Red Dawn (1984) · 17 quotes
Do you want blindfolds?
This violates the Geneva convention!
I never heard of it!
Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies.
Robert
I've seen it before, pal.
Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad our whole lives. We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time.
Robert
How long, Jed?
Until we don't hear that no more.
Col. Tanner
West Coast, East Coast. Down here's Mexico. First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights, same way they did in Afghanistan in '80. They were crack airborne outfits. They took these passes in the Rockies.
So that's what hit Calumet?
Col. Tanner
I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes, and the missiles were a hell of a lot more accurate than we thought; they took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication.
Like what?
Col. Tanner
Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.
Gone?
Col. Tanner
Yeah. That's right.
Jesus Christ.
Col. Tanner
Infiltrators, came up illegal; Cubans, mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas, wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc, I'm here to tell. They opened up the door, and the whole Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.
Robert
How far'd they get?
Col. Tanner
Cheyenne, across to Kansas. We held 'em at the Rockies, and at the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada, link up here in the middle but we stopped 'em but cold. Lines've pretty much stabilized now.
What about Europe?
I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long. The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here now. That's why they won't use nukes anymore, and we won't either, not on our own soil. Whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
What started it?
Col. Tanner
Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later they gonna fight.
That simple?
Col. Tanner
Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like.
Well, who is on our side?
Six hundred million screamin' ****.
Well, last I heard, there were a billion screamin' ****.
There were. [throws whiskey into fire, and it violently ignites for a moment, possibly signifying a Soviet nuclear strike on China]
Do you want blindfolds?
This violates the Geneva Convention!
I never heard of it!
Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies.
Robert
I've seen it before, pal.
This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!
Shut up, Danny! Shut up!
Robert
He told them where we were!
He did. Now get your rifles.
No!
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
We're not doing it!
Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.
What's the difference, Jed?
Robert
I'll do it.
Shut up, Robert! [to Jed] Tell me what's the difference between us and them!
Because ... we live here! [kills Gorsky and when he hesitates with Daryl, Robert kills him]
