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It's Greek to me

George O

over 3 years ago

In The Thin Red Line when Elias Koteas’s character hangs up on Nick Nolte’s character after refusing to attack the hill he says a line in Greek. Does anyone know what he says? Because Nick Nolte has the first line in Greek which he translates “rosy fingered dawn” from Homer – setting off a theme about war in the Greek tragic tradition (his is like the rage of Achilles in The Iliad) – and I imagine Koteas’s line is a response (a friend who worked with Koteas said he doesn’t really speak Greek so the line must come from Malick).

J.R. Hudson

over 3 years ago

I just read the transcript and cannot find what you are referring to ?

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/thin-red-line-script-transcript.html

George O

over 3 years ago

I can’t say for sure without the movie playing but I believe he mumbles between these lines:

NOLTE
And, if possible, you get those men
on the ridge out and moving! Out.

(here)

KOTEAS
One spot’s as good as another, men.