MINER FROM DISTRICT 2: Give me one reason I shouldn't shoot you. BOGGS: Drop the gun! KATNISS: I can't. I guess that's the problem, isn't it? We blew up your mine. You burned my district to the ground. We each have every reason to want to kill each other. So if you wanna kill me, do it. Make snow happy. I'm tired of killing his slaves for him. MINER FROM DISTRICT 2: I'm not his slave. KATNISS: I am. That's why I killed Cato. And he killed Thresh. And Thresh killed Clove. It just goes around and around. And who wins? Always Snow. I am done being a piece in his game. District 12, district 2. We have no fight. Except the one the capitol gave us. Why are you fighting the rebels? You're neighbors. You're family. — Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015), screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong, based on the novel by Szanne Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4VoTmcsAu0 Trivia: The scene where Haymitch reads Plutarch's letter to Katniss was scripted to be Plutarch talking to Katniss in person. It was changed because Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who played Plutarch, died before the scene was filmed. Dialogue on Dialogue: Bloodshed leads to more bloodshed. And normal people kill normal people. This arguments, which fits every war, and Katniss being totally honest about feeling a slave in this games let her hostage-taker sets her free.

LT. COL. JOHN CAMBRIDGE: So, you getting along with the other soldiers in your unit? SPECIALIST OWEN ELDRIGE: Yeah, My team's great. My team leader is inspiring. Are you being sarcastic, soldier? SPECIALIST OWEN ELDRIGE: No. He's going to get me killed. Almost died yesterday. At least I'll die in the line of duty, proud and strong. LT. COL. JOHN CAMBRIDGE: You know, this doesn't have to be a bad time in your life. Going to war is a - is a once in a lifetime experience. It could be fun. — The Hurt Locker (2008), written by Mark Boal (there is also a story by-credit for Mark Boal & Kathryn Bigelow found here http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hurt-Locker-The.pdf but not on imdb) Trivia: After Lina Wertmüller for „Pasqualino Settebellezze“ (1975), Jane Champion for The Piano (1993) and Sofia Coppola for „Lost in Translation“ (2003), Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman to direct a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Dialogue on Dialoge: „Going to war is a - is a once in a lifetime experience.“ What a line! This could meant sarcastically but as the psychiatrist states some lines before, he is not so much into sarcasm. And this kind of lifetime experience stops the film characters to resume their normal life at home (thinking of the protagonist totally overwhelmed by the choice of cereals). here is the link to the trailer, as I couldn‘t find the scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxSDZc8etg&list=PLzT6hrst4atOqSgZaUczk9VBOhTsIxuS3 SERGEANT JT SANBORN: We're going on a mission. And my job is to keep you safe so we can keep going on missions. STAFF SERGEANT WILLIAM JAMES: It's combat, buddy.

"You know I can't run away, that's why you accuse me. I tell you I didn't want to kill you. I tried to keep you alive. If you jumped in here again I wouldn't do it. You see when you jumped in here you were my enemy and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me and I killed you. Forgive me, Comrade. Say that for me, say you forgive me. Oh no you're dead. Only you're better off that I am. You're through. They can't do any more to you now. Oh God, why did they do this to us. We only wanted to live, you and I. Why should they send us out to fight each other. If they threw away these rifles and these uniforms, you could be my brother, like Kat and Albert. You'll have to forgive me Comrade, I'll do all I can. I'll write to your parents, I'll write to -" Paul searches the dead soldier "I'll write to your wife, I'll write to her. I promise she'll not want for anything. And I'll help her and your parents too, only forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw96cSYo9dU&index=6&list=PL813BB3BE40151CF1 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Writing by Erich Maria Remarque (novel), George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson, Del Andrews Trivia: Won the 1930 Oscar's for Best Picture and Best Director. Nominated for its writing. Dialogue on Dialogue: First World War soldiers were often executed as cowards or deserters when suffering from trauma related medical conditions that would take another 70+ years to be recognized. The brilliance of this 1930 scene is that it is years ahead of it's time. Protagonist Paul is starting to lose his mind, trapped in a shell hole with the soldier he has just killed. On another level it is a simple and effective construction of a scene by the writers. Trap the Protagonist with the dead enemy and he's forced to confront what he's doing and expose it's effects on himself.

Thanks, katha and Michael. I looked up a list of top war movies. Stunning how many great or at least notable ones there are.

FIRING SQUAD LEADER: Would you like a padre? LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT: No thank you. I’m a pagan. FIRING SQUAD LEADER: And you? LT. PETER HANDCOCK: (to Breaker Morant) What’s a pagan? LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT: Oh, it’s somebody who doesn’t believe there’s a divine being dispensing justice to mankind. Hancock turns to the firing squad leader. LT. PETER HANDCOCK: I’m a pagan, too. LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT: There is an epitaph I’d like. Matthew 10:36. FIRING SQUAD LEADER: All right, gentlemen. LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT: Well, Peter, this is what comes of empire building. The pair are marched away from the prison grounds. MAJ. J.F. THOMAS: Matthew 10:36? REVEREND HESS: (reading from a Bible) “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” EXT. SOUTH AFRICAN VELDT - DAYBREAK Harry and Peter are marched to the crest of a high grassland hill. A pair of chairs are placed side by side. As they walk the last 10 paces, Harry extends his hand, and Peter takes it. At the chairs they turn to face the firing line, and sit down. The escorting soldier offers Harry a blindfold. He shakes his head no. Peter also refuses the offer. The escorts march back to the firing line. The blood-red crest of the sun breaks the horizon. Its golden light filling the faces of Peter and Harry. As the squad leader moves down the line, handing each rifleman a single bullet, in VOICEOVER, we hear Harry reciting a now-famous poem written by the real-life “Breaker” Morant: LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT (V.O.): “It really ain’t the place nor time to reel off rhyming diction / But yet we’ll write a final rhyme while waiting crucification / For we bequeath a parting tip of sound advice for such men / who come across in transport ships to polish off the Dutchman / If you encounter any Boers, you really must not loot ‘em / And if you wish to leave these shores, for pity’s sake don’t shoot ‘em / Let’s toss a bumper down our throat before we pass to heaven / And toast the trim-set petticoat we leave behind in Devon.” Silhouetted against the sun, the line of soldiers prepares to fire. FIRING SQUAD LEADER: Aim!… LT. HARRY “BREAKER” MORANT: Shoot straight you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it! — Breaker Morant (1980) Screenplay by Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and director Bruce Beresford, based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI7KJnRlsS4 Trivia: Considered by many to be the greatest Australian film ever made. Based on real events and a now-legendary Aussie soldier, horse “breaker” and poet, this story of war, injustice and betrayal resonates even today. Dialogue on Dialogue: The ending dialogue, in particular, sticks with you. The entire sequence, as filmed and edited, is astonishingly beautiful, even as it's juxtaposed with the stark brutality, duplicity, soldierly discipline, courage and bloody irony of the story and its thematics. And when you have your protagonist/hero shout the final iconic order/command to his own firing squad? Timeless perfection.

Blame it on Monday morning brain fog, but I missed that bit about next week's topic being dialogue during a war scene, not an execution scene. Enthusiasm for the work done in B.M. got in the way...Lo siento.

John, we can still include the clip because it is a war movie. Thanks.