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All right, people, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the corps!
— Aliens · 1986
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Apone sells the Corps with such sarcastic cheer that the speech is half recruiting poster and half threat. The marines are loud, cocky and likeable, and the film wants you to like them before it takes them apart. Fans quote the closing 'I love the Corps' as the all-purpose cry for a job you have little choice about.
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In context
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Aliens (1986). Aboard the Sulaco, the Colonial Marines wake from hypersleep on the way to LV-426. Sergeant Apone, the cigar-chewing platoon sergeant played by Al Matthews, who was himself a former US Marine, gets them moving with a barracks speech about the glories of the Corps: a day on the farm, every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade. It is the audience's first look at the marines as a unit, bragging and bantering, before the mission goes wrong.
Sources (3)
- Wikiquote: Aliens (film)Sergeant Apone sectionReference checked
- Xenopedia: Alexander AponeLead quote and personality sectionReference checked
- Xenopedia: Al MatthewsLeadReference checked
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