Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Ryan Phillippe: John "Doc" Bradley

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Quotes 

• Ira Hayes : Hank wasn't in the picture.

  Bud Gerber : Sorry?

  Ira Hayes : Hank didn't raise that flag. He raised the other one. The real flag.

  Bud Gerber : The what? The real... the real flag? There's a *real* flag?

  John "Doc" Bradley : Yeah, ours was the replacement flag. We put it up when they took the other one down.

  Bud Gerber : Am I the only one getting a headache here? You know about this?

  Keyes Beech : It was after it was already in the papers. The mothers had already been told by then.

  Bud Gerber : Aw, that's it, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, why tell me? I'm only the guy that has to explain it to a hundred and fifty million Americans. Who is in the goddamn picture? Are *any* of you guys in the goddamn picture?

  Ira Hayes : Yeah, we're in the goddamn picture.

  Bud Gerber : Six guys raising a flag over Iwo Jima. Victory is ours. You're three of them, right?

  John "Doc" Bradley : This was the fifth day, sir. The battle went on for thirty-five more.

  Bud Gerber : Well, what'd you do, raise a goddamn flag every time you stopped for lunch?

  Ira Hayes : [whispers to Bradley]  Can I hit this guy?

• Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski : Did you hear the good news, Doc? We're going in with the first wave.

  [has something thrown at him] 

  Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski : Hey! Hey, you do that again I'll take your head off. Huh? Fuckin' dominos.

  John "Doc" Bradley : Iggy, have you ever heard news you considered to be bad?

  Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski : The first ones off the ship, Doc. Means we don't go over the side of the ship. We hop on a tractor that drives us right there.

  John "Doc" Bradley : Shit. That is good news.

  Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski : See? what'd I tell ya?

• John "Doc" Bradley : [At the mock Mount Suribachi in Soldier Field]  You gotta be kidding.

  Bud Gerber : Hey, it took a lot of talented folks a long time to make that thing. Just wait till tonight when it's lit properly and there's thousands of cheering people in the stands, it's gonna look a lot better. So, stadium lights come down, spotlight comes up, you get your cue, you charge up this thing with the flag, you plant it at the top. You smile, you wave, you know the drill.

  John "Doc" Bradley : You want us to plant the flag on a pile of papier-mache.

  Bud Gerber : Hey, that's showbiz. And try to stand how you stood the first time you planted it. Just, you know, pretend the other three guys are with you.

  Ira Hayes : The *dead* guys.

• John "Doc" Bradley : Who are these "Gold Star Mothers?"

  Bud Gerber : That's what we're calling the mothers of the dead flag-raisers. You present each mother with a flag, they say a few words, people will shit money. It'll be so moving.

• John "Doc" Bradley : [Repeated line]  Where is he? Where is he?