Band of Brothers (TV Mini Series)
Currahee (2001)
James Madio: Frank J. Perconte
Quotes
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Rudolph R. Dittrich : This stuff is orange. Spaghetti ain't supposed to be orange.
Frank Perconte : This ain't spaghetti. This is Army noodles with ketchup.
Bill Guarnere : You ain't gotta eat it.
Frank Perconte : Come on, Gonorrhea, as a fellow Italian you should know that calling this crap spaghetti is a mortal sin.
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Joseph D. Toye : Three-day supply of K-rations, chocolate bars, charms candy, powdered coffee, sugar, matches, compass, bayonet, entrenching tool, ammunition, gas mask, musette bag with ammo, my webbing, my .45, canteen, two cartons of smokes, Hawkins mine, two grenades, smoke grenade, gamma grenade, TNT, this bullshit and a pair of nasty skivvies.
Frank Perconte : What's your point?
Joseph D. Toye : You know, this stuff weighs as much as I do. I've still got my chute, my reserve chute, my Mae West, my M-1.
Frank Perconte : Where are you keeping your brass knuckles?
Joseph D. Toye : I could use some brass knuckles.
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Warren H. (Skip) Muck : Right now, some lucky bastard's headed for the South Pacific. Oh, what I would give. He's gonna get billeted on some tropical island...
Donald G. Malarkey : Keep talking.
Warren H. (Skip) Muck : ...sitting under a palm tree with six naked native girls...
Donald G. Malarkey : Oh, yeah.
Warren H. (Skip) Muck : ...helping him cut up coconuts, so he can hand-feed 'em to the flamingos.
Joseph P. Domingus : Flamingos are mean. They bite.
Wayne A. (Skinny) Sisk : So do the naked native girls.
Frank Perconte : With any luck.
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Herbert M. Sobel : [Easy Company is standing outside, awaiting the arrival of their CO, who comes in yelling] You people are at the position of attention!
[Everyone straightens up as Sobel marches up and down the columns, looking for infractions. He stops in front of one of them]
Herbert M. Sobel : Private Perconte have you been blousing your trousers over your boots like a paratrooper?
Frank Perconte : No, sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : Then explain the creases at the bottom.
Frank Perconte : No excuse, sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : Volunteering for the Parachute Infantry is one thing Perconte, but you've got a long way to prove that you belong here. Your weekend pass is revoked.
[He walks up to another solidier]
Herbert M. Sobel : Name?
George Luz : Luz, George
Herbert M. Sobel : [He inspects Luz's rifle] Dirt in the rear side aperture, pass revoked.
[He picks out another soldier and begins picking at his arm]
Herbert M. Sobel : When did sew on these chevrons, Sgt. Lipton?
C. Carwood Lipton : Yesterday, sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : Long enough to notice this?
[He holds up a small piece of lint or thread]
Herbert M. Sobel : Revoked.
C. Carwood Lipton : Sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : [Continues walking through the columns] Name?
Donald G. Malarkey : Malarkey, Donald G.
Herbert M. Sobel : Malarkey, Malarkey's slang for 'bullshit', isn't it?
Donald G. Malarkey : Yes, sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : [He examines Malarkey's gun] Rust on the butt plate hinge spring, Private 'Bullshit", revoked.
[He continues on to the next soldier]
Herbert M. Sobel : Name?
Cpl. Joseph Liebgott : Liebgott, Joseph D., sir.
Herbert M. Sobel : [Pulling out Liebgott's bayonet point] Rusty bayonet, Liebgott. You want to kill Germans?
Cpl. Joseph Liebgott : Yes, sir
Herbert M. Sobel : [He smacks him on the helmet with his bayonet] Not with this.
[He walks away from the troops, holding up the bayonet]
Herbert M. Sobel : I would not take this rusty piece of shit to war, and I will not take you in your condition. Now thanks to these men and their infractions, every man in the Company who had a weekend pass has lost it. Change into your PT gear, we're running Currahee.