Black Sunday (1977)

Bruce Dern: Lander

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Quotes 

• Captain Michael J. Lander : I wanted to give this whole son-of-a-bitchin' country something to remember me by!

• Captain Michael J. Lander : [after detonating the test bomb in an aircraft hanger]  It's completely symmetrical!

  [Sprints into the hanger] 

  Captain Michael J. Lander : On both sides!

  Dahlia : Michael!

  [Chasing after him] 

  Captain Michael J. Lander : It works!

  Dahlia : Michael we need...

  Captain Michael J. Lander : Look darling, look at this!

  Dahlia : Michael please lets go!

  Captain Michael J. Lander : No god dammit you're going to look at this we're not going anyplace, now look, now study that look at that! That's brilliance darling what are you talking about going? Look at that! We deserve this moment sweetheart, when the big one goes off were both going with it. Look at this, absolute goddamn brilliance!

• Captain Michael J. Lander : Do you understand what I went through? Huh? Do you know that I was months a prisoner of war? Do you know that I was months in solitary confinement in a little 4 x 4 bamboo cell? 367 days, six years they held me! As a prisoner of war! And then I came back here, and my life was hell back here because she took it away from me, they, every single one of them took it away from me. All those guys, too. Yeah, I see them every Sunday. I see them from up there, down in the mass. Their little upturned faces and their two little weenies and a Coke, watching the big game, cheering the big game, because they cheer all the good things. They cheer the big game, and they cheer court-martials, and they love the big event because it makes them feel big, and I was going to give it to them big! They'd have been talking about that goddamned game for the next 5,000 years!

• Captain Michael J. Lander : A Naval officer came around several times after my capture and had tea with Margaret and counseled her - and he told her that the life expectancy of a released P.O.W. is about one-half the average. He also told her about the high rate of homosexuality and impotence among released P.O.W.s, and *stressed* the impotence.