Year of the Dragon
Appearance
Year of the Dragon is a 1985 martial arts/cop film about a police detective that cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, New York after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders in the heroin trade.
- Directed by Michael Cimino and written by Robert Daley, Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino.
Stanley White
[edit]- The first time I saw you, I hated your guts. I think I even hated you before I met you. I hated you on TV. I hated you in Vietnam. You want to know what's destroying this country? It's not booze. It's not drugs. It's TV. It's media. It's people like you. It's vampires. I hate the way you make your living sticking microphones in people's faces. You lie every night at 6:00. I hate the way you kill real feelings. I hate everything that you stand for. Most of all, I hate rich kids and I hate this place. So why do I want to fuck you so bad?
- I'm no Italian. I'm a Polack. And I can't be bought.
Joey Tai
[edit]- Dollars are like small fish, difficult to catch, but not to be thrown back except as bait for something bigger.
Herbert Kwong
[edit]- I die, I'm fucked. My family's fucked.
Dialogue
[edit]- Tracy Tzu: You're acting like a child.
- Stanley White: Well, a great man is one who in manhood still keeps the heart of a child.
- Stanley White: One last thing. The next cop that I hear about who's taking money in this precinct, I'm gonna personally bust him in the mouth. Are there any questions?
- Woman Officer: What if it's a woman?
- Stanley White: She better bend over!
- Tracy Tzu: Captain McKenna, any leads in the murder of Jackie Wong?
- William McKenna: Nothing at this time.
- Tracy Tzu: Do you think this killing means there's some kind of war going on in the Chinatown Tongs?
- William McKenna: No, I don't. This is basically a situation where the youth gangs are lashing out at the establishment. The community is cooperating. The situation's under control.
- Tracy Tzu: I think you upset him.
- Stanley White: I certainly hope so.
- Louis Bukowski: You care too much, Stanley.
- Stanley White: How can anybody care too much?
- Stanley White: A fish stinks from the head down.
- Harry Yung: The Chinese eat the head.
- Stanley White: You were right; I'm was wrong. Sorry. I'd like to be a nice guy. I would. I just don't know how to be nice.
- Tracy Tzu: You're really cracked. You know that? [Kisses Stanley]
Cast
[edit]- Mickey Rourke as Stanley White
- John Lone as Joey Tai
- Ariane Koizumi as Tracy Tzu
- Leonard Termo as Angelo Rizzo
- Raymond J. Barry as Louis Bukowski
- Caroline Kava as Connie White
- Eddie Jones as William McKenna
- Joey Chin as Ronnie Chang
- Victor Wong as Harry Yung
- K. Dock Yip as Milton Bin
- Pao Han Lin as Fred Hung
- Daniel Davin as Francis Kearney
External links
[edit]- Year of the Dragon quotes at the Internet Movie Database