#The Man Who Would be King
Now listen to me, you benighted muckers! We’re going to teach you soldiering, The world’s noblest profession! When we’re done with you, you’ll be able to stand up and slaughter your foes like civilized men! But first, you will have to learn to march in step. And do the manual of arms without even having to think! Good soldiers don’t think, they just obey! Do you suppose that if a man thought twice, he’d give his life for Queen and Country? Not bloody likely! He wouldn’t go near the battlefield! One look at your foolish faces tells me that you’re going to be crack troops. Ohhh him there with the five-and-a-half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!
Daniel Dravot, The Man Who Would Be King
...on the Hindu Kush
Kipling: A party of geographers, a mapping expedition tried several years ago and vanished into thin air. No white man has been there and come back since Alexander.
Peachy: Alexander who?
Kipling: Alexander the Great, King of Greece, about three hundred years before Christ.
Peachy: Well if a Greek can do it, we can do it!
…but I’ll see these files reach Calcutta with the recommendation that you be deported as political undesirables! Detriments to the Dignity of the Empire and the Izzat of the Raj!
District Commissioner, The Man Who Would Be King
och, Sean, the hat and the plaid waistcoat?
Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling
Tonight’s movie…