Mudbound (2017)

Garrett Hedlund: Jamie McAllan

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Quotes 

• Jamie McAllan : You ever miss it sometimes? Being over there. I don't mean being shot at, but sometimes, I actually miss it.

  Ronsel Jackson : Yeah, me, too. Over there, I was a liberator. People lined up in the streets waiting for us. Throwing flowers and cheering. And here I'm just another nigger pushing a plow.

• Jamie McAllan : You tanker boys ever piss in your helmets?

  Ronsel Jackson : [coughs]  Plenty of times.

  Jamie McAllan : We had a relief tube up in the cockpit. Sometimes it was easier just to go in our flak helmets. But at 20,000 feet that piss freezes solid in less than a minute. It's that cold up there? Shit. I'm talking 20, 30 below. One time we were on this long haul, I pissed in my helmet, I forgot all about it. We were just over the target. I put the helmet back on. We're doing this bombing run, dodgin' enemy flak, and all of a sudden I started feelin' something runnin' down my face.

  Ronsel Jackson : [laughs] 

  Jamie McAllan : Yeah, I thought I was hit.

  [both laughing] 

• Ronsel Jackson : So, what about you? What's the worst thing you ever done?

  Jamie McAllan : Who, me? I'm a saint.

  Ronsel Jackson : [scoffs]  I bet. I bet.

• Jamie McAllan : Men that died that day... they were husbands, fathers. They were good men. A lot better than me.

• [first lines] 

  Jamie McAllan : [in a hole digging] 

  Henry McAllan : You better get a hurry along. We ain't gonna make it.

  [mopping his brow] 

  Henry McAllan : Oh, we will. We have to.

  [sighs] 

  Henry McAllan : Take a break. Come on. My turn.

  Jamie McAllan : "We will. We have to."

  Jamie McAllan : [narrating]  That was my brother, Henry. Absolutely certain whatever he wanted to happen would.