Three Kings (1999)
Ice Cube: Chief Elgin
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Quotes
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Archie Gates : What's the most important thing in life?
Troy Barlow : Respect.
Archie Gates : Too dependent on other people.
Conrad Vig : What, love?
Archie Gates : A little Disneyland, isn't it?
Chief Elgin : God's will.
Archie Gates : Close.
Troy Barlow : What is it then?
Archie Gates : Necessity.
Troy Barlow : As in?
Archie Gates : As in people do what is most necessary to them at any given moment.
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Archie Gates : Sit down. What do you see here?
Chief Elgin : Bunkers, sir.
Archie Gates : What's in them?
Troy Barlow : Stuff they stole from Kuwait.
Archie Gates : Bullshit. I'm talking about millions in Kuwaiti bullion.
Conrad Vig : You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup?
Archie Gates : No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.
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[Conrad retrieved a map from an Iraqi's soldier's butt]
Sgt. 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?
Sgt. Troy Barlow : He's all right, man. He's from a group home in Dallas. He's got no high school.
Conrad Vig : Don't tell people that.
Chief 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.
Conrad Vig : Captain uses those terms.
Sgt. Troy Barlow : That's not the point, Conrad. The point is that "towelhead" and "camel jockey" are perfectly good substitutes.
Chief Elgin : Exactly!
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Troy Barlow : Let's just stick to the plan. The plan is for the gold, right?
Chief Elgin : Hold on, we can help these people first, and then we can be on our way.
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Archie Gates : You know anything about gunshot wounds?
Conrad Vig : I don't know.
Archie Gates : Specifically, the worst thing about a gunshot wound, provided you survive the bullet, is something called sepsis.
Chief Elgin : Infection of the blood...
Archie Gates : That's right. Say a bullet tears into your gut. It creates a cavity in the dead tissue. That cavity fills up with bile, and bacteria, and you're fucked.
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Conrad Vig : One gold Rolex would get me a very nice split-level house outside of Garland.
Troy Barlow : Five Rolexes would get my family that Lexus convertible.
Chief Elgin : I told you, Lexus doesn't make a convertible.
Troy Barlow : Yes they do, it has room in the back for a kid's seat.
Chief Elgin : Infiniti has a convertible but not Lexus.
Troy Barlow : Wrong.
Chief Elgin : Either way, the Good Lord has put this map in our path and I believe we're gonna find something.
Troy Barlow : Yeah, he could also put a land mine in our path if we go out there.
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[Maj. Gates knows a map has been found in one of an Iraqi soldier's orifices, but isn't sure which]
Archie Gates : Good afternoon. Would this be the proctology tent?
Chief Elgin : No, sir.
Archie Gates : Maybe it's the urology tent. Or the neurology tent. Or the ear, nose, and throat tent.
Troy Barlow : Captain's at a staff meeting, sir.
Archie Gates : Captain a proctologist?
Conrad Vig : What's a proctologist, sir?
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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.
Troy Barlow : I'll bet you a Lexus they do.
Chief Elgin : Alright, but it won't be a convertible.