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Independence Day (the speech from the film) (Free verse) by scitz Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others
from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial
battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new
meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty
differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps
it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be
fighting for our freedom...Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution..
.but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.
And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as
an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We
will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!"
We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our
Independence Day!
[Crowd cheers]
I saw...its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like
locusts. They're moving from planet to planet...their whole civilization.
After they've consumed every natural resource they move on...and we're
next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.
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I saw...its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like
locusts. They're moving from planet to planet...their whole civilization.
After they've consumed every natural resource they move on...and we're
next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.
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Up the ladder:
Good prevails
Down the ladder:
hells atrium
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Posted: July 5, 2003 4:10 AM PDT; Last modified: July 5, 2003 4:10 AM PDTWeighted score: 4.7310586 Overall Rank: 11832 Comments:
I think I look more debonair than Jeff Goldblum, I wonder how you paste one's photo on to the the international superhighway
'we must learn to love one another AND die'
and 'i will not go down under the ground/cos somebody tells me that deaths comin round' just a couple of quotes with reference to this transcription
While I don't necessarily object to adaptation (some of the finest poems have been birthed in such a fashion), there ought to be some effort put into the finished product. I see little evidence of such. No enjambment, no typographical changes. For all I know, you could have very well copy-and-pasted this from a web page. What's the difference between this and plagiarizing Shakespeare, Milton, Ginsberg, or Atwood?
The irony, obviously. We are the locusts capable of moving from planet to planet doing just what it is we supposedly are resisting. That and timing, because it's unquotable hollywood crap being used by a poet to repoint the finger, I believe, makes the piece entirely different from the way you're viewing it. It made me laugh at every line.
I sense some internal personalization occuring. lol.
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The last part sounds like something George Dubya would say.