The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Poster

Ewan McGregor: Bob Wilton

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  • Lyn Cassady : There's a story that Wong Wifu, the great Chinese martial artist... had a fight with a guy and beat him. Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died.

    Bob Wilton : Then and there?

    Lyn Cassady : No. About eighteen years later. That's the thing about Dim Mak... you never know when it's gonna take effect.

  • Lyn Cassady : Once you understand the linkage between observation and reality then you begin to dance with invisibility.

    Bob Wilton : Like camouflage.

    Lyn Cassady : No, it's not like camouflage.

  • Bob Wilton : It's the Silence of the Goats!

  • Bob Wilton : Don't eat the eggs.

    Lyn Cassady : What?

    Bob Wilton : Don't eat the eggs. We put LSD in the eggs.

    Bill Django : And the water. I put LSD in the main water tank.

    Bob Wilton : What? But, we drank the water!

    Bill Django : Yeah!

  • Bill Django : [Having just meditatively fallen off a container]  I just saw Timothy Leary!

    Bob Wilton : Timothy Leary's dead...

  • Bob Wilton : Every single one of Bill's soldiers fired high. They instinctively hadn't wanted to shoot another person. Later Bill would come across a study which revealed that only 15-20% of fresh soldiers shot to kill. The rest aimed high, didn't fire at all, or pretended to be busy doing something else.

  • Larry Hooper : Oh, here's an Iraqi Psyops leaflet they dropped on us.

    Bob Wilton : - American soldier... your wives are back at home... having sex with Bart Simpson and Bert Reynolds.

  • Bob Wilton : Bill? Lyn told me he didn't deserve this eagle feather. He wanted me to give it back to you.

    Bill Django : It's fake.

    Bob Wilton : What?

    Bill Django : This one's off a turkey.

  • Lyn Cassady : It's ok, you can "attack" me...

    Bob Wilton : What's with the quotation fingers? It's like saying I'm only capable of ironic attacking or something.

  • Bob Wilton : Would you stop saying that? I've been... I've been blown up! I'm in the middle of a desert! I'm not gonna be okay.

    Lyn Cassady : Bob, you're in shock. If you panic, your heart's gonna stop.

    Bob Wilton : Is that supposed to calm me down?

  • Lyn Cassady : While recovering in the hospital, Bill wrote to the Vice Chief of Staff for the Army, explaining that he wanted to go on a fact-finding mission... to explore alternative combat tactics. The Pentagon agreed to pay his salary and expenses. What Bill hadn't told the Pentagon was that he was really looking for the answer to his vision. How could his men's gentleness, their general lack of interest in killing people, be turned into a strength? How could love and peace help win wars? Bill knew where to go to find out. Bill disappeared into the New Age Movement for six years.

    Lyn Cassady : [Continues talking while various images of Bill's experiences with New Age Movement are shown]  Like all Shaman before him, he had traversed the wilderness. Now he was returning to his people, a changed man. He brought with him his confidential report, which he called: "The New Earth Army manual." The New Earth Army is a banner under which the forces of good can gather. The courage and nobility of the Warrior, blended with the spirituality of the Monk. The Jedi Warrior will follow in the footsteps of the great imagineers of the past: Jesus Christ, Lao Tse Tung, Walt Disney. The role of The New Earth Army is to resolve conflict world-wide. Jedis will parachute into war zones, utilizing sparkly eyes technique, carrying symbolic flowers and animals, playing indigenous music and words of peace...

    Bob Wilton : What's... What's the sparkly eyes technique?

  • Bob Wilton : What's a... what's a Jedi Warrior?

    Lyn Cassady : You're looking at one.

  • Bob Wilton : I did what so many men have done throughout history when a women has broken their heart. I went to war.

  • Bob Wilton : So what do you use to remote view?

    Lyn Cassady : I drink. And I find classic rock helps.

    Bob Wilton : Any music in particular?

    Lyn Cassady : Boston. Boston usually works.

  • Bob Wilton : It wasn't the Dim Mak that was killing Lyn. And it wasn't the cancer. He was dying of a broken heart. And maybe, the cancer as well.

  • Bob Wilton : We've been sitting here for half an hour. How's that "instant?"

  • Lyn Cassady : [driving up behind a running prisoner yelling out the window]  It's ok we're Americans, we're here to help you!

    Bob Wilton : [Truck shakes and rattles a little bit]  What happened?

    Lyn Cassady : I think I just ran him over. Oh crap.

  • Bob Wilton : What's that?

    Bill Django : [peering in a container where a prisoner is bombarded with childish music]  The Dark Side.

  • [last lines] 

    Bob Wilton : Now more than ever we need the Jedi.

  • Bob Wilton : As we ran for cover, I thought this was what I wanted. I was on a mission, even if I didn't know what kind of mission it was. But I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.

  • Bob Wilton : Do you know about the curse?

  • Lyn Cassady : The U.S Army doesn't really have any serious alternative than to be wonderful! This does not represent the official position of the United States Army at this time. Bill Django.

    Bob Wilton : Who's Bill Django?

    Lyn Cassady : The man who wrote that book.

  • Lyn Cassady : [plotting their escape]  You relax your body and your voice. And you just rip out one of his eyes. Or you get a pen and you stab him in the neck, you create this... a fountain of blood, I mean a real fountain, get it squirting all over his buddies. That is a psychic disincentive, right there.

    Bob Wilton : We haven't got a pen.

  • Bob Wilton : And if I ever needed proof of how the dark side had taken the beautiful dream of what a nation could be and had twisted it, destroyed it -- well, that was it.

  • Bob Wilton : I'm sorry I freaked out back there, Lyn.

    Lyn Cassady : You learned a lesson. Whatever you fear most has no power over you; it's the fear that has the power!

  • Bob Wilton : [in a firefight]  I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.

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