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Synopsis: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: A24 and DIRECTV
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
R
Year:
2014
94 min
Website
218 Views


F***!

I shot someone else.

A white.

- Someone else...

- What did I say about whites?

Get the f*** out of my sight!

Get the f*** out!

Get the f*** off me, man.

F***!

What are you doing?

I'm walking. What are you doing?

Your mom just saw you kill a man.

Doesn't that mean anything to you?

F*** that dude. He deserved to get shot.

Hey! Hey!

Is that your answer now?

What, you're just gonna

go shoot everybody?

You think I don't feel f***ing pain?

Shoot me!

Oh, man. Look at your

f***ing face right now.

Cops come looking for you, this will

put you away for the rest of your life.

You're f***ing paranoid, man.

Come on, what are you doing?

Sonny, what the f*** are you doing?

You think that's gonna save me?

You think that's gonna save my life?

You think Paul doesn't talk to the cops?

- I ain't scared of them.

- Yeah?

Maybe you should be.

Do you remember what he looks like?

His eyes, a lot of hate.

And his hair was curly,

like all the boys wear.

- We're off the case.

- What?

I got a call on the way over here.

Why?

Are you serious?

That white guy right there,

he's gonna be on the front page tomorrow.

Hey, Fu Manchu, take a hike.

I hear there's a dead

body in there, though.

Damn it!

Yeah, yeah. I know, man.

I know how you feel.

Egg roll?

I heard there was a

problem at Tien Chau.

F***ing Steven. He's got a death wish.

When the time is right,

let's make it come true.

You look just like your picture.

Agent Bloom, FBI.

And I know who you are.

And what you do here, and in Guatemala

and in Singapore, Hong Kong.

Anywhere you need to send

your Chinese illegals. I know.

Clients, Agent Bloom.

They're my clients.

I know about every pisshole

you use to get your clients

into this country.

You like to read? I do. Helps me sleep.

A famous Frenchman, he said,

"Behind every fortune there's a crime."

Now that, I don't know,

but one thing I have learned.

The FBI, men like you,

takes a lot of money to catch someone.

Me?

I'm just a small potato.

Yours is like any other business,

you do a good job,

people tell their friends.

You've got a lot of happy

customers out there.

That's for sure.

But there's always gonna be some

unhappy ones, and all I need is one.

You see, in this country,

the people who stick around, they know.

They don't need to get revenge.

They just call me.

I got you.

Hey.

Hold on, will you? Stop.

Hey, hey.

Tell me what the DA said.

Depending on the information,

she might consider dropping the charges.

What information do you have?

The White Tiger, the one that

was killed in the safe house?

You got to be kidding me.

Tina, they'll kill you for that.

What am I supposed to do,

watch while my father dies in prison?

Come on.

Testifying against the Dragons

will get your father out,

but then you get on

a bus, you disappear.

Promise me you'll do that.

Sonny, I...

Thank you.

Make sure they guarantee.

Witness Protection.

NYPD! Nobody move!

F*** you, Tang!

Hands behind your back!

Don't move! Don't move!

F*** you!

- Sonny Tan!

- Hey! Hey! Hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

You have the right to remain silent.

Order in the court!

Speak up, we can't hear you.

- Quiet!

- Speak up!

- Keep talking!

- Quiet! Order in the court!

Quiet!

And who was present when

the victim was murdered?

Chicken Wing Feng.

Dumpling Choo.

- Chen I Chung.

- You're a f***ing liar!

Quiet! Sit down!

Hi Wu,

Hia Wu,

Steven Wang.

Oh, man...

Anybody else?

Anybody else, Miss Sham?

Hiu Man Tang. Sonny Tan.

And what are these men

collectively known as?

The Green Dragons.

You're f***ing dead,

you don't even know!

Don't turn your back on the

f***ing street, you're f***ing dead!

- You hear me, Tina?

- Sit down!

She identified them.

Barely.

They promised to put Tina

in Witness Protection.

They promised.

The DA thinks Tina Sham would

never make it through trial.

She's dropping the case.

Your boys are free to go.

Nice work, Moss. Good to see

you finally earning your money.

Our friend with the

death wish? Make it so.

- Get the f*** off me, man!

- You're crazy.

- Not you.

- What?

No!

Let me out.

Put him in the f***ing bin.

No!

No!

You think I don't feel f***ing pain?

Shoot me!

Dear daughter, take this money

and start something new

and exciting with your life.

I'm sorry I was not a better

father to you and Ricky,

I hope you will remember the happy times

we had as a family in Hong Kong.

Love, Baba.

Everyone has responsibility.

Captain leads, sailor sails.

Green Dragons, I've never interfered,

but this I will not accept!

Her brother saved my life!

They're watching you now!

Probably listening to your phone calls!

We built this.

With our own hands.

Get rid of the girl.

Captain leads.

Sailor sails.

When I was six,

my father took me far into

the forest and left me there.

Without food, without water.

First two days, I cry and I cry.

Then, I started to understand

the beauty of forest.

How big it was. How small I was.

Soon I come to road, truck take me home.

Neither father or mother

say anything to me.

Not a word.

I loved them even more after that,

because they show me

how strong I can be.

No!

No!

- No!

- Shoot.

Please, no!

- No!

- Shoot!

Please!

Time to find your

way home, little brother.

And in The People v. John Gotti,

the public may be given a rare

window into the inner workings

of one of New York's original

top five Mafia families.

Prosecutors are expected to

call several star witnesses

including Salvatore

"Sammy the Bull" Gravano,

who may be breaking his Cosa Nostra oath

in order to testify against

Gotti and the entire family.

In related news, authorities in Flushing

are calling the death of Wilson Yu

part of an ongoing war

between rival gangs

the Green Dragons and the White Tigers.

No arrests have been made.

The investigation continues.

Where's Paul?

Tell me! Where the f*** is he?

He's gone. Back to the old country.

Why?

Why do you bring us here?

Maybe you're young,

so you don't understand.

We all come here willing to

be servants for our children.

I died many times, Sonny.

In the name of America.

That look... I know it so well.

The hate, it's what

this country's built on.

Look at me, Sonny! Remember...

I am the American dream.

You think of anything, call me.

If any of you had told me

we'd be here today,

talking about doing

business the new way,

I'd shoot you dead.

No offense, I Chung, but where is Paul?

How do we know you're not

gonna rat us out to the cops?

Who made you the f***ing boss?

Anyone else with a stupid question?

- Tang speaking.

- I can get you Paul Wong.

Who is this?

They're bringing them

through San Francisco,

Hong Kong, Mexico City.

And that lady who's running things?

Passports.

The ink hasn't even dried yet.

Nice work. You hear anything

about Paul, you call me, okay?

Paul's the boss, yeah.

But it's bigger than business,

bigger than family. He's our religion.

And now Chung is gonna replace him?

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Fredric Dannen

Fredric Dannen is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his landmark book Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (1990), which investigated the behind-the-scenes dealings of the major American record labels in the 1970s and 1980s, focussing on the careers of leading CBS Records executives Walter Yetnikoff and Dick Asher. Hit Men came in second on Billboard_(magazine) list of "100 Greatest Music Books of All Time"More recently, Dannen was the co-author (with Barry Long) of Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East, in which Dannen examines the connections between the Hong Kong film industry and Asian organised crime.Dannen was a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and in 1986 he was co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's, Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Channels, Barron's and Rolling Stone. The Martin Scorsese-produced movie Revenge of the Green Dragons was based on Frederick Dannen’s New Yorker article chronicling Asian-American gang life in Queens, New York. more…

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