Patrick Swayze 1952-2009
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The year: 1984.
The movie: Red Dawn.
The scene: Right after the commies parachute in to capture the strategically important high school of Calumet. Matt Eckert is played by Charlie Sheen and Jed Eckert is played by the incomparable Patrick Swayze:
Matt Eckert: [after their flight from Calumet, Jed is fixing the radiator on his pickup-truck] Did you get it?
Jed Eckert: Yeah, I got it. Only thing is, we got one problem: we don't have any water.
Matt Eckert: How about pissing in it?
Jed Eckert: That's a good idea. Get up here. [laughs]
Danny: How do you know it'll work?
Jed Eckert: How old are you, kid?
Danny: Fifteen. And the name's Danny, not "kid."
Jed Eckert: Well, when you grow up... then you'll know these things, Danny. Now get up here and piss in the radiator.
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1 comments:
It was in 1984, seeing Red Dawn in a Jacksonville theater, that I first knew that we had already won the Cold War.
I and my fellow moviegoers had walked into the theater as twenty- and thirty-something liberals. We left feeling like Wolverines.
I thought then it must have been something like the mood our parents' generation felt, in 1942, seeing 'Casablanca'. Different conflict. Same sense of inevitable victory at the other end of the tunnel.
Hollywood knows what it's doing.
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