Windtalkers Quotes

[after Joe takes Yazi's food]

Charlie Whitehorse: How's your white man?

Ben Yahzee: Hungry.

Ben Yahzee: I'm Ben Yahzee, I guess the corps paired us up, may I join you?

Joe Enders: You're blocking my view.

Ben Yahzee: Sorry.

[about the food]

Ben Yahzee: What do they call this crap anyway?

Joe Enders: Marines call it chow.

Ben Yahzee: Well there is a propaganda effort there.

Ben Yahzee: [he accidentally knocks over his cup of coffee] Shit, sorry, you could have mine.

[he then accidentally spills the coffe all over his food]

Joe Enders: What did you say your name was again?

Ben Yahzee: Ben Yahzee.

[Enders gives him his food which has been ruined and takes his food]

Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] How is your white man?

Ben Yahzee: Hungry.

Ben Yahzee: Hey do you guys know where we would find second joint assualt singnal?

Marine: No fuckin' idea mac.

Ben Yahzee: Thanks, thanks a bunch.

Charlie Whitehorse: [in Navajo] I've never seen so many white men.

Ben Yahzee: Oh, they've never seen so many Navajos before.

Ben Yahzee: Enders, I can't find Whitehorse anywhere. Have you seen him?

Joe Enders: He's over there.

Ben Yahzee: [he sees his friend dead, blown up by a grenade with other Japanese soldiers] This was suppose to be a secured area, what happened?

Joe Enders: I killed him.

Ben Yahzee: You what?

Joe Enders: I took a grenade, threw it in there and blew him up.

Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: Do your johns have any thing to do with these Navajo radiomen?

Joe Enders: I'm not at liberty to say.

Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: [notices a new stripe on his uniform] See you got a new stripe on, me too. So I'm guessin the same orders i aint liberated to tell you is the same orders you aint liberated to tell me.

Joe Enders: This is no democracy Sergant, this is the Marines. They look pretty normal I guess, expectin them to wear war paint.

Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: Well we might want to go and introduce ourselves they look a little lost.

Joe Enders: Anderson, I wouldn't get too friendly.

Sargeant Ryan 'Ox' Anderson: [to the Navajos] How, just kiddin I'm Ox.

Charlie Whitehorse: I'm Whitehorse, this is Yahzee, Ben.

Ben Yahzee: Sergeant, I'm telling you I won't freeze up again.

Joe Enders: Because your buddy smeared ash on your forehead?

Ben Yahzee: That's right, because my buddy smeared ash on my forehead.

Private Chick: I dont wanna die in this shit hole, Joe.

Joe Enders: You're not gonna die... nobody else is gonna die. We're gonna make it out of this.

Joe Enders: You think too much.

Private Chick: First time I've ever been accused of that.

Private Chick: I don't want to die in this shithole, Joe!

Joe Enders: No one is gonna die!

Ben Yahzee: This was supposed to be a secure area. What happened?

Joe Enders: I killed him.

Private Ben Yahzee: Radio Man:

[to Private Ben Yahzee]

Private Ben Yahzee: Remember Marine, ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die. Semper Fi. Over

Major Mellitz: [Showing a series of photographs] Take a look. It's a Navajo... or was. Tortured to death by Japanese intelligence trying to bust our code. Fortunately, couldn't help them even if he wanted to.

Joe Enders: Sir?

Major Mellitz: Man's a Navajo, not a Code Talker. Code's based on their language, but it is still a code. Tojo'd like nothing more than to catch a live one.