is that the signal?
damien! is that the signal?
did he say "go"?
there's the signal! go! go! go! let's light this puppy up! let's go freaking 11 tet here!! i cody and his assistants push plungers, buttons, pull levers, and drag metal wands over long lines of wired nails, they spark and fizz.
that was good for me. damien's mouth hangs open in shock. there is a strange quiet on the set.
so, i'm thinkin' as soon as damien gives us the go ahead, we'¿½ust their cherry with a few airbursts, then alpha-alpha till they come running right at, us, then a good of fashioned firefight, maintaining our distance. four leaf ignores him, instead looking around the jungle, looking almost lost.
i been meaning to tell ya the whole shoot. i'm probably one-a your biggest fans. your book was kinda my "catcher in the rye". it inspired me to become a gyro man. four leaf gives cody nothing -- except his usual stoic stare.
i'm actually sort of a war nut. i mean i never was in the service, but for me blowing shit up in a war films is sort of my way of paying tribute to the real deal. and you sir, are the real deal. nothing.
hey, i was wonderin' what kind of sidearm you carry? looks to me like a--
ok, we're ready to rock and roll. damien, come in. cameras are up, ordinance are up. ready to kick the tires and light the fires on your say so.
-- i repeat, we are now go for mission!
what? i still can't get damien on the radio. i bet he forgot how to use the walkie again. what do you say we get a little.  pro-active? cody, very excited, grabs a plunger.
right on!! i bet damien heard that!. cody turns to four leaf, and finds himself staring straight at 10 guerilla fighters with their submachine guns pointed straight at them.
oh shit.
where are we?
what? why? we gotta get outta here! are they gonna kill us? four leaf turns on him, grabbing him with one of his hooks.
to get us out of here? come on man, yoi4 lived this, you gotta have an idea of how we can get out of here? right? four leaf looks a little at a loss.
no offense, but what the hell does that mean?
come on man, you heard him back there. they wanna off us! we gotta escape! you
stop it man! you're chokin' me!
ahh! who the hell are you? four leaf looks down, sheepishly.
so all of "tropic thunder" is bullshit?
are you even a vet!?
so you were some two bit criminal who got caught and sentenced to clean toilets at the pentagon? i idolized you man!
so you decided to take his identity?
and you cashed in!
what?
by the way, what's your name anyway?
you ever been in this jungle?
marvin, you gotta --