September 5 Movie Quotes
Marianne Gebhardt
[translating]
He's saying that the Games are an opportunity to welcome the world to a new Germany, to move on from the past.
Marvin Bader
Yeah, sure.
Marianne Gebhardt
I mean, it's what we all hope for. What else can we do but move on, try to be better?
Marianne Gebhardt
Yes.
Marvin Bader
Let me guess- they didn't know either, right?
Marvin Bader
No. No, you're not. I'm sorry.
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Hank Hanson
Can you get us a cup of coffee?
[Marianne pauses, humors the request]
Carter Jeffrey
[picking up a German transmission]
Great. You just sent away the one person who can translate this.
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Geoffrey Mason
Are you alright?
Marianne Gebhardt
No... Innocent people died in Germany again. We failed. Germany failed.
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Marvin Bader
[watching the German press secretary speaking with Jim McKay in the studio]
As far as we can see?... What is that? As we hoped?... That doesn't sound right.
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Marvin Bader
Black September, they know the whole world is watching. If- I'm saying if- they kill a hostage on live television, whose story is it? Is it ours, or is it theirs?
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Roone Arledge
I know it might not feel like it, but you did a great job today.
Geoffrey Mason
It was a catastrophe.
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Geoffrey Mason
We never said it was a fact. We used, "As we are hearing".
Marvin Bader
That's a fucking technicality, Geoff.
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Reporter in Olympic Village
And what is it you play?
Gary Slaughter
Weightlifting. Uh, I gotta go.
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Hank Hanson
Fucking Arabs.
Jacques Lesgards
Hey, watch it. My mother is Algerian.
Hank Hanson
I'm not talking about your mother.
Jacques Lesgards
Just the bad Arabs?
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Hermann Jäger
[in German, to Marianne]
Tell the Frenchman I still remember exactly what gunshots sound like.
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Roone Arledge
Okay, look, I know this isn't a responsibility that everyone wants. But does it make more sense to have a talking head from News take over from halfway across the fucking world? Our job is to tell the stories of these individuals, whose lives are at stake, 100 yards away. And our job is really straightforward. We put the camera in the right place, and we follow the story as it unfolds in real time. News can tell us what it all meant after it's over, and I'm sure they're gonna try. But this is our story. And we're keeping it.
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Peter Jennings
[over the phone]
Whatever conception you have of Arabia or Arabs, you need to understand how sensitive this situation is. This is no longer the Olympics.
Marvin Bader
Thank you, Peter, for, uh, clarifying. It does bring up a good question. What should we call them on the air?
Peter Jennings
In News, we would refer to them as commando guerrillas.
Roone Arledge
Commando? That sounds like we're in Vietnam or something.
Geoffrey Mason
What was it they called them in German radio?
Marianne Gebhardt
"Terrorists."
Roone Arledge
What was that?
Marianne Gebhardt
They used "terrorists."
Roone Arledge
Okay. Let's... let's go with that.
Peter Jennings
That's a charged term. Terrorism is the organized and systematic use of violence against civilians to affect a political goal.
Marvin Bader
Isn't that pretty much what's happening here?
Peter Jennings
Nobody knows yet what is happening here. So we have to be very careful about everything we say on air.
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Geoffrey Mason
[reviewing film footage on a monitor, sees a masked captor peering over a balcony]
That's our opener.
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Marvin Bader
[about the terrorists having access to the ABC coverage]
Then they should have cut the electricity to the apartment! It's not up to us to double-check on them.
Geoffrey Mason
That... Marv, it's not okay if we made it worse. You know that.
Marvin Bader
We don't even know why they called it off. The Germans seem generally pretty overwhelmed.
Marianne Gebhardt
They are. I'm listening to the police radio; it's local cops doing things they have never done before. The German Army gave them sniper rifles and had to instruct them on how to use them.
Geoffrey Mason
Why doesn't the German Army just do it itself?
Marianne Gebhardt
They're not allowed to operate here. German Constitution.
Geoffrey Mason
That's ridiculous!
Marvin Bader
The rumor is Israel offered to send a special unit to help them out, and that Germany refused it.
Marianne Gebhardt
They are just making one mistake after another and trying to act like they've got it all under control.
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Marvin Bader
You don't want anybody to see their kid executed on live television.
Roone Arledge
Of course not, Marv...
Marvin Bader
So I... I don't know about the Israelis, but David Berger's folks are in Ohio, so I'm pretty sure they'll watch.
Roone Arledge
Well, someone should tell them not to watch it. But we have a bigger responsibility here.
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Executive at CBS
[over the phone, seeking assurance ABC will wrap in time for CBS to take the satellite feed] Are you sure you'll be done by then?
Roone Arledge
The Germans are gonna have this taken care of in no time.
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Marianne Gebhardt
[translating interview on the radio]
Someone's asking the chief of police if he thinks it was a mistake that the Olympic Village had no armed police.
Jacques Lesgards
Of course it was!
Marianne Gebhardt
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I guess they didn't want the world to be reminded of the last time armed Germans patrolled fences.
Jacques Lesgards
So, Germany's makeover is more important than people's safety?
Marvin Bader
C'mon. This isn't our business.
[points at TV screens]
Marvin Bader
That is our business, and in less than an hour, we go live.
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