“Out of order, I show you out of order. You don’t know what out of order is, Mr. Trask. I’d show you, but I’m too old, I’m too tired, I’m too fuckin’ blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I’d take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you’re talkin’ to? I’ve been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are… executin’ his soul! And why? Because he’s not a Bairdman. Bairdmen. You hurt this boy, you’re gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU TOO!”

– Lt. Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino), Scent of a Woman (1992), screenplay by Bo Goldman, based on a novel by Giovanni Arpino

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is speeches. Scent of a Woman suggested by Marc

Trivia: During the disciplinary meeting, Trask tells Slade ‘You are out of order!’, a line told to another of Al Pacino’s characters in …And Justice for All.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Notice the turn on the physical images of “arms torn out” and “legs ripped off” to the more metaphorical concept of “amputated spirit.”