Empire of the Sun Quotes

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Jim: Are you with the American Fleet? Frank: American Fleet! Looks like you lost your shirt kid.

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Basie: What did you say your name was boy? Jamie: Jamie and I'm building a man-flying kite and writing a book called Contract Bridge. Basie: Jim a new name for a new life.

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Dainty: What else you betting with Baise? Basie: My LIFE. [shows a copy of LIFE magazine]

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Jim: I can bring everyone back. Everyone.

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Basie: It's at the beginning and end of war that we have to watch out. In between, it's like a country club.

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[Tossing a pair of sunglasses to Jim as the Japanese army begin to beat him] Basie: I want these back when they're done.

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Jim: We'll have to leave the camp. Basie: That's the idea, Jim. First one side feeds you and the other side tries to get you killed, then it's turned around; it's all timing.

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[Jim grabs wildly at Chinese soldiers after hearing about the atomic bomb] Jim: I saw it! I saw it! It was like a white light in the sky.

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Chinese Youth: No mama. No papa. No whiskey sodas.

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Basie: Oh, buying and selling, Frank. You know. Life.

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Jim: Dr. Rawlin, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we die like the others, our bones would be IN the runway. In a way, it's OUR runway... Dr. Rawlins: No it's THEIR runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to THINK so much!

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Jim: I touched it! I touched it! I felt the heat! I can taste it in my mouth, oil and cordite!

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[last lines] Mary Graham: [upon finding her barely recognizable son] Jamie?... Jamie?... Jamie?

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[first lines] Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners,...

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Frank: [Frank and Basie see Japanese men dancing in the house] Damn it Basie, they're Japs Basie: I can see that Frank, back out of here. Frank: I can't back out, there's no reverse Basie: Just go foward Frank: Come on.

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Basie: Jesus, those Coney Island pilots!

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Jim: [about the Japanese troops camped nearby] It almost looks as if they're waiting for something to happen... John Graham, Jim's father: Yes. Jim: They didn't look angry or anything... Maxton: It's not their anger; it's their patience.

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