Gripweed: "Can I rub your ball, sir? It'd give me great pleasure!"
shareSir! Sir! Me feet sweat. Sir! Me feet sweat.
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
"Me feet's wet" -- anyway, it was hilarious the way Lennon delivered that line.
I had such a difficult time understanding the dialogue; much of the film could have been in Chinese for all I knew. It was a VHS copy, so there wasn't the option of switching on the subtitles.
I love Gripweed's "I was a great mate of Mosley's. Used to hold his voice for him while he lost his meetings."
Subtle. [Wikipedia: Sir Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), leader of the British Union of Fascists]
I think my favourite line in the movie, though, is when a soldier at the beach-landing answers Goodbody's "I want you to feel you can come to me as you would your own father" by hissing, homicidally, under his breath:
"Hello, Dad! Mum's been looking all over the shop for you."
Makes me laugh out loud every time I hear it.
Goodbody's hysterical incompetence. I seem to remember him saying "My God the roller's on fire. Get it out of the sun!" - When they're in the middle of the desert.
When they shoot down the aircraft: "Well done lads, our first victory! ...wasn't he one of ours?".
The petulant way he asks his unit all the time "Where've you been?".
The whole idea of an Advanced Cricket Pitch behind enemy lines. It's so ridiculous. They finally achieve their goal at such great cost, the only recognition being the officer’s comment "What rotten bowling".
I enjoyed the scene where the German troops are crossing the bridge carryig the loot they have taken. The German officer says it will all be returned of course and they are tradesmen, musicians and artists. Just then Goodbody looks at a soldier carry a large painting on his back (presumably a priceless piece of art) and says, "He's very good!"
Subtle.
It seemed to me from what little I know about it that Lennon got more weird over time. His last profound and lucid moment might have been Working Class Hero.
(strong language warning)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
Some of his music after that might get mentioned here, but the way I see it Harrison was the more spiritual Beatle who stayed that way.
It seemed to me from what little I know about it that Lennon got more weird over time. His last profound and lucid moment might have been Working Class Hero.
(strong language warning)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
Some of his music after that might get mentioned here, but the way I see it Harrison was the more spiritual Beatle who stayed that way.