" This Game doesn't concern me." " Why?" "There's been too much death and destruction already." "I'm from Da Nang, in the middle of Vietnam." "Yes." "Yes." "I am here to destroy the System, so that this Game no longer exists." " THE GLADIATORS " "Producer" "Screenplay" "Director of Photography" "Did you check the red circuit?" "Yes." "Music" "Executive Producer Editor" " Director" "Davidsson here." "We have a problem with DISTORTED VALUES again." "Tell them... to send up coffee at eleven." "We still have a flicker on RECIPROCAL INSTABILITY." "And I believe... there's still a malfunction on" "SLOW MOTION MURDER." "They don't interest me at all." "They all talk of patriotism, of honour, democracy, the fight against Communism... and don't understand that all these ideas are given them by the System so it can use them better." "They're completely unaware of the tragedy of the world in which we live." "In 10 minutes they'll still be there convincing themselves of grand reasons for fighting but the Game will no longer exist." "I'm going to destroy that fucking Machine." "We'll have trouble with that one." " Who is that idiot?" " We can check." "What's his number?" "B-3 Green." "One of our splendid so-called "Allies"." "Not at the moment." "But I know that, when I finish University and go back to everyday society, the System will try to absorb me." "That's why I'm here now." "I refuse to let that happen." "I'm determined to destroy the System before it uses me... and everyone else." "We'll use Program No. 17 today." "700 million Chinese armed with Mao's thoughts are 700 million atom bombs." "If I want to destroy the System, I have to be violent." "But those who are already there, who are violent against us, the bourgeois call "law and order"." "They don't call them violent." "I have the right to say what I think and to study at the university." "I'm forced to be violent to achieve things." "The System forces me." " How much are you giving him?" " 750 volts." " Usually rising to 1,000." " Serves him right, loud-mouthed jerk." "Maybe." "He shows endurance, though." "Bastards!" "Shit!" "Goddammit!" "God, my stomach's lousy today." "Fuckers!" "Shit!" "Goddammit!" "Fuckers!" "Damn!" "Plan 10B, overall attack on enemy!" "Long live Chairman Mao's thoughts!" "Good morning." "They call you our Allies." "You burn our villages and kill children and women." "Engineer Rundelius?" "Would you please be so very kind and turn on the steam for the jungle?" "Burial Officer, please." "Ekström?" "Davidsson here." "We have a "Killed In Action" for you in 23 minutes." "Yes, we have his footprints." "ICARUS seems to be pushing him towards a climax." "I've said it before, and I'll say it again." "This Machine needs reprogramming." "It's far too... unsubtle." " Where are your comrades?" " I don't know." "Keep your hands up!" " Where are your comrades?" " I don't know." "Hands up." "Hands up." "Keep your hands up." "Where are your comrades?" "Let all be happy." "Let no-one suffer from want." "Let everyone see good around him." "And let none be miserable." "27." "25." "No entry." "Government property." "What's that?" "Government property!" "It's the Control Room." "Damn!" " You can't go in there." " Let me pass." "I've no time to lose!" "Don't you understand?" "Let me through!" "Do I have to use this?" "Don't mess with that!" "What's this place?" "What do you want?" "Or rather, what do you want?" "You know perfectly well." "First, to destroy this whole mess." "Will they appreciate it, do you think?" "They'll understand perfectly." "That's why I don't want any delay." "There's no need to explain." "They don't understand why..." "They don't think..." "That's why the present System is one of such discrimination." "Your System..." "What will that be like?" "My System?" "I'm going to establish a new idea of work and workers." "Intellectuals, labourers, students, technocrats are all equal in work." "We all work for the good of Society." "Earnings must go to the workers, not to those who profit by others' work." "That is my System." "That is real equality." "That's why I must do it now!" "I agree with you." "People are... not so aware these days." "We need to change the System." "It's far too cruel, too reactionary." "Why don't you help us change things?" "To hell with your System." ""Less cruel, less reactionary"!" "It's still the System, but of an even more revolting kind." "It proves that you don't understand how terrible the System is." "You can't help me." "That's why I must do this on my own." "Right now." "You can't." "You don't even know the way to the Control Room." "Follow the red lights." "That'll only lead to suffering and death." "Hardly practical, eh?" "Why not follow us?" "Stay here." "You can help us and some day I'll take you to the Control Room." "We need people like you, young, well-educated, who... want to change things." "And the work here isn't..." "particularly strenuous." "That's where the Machine is." "Beautiful, isn't it?" "I like the quiet in there." "Centuries of silence." "Two pork chops!" "Attack!" "Crush the paper tiger!" "Long live Chairman Mao's thoughts!" "Do you speak English?" "The lights went green!" "The red ones are there!" "We must follow the red lights!" "I agree." "She is a counter-revolutionary." "And a traitor to her country." "Do what you like with her." "Captain Davidsson, switch ICARUS to automatic mode." "Davidsson, what in God's name is happening?" "Captain Davidsson?" "What in God's name is happening?" "Captain Davidsson?" "But... that's impossible!" "Technically impossible!" "It's technically impossible!" "Technically impossible!" "Captain Davidsson, I want this job done properly." "I don't want any mistakes." "Is that clear, Captain Davidsson?" "I agree." "The aggressive tone of West German imperialism forces the German Democratic Republic to be strong in order to defend the very basis of socialism." "Socialism is the only guarantee for world peace." "Absolutely." "Quite correct." "I've won the Game." "I'm the first to get here." "No, that won't change anything." "It doesn't matter." "ICARUS will translate for us." "Sit down a bit." "I'm going to destroy all this." "And then what, B-3?" "I'll build a new System in its place." "But do you know how..." "to operate all this?" "Do you know what all the buttons are?" "Your System or someone else's..." "It takes time, knowledge and practice." "Stay here and try to learn about the Machine, instead of destroying it." "Why not?" "No." "I won't let myself be used that way." "Listen, B-3..." "The Machine uses all of us." "It uses them." "And them." "And them." "And, of course, it uses me." "You?" "Yes." "The Machine uses me more than anyone else because I, of course, know it's using me." "The Machine will never use me." "I'll never let it use me." "I said that once." "Maybe, but I am stronger than you." "The Machine has already used you..." "when you switched it on again." "That was my idea, to find the red lights and the way here." "No, sorry." "That was the Machine." "It needed its power back to deal with B-6 and C-2." "They were the only two who were a real danger to the Machine." "And therefore it had to get rid of them." "And so it got you to do it." "Perhaps..." "But when I have my System, no-one will ever be exploited again." "No." "That's not so, B-3." "Your System or someone else's..." "They're all the same."