game. A man
has got to accept that possibility
when he fights.
PREW:
That's why I decided I would quit,
sir.
HOLMES:
(less warmly)
But on the other hand, look at
(MORE)
9.
HOLMES(cont'd)
it this way. What if all fighters
felt like that?
PREW:
They don't.
HOLMES:
Would you have us disband our
fighting program because one man
got hurt?
PREW:
No, sir. I dint say -
HOLMES:
You might as well say stop war
because one man got killed. Our
fighting program is the best morale
builder we have off here away from
home.
PREW:
I don't want it disbanded, sir.
(doggedly)
But I don't see why any man should
HOLMES:
It looks to me like you're trying
to acquire a reputation as a lone
wolf, Prewitt. You should know that
in the Army it's not the individual
that counts. If a man wants to get
ahead he has certain
responsibilities to fulfill that go
beyond the regulations. It might
look as though I were a free agent,
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