The Bounty (1984)

John Sessions: Smith

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• John Fryer : What are we going to do, sir?

  Lt. William Bligh : Well, we shall have to try and reach Kupang.

  John Fryer : Without charts?

  Lt. William Bligh : Well, I shall have to try and navigate from memory, Mr. Fryer. It will take us close to the most savage islands in these waters, the Fiji Islands, where cannibalism is perfected almost to a science, and from there, my friends, God willing, we shall proceed on to the Great Barrier Reef itself, then to New Holland, and from there across the Timor Sea to Kupang. And now it will take us at least two months, and we have provisions and water enough to last us one week. So that is the situation, gentlemen, plain and simple.

  John Smith : Well we'll just have to make the best of it, won't we, sir?

  Lt. William Bligh : Make the best of it, Smith? Yes! But will you? That's what I'd ask myself. Will you make the best of it? You hear me? Are you prepared to make the best of it, all of you? Because all I can promise you, lads, is relentless pain and hardship. Now if you're prepared to make do, and make sacrifices, and furthermore are willing to swear by it, I promise you our chances of survival are fair. You hear me? You all say "Aye"?

  All : Aye.

  Lt. William Bligh : Good!