Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond (film) is a 2006 film that follows a rare pink diamond found in Sierra Leone, and the effect it has on the man who finds it, a smuggler who wants it, and an American journalist trying to find and expose the truth about these "blood diamonds".

Directed by Edward Zwick. Written by Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell (story).

Danny Archer

• You know in America it's "bling, bling," but out here it's "bling, bang."

• What if I told you I was a missionary?

• You Americans, you Americans love to talk about you feelings.

• Look, I don't give a fuck about you! That diamond could be priceless! We split it and you get your family, yes or no. Yes or no!

• The only reason you're still alive is because you haven't told anyone where it is.

• That diamond is my ticket out of this... godforsaken continent.

• Sometimes I wonder: Will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.

• [to Maddy] Well, off the record, I like to get kissed before I get fucked.

• When's the last time the world wasn't falling apart?

• Who do you think buys the stones I bring out? dreamy American girls who want a story book wedding and a big shiny rock just like the ones they see in the advertisements in your politically correct magazines. So, please, don't come here and make judgements on me, alright. I provide a service, the world wants what we have, and they want it cheap. We're in business together you and me. Get over yourself, darling.

• We thought we were fighting communism, but in the end it was all about who gets what, you know? Ivory, Oil, Gold... Diamonds. So one day I decided "Fuck it," ya know? "I'm gonna get mine."

• You know I once had this buddy named Maboko. We used to hunt bushmeat together as kids. Now baboons, baboons they were the hardest to catch. We'd always find them by the smell of their shit and that's how we learned to track your black terrorists in Angola: by the smell of your shit. It's not the same as a baboon's but after you skin it the flesh of a baboon isn't all that different than a man's you know. I tell you, I can track anything. Risk my life like that again and I'll peel you face back off your head.

• [As Solomon deserts Archer] Oh that is exactly what I am and you'd better remember it Kaffir! [livid Solomon knocks him down]

• [last words] That's alright. I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

Others

• Maddy: [To Danny] So what are you... a smuggler?

• M'ed: This is my country, man. We here long 'fore you came.. long after you're gone.

• Solomon Vandy: [To his son] I will find you... if it takes my life.

• Captain Poison: Young man, young man, you must understand! The government wants you to vote, ok? They say 'The future is in your hands!'... R.U.F. are the future! So we take your hands! No more hands, no more voting!

• Captain Poison: I do not need to kill you Solomon Vandy. I will find the rest of your family, just as I have found your son. I will rape your wife in front of your eyes, slit her throat... and I will keep your daughters for myself. You think I am a devil. But only because I have lived in hell. I want to get out. You will help me."

• Colonel Coatzee: T.I.A., huh Danny?

Dialogue

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: Where is Commander Zero?

Captain: I am Captain Rambo.

Archer: Right, Right. I've seen your films, huh.

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Commander Zero: Maybe we just kill you and take away what you bring (lapses into Creole).

Archer: Then you get one more dead body, instead of aeroplane way-full with grenade launchers! So I think I'm gon' go to dem government! Dem government, at least dem gon' pay me, ah?

Commander Zero: Wait, wait, my friend. Here is da ting you want. (Takes out a can full of diamonds) So many, I not know what do with them all. Hey Archer! Next time, you bring a satellite TV, eh? I want see Baywatch!

Archer: Ja ja.

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[On the news that the rebels are approaching the city]

Archer: Maybe time to get your family out, huh?

A'med: And go where? Just fire up the chopper and fly away like you people? This my country, man. We here long 'fore you came; Long after you gone.

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Solomon: You are how old?

Archer: Me? I'm 31.

Solomon: And you have no wife?

Archer: No.

Solomon: ...no children?

Archer: No.

Solomon: ...and no home?

Archer: No.

Solomon: But you have money, yes?

Archer: Ja...some.

Solomon: ...but not enough?

Archer: No

Solomon: If you get this diamond, you will have enough money, yes?

Archer: Yes.

Solomon: ...then you will get the wife and children.

Archer: Probably not, no.

[Solomon chuckles]

Archer: What?

Solomon: ...I'm confused.

Archer: Yeah? ...Makes two of us my brü.

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Archer: Ah Christ...I've gotta quit smoking, huh?

Solomon: Why don't you?

Archer: I tell you what, Solomon. You find me this diamond, I'll quit right then and there, huh! (hah)

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Archer: Cordell... howzit shona?

Cordell: Long time, pal.

Archer: How's Alice?

Cordell: Ah, she's well, thanks.

Archer: Tim must be in school, right?

Cordell: Ah, big kids, big problems ya know?

Archer: Ja ja.

Cordell: I heard you got into a spot of trouble in the bush, huh?

Archer: Ah... well, you know the bush, right brü?

[Cordell chuckles]

Archer: Company doing well?

Cordell: Can't complain...11 wars in the continent, we're keeping busy.

Archer: So, what, you here on holiday, huh?

Archer: ...How's the colonel?

Cordell: He sends his regards.

Archer: Good, good... score us a loose, huh?

Cordell: Smoking'll kill you, brü.

Archer: Ah... only if I live, right?

[Archer punches him in the gut]

Archer: ...Thats for breaking my T.V. brü. Tell the colonel he'll get his money. I'll come see him soon.

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Maddy: You lost both your parents didn't you?

Archer: That's a polite way of putting it, ja. Mom was raped and shot and... Dad was decapitated and hung from a hook in the barn. I was 9. Boo hoo, right?

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Cordell: Smoking'll kill you brü..

Archer: Only if I live, huh?

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Archer: T.I.A., right M'ed?

M'ed: T.I.A.

Maddy: (to Archer) What's T.I.A.?

Archer: This Is Africa, huh?

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(After the colonel been shot on his chest)

Colonel: T.I.A., huh, Danny?

Archer: T.I.A.

(Archer shoots the colonel as the colonel draws his gun again)

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[Archer is dying from being shot to the side]

Archer: Take it.

Solomon: Mr. Archer...

Archer: Take it! Take it!

Solomon: I thought you'd steal it from me?

Archer: Ja, it occured to me, huh?

[Archer laughs]

Archer: Listen, this is Maddy's card, huh. You call her when you get to Conakry, alright? [giving Solomon his gun] And don't trust that pilot for a second. You point this at his head if he fucks around, alright?

Solomon: I can carry you.

Archer: You take your boy home, huh. You take him home.

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[As Archer is dying of a bullet wound]

Soldier: Archer, you're a dead man!

Archer: Ja ja.

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Archer: You publish one word of this story before I give them the stone and I'm dead, huh?

Maddy: What if you don't come out with the diamond?

Archer: Then write whatever the hell you want, I'm already dead.

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Maddy: Hello, Maddy Bowen?

Archer: Thought I'd never call, huh?

Maddy: And I'm so glad you did. Um, when am I gonna see you?

Archer: Maddy, I want you to do me one more favor, huh? I want you to go meet Solomon. In Conakry.

Maddy: In Guinea. Why do you want me to go to Guinea?

Archer: We found his son, but he's gonna need some help. You understand? Maddy?

Maddy: You're hurt. Are you hurt?

Archer: Ja, well, I've got a little problem here.

Maddy: OK, you, um, you tell me where you are. Archer?

Archer: I'm looking at an incredible view right now. I wish you were here, Maddy.

Maddy: OK, then I'm coming to be with you. You just tell me where you are.

Archer: I don't think so.

Maddy: Are you still in Kono? Because I can get someone there to help you.

Archer: Maddy, you find someplace safe for the boy, alright? And keep him out of sight. And get Solomon to London. He's bringing something with him, and he's gonna need your help.

Maddy: Why aren't you bringing it yourself?

Archer: I'm saying it's a real story now, and you can write the hell out of it. I'm really happy I met you, you know that?

Maddy: Yeah, I'm, um, I'm really happy I met you, too. And I wish I could be there with you.

Archer: That's alright. I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.

[Archer hangs up, notices his blood mixing into the red earth, and dies as the sun sets]

Cast

• Leonardo DiCaprio - Danny Archer
• Jennifer Connelly - Maddy Bowen
• Djimon Honsou - Solomon Vandy

External links

• IMDB.com site
• The Official Blood Diamond Site