Fri Nov 20 20:06:29 EST 2009
Taken from the script the movie Gettysburg. For some reason, this script came to me as I considered the possible end of the modern movement to reduce carbon emissions. Yeah, that thing.
You know what's happening here
in the morning?
Sir?
The whole damn rebel army
is gonna be here.
They'll move through this town,
occupy the hills on the other side.
When our people arrive, Lee'll have
high ground. There'll be the devil to pay.
The high ground!
Meade will come in slowly, cautiously,
new to command.
They'll be on his back from Washington.
Wires hot with messages. Attack! Attack!
So he will set up a ring around these hills.
And when Lee's army is nicely entrenched
behind fat rocks on the high ground...
Meade will finally attack,
if he can coordinate the army.
Straight up the hillside, out in the open...
in that gorgeous field of fire.
We will charge valiantly
and be butchered valiantly.
And afterward, men in tall hats and
gold watch fobs will thump their chest...
and say what a brave charge it was.
Devin, I've led a soldier's life...
and I've never seen anything
as brutally clear as this.
It's as if I can actually see the blue troops
in one long bloody moment...
going up the long slope to the stony top...
as if it were already done...
and already a memory.
An odd, set...
stony quality to it.
As if tomorrow has already happened
and there's nothing you can do about it.
The way you sometimes feel
before an ill-considered attack...
knowing it will fail...
but you cannot stop it.
You must even take part and help it fail.
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