Jeff Bridges Renews the War Speeches in The Man Who Stare at Goats

The Man Who Stare at Goats, the movie that has been released this week, is as much a comedy as a war movie. And there is no war movie without the speech moment. In this occasion, the responsible for giving the inspirational speeches is a terrific Jeff Bridges (he does it excellently, as well as George Clooney and Ewan McGregor). Bridges plays Bill Django, a colonel of a top secret unit of the US army. A unit of psychic spies. They don’t need weapons to fight the enemy because they use the power of their minds.



So we have a hippy colonel training his troop. And, of course, where others colonels at movies would say "let me see your war face", "piece of shit" or stuff like this, our colonel with psychic powers uses another kind of vocabulary. In the first speech of the movie Bill Django tell to his soldiers:

"You have to dream a new America that no longer has an exploitation view of everyone".

While he is talking he gives to each of the warriors… a flower!

The second statement sounds like an "archetype" war movie speech.

"You will be a psychic weapon, an angel of death, until that time you are nothing. Do you understand?
SIR, YES, SIR".

But suddenly, colonel Bill Django adds:

"I’m just kidding. Let's dance!"

It’s a really funny parody of the Full Metal Jacket speech and similar situations from other movies.











I can not finished a post about war movie speeches without revisiting one of the best film moments ever:



More speeches in movies in onespeech.