The Pacific (2010): Season 1, Episode 8 - Iwo Jima - full transcript
Frustrated with his bond selling tour, Basilone goes back to training troops and after marrying a pretty marine sergeant, leads his men at Iwo Jima.
You've gotta take
more salt than this.
You're just depleting yourself, all right?
Are my eyes yellow?
Why would your eyes be yellow?
Come on,
your old man's a doctor.
Look at my eyes.
Give it a rest, snafu.
Seriously.
I'm getting
that yellow jaundice
That's been going around.
I know it.
The heebie-jeebies.
It's hepatitis
and you don't have it.
I'll catch a fever
then turn inside out
Through my asshole
like Carson in love company.
Come on, look at my eyes.
- I'm dying, sledge.
- Hey.
Hey.
Check out my eyes, Jay.
They look yellow?
I just got transferred
out of king.
What?
Where?
Headquarters company.
It'll be all right, Jay.
Shit. You're just
down the road.
Yeah, I'm just down the road.
Least I can do is buy you guys
a drink at the slop shoot.
This is NBC,
The national
broadcasting company.
Carlo works at
a camouflage factory
And Angelo is
a fireman at an army depot
In their home
of Raritan, New Jersey.
Well, you brothers have
a lot to talk over.
What do you say, Carlo?
Well, for one thing, I'd like to
be out there fighting with Johnny,
Instead of making
camouflage paint.
That's where
you're wrong, Carlo.
Some guys have to fight, sure,
But some guys have to give
us the stuff to fight with.
I'll never forget that day
you left for overseas.
Johnny, remember?
All of us kids at mom's house,
And after putting away
all that grub.
Ha-ha, that's right.
You got up to go
And all you said was,
"goodbye, folks.
Be seeing you
in the funnies."
- And that's just what happened.
- Yeah, sure sure.
Go ahead, Johnny. Tell us about the
night you killed all those Japs.
Remember? You were out in the jungle,
standing guard from 8:00 till midnight.
- It was raining.
- It had stopped raining.
My guns began throwing
a lot of stuff
And plenty of stuff
was coming back.
I was in charge of two sections
of heavy machine guns.
While the enemy was hammering
out our defensive positions,
We fought valiantly to check the
savage and determined assault.
- The fierce frontal attack--
- Oh, this is good.
- That's right.
Can I have some more?
Yeah, dad,
I was so nervous.
I've never been more nervous.
Let me tell you.
Hey, sweetheart,
I was good though.
I sounded like
a movie star, right?
I don't know.
I was shaking like a leaf.
Of course, pa. Of course.
Moses said I sounded like a movie star.
That's me, right?
I sound like that too,
pa- the voice of an angel.
Oh, Johnny,
we're so proud of you.
Ma, all I do is dress up
and say what they tell me.
Well, everyone in America
knows the family name
- Because of you, Johnny.
That's right.
I don't want
everyone to know me.
But they do,
Because you're so special.
Hey, I get free drinks
because of my hero brother.
- How about that, huh?
- That's right.
- I love that, Johnny.
- Yeah, me too.
- This looks great, ma.
What's the matter?
It smells good, ma.
Thanks, ma.
- What did I say?
- Mom, he just needs some time.
That's all.
What can I do for you?
Sir, I joined the corps
Because I knew the marines
were gonna be the ones
Who went in first
and the hardest,
And that's how it worked out.
But I've been back
more than a year, sir.
I've done what the corps
asked me to do.
Well, that you have, John.
Well, I see your enlistment's
up in six months.
I'll tell you what-- I'll
push through your discharge,
- Let you go home now.
- No, sir, that's not what I mean.
My home is
the corps.
I just can't push
pencils anymore.
Please, let me go back
and train the new kids,
Let me help them
the way I know how.
Sergeant Basilone,
You make me proud to be a ma.
Thank you, sir.
Sergeant Basilone.
They brought you
back after Guadalcanal?
Yes, sir.
I was at Tarawa.
No war bond drive
for me though.
I guess it's good to have another
combat veteran training.
Where's the rest
of the company?
I'm told they're coming
in three days-- a week.
What would you like to to
do until then, Captain?
Take it easy.
Put your feet up.
Whatever you want.
Company! Fall in
on your racks!
Shit.
- Names. - Tatum, Charles!
Private first class!
Evanson, Steve!
Private first class!
Well, Tatum, Evanson,
Why do I find you in your racks
in the middle of the day?
We've had no orders, sergeant.
So you've been doing what
you've been told to do--
- Nothing.
- Aye, sergeant.
As of now you are
the first machine-gun squad
In b company's weapons platoon.
Fall in for p.T.,
five-mile run.
- Three minutes.
- Aye, sergeant!
that's John Basilone.
Who the hell is John Basilone?
Jesus. Do you live
in a cave?
The guy killed like
1,000 Japs on the canal.
The president gave
him a medal. He's a hero.
Let's go! Let's go!
Move! Move your ass!
You've got to go faster than that!
The Japs are killing your buddies!
Get up that net! Move!
1500 marines waiting
to follow you down that net!
The sea is pitching and rolling.
It's not steady like this.
Now we're doing
the range at 1400.
Go draw your weapons
and stand by to move.
Aye, gunny.
The Jap banzai charge
is right there!
They're coming,
damn it! Hurry!
You drop that gun,
I'll make you carry it
For one solid month.
Teamwork is the key to the
marine corps machine-gun squad!
- Set that pin on the tripod.
- Shit.
Get that gun out of the dirt!
Sorry, gunny.
You drop your rifle in a
firefight, you die, Tatum!
Drop that machine gun,
fumble with a belt,
Your buddies die!
Do you understand?
Aye, gunny.
You cannot fuck this up, ever.
Lives depend on it.
- Is that clear?
- Aye, gunny.
Break it down.
Do it again.
- Hey, Greg?
- How you doing, John?
How's the chow, boys?
- Sorry.
You stupid--
- Good hands! Good hands!
- Lend him a hand.
- Go on, get yourself some more.
- Yes, sergeant.
Come on, move it.
- V.I.P. On deck.
- Who?
That gunny
with the ocean of hair.
It's John Basilone.
Oh, and he looks
even better in person.
Oh, and here he comes.
Can I give you a hand?
We've got it under control.
Are you sure about that?
Do you see these stripes?
I'm an n.C.O.
Just like you.
I have work to do.
- What's her name?
- Sergeant Lena Riggi.
I'm Lucy.
You know, every Friday
Us girls catch
the 6:00 train to L.A.,
Just in case you're interested.
- Sergeant Riggi.
- Yes.
I'm assuming
that's Italian, right?
here it comes.
"I'm Italian.
You're Italian."
Hey, we're both probably
related to Joe DiMaggio.
"Oh. You know, I know where we can
get the best lasagna in the city."
I could go
for some good lasagna.
look.
L.A. Is full of girls for a guy like you.
You'll do fine.
Happy hunting, sergeant.
- Sergeant.
- Gunny.
- If that's all right with you.
- Sergeant Basilone.
- Yeah.
- That's right.
That's-- oh, really?
This is so nice.
I love it here.
To better days.
Hey.
Boy, it's true what
they say about you.
You get shot down,
you keep coming back.
What? Everybody comes
to the Biltmore, don't they?
There's another medal
in your future
- If you can get us a table.
- How long have you been waiting for?
We gave up waiting.
It's like this every liberty.
Well, I'll see what I can do.
And what would that be, exactly?
Making a table appear
out of thin air?
They know me.
- Oh, hey. - Big shot here
thinks he can get us a table.
- I want to make him prove it.
- No.
You go. I'm thinking
of joining the Navy.
Looks like it'll
just be the two of us.
This place is bigger than
the house I grew up in.
Yeah, I never ask for it,
But they always put me up
in the presidential suite.
And I'm supposed
to be impressed?
That's why
you arranged all this?
To impress me before
we get down to business?
Business?
Exploring
the bedsheets together.
No.
Well, that's standard operating
procedure for you, isn't it?
No. Not anymore.
You know, I saw you once
at the brown derby.
Me and the girls were
waiting to get in
When you arrived with one of those
blonde starlets on your arm.
There you went, right to
the front of the line,
And everyone was
saying, "ooh. Ah.
There goes John Basilone,
the hero of Guadalcanal."
I was still there
when out you came,
A brunette starlet
on your arm,
And back into
the same limousine.
And everyone said,
"ooh. Ah.
There goes John Basilone,
"The hero of Guadalcanal."
You ever make it inside?
I had a shrimp cocktail and a coke
just before they closed the joint.
Gunnery sergeant Basilone,
dinner was delicious.
- Thank you.
- You barely touched it.
Did I do something wrong?
This is nothing
but steaks and conversation.
I am now going to Turin.
- Turn in?
- We girls all share a room,
Fight over the bathroom
in the morning.
Tell the chef the Caesar
salad was excellent.
The porterhouse is
a little tough.
Lena,
If I did something stupid, I'm sorry.
You didn't do anything a million
other guys haven't done.
You just did it
in a nicer room.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
Gunnery sergeant
Basilone, sir.
Stand at ease.
I'm lieutenant Sohn.
I'll be replacing
Captain Le Francois,
Who went AWOL while on liberty.
How are the men shaping up?
All two of them?
The rest of the company
comes in today from mainside.
They'll be pretty green, gunny.
Don't worry sir.
I'll take care of that.
Well, you haven't
got much time.
Your enlistment
runs out in... July.
I've been
in eight years--
Four with the doggies,
Four in the corps.
I understand.
Get across that water!
Get up that tower!
- Go! - Get off my wall, marine!
Get off!
One more time!
Up that
cargo net! Now!
Keep moving, boy!
What is this, a mob?!
In formation,
two ranks behind me.
- Oh, come on.
Move your ass!
Let's go.
All right.
- Okay, that's the last of the butter.
- 26 lbs.
Private Dowling, grab a hand truck
and get those sacks of rice.
- Got it?
- Grab those from the bottom.
All perishables go
in the reefer.
All right.
Sergeant Riggi.
Gunny Basilone.
This may not
be appropriate, but--
Hold on.
Just a couple more and we'll
have all this cleared out.
Uh, I would be happy
If you would allow me to take
you out for a proper dinner.
- When?
- Friday night,
A place I know
just off the base--
- A restaurant.
- Clancy's?
- So you know it too.
- Nice place, but no.
Friday's no good for me.
I have orders--
A big banquet for the officers.
- Maybe some other time?
- How about breakfast?
Tomorrow morning.
The k.P. Reports 0530.
I show 0500.
Show up a little earlier,
I'll make you French toast.
Every marine out of those
racks and on my deck!
Get your ass up!
You've got five seconds!
- Five seconds!
Up up!
- Let's go!
- Move your ass!
Get up! Move!
Don't you eyeball me!
You stand at attention!
And how come we're the only
ones running like this?
- Every damn morning.
- To make us the best.
Oh, shut up.
I'm so sick of this shit.
I just want to get
out there and slap a Jap.
What did you say?
I said I want to slap a Jap, gunny.
"slap a Jap"?
Well, how about it, boys?
I bet you all want
to do more than slap a Jap.
Yes, gunny!
"slap a Jap."
That's what the enemy is
to you, huh?
A fucking bucktoothed
cartoon dreamed up
By some asshole on Madison
Avenue to sell soap.
Well, let me
tell you something.
The Jap I know,
The Japanese soldier,
He has been at war
Since you were
in fucking diapers!
He's a combat veteran,
An expert with his weapon.
He can live off of maggoty rice
And muddy water for weeks
and endure misery
You couldn't dream up
in your worst nightmare!
The Japanese soldier doesn't
care if he gets hurt or killed,
As long
as he kills you.
Now you can call them
whatever you want,
But never ever fail
To respect their desire to put you
and buddies into an early grave!
- Is that clear?!
- Yes, gunny!
Why aren't you
in your full packs?
Gear up!
10-mile run
in formation
In two minutes!
You're gonna enjoy this.
Almost ready.
Pretty fancy for 0500.
You strike me
as an Italian mama's boy,
Worshipped and pampered
just like my brothers.
I wanted to make
you feel at home.
Well... I was told
At a very early age
I was the best thing
Since sliced capicola.
And there's enough for seconds.
- You'll want seconds.
- This is good.
when I first got
here, the coffee was dreadful.
How a marine mess can serve
bad coffee is beyond me.
I can't live without it.
The best coffee I ever
had was on Guadalcanal
The morning after the battle.
- I know the story.
- Not this part.
We stole some coffee from the
doggies when they came ashore.
Liberated some hooch
from their officers too.
Anyway, the morning
after the battle,
My guys cooked up the coffee over
a fire of green coconut logs.
There wasn't any part
of me that didn't hurt--
Burns on my hands,
Ears still ringing
from the shelling.
But when they handed me
that cup of coffee,
I never tasted
anything so good.
Not that I don't
appreciate this.
What was the best cup
of coffee you ever had?
My parents were
real traditional.
I was supposed to get married
and give them grandkids.
So when I announced
that I'd joined the marines,
There was a lot
of yelling and crying
And finally my father
just stopped talking to me,
Cut me out of t family.
A year later I got my stripes.
I went home to see my mom, my brothers.
I was sitting in this diner
And my pop walked in,
Sat down beside me.
He ordered two cups of coffee
And he put the milk
and one sugar in for me.
That was the best I ever had.
It's incredible what can
happen over a cup of coffee.
My enlistment's up in July.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
You're gonna take a discharge
and you're gonna go home.
I should be looking
forward to my freedom,
But I can't imagine it.
I love the marines.
You do too.
I love everything about it.
I can't imagine being anywhere
or doing anything else.
- Lena.
- Yeah?
You might hear this
all the time,
But you're the most beautiful
woman I've ever seen.
No.
I don't hear that very often.
Must be the uniform.
I could use a coffee.
- Shh, she's with the movie star.
- Interesting.
- Yeah.
- Look at gunny.
A little early morning.
- Clear!
- Clear.
Tatum, Evanson, set it up.
Two short bursts, 85 rounds.
Ready!
Gun set.
Fire!
That's good.
Nice.
Listen up!
This is a bale.
It'll make it easier to carry
the gun with a hot barrel.
You won't burn
your hands.
Now it's not made for its
stability and accuracy
But if you're in a pinch,
You can shoot
and move with this.
Let me show you.
I couldn't hit the side
of a barn with that thing.
You'd better start practicing.
Yeah.
It's gorgeous.
Come on, let's
go in the water. - No.
- Come on, come on.
- No, I'm not going in that water.
- Come on.
- No way.
- No!
- I'll get you.
I'm not gonna have you drown.
No, put me down.
- Put me down.
- We're going in.
No!
oh, my hat.
My hat.
My--
I'll get it.
John, you're crazy.
Ah!
I got it!
Oh no.
Oh no, you don't.
Don't you dare.
Attention on deck!
Stand easy.
Gentlemen, the 5th division
will ship out very soon
For action in the
Pacific theater of war.
We won't know our destination
until we're well underway.
But wherever we go,
We will see the job through.
- Am I clear?
- Yes, sir!
I have some more good news.
Gunnery sergeant John Basilone
Has decided that home can wait.
He will be joining us.
Carry on, gunny.
Atten-hut!
At ease.
- So is anybody scared?
- No, sir.
- I said is anybody scared?
- No, sergeant!
You lying sacks of shit.
It's good to be scared.
It means you're awake,
You're ready.
Company dismissed.
You ready?
You scared?
- It's not ready yet.
- Oh, okay.
Can I have a
bowl this time?
She's back there. Lena?
- Hey.
- Hey to you.
Out with it.
- Out with what?
- Whatever grim tidings
You men carry around
with you like rock sacks.
I've shipped over.
I've re-enlisted.
I see.
They can ship me out
whenever they want.
So if you're looking
for something else,
Somebody in a different
line of work,
Tell me now.
That sounds like an ultimatum.
- I'm just saying--
- Look.
I'm in for the duration
plus six months.
I know how it goes, sergeant.
So?
Where do we go from here?
Congratulations!
Stay there.
I'm gonna take a photo.
You look so beautiful.
Lucy, let me get a shot.
No, you stay there.
I want to take it.
No, I want a shot of Lena
alone in that dress.
Look here, darling.
Try not to blush.
I feel like a paratrooper.
- I don't know why I wore this dress.
- You look beautiful!
Be-Au-ti-ful!
Okay, John, go pose with your wife.
Let's make it official.
Whoo!
Now kiss her like you mean it.
I can do that!
Don't you touch me.
Hold it.
Wait.
What?
Go stand over there.
Take your clothes off.
What?
Do it.
John, what have we done?
We've gone respectable.
You know...
I woke up one day
And I was 30 years old.
Satisfied.
Then you walk
into my mess hall,
And look at me now.
Just wait and see.
- We're gonna have six kids.
- That's a lot of kids.
You should have
come around 10 years ago.
Little boys for you to pamper,
And little girls
for me to drive crazy.
I'd like that so much.
This is yours now.
I want you to wear it.
- You want some food?
- Dear God, yes.
Let me see
what I can rustle up.
What?
Look at me!
I said look at me!
You want to live?
Get off the beach.
Move!
Help, help me.
help me!
Corpsman!
I need a corpsman!
Move it back.
Get off the beach!
Keep moving.
Keep moving.
Don't stop.
Keep moving!
Get off the beach.
Keep moving.
Off the beach!
Get up!
Move!
- Someone help me!
Help him back.
Off the beach!
Off the beach, get off!
Evanson, Tatum, let's go.
Get the fuck off the beach,
you sons-of-bitches!
Set that fucker up here.
Move!
We gotta kill the bunker.
Get me a rabbit team.
Get your charges ready to move.
Captain, up here!
Aim for the gunport.
Short bursts.
Go go!
Keep firing!
It's jammed.
Pegg!
All right, gunny!
Go, move forward!
Further up!
Here!
Let's go!
Go go go go go!
Fire in the hole!
Let's go, let's go!
- Get in, get it.
- On me!
Flamethrower u
Move!
- Go go.
- Come on.
Tatum!
Take out that machine gun
and set up position!
Tatum, clear
the back line!
Hold your fire.
Go go go!
Stay low, stay low!
- Those are ours!
Tatum, set the gun up there!
They're firing
for the Ridge.
Go go!
Move move move!
Down low.
Steve, Steve, lower!
Do not leave this position
come hell or high water.
- Do you understand?
- Aye, gunny.
You tell that tank
to follow me!
- Aye aye.
- Move!
Let's go!
The rest of you, grab as
much ammo as you can find
- And get off the beach!
- Aye, gunny
We're fucked.
What are we gonna do?
Get that gun over here!
- Move!
- Get down!
Go!
more salt than this.
You're just depleting yourself, all right?
Are my eyes yellow?
Why would your eyes be yellow?
Come on,
your old man's a doctor.
Look at my eyes.
Give it a rest, snafu.
Seriously.
I'm getting
that yellow jaundice
That's been going around.
I know it.
The heebie-jeebies.
It's hepatitis
and you don't have it.
I'll catch a fever
then turn inside out
Through my asshole
like Carson in love company.
Come on, look at my eyes.
- I'm dying, sledge.
- Hey.
Hey.
Check out my eyes, Jay.
They look yellow?
I just got transferred
out of king.
What?
Where?
Headquarters company.
It'll be all right, Jay.
Shit. You're just
down the road.
Yeah, I'm just down the road.
Least I can do is buy you guys
a drink at the slop shoot.
This is NBC,
The national
broadcasting company.
Carlo works at
a camouflage factory
And Angelo is
a fireman at an army depot
In their home
of Raritan, New Jersey.
Well, you brothers have
a lot to talk over.
What do you say, Carlo?
Well, for one thing, I'd like to
be out there fighting with Johnny,
Instead of making
camouflage paint.
That's where
you're wrong, Carlo.
Some guys have to fight, sure,
But some guys have to give
us the stuff to fight with.
I'll never forget that day
you left for overseas.
Johnny, remember?
All of us kids at mom's house,
And after putting away
all that grub.
Ha-ha, that's right.
You got up to go
And all you said was,
"goodbye, folks.
Be seeing you
in the funnies."
- And that's just what happened.
- Yeah, sure sure.
Go ahead, Johnny. Tell us about the
night you killed all those Japs.
Remember? You were out in the jungle,
standing guard from 8:00 till midnight.
- It was raining.
- It had stopped raining.
My guns began throwing
a lot of stuff
And plenty of stuff
was coming back.
I was in charge of two sections
of heavy machine guns.
While the enemy was hammering
out our defensive positions,
We fought valiantly to check the
savage and determined assault.
- The fierce frontal attack--
- Oh, this is good.
- That's right.
Can I have some more?
Yeah, dad,
I was so nervous.
I've never been more nervous.
Let me tell you.
Hey, sweetheart,
I was good though.
I sounded like
a movie star, right?
I don't know.
I was shaking like a leaf.
Of course, pa. Of course.
Moses said I sounded like a movie star.
That's me, right?
I sound like that too,
pa- the voice of an angel.
Oh, Johnny,
we're so proud of you.
Ma, all I do is dress up
and say what they tell me.
Well, everyone in America
knows the family name
- Because of you, Johnny.
That's right.
I don't want
everyone to know me.
But they do,
Because you're so special.
Hey, I get free drinks
because of my hero brother.
- How about that, huh?
- That's right.
- I love that, Johnny.
- Yeah, me too.
- This looks great, ma.
What's the matter?
It smells good, ma.
Thanks, ma.
- What did I say?
- Mom, he just needs some time.
That's all.
What can I do for you?
Sir, I joined the corps
Because I knew the marines
were gonna be the ones
Who went in first
and the hardest,
And that's how it worked out.
But I've been back
more than a year, sir.
I've done what the corps
asked me to do.
Well, that you have, John.
Well, I see your enlistment's
up in six months.
I'll tell you what-- I'll
push through your discharge,
- Let you go home now.
- No, sir, that's not what I mean.
My home is
the corps.
I just can't push
pencils anymore.
Please, let me go back
and train the new kids,
Let me help them
the way I know how.
Sergeant Basilone,
You make me proud to be a ma.
Thank you, sir.
Sergeant Basilone.
They brought you
back after Guadalcanal?
Yes, sir.
I was at Tarawa.
No war bond drive
for me though.
I guess it's good to have another
combat veteran training.
Where's the rest
of the company?
I'm told they're coming
in three days-- a week.
What would you like to to
do until then, Captain?
Take it easy.
Put your feet up.
Whatever you want.
Company! Fall in
on your racks!
Shit.
- Names. - Tatum, Charles!
Private first class!
Evanson, Steve!
Private first class!
Well, Tatum, Evanson,
Why do I find you in your racks
in the middle of the day?
We've had no orders, sergeant.
So you've been doing what
you've been told to do--
- Nothing.
- Aye, sergeant.
As of now you are
the first machine-gun squad
In b company's weapons platoon.
Fall in for p.T.,
five-mile run.
- Three minutes.
- Aye, sergeant!
that's John Basilone.
Who the hell is John Basilone?
Jesus. Do you live
in a cave?
The guy killed like
1,000 Japs on the canal.
The president gave
him a medal. He's a hero.
Let's go! Let's go!
Move! Move your ass!
You've got to go faster than that!
The Japs are killing your buddies!
Get up that net! Move!
1500 marines waiting
to follow you down that net!
The sea is pitching and rolling.
It's not steady like this.
Now we're doing
the range at 1400.
Go draw your weapons
and stand by to move.
Aye, gunny.
The Jap banzai charge
is right there!
They're coming,
damn it! Hurry!
You drop that gun,
I'll make you carry it
For one solid month.
Teamwork is the key to the
marine corps machine-gun squad!
- Set that pin on the tripod.
- Shit.
Get that gun out of the dirt!
Sorry, gunny.
You drop your rifle in a
firefight, you die, Tatum!
Drop that machine gun,
fumble with a belt,
Your buddies die!
Do you understand?
Aye, gunny.
You cannot fuck this up, ever.
Lives depend on it.
- Is that clear?
- Aye, gunny.
Break it down.
Do it again.
- Hey, Greg?
- How you doing, John?
How's the chow, boys?
- Sorry.
You stupid--
- Good hands! Good hands!
- Lend him a hand.
- Go on, get yourself some more.
- Yes, sergeant.
Come on, move it.
- V.I.P. On deck.
- Who?
That gunny
with the ocean of hair.
It's John Basilone.
Oh, and he looks
even better in person.
Oh, and here he comes.
Can I give you a hand?
We've got it under control.
Are you sure about that?
Do you see these stripes?
I'm an n.C.O.
Just like you.
I have work to do.
- What's her name?
- Sergeant Lena Riggi.
I'm Lucy.
You know, every Friday
Us girls catch
the 6:00 train to L.A.,
Just in case you're interested.
- Sergeant Riggi.
- Yes.
I'm assuming
that's Italian, right?
here it comes.
"I'm Italian.
You're Italian."
Hey, we're both probably
related to Joe DiMaggio.
"Oh. You know, I know where we can
get the best lasagna in the city."
I could go
for some good lasagna.
look.
L.A. Is full of girls for a guy like you.
You'll do fine.
Happy hunting, sergeant.
- Sergeant.
- Gunny.
- If that's all right with you.
- Sergeant Basilone.
- Yeah.
- That's right.
That's-- oh, really?
This is so nice.
I love it here.
To better days.
Hey.
Boy, it's true what
they say about you.
You get shot down,
you keep coming back.
What? Everybody comes
to the Biltmore, don't they?
There's another medal
in your future
- If you can get us a table.
- How long have you been waiting for?
We gave up waiting.
It's like this every liberty.
Well, I'll see what I can do.
And what would that be, exactly?
Making a table appear
out of thin air?
They know me.
- Oh, hey. - Big shot here
thinks he can get us a table.
- I want to make him prove it.
- No.
You go. I'm thinking
of joining the Navy.
Looks like it'll
just be the two of us.
This place is bigger than
the house I grew up in.
Yeah, I never ask for it,
But they always put me up
in the presidential suite.
And I'm supposed
to be impressed?
That's why
you arranged all this?
To impress me before
we get down to business?
Business?
Exploring
the bedsheets together.
No.
Well, that's standard operating
procedure for you, isn't it?
No. Not anymore.
You know, I saw you once
at the brown derby.
Me and the girls were
waiting to get in
When you arrived with one of those
blonde starlets on your arm.
There you went, right to
the front of the line,
And everyone was
saying, "ooh. Ah.
There goes John Basilone,
the hero of Guadalcanal."
I was still there
when out you came,
A brunette starlet
on your arm,
And back into
the same limousine.
And everyone said,
"ooh. Ah.
There goes John Basilone,
"The hero of Guadalcanal."
You ever make it inside?
I had a shrimp cocktail and a coke
just before they closed the joint.
Gunnery sergeant Basilone,
dinner was delicious.
- Thank you.
- You barely touched it.
Did I do something wrong?
This is nothing
but steaks and conversation.
I am now going to Turin.
- Turn in?
- We girls all share a room,
Fight over the bathroom
in the morning.
Tell the chef the Caesar
salad was excellent.
The porterhouse is
a little tough.
Lena,
If I did something stupid, I'm sorry.
You didn't do anything a million
other guys haven't done.
You just did it
in a nicer room.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
- Left right left.
Gunnery sergeant
Basilone, sir.
Stand at ease.
I'm lieutenant Sohn.
I'll be replacing
Captain Le Francois,
Who went AWOL while on liberty.
How are the men shaping up?
All two of them?
The rest of the company
comes in today from mainside.
They'll be pretty green, gunny.
Don't worry sir.
I'll take care of that.
Well, you haven't
got much time.
Your enlistment
runs out in... July.
I've been
in eight years--
Four with the doggies,
Four in the corps.
I understand.
Get across that water!
Get up that tower!
- Go! - Get off my wall, marine!
Get off!
One more time!
Up that
cargo net! Now!
Keep moving, boy!
What is this, a mob?!
In formation,
two ranks behind me.
- Oh, come on.
Move your ass!
Let's go.
All right.
- Okay, that's the last of the butter.
- 26 lbs.
Private Dowling, grab a hand truck
and get those sacks of rice.
- Got it?
- Grab those from the bottom.
All perishables go
in the reefer.
All right.
Sergeant Riggi.
Gunny Basilone.
This may not
be appropriate, but--
Hold on.
Just a couple more and we'll
have all this cleared out.
Uh, I would be happy
If you would allow me to take
you out for a proper dinner.
- When?
- Friday night,
A place I know
just off the base--
- A restaurant.
- Clancy's?
- So you know it too.
- Nice place, but no.
Friday's no good for me.
I have orders--
A big banquet for the officers.
- Maybe some other time?
- How about breakfast?
Tomorrow morning.
The k.P. Reports 0530.
I show 0500.
Show up a little earlier,
I'll make you French toast.
Every marine out of those
racks and on my deck!
Get your ass up!
You've got five seconds!
- Five seconds!
Up up!
- Let's go!
- Move your ass!
Get up! Move!
Don't you eyeball me!
You stand at attention!
And how come we're the only
ones running like this?
- Every damn morning.
- To make us the best.
Oh, shut up.
I'm so sick of this shit.
I just want to get
out there and slap a Jap.
What did you say?
I said I want to slap a Jap, gunny.
"slap a Jap"?
Well, how about it, boys?
I bet you all want
to do more than slap a Jap.
Yes, gunny!
"slap a Jap."
That's what the enemy is
to you, huh?
A fucking bucktoothed
cartoon dreamed up
By some asshole on Madison
Avenue to sell soap.
Well, let me
tell you something.
The Jap I know,
The Japanese soldier,
He has been at war
Since you were
in fucking diapers!
He's a combat veteran,
An expert with his weapon.
He can live off of maggoty rice
And muddy water for weeks
and endure misery
You couldn't dream up
in your worst nightmare!
The Japanese soldier doesn't
care if he gets hurt or killed,
As long
as he kills you.
Now you can call them
whatever you want,
But never ever fail
To respect their desire to put you
and buddies into an early grave!
- Is that clear?!
- Yes, gunny!
Why aren't you
in your full packs?
Gear up!
10-mile run
in formation
In two minutes!
You're gonna enjoy this.
Almost ready.
Pretty fancy for 0500.
You strike me
as an Italian mama's boy,
Worshipped and pampered
just like my brothers.
I wanted to make
you feel at home.
Well... I was told
At a very early age
I was the best thing
Since sliced capicola.
And there's enough for seconds.
- You'll want seconds.
- This is good.
when I first got
here, the coffee was dreadful.
How a marine mess can serve
bad coffee is beyond me.
I can't live without it.
The best coffee I ever
had was on Guadalcanal
The morning after the battle.
- I know the story.
- Not this part.
We stole some coffee from the
doggies when they came ashore.
Liberated some hooch
from their officers too.
Anyway, the morning
after the battle,
My guys cooked up the coffee over
a fire of green coconut logs.
There wasn't any part
of me that didn't hurt--
Burns on my hands,
Ears still ringing
from the shelling.
But when they handed me
that cup of coffee,
I never tasted
anything so good.
Not that I don't
appreciate this.
What was the best cup
of coffee you ever had?
My parents were
real traditional.
I was supposed to get married
and give them grandkids.
So when I announced
that I'd joined the marines,
There was a lot
of yelling and crying
And finally my father
just stopped talking to me,
Cut me out of t family.
A year later I got my stripes.
I went home to see my mom, my brothers.
I was sitting in this diner
And my pop walked in,
Sat down beside me.
He ordered two cups of coffee
And he put the milk
and one sugar in for me.
That was the best I ever had.
It's incredible what can
happen over a cup of coffee.
My enlistment's up in July.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
You're gonna take a discharge
and you're gonna go home.
I should be looking
forward to my freedom,
But I can't imagine it.
I love the marines.
You do too.
I love everything about it.
I can't imagine being anywhere
or doing anything else.
- Lena.
- Yeah?
You might hear this
all the time,
But you're the most beautiful
woman I've ever seen.
No.
I don't hear that very often.
Must be the uniform.
I could use a coffee.
- Shh, she's with the movie star.
- Interesting.
- Yeah.
- Look at gunny.
A little early morning.
- Clear!
- Clear.
Tatum, Evanson, set it up.
Two short bursts, 85 rounds.
Ready!
Gun set.
Fire!
That's good.
Nice.
Listen up!
This is a bale.
It'll make it easier to carry
the gun with a hot barrel.
You won't burn
your hands.
Now it's not made for its
stability and accuracy
But if you're in a pinch,
You can shoot
and move with this.
Let me show you.
I couldn't hit the side
of a barn with that thing.
You'd better start practicing.
Yeah.
It's gorgeous.
Come on, let's
go in the water. - No.
- Come on, come on.
- No, I'm not going in that water.
- Come on.
- No way.
- No!
- I'll get you.
I'm not gonna have you drown.
No, put me down.
- Put me down.
- We're going in.
No!
oh, my hat.
My hat.
My--
I'll get it.
John, you're crazy.
Ah!
I got it!
Oh no.
Oh no, you don't.
Don't you dare.
Attention on deck!
Stand easy.
Gentlemen, the 5th division
will ship out very soon
For action in the
Pacific theater of war.
We won't know our destination
until we're well underway.
But wherever we go,
We will see the job through.
- Am I clear?
- Yes, sir!
I have some more good news.
Gunnery sergeant John Basilone
Has decided that home can wait.
He will be joining us.
Carry on, gunny.
Atten-hut!
At ease.
- So is anybody scared?
- No, sir.
- I said is anybody scared?
- No, sergeant!
You lying sacks of shit.
It's good to be scared.
It means you're awake,
You're ready.
Company dismissed.
You ready?
You scared?
- It's not ready yet.
- Oh, okay.
Can I have a
bowl this time?
She's back there. Lena?
- Hey.
- Hey to you.
Out with it.
- Out with what?
- Whatever grim tidings
You men carry around
with you like rock sacks.
I've shipped over.
I've re-enlisted.
I see.
They can ship me out
whenever they want.
So if you're looking
for something else,
Somebody in a different
line of work,
Tell me now.
That sounds like an ultimatum.
- I'm just saying--
- Look.
I'm in for the duration
plus six months.
I know how it goes, sergeant.
So?
Where do we go from here?
Congratulations!
Stay there.
I'm gonna take a photo.
You look so beautiful.
Lucy, let me get a shot.
No, you stay there.
I want to take it.
No, I want a shot of Lena
alone in that dress.
Look here, darling.
Try not to blush.
I feel like a paratrooper.
- I don't know why I wore this dress.
- You look beautiful!
Be-Au-ti-ful!
Okay, John, go pose with your wife.
Let's make it official.
Whoo!
Now kiss her like you mean it.
I can do that!
Don't you touch me.
Hold it.
Wait.
What?
Go stand over there.
Take your clothes off.
What?
Do it.
John, what have we done?
We've gone respectable.
You know...
I woke up one day
And I was 30 years old.
Satisfied.
Then you walk
into my mess hall,
And look at me now.
Just wait and see.
- We're gonna have six kids.
- That's a lot of kids.
You should have
come around 10 years ago.
Little boys for you to pamper,
And little girls
for me to drive crazy.
I'd like that so much.
This is yours now.
I want you to wear it.
- You want some food?
- Dear God, yes.
Let me see
what I can rustle up.
What?
Look at me!
I said look at me!
You want to live?
Get off the beach.
Move!
Help, help me.
help me!
Corpsman!
I need a corpsman!
Move it back.
Get off the beach!
Keep moving.
Keep moving.
Don't stop.
Keep moving!
Get off the beach.
Keep moving.
Off the beach!
Get up!
Move!
- Someone help me!
Help him back.
Off the beach!
Off the beach, get off!
Evanson, Tatum, let's go.
Get the fuck off the beach,
you sons-of-bitches!
Set that fucker up here.
Move!
We gotta kill the bunker.
Get me a rabbit team.
Get your charges ready to move.
Captain, up here!
Aim for the gunport.
Short bursts.
Go go!
Keep firing!
It's jammed.
Pegg!
All right, gunny!
Go, move forward!
Further up!
Here!
Let's go!
Go go go go go!
Fire in the hole!
Let's go, let's go!
- Get in, get it.
- On me!
Flamethrower u
Move!
- Go go.
- Come on.
Tatum!
Take out that machine gun
and set up position!
Tatum, clear
the back line!
Hold your fire.
Go go go!
Stay low, stay low!
- Those are ours!
Tatum, set the gun up there!
They're firing
for the Ridge.
Go go!
Move move move!
Down low.
Steve, Steve, lower!
Do not leave this position
come hell or high water.
- Do you understand?
- Aye, gunny.
You tell that tank
to follow me!
- Aye aye.
- Move!
Let's go!
The rest of you, grab as
much ammo as you can find
- And get off the beach!
- Aye, gunny
We're fucked.
What are we gonna do?
Get that gun over here!
- Move!
- Get down!
Go!