Three Kings Page #18

Synopsis: Just after the end of the Gulf War, four American soldiers decide to steal a cache of Saddam Hussein's hidden gold. Led by cynical Sergeant Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), three of the men are rescued by rebels, but Sergeant Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) is captured and tortured by Iraqi intelligence. The Iraqi rebels beg for the American trio to help fight against the impending arrival of Hussein's Elite Guard. The men agree to fight in return for help rescuing Troy.
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  8 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1999
114 min
Website
488 Views


PACO:

What about Private Wogoman, Bill?

BILL SMITHSON:

Let's lay a few of these down

first. In three, two, and, I'm

being held captive in a gritty

suburb of Karbala, where Shiite

fundamentalists are rising up --

PAN TO Walter is stripped naked by Iraqi soldiers. Their

CONVERSATION is in ARABIC and SUBTITLED in ENGLISH.

IRAQI CAPTAIN:

You better not let that f***ing

reporter see you doing this.

IRAQI SARGEANT:

Hey, that's the CNN guy.

IRAQI CAPTAIN:

Wow. He's much shorter in person.

IRAQI CAPTAIN:

Get them out of here now.

LATER:

Walter sits on the bike, naked. Bill Smithson in the sidecar,

Paco in the back. Iraqi soldiers pull the tape out.

BILL SMITHSON:

At least let me keep the tape.

WALTER:

Could I have my helmet, please?

They hand him his socks.

WALTER:

Helmet. On my head.

They give Walter his helmet, with built-in radio headset.

EXT. U.S. COMPANY B CAMP - MESS AREA - DAY

GENERAL HORN:

Who's missing?

CAPTAIN VAN METER

Is Doc here?

The White Assistant shakes his head 'NO.'

CAPTAIN VAN METER

Doc's not here?

GENERAL HORN:

You don't know where one of your

own f***ing aides is?

CAPTAIN VAN METER

How about Barlow?

The White Assistant shakes his head 'NO.'

GENERAL HORN:

Check all the radio transmissions.

CAPTAIN VAN METER

I run a tight company, Ron. Don't

break my bails.

GENERAL HORN:

I'm not breaking your balls, Doug,

I want to find these guys.

INT. TUNNEL - DAY

Archie, Doc, Vig, and dozens of Shiites crouch as they walk

through the tunnel, single file.

Dissolve

They are still walking in the long tunnel.

EXT. OPEN DESERT - DAY

Archie climbs out of a small mound in the desert, squints in

the light and looks around.

A strange minaret stretches skyward from the flat desert, 200

yards away. The minaret is made of yellow stone, it twists

150 feet into the air, like a twisting wedding cake.

Archie leads the others toward the minaret. No one is around,

except for a few black robes. Archie, Doc, and Vig enter the

old wooden doorway of the ancient Minaret.

INT. MINARET HALLWAY - DAY

A line of TEN CHILDREN with missing limbs and bandages stand

and watch Archie, Doc, and Vig enter. They make eye contact.

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM, OASIS BUNKER - DAY

CLOSE UP:
the hands of an Iraqi soldier carefully wrap a bare

wire around Troy's right ear.

INTERROGATOR:

(heavy accent)

What is your rank, bro?

TROY:

Master sargeant.

INTERROGATOR:

Your company?

TROY:

B Company, infantry, United States

Army.

The wire is wrapped under Troy's chin around his other ear.

INTERROGATOR:

My main man. Tell me something,

OK? What is problem with Michael

Jackson?

TROY:

What do you mean?

INTERROGATOR:

The King of Pop. 'I'm bad, I'm

bad, you know it --'

TROY:

Yeah, Michael Jackson.

INTERROGATOR:

He is fahking the small boys, man.

TROY:

What are you talking about?

INTERROGATOR:

He come to Egypt with the small

boys. I see picture in newspaper,

always he is with the small boys

in the hotel window. Hello with

the white glove. I am King of Pop

in my hotel with the small boys.

No girls. Just the boys.

TROY:

He likes kids.

INTERROGATOR:

Yeah, he like to fahk them up the

ass.

TROY:

Bullshit.

Troy is smashed in the face with a clipboard. He looks

angry, and like he could cry at the same time.

INTERROGATOR:

You are the blind bullshit, my

main man. It is so obvious he

like the small boy so he all the

time travel with them.

TROY:

Fine.

INTERROGATOR:

And if it really true? You say --

TROY:

I say it's sick.

INTERROGATOR:

That's because you got a sick

country, bro, you got no respect

for the children. That's why you

bomb them over here, right?

TROY:

I don't think so.

INTERROGATOR:

Michael Jackson is Pop King of

sick fahking country.

TROY:

Wrong.

Troy is smashed in the face with the clip board. Blood drips

from his nose.

INTERROGATOR:

Bullshit wrong, dude. A black man

make the skin white and the hair

straight. You know why?

TROY:

No.

INTERROGATOR:

Your sick fahking country make the

black man hate hisself, just like

you hate the Arab and the children

you bomb.

TROY:

I don't hate children.

INTERROGATOR:

Do they care, buddy?

TROY:

Does who care?

INTERROGATOR:

Do your army care about the Shiite

children? Do they come to help?

TROY:

No, they're not coming.

The Interrogator signals someone O.S. and suddenly voltage

races through the wire, causing Troy to gnash his teeth

together so hard they chip. He writhes in pain.

INTERROGATOR:

(in subtitles)

That seemed like too much volts.

You got to build it up slow.

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David O. Russell

David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999) and I ♥ Huckabees (2004). more…

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