We Were Soldiers Page #2

Synopsis: A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the La Drang valley of Vietnam in 1965. Seen through the eyes of the battalion's commander, Lt. Col. Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson), we see him take command of the battalion and its preparations to go into Vietnam. We also see how the French had, years earlier, been defeated in the same area. The battle was to be the first major engagement between US and NVA forces in Vietnam and showed the use of helicopters as mobility providers and assault support aircraft.
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Director(s): Randall Wallace
Production: Paramount Pictures
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
2002
138 min
$78,064,284
Website
6,748 Views


- Fall in.

- Gimme that bear.

All right.

Ready. Set.

In the name of the Father,

the Son and the Holy Ghost.

Hail Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women...

and blessed is

the fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners--

Cecile, I don't hear you

praying, honey.

I don't wanna be Catholic.

I wanna be a "Nethodist" like Mommy.

You do?

And why is that, honey?

So I can pray whatever I want.

That's a sin.

No, that's not a sin.

God just made you hardheaded.

It's not a sin.

I'll tell you what.

You wanna--

You wanna pray and thank God

for our family?

- Yes, sir.

- That's good. Let's do it.

Hail Mary, full of grace,

the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women...

and blessed is

the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

I can hear you laughing,

you know, even in here.

I'm not laughing,

I'm marveling.

Marveling? At what?

That you can find stubbornness

in your children...

and think it comes

from anybody but you.

- Yeah?

- Mm-hmm.

I'll give you something

to marvel at.

He's a wild man.

- When I pray--

- Mm-hmm.

whatever I want--

I thank God for you.

Beautiful morning,

Sergeant Major.

What are you,

a f***in' weatherman now?

Look what I found

for the new baseball player.

- Sent us another bunch of officers.

- Uh-huh.

Real green.

Gotta train 'em up.

Makes me think

I'm starting a new unit.

They sent new rifles too.

The M-16.

That's supposed to be

a pretty good weapon.

Lots of plastic.

Feels like a BB gun to me.

Believe I'll stick with my pistol.

You think we're gonna get close

enough to the enemy to use that?

What do you think, sir?

A leader must remain

cool and calm.

And second, he must learn

to ignore explosions...

the heat and dust,

the screams of the wounded.

This is normal on a battlefield.

Normal!

Fortran, you need to get a company

over to reinforce the left flank.

- Where is that coming from?

- That's our advisors in Vietnam.

The new radio's picking up

atmospheric bounce.

When Crazy Horse was a baby...

he nursed from the breast

of every woman in the tribe.

The Sioux raised

their children that way.

Every warrior...

called every woman

in the tribe "mother".

Every older warrior,

they called him "grandfather".

Now, the point here is that

they fought as a family.

Take care of your men.

Teach them to take care

of each other.

'Cause when this starts...

each other

is all we're gonna have.

- Did you tune that in?

- Yes, sir.

Well, that's fine.

You're my radio operator.

You'll be fine.

You'll work it out.

Any of you sons of b*tches

calls me Grandpa...

I'll kill ya.

Godboldt, take your boots off.

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Randall Wallace

Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the 1995 film Braveheart. more…

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