Three Kings

Three Kings is a 1999 film about a gold heist during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein following the end of the first Gulf War.
 * Written and directed by David O. Russel. Based on the story by John Ridley

It's good to be kings. (Taglines)

Archie Gates

 * Bush told the people to rise up against Saddam. They thought they'd have our support. They don't. Now they're getting slaughtered.

Dialogue

 * [Troy sees an Iraqi Army soldier up a small mound]
 * Troy Barlow: Are we shooting?
 * Soldier: What?
 * Barlow: Are we shooting people or what?
 * Soldier: Are we shooting?
 * Barlow: That's what I'm asking you!
 * Soldier: What's the answer?
 * Barlow: I don't know the answer! That's what I'm trying to find out!


 * [During an argument outside a tent when Archie Gates and Cathy Daitch are caught cleaning up after sex]
 * Cathy Daitch: Adriana, look at what's become of you.
 * Adriana Cruz: Hey, look at me, I've got my clothes on!


 * Archie Gates: Good afternoon. Would this be the proctology tent?
 * Chief Elgin: No, sir.
 * Gates: Maybe it's the urology tent. Or the neurology tent. Or the nose and throat tent.
 * Troy Barlow: Captain's at a staff meeting, sir.
 * Gates: Captain of proctologists?
 * Conrad Vig: What's a proctologist, sir?


 * Troy Barlow: Hey, would you take those fucking things off?
 * Walter: I never got to use night-vision.
 * Barlow: They do not work during the day!
 * Walter: Yeah, they kinda work.


 * Troy Barlow: I'm gonna buy a set of Lexus convertibles in every color.
 * Chief Elgin: I told you, Lexus don't make a convertible.
 * Barlow: I'll bet you a Lexus they do.
 * Elgin: Alright, but it won't be a convertible.


 * Amir Abdullah: You know what I think? You're stealing gold, that's what I think. We're fighting Saddam and dying, and you're stealing gold.
 * Archie Gates: You're wrong.
 * Abdullah: They have half a million men in the desert and they send four guys to pick up all this bullion? I don't think so.


 * Troy Barlow: Conrad, you've washed your hands like ten times.
 * Conrad Vig: Lord knows what kind of vermin live in the butt of a Dune Coon.
 * Chief Elgin: Why do you let this cracker hang around with you, man?
 * Barlow: He's all right, man. He's from a group home in Dallas. He's got no high school.
 * Vig: Don't tell people that.
 * Elgin: I don't care if he's from Johannesburg. I don't want to hear Dune Coon or Sand Nigger from him or anybody else.
 * Vig: Captain uses those terms.
 * Barlow: That's not the point, Conrad. The point is that Towel Head and Camel Jockey are perfectly good substitutes.
 * Elgin: Exactly!


 * Troy Barlow: I heard a lot of bad shit happened in Kuwait.
 * Capt. Said: Yes... bad shit happened... I'm not proud of that. Yes Saddam is very crazy, but then you are crazy for coming here.

Taglines

 * It's good to be kings.
 * In a war without heroes they are kings.

Cast

 * George Clooney - Major Archie Gates
 * Mark Wahlberg - Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow
 * Ice Cube - Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin
 * Spike Jonze - Private First Class Conrad Vig
 * Cliff Curtis - Amir Abdullah
 * Nora Dunn - Adriana Cruz
 * Jamie Kennedy - Private First Class Walter Wogaman
 * Saïd Taghmaoui - Captain Said
 * Mykelti Williamson - Colonel Ron Horn
 * Holt McCallany - Captain Doug van Meter
 * Judy Greer - Cathy Daitch
 * Liz Stauber - Debbie Barlow