Fiction Empire

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Film 1986. Written by Oliver Stone. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker and Johnny Depp.

Source Features: BBB (1) TIMELINE (3) MAP (1) OTHER (19) THEMES (1)

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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU

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Morley Cigarettes

Morley Cigarettes
Some of the American soldiers smoke Morley Cigarettes, others smoke real brands, like Kool.

FICTITIOUS TIMELINE

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January 1, 1968

20th Century: 60s

January 1, 1968
Chris Taylor: "New Year's Day, 1968. Just another day. Staying alive. There's been a lot of movement near the Cambodian border. Regiments of NVA moving across. A lot of little firefights, ambushes. We drop a lot of bombs, and then we walk through the jungle like ghosts in a landscape.

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January 16, 1968

20th Century: 60s

January 16, 1968
Crawford tells King and Taylor he's got 92 days left to go before he goes back to the world on April 17, 1968. Crawford: Home to California, sitting outside, checking out the babes on the beach. The surfing's gonna be good.

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December 13, 1968

20th Century: 60s

December 13, 1968
When Crawford tells King and Taylor he's got 92 days left to go before he goes back to the world on April 17, 1968, Taylor tells them he's got 332 days, which will be December 13, 1968.

MAKE BELIEVE MAP

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Pork Bend
Chris Taylor: Well, here I am, anonymous, all right. With guys nobody really cares about. They come from the end of the line, most of them, small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee. Brandon, Mississippi. Pork Bend, Utah. Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing.

OTHER

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Bunny & Junior

Bunny & Junior
Bunny: You know Junior, some of the things we've done, man.I don't feel like we've done something wrong. Sometimes, man, I get this bad feeling. I told the padre the truth man, I like it here. Get to do what you want, nobody fucks with you. The only worry you got is dying. And if that happens you won't know about it anyway. So what the fuck man?
Junior: Shit! I gotta be in this hole with you man? I just know I shouldn't come.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called 'possesion of my soul'. There are times since, I've felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: Maybe I finally found it, way down here in the mud. Maybe from down here I can start up again, be something I can be proud of, without having to fake it, be a fake human being.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my sanity. It's all a blur. I have no energy to write. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore. The morale of the men is low, a civil war in the platoon. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. There's a lot of suspicion and hate. I can't believe we're fighting each other, when we should be fighting them.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: Well, here I am, anonymous, all right. With guys nobody really cares about. They come from the end of the line, most of them, small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee. Brandon, Mississippi. Pork Bend, Utah. Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: The village, which had stood for maybe a thousand years, didn't know we were coming that day. If they had, they would've run. Barnes was the eye of our rage. And through him, our captain Ahab, we would set things right again. That day we loved him.

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor: New Year's Day, 1968. Just another day. Staying alive. There's been a lot of movement near the Cambodian border. Regiments of NVA moving across. A lot of little firefights, ambushes. We drop a lot of bombs, and then we walk through the jungle like ghosts in a landscape.

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Chris Taylor & Rhah

Chris Taylor & Rhah
Chris Taylor: He killed him, I know that he killed him, I saw his eyes when we came back in.
Rhah: How do you know the dinks didn't get him? You've got no proof, man.
Chris Taylor: The proof is in the eyes, when you know you know.

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Doc

Doc
Doc: This is bad, man. I've got bad vibes here.

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Francis & King

Francis & King
Francis: It ain't D-E-R-E, it's D-E-A-R. And 'Sarah' ain't got no two R's, King. Damn you're dumb.
King: It don't make no difference, she know what I mean. She don't read too good no how.

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Pla-Tune
It's war time, with a twist - a musical twist. Select a soldier from popular music to lead your troops into battle.

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Rhah

Rhah
Rhah: Wrong? You ain't never been right, about nothing! And dig this you assholes, and dig it good. Barnes has been shot seven times and he ain't dead, does that mean anything to you, huh? Barnes ain't meant to die! The only thing that can kill Barnes is Barnes.

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Rhah

Rhah
Rhah: And if there's a heaven and God I hope there is, I know he's sitting up there, drunk as a fucking monkey and smoking shit. Because he left his pains down here.

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Sgt. Barnes

Sgt. Barnes
Sgt. Barnes: You smoke this shit so to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is.

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Sgt. Barnes

Sgt. Barnes
Sgt. Barnes: You all take a good look at this lump of shit, remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight and I goddamned guarantee you a trip out of the bush - in a body bag! Out here, assholes, you keep the shit wired tight at all times. And that goes for you, shit-for-brains. You don't sleep on no fucking ambush. And the next son'bitch I catch coppin Z's in the bush, I personally am gonna take an interest in seeing them suffer. I shit you not. Doc, tag 'em and bag 'em.

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Sgt. Barnes

Sgt. Barnes
Sgt. Barnes: What's the matter boy? He ain't gonna bite you. That's a good gook, good and dead.

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Sgt. Elias
Sgt. Elias: I love this place at night. The stars - there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there.

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