So the other day I was watching the classic World War II film The Battle of the Bulge, which is one of those giant not-overwhelmingly-accurate epic war movies starring everyone that used to get made back in the '60s and '70s. (Other canonical examples include The Longest Day, Patton, and A Bridge Too Far, the last of which might have been the last of its kind to be made.) There's a famous scene in which the veteran German tank commander, Colonel Hessler, is inspecting the replacement troops he's been given for the upcoming offensive. He dismisses them as "boys" (which, in fairness, more than a few of the troops Germany had left by that point were), and to show their fighting spirit to their skeptical boss, they break into the Panzerlied.(I could be wrong, but I think I detect an echo of this scene in The Hunt for Red October. "Let them sing...")
I've been kicking around some things to do with Girls und Panzer at the back of my head lately, and so that scene automatically caused this one.
INT. DAY. Kuromorimine Girls' Academy Tankery garage. MAHO NISHIZUMI is conducting the first team inspection of the new school year. There are a lot of freshmen this year.
At the end of the row, she stops and turns to ERIKA ITSUMI, a look of grim disquiet on her face.
MAHO
Girls. Too many girls.
ERIKA
The first battle will turn them into men.
A beat.
ERIKA
Wait, that's not right.
--G.
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