Dunkirk (2017)
James D'Arcy: Col. Winnant
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Quotes
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Commander Bolton : You can practically see it from here.
Captain Winnant : What?
Commander Bolton : Home.
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Commander Bolton : The tide's turning now.
Captain Winnant : How can you tell?
Commander Bolton : The bodies are coming back.
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Commander Bolton : The enemy tanks have stopped.
Captain Winnant : Why? Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like fish in a barrel?
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Captain Winnant : [Bolton is looking through his binoculars, seeing the civilian ships arrive] What do you see?
Commander Bolton : [smiling] Home.
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Captain Winnant : [sighs, boards the evacuation ship] Churchill got his 30,000.
Commander Bolton : And then some. Almost 300,000...
[closes the barrier in front of him to the ship]
Commander Bolton : ... so far.
Captain Winnant : [looks up at Bolton] So far?
Commander Bolton : I'm staying. For the French.
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[Bolton and Winnant are having a heated discussion about the evacuation]
Captain Winnant : They need to send more ships. Every hour, the enemy pushes closer.
Commander Bolton : They've activated the small vessels pool.
Captain Winnant : Small vessels?
Commander Bolton : It's a list of civilian boats for requisition.
Captain Winnant : Civilian? We need destroyers!
Commander Bolton : Small boats can load from the beach.
Captain Winnant : Not in these conditions!
Commander Bolton : Well, I'd rather fight waves than dive-bombers.
Captain Winnant : [Beat] No, you're right. They won't get up in this. The Royal Engineers are building piers from lorries. At least that should help us when the tide comes back.
Commander Bolton : Well, we'll know in six hour's time.
Captain Winnant : I thought the tides were every three?
Commander Bolton : Then it's good that you're Army and I'm Navy, isn't it?