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Colonel Jessup and the lunch scene


When Kaffee and his colleagues meet Jessup at his office in Cuba, he is all smiles and pleasantries. He even asks about Kaffee's famous father. It does not take long before he drops the mask and reveals his true self. He is an arrogant authoritarian who disregards any challenge. He resents Kaffee and Co for coming down to Cuba to question him about Santiago's death. He makes a sexist joke to Kaffee about female officers, knowing full well that Galloway cannot answer back. He is setting the stage for the court room showdown with Kaffee at the trial.

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He could handle the truth

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Uh. Yeah.

Thanks for explaining what we all know.

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lol, OP is doing exactly what the movie does. Explains everything. Spells everything out. "Tells you what it's going to do, does it, and then tells you what it did" as Roger Ebert wrote.

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And did it damn well. 😊

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