Blood Diamond

Archer: Who do you think got you out of jail, huh!? That makes us partners! Solomon: I am NOT your partner!

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Maddy: You're using him. Danny Archer: I am using him and you are using me and this is how it works, isn't it?

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Archer: [reads screen from just behind her] "In the 90-degree heat, Solomon Vandy drops to his knees rattling the wire with his powerful hands." [Mandy gets miffed at him] What? Maddy: Nothing. Do you think I'm exploiting his grief? You're right. It's shit. It's like one of those infomercials. You know, the little black babies with swollen bellies and flies in their eyes. So here I've got dead mothers, I've got severed limbs, but it's nothing new. It might be enough to make people cry if they read it, maybe even write a check, but it's not gonna be enough to make it stop. I am sick of writing about victims, but it's all I can fucking do. Because I need facts. I need names. I need dates. I need pictures. I need bank accounts. People back home wouldn't buy a ring, if they knew it cost someone else their hand. But I can't write that story until I get facts that can be verified which is to say, until I find someone who will go on record. So if that is not you and you're not really gonna he

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Commander Zero: Mistah Achah, Com' heah. You get som'ting for me. Archer: Den you sef get som'ting for me, ah? Commander Zero: You bring da plane com' firs'. Archer: Are you craz'? You ge' fo' pay me firs' for dem. [Commander Zero walks over to Archer and hands him a small velvet bag. Archer opens it and examines the contents, but gets visibly disappointed] Dis, no fine, ah? Dis no fine. Commander Zero: Dis no more you get, Poo'mui! [white boy] Archer: Den you'n yo' boys den can use ona all rotten AK dem, against dem gov'ment troop, and den new weapons dem, ah? Commander Zero: Maybe we just kill you and take away what you bring bok. Archer: Then you get one more dede body, instead of aeroplane way-full wit' grenade launchahs! Som'ting I'm gon' go to dem gov'ment! Dem gov'ment, at least dem gon' pay me, ah? [tries to walk out] Commander Zero: Wait, wait, my friend. Here is da ting you want. [Takes out a coffee can full of raw diamonds and pours them into Archer's hand] So many, I not kn

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Col. Coetzee: A deal went bad and you owe me money. I'll take a stone as payment. Archer: D'you think if I found a stone like that, I'd still be on this continent? [Archer laughs] Come on! Col. Coetzee: [smiles] Ach, Danny...give me your hand. [Archer extends his hand and Coetzee lets a fistful of red soil fall onto Archer's palm.] This red earth, it's in our skin. The Shona say the colour comes from all the blood that's being spilled fighting over the land. This is home. You'll never leave Africa. Archer: If you say so, sir.

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Archer: Hold up there, my man. It's this way, huh? Where do you think you are going? Stop! [confronts Solomon] I said, stop! He is not down there, all right? [but Solomon shoves] All right. You're gonna need some of that old discipline, huh? Now you listen here, my boy, and you listen well. You are not going down there. Are we clear? Solomon: You are not the master. [shoves back and walks on] Archer: Right now, that is EXACTLY WHAT I AM, AND YOU’D BETTER REMEMBER IT, KAFFIR! [Solomon rushes him at the insult and they fight. As they struggle, Archer recovers and points his gun at Solomon] Don't you fucking move, huh? Don't you move. Don't you move, huh? Solomon: My son is there! Archer: Your son is GONE, huh? Solomon: He is alive! Archer: He's gone! Solomon: He's alive! He's there with those crazy people! [Archer holds back] I am his father! His father! I should have protected him! I must go find him. I cannot live without knowing! Shoot me if you want, but I'm going. Why should it matt

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