Taps

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Taps is a 1981 film about a group of teenage military cadets who take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Directed by Harold Becker. Written by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger and Darryl Ponicsan, based on the novel Father Sky by Devery Freeman.
This school is our home, we think it's worth defending.

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Brian Moreland

  • Honor doesn't count for shit when you're looking at a dead little boy.
  • I don't ever want to see what I just saw out there. We're soldiers!
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David Shawn

  • [about firing his assault rifle at the townies and cops, to facilitate their escape] I saw my duty, and I did it.
  • [Firing machine gun] It's beautiful, man!
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Others

  • General Harlan Bache: Was I scared! I must have lost fifty pounds, all of it brown.
  • Colonel Kerby: You're not a soldier! I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers - staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! You're a death-lover. Some sorry son of a bitch has got you convinced that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that's the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is!
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Dialogue

Brian Moreland: [on the closure of the academy] Sir, how could they do this?
General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.
David Shawn: Brian, Dungeons and Dragons game tonight?
Brian Moreland: Can't.
[David flips Alex the finger]
Alex Dwyer: Have a good day.
J.C. Pierce: [the truck won't start] Aw, shit!
Alex Dwyer: Want me to check under the hood?
J.C. Pierce: For what?
Alex Dwyer: I'll know when I get there, won't I?
Alex Dwyer: What the hell were you doing back there?
David Shawn: At least I had your ass over the grinder and it's okay enough to thank me, shithead!
Brian Moreland: Hut! What's the problem?
Alex Dwyer: The problem is that this asshole just shot the town!
Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland: Let me tell 'em it was growing pains - the wrong execution of the right idea.
Brian Moreland: "The wrong execution of the right idea"?
Parent: Sergeant, we aren't in the Army.
Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland: No need for apologies.
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Cast

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External links

Wikipedia has an article about:
Taps (film).


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