Savages Page #5

Synopsis: In California, the former Navy SEAL Chon and his best friend, the peaceful botanist Ben, are successful entrepreneurs producing and dealing high-quality weed. Chon brought seeds from Afghanistan and Ben used his knowledge to develop the best marijuana in the country. Chon and Ben share the pothead lover Ophelia and she loves both of them since they complete each other - Chon is a powerful and strong lover and Ben is a sensible and loving lover. Their comfortable life changes when the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a partnership in their business. Chon and Ben refuse the deal and the leader of the cartel Elena sends her right-arm in America, Lado, to abduct Ophelia to press the American drug dealers. Chon and Ben ask the support of the dirty DEA Agent Dennis and get inside information to begin a secret war against the Baja Cartel to release Ophelia.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: Universal Pictures
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2012
131 min
$47,300,000
Website
3,114 Views


Yeah, in botany.

Every man in her f***ing Iife

has Iet her down.

She's in this

sh*t because of us.

When I said, "Kill them."

"They can't come up north,

there's too

much heat on them."

You said, "No, Iet's talk

about it." How's that

working out for you?

That's your

answer for everything!

Just f***ing kill everybody!

I didn't see you

stick a f***ing gun

in your mouth, Ben!

I haven't Ieft a man behind

in my whole f***ing Iife!

Do you think I would?

With Brad it was Iike...

I don't know if this is

really going to happen.

But with him,

I feel Iike this is serious.

I think what worries me is

I think you're

too much for him.

What do you mean?

(LAUGHING)

I think you're too young

and he's just

a Iittle bit older

and a Iittle bit more demure.

I feel Iike

the defining question is,

does he make you laugh?

OPHELIA:
This isn't fair.

Why can't I talk to

whoever is in charge here?

Huh?

Is anyone listening?

Why can't I talk to anyone?

F***!

(DOOR OPENS)

Hey!

Maybe I could get

a clean room at Ieast.

Maybe a salad

every once in a while,

instead of pizza all the time.

(DOOR CLOSES)

You don't know my mom,

but if she doesn't

hear from me soon,

she's going to

do something really stupid.

She's probably going to

call the FBI or something.

Because my stepdad,

he was in the FBI

or the CIA or one of them.

So you better get me

on the Internet soon.

You can supervise me, sure.

That's fine.

But that way, at least

I can tell someone

somewhere that I'm alive.

And I know that

I can be here

for like seven to 10 days.

A month, maybe.

Whoever you are,

just think

I could be your daughter.

Twice in one week.

Not good, guys.

Get in, please.

You know, a Iittle sleep

can do wonders.

To what do I

owe this pleasure?

Dennis, we need your

files on the Baja cartel.

What?

I told you,

don't f*** with these people.

And I follow my own advice.

Have a nice day.

BEN:
Dennis, you step

out that car, I'm coming

down to San Diego

to introduce myself

to your district supervisor.

And you're going

to have a hard time

explaining

half-a-million dollars

parked in the Cook Islands

when you clear 110,

after taxes.

And don't even think about

calling someone

and having us disappear

because I got

plenty of evidence

in other people's hands.

So what happened

to our mutually-assured

destruction thing?

We rat each other out,

we all end up

in the same prison cell.

What happened to that?

They Iifted O.

Really?

Are you surprised?

Yeah.

Well, I'll do time,

but you got kids, Dennis.

They're already

growing up without a mom.

You don't have

a move, here.

Now, Iisten.

When Hillary Clinton grows up,

she wants to be Elena Sanchez.

You run up

against "La Reina" Elena

and I'm telling you,

I see dead people.

That's really dramatic.

But in

the reality-based community,

there's always a weakness.

Okay, here's the deal.

Do you know this EI Azul guy?

AII right. He was her

inside man for years,

and now he's out.

This year,

there's the Mexican

presidential election.

He's in, she's done.

There was a bust in Baja,

the Iargest grow ever.

A quarter of a million plants.

It's hers.

She's Iosing men,

she's Iosing money

Iike a BP oil spill.

That's why she's coming up

and moving in on

indie guys Iike you.

Where does she Iive?

She got a house up here?

Tijuana. And don't

even think about it.

She's got security,

Iike, beyond the American

f***ing embassy.

Look, this is the deal.

Husband, brothers, dead.

Two sons, dead.

She's got a son

in Mexico City.

He's some playboy, he's alive.

A daughter, Magda, also dead.

And that's all

I f***ing know!

This is f***ing bullshit!

We need what

the DEA's got on the cartel.

Names, histories,

stash houses.

But that ain't part

of the deal, buddy boy!

It is now.

It don't work that way.

It's f***ing

Their databases are encrypted

in redundant firewalls.

Again. More f***ing bullshit!

It's not bullshit!

Our guys help set

up those firewalls.

Anything can be hacked!

We're running out

of time, Dennis.

You have to step up right now.

You know what?

Get f***ed, both of you.

F*** me, f*** you.

I'm out of here.

(SCREAMS)

What the f***, Chon!

Motherf***er!

BEN:
What the hell

are you doing?

They took O.

They took our girl.

And I will do anything,

anything, to get her back.

Do you understand me?

Holy sh*t, Chon!

You f***ing

stabbed a federal agent!

Look at this!

Oh, God.

I'll do more than that.

Okay, stop, stop, stop.

I'll figure it out.

I'll figure something out.

Crazy motherf***er.

I want to hear

from you soon, Dennis.

DENNIS:
F***!

So, we're hearing

the food here is

not good enough?

We're concerned,

you know.

DEA AGENT:
Paul Durth.

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Hello, sweetheart.

I need 60 days on this card

and all

the geo-Iocations on this one.

Can you do that?

Of course.

Okay.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES)

How's the hand?

Don't bite it again.

CRAIG:
Let's run them.

Whoa.

It's a mudslide,

off two Iousy cards.

This dude's

ahead of the curve.

What do you got?

I got it, too.

Your boy Dennis came through.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)

This Iawyer dude,

Alex Reyes,

set her up with a 100,000-acre

ranch in Humboldt County.

Elena "La Reina"

has got property

all over the place.

In La Jolla,

parts of Palm Desert,

apartments in Miami,

London, Zurich.

Check it out.

There's gaps here.

This guy's

shrouding his sources.

You think old

Dennis pulled a Nixon?

It's an NTFS partition.

He f***ed up

the master boot record.

Claire, can you

google those houses again?

Whoever did this

is very good.

Spin? Cash.

What can we clear in now?

Chon and my accounts?

Liquid?

You can't dump the house

or you'll take

a two-million Iump to the head

and depends on

how fast I can move

the gold and silver,

but Iet's

estimate six to eight.

Are you kidding me?

That's all?

After all these years.

Wow. You've been

f***ing me in the ass.

I'm insulted you

only just realized that.

I didn't go all Bono

all over Africa and Asia,

buddy-buddy.

Let's say we're three

to four million short

depending on what

we can get them down.

Come here.

There's got to be millions

sitting in these houses

at one time or another.

It would be Iike

Robin Hood.

A f***ed-up Robin Hood.

I Iove it.

A couple of IEDs and RPGs

might come in handy.

We could go real

Sunni on these bastards.

Um...

Are we in any

sort of danger, here?

Did I not tell you

everything goes through

Mr. Alex?

Not this.

This is 10 million cash,

straight up, for the girl.

And we stay happy partners.

Look, Ms. Sanchez,

I thought this through.

So have I, and I put

her value at 15 million.

That's too much.

Why? You don't

think she's worth it?

No, she's worth it.

We're small, compared to you.

Grow up, motherf***er.

Give us a break, here.

AII right?

How about 12?

You must stop trying

to negotiate with me.

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Shane Salerno

Shane Salerno (born November 27, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His writing credits include the movies Armageddon, Savages, Shaft, and the TV series Hawaii Five-0. He was chosen by director James Cameron to work on the four sequels to Avatar, set to release in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. He spent ten years writing, producing, financing, and directing the documentary Salinger, and co-writing with David Shields the companion book which became a New York Times bestseller. Salerno is also the founder and president of The Story Factory, which produces film and TV series based on literary properties.As a writer, Salerno has collaborated with James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, William Friedkin, Oliver Stone, and Ron Howard. He has sold pitches, spec screenplays, fiction and non-fiction books, feature film documentaries, television pilots, television documentaries, and foreign book deals of between $2 and $6 million. more…

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