I like the tracking shot.

In my younger days when I played football, my friends and I would listen to this before we would go out and play. It used to get me so pumped up.

I kept this scene queued up on my TiVO for about a year, since I kept playing it from time to time. The only shame in finding this clip here is that there's a wonderful insult that the French say about fighting the English in the scene just before this speech ("A very little little let us do.").

Still, wonderful to find it here. Voot!

No, my fair cousin;
If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

>> ^eric3579:
In my younger days when I played football, my friends and I would listen to this before we would go out and play. It used to get me so pumped up.


I used to listen to "Sympathy for the Devil" before the mile relay.

Sometimes words are blather.

Sometimes so much more.

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And now this haha!

USA USA USA!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMPyjqeBhk

There's this one from a more recent cinematic excursion...

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The great thing about this is that, while the event went down in history, I haven't got a clue when the hell St. Crispin's day is.

I don't think any modern source contends that British were outnumbered 10-1, or anything close to it. Makes good drama though I guess.

The general consensus is the English were outnumbered between 4 and 6 to 1.
Whatever the number, how could they lose with batman - 5.04 - on their side...

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Batman and BRIAN BLESSED, who I presume just SWORE LOUDLY at the French, and they ran terrified.