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You're all going to die. The only question is how you check out. Do you wanna go on your feet? Or down on your fuckin' knees... beggin'? Well I ain't much for begging! Nobody ever gave me nothing! So I say fuck that thing! Let's fight it!
— Alien 3 · 1992
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker insists everyone present will die, so the only real choice is the manner of facing it: upright and resisting, or grovelling on their knees. Refusing to beg, and citing a life in which nobody handed them anything, they turn despair into a rough, profane call to fight the threat.
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