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I'm going to have ten men
from each company in your regiment. . .
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. . .tried under penalty of death
for cowardice.
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-Penalty of death?
-For cowardice.
:19:10
They've skimmed milk in
their veins instead of blood.
:19:12
The reddest milk I've ever seen,
my trenches...
:19:15
-That's enough!
-I won't mince words...
:19:17
If you continue in this manner,
I shall have to put you under arrest.
:19:20
It was so honest that it was shocking.
:19:24
What made it even more shocking
was the nature of the way it was shot.
:19:30
The use of the tracking camera
in the trenches.
:19:33
There's something that's happening.
They're trying to be objective:
:19:36
"I'm just showing you this, man,
make up your own mind.
:19:38
I'm telling you right now,
this is what went down.
:19:42
It's bad, it's a lie, it's hypocrisy. "
:19:44
Maybe the attack against the anthill
was impossible.
:19:47
Perhaps it was an error of judgement
on our part. . .
:19:50
. . .but if your men had been
more daring, they might have taken it.
:19:54
Why should we have to bear any more
criticism than we have to?
:19:59
Aside from the fact that many
of your men never left the trenches. . .
:20:03
. . .is the question
of the troops' morale.
:20:05
-The troops' morale?
-Certainly.
:20:07
These executions will be a perfect
tonic for the division.
:20:10
There are few things more encouraging
than seeing someone else die.
:20:14
Many artists, when they put
a canvas up which is blank. . .
:20:18
. . .they start with very detailed,
small, delicate pencil strokes. . .
:20:23
. . .on a canvas.
:20:26
Stanley started conceptually
on all of his movies. . .
:20:30
. . .from my point of view. . .
:20:31
. . .with large primary-colored
brush strokes. . .
:20:36
. . .and he would just beat
out these concepts that were. . .
:20:40
. . .that were pretty obvious.
:20:42
In Paths of Glory...
:20:44
. . .every sequence hammers
its points home. . .
:20:47
. . .but in every sequence the filmmaking
is subtle and gentle almost.
:20:52
What really hit us was the end.
:20:55
There's a tendency when you want to
get to that emotion or sentiment. . .
:20:58
. . .not sentimental, not
sentimentality, but sentiment. . .