
Catch-22
- R
- Year:
- 1970
- 122 min
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What about the others?
I'd be playing a dirty trick on them.
They'll be happier when you're gone.
They have a war to win.
Well, what the hell.
If they don't want any more missions,
let them stand up and say so.
- Precisely.
- Exactly.
Help! Help!
Help him!
- What?
- Help him! Help him!
- Help who?
- Help the bombardier!
- I'm the bombardier, I'm all right.
- Then help him. Help him!
- Snowden.
- What'd he say?
- He said, "Snowden".
- Snowden's dead.
- Why is he talking to a dead man?
- He's Captain Yossarian. He's crazy.
- Who says so?
- I do.
- Cos I hate that son of a bitch?
- Who?
- Colonel Cathcart.
- I didn't ask you, Orr.
- Colonel Cathcart isn't here.
- Who said anything about him?
- Colonel Korn isn't here.
- Who said anything about him?
- What son of a bitch do you hate?
- What son of a bitch is here?
- You don't make any sense.
- You've got a persecution complex.
- Damn right.
- You admit it!
By them!
- Who specifically is "them"?
- All of them! Who do you think?
- No idea!
- Then how do you know they aren't?
- That's sheer what-do-you-call-it.
- Sophistry.
Like hell it is.
They're trying to kill me!
No one's trying to kill you.
Eat your dessert like a good boy.
- Then why are they shooting at me?
- They're shooting at everyone.
- What difference does that make?
- Suppose everyone thought like you?
- I'd be a fool to think different.
- You need your head examined.
There's nothing wrong with it.
- Look at it once, will you?
- Yossarian, your head is OK.
Please, don't do that.
- Doc?
- What?
- I want you to ground me.
- Don't start that again.
Doc, I don't want to fly any more.
It's dangerous.
Listen, I told you...
Let's get out of here.
I've flown 35 missions. Now that nut
In any other outfit I would've been
rotated after 25. Help me out.
I'm due for rotation myself
in a couple of months,
if I don't cause trouble
or break any rules.
One of the rules says I can't ground
anyone just because he asks me to.
Can you ground someone who's crazy?
Of course. The rules say
I have to ground anyone who's crazy.
I'm crazy! Ask anybody.
Ask Nately, Dobbs, McWatt...
- Orr, tell him!
- Tell him what?
- Am I crazy?
- He's crazy. He won't fly with me.
I'd take good care of him
but he won't. He's crazy, all right.
- See that? They all say I'm crazy.
- They're crazy.
- Ground them.
- Why don't they ask me to?
- Because they're crazy!
- Of course they're crazy.
You can't let crazy people decide
whether you're crazy or not.
- Is Orr crazy?
- Of course he is.
He has to be, if he keeps flying
- Then why not ground him?
- He has to ask me.
- That's all he's gotta do?
- Yes.
- And then you can ground him?
- No. Then I cannot ground him.
- There's a catch.
- A catch?
Sure, Catch-22. Anyone who wants
to get out of combat
isn't really crazy,
so I can't ground him.
Let me see if I got this straight.
In order to be grounded,
I've got to be crazy
and I must be crazy to keep flying.
But if I ask to be grounded,
that means I'm not crazy any more
- and I have to keep flying.
- You've got it! That's Catch-22.
- That's some catch, that Catch-22.
- It's the best there is!
Good afternoon, this is Major Danby,
your Flight Operations Officer,
welcoming you to today's mission.
You've all been briefed
on this morning's run,
so I won't go over it again.
There's no sense naming names, since
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