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Three Kings (1. 99. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Three Kings is a 1. David O. Russell from a story by John Ridley about a gold heist that takes place during the 1. Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein following the end of the Persian Gulf War. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze. The film opens with an Iraqi Army soldier trying to surrender as U. S. troops mop up loose ends, following the end of the Gulf War. U. S. Army Reserve. Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) shoots him in the confusion over how to handle stray soldiers, earning him the admiration of his bumbling comrades, Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) and Specialist Walter Wogeman (Jamie Kennedy). Boisterous celebrations continue into the night, until Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube) breaks up the party. Around the corner, Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a U. S. Army Special Forces soldier, is trading sex for stories with a journalist, Cathy Daitch (Judy Greer) when he is interrupted by Adriana Cruz (Nora Dunn), the television reporter he is assigned to escort. They are all bored since the war has ended and Archie is lectured when he expresses frustration with the mission and his cushy assignment, but grudgingly agrees to go along for the time being. The next day, while disarming and searching an Iraqi officer, Troy and his unit find a map between his buttocks. Troy decides not to tell his commanding officer, instead asking Chief Elgin for help translating the map as Vig looks on. Walter is guarding the tent when Major Gates appears, after tracking down a lead from Adriana. Archie convinces them that the document is a map of bunkers near Karbala, containing gold bullion stolen from Kuwait, which they decide to steal. They set off the next day and, using the ceasefire orders from President Bush, they enter and secure the bunkers without any bloodshed. There, among other goods plundered from Kuwait, they find the gold, and stumble on the interrogation of an Iraqi rebel leader. As they are leaving, the man's wife pleads with them not to abandon the anti- Saddam dissidents, but she is shot by the Iraqi Republican Guard, and Archie decides they can't just "grab the gold and go." They free a group of Iraqi prisoners, including the dissident rebel leader, violating the ceasefire and triggering a firefight. They pull out just as Iraqi reinforcements arrive, and as they try to evade a CS gas attack, the Americans blunder into a minefield and get separated. Iraqi soldiers capture Troy while a group of rebels rescue the other Americans and take them to their underground hideout, retrieving the bags containing the gold as they go. There, Conrad, Chief and Archie agree to help the rebels and their families reach the Iranian border, after they rescue Troy. Troy has been taken back to the bunker, and when he is thrown in a room full of Kuwaiti cell phones, he manages to call his wife back home and tells her to report his location to his local Army Reserve unit. His call is cut short when he is dragged to an interrogation room. While inflicting electric shocks on Troy and eventually forcing him to drink motor oil, Iraqi Captain Sa. ГЇd (Sa. ГЇd Taghmaoui) explains that he learned interrogation techniques from the Americans, berates Troy about the hypocrisy of American involvement in the region, and informs him that his son was killed during the American bombing of Baghdad. The Americans with the rebels go to a band of Iraqi Army deserters, who are persuaded to sell them luxury cars stolen from Kuwait. The cars are outfitted as Saddam's entourage, in a ruse to scare away the bunker's defenders, pretending that an enraged Saddam is coming to kill them for losing the gold. After storming the bunker, they free Troy, who spares his torturer's life rather than kill him, and find more Shi'ite dissidents held in a dungeon. But a few of the soldiers who ran away return, and Conrad and Troy are shot. Conrad dies, while Troy's lung is punctured, necessitating medical attention. Archie radios Walter, arranging transport and telling him to bring Adriana, while the hapless officers in the camp try to locate the trio after getting the message from Troy's wife. Each of the rebels is given a bar of gold and the rest is buried as they wait for the transport to arrive. The convoy goes to the Iranian border, where the three Americans will escort the rebels across to protect them from the Iraqi soldiers guarding the crossing. But the American officers arrive in helicopters and stop the group, arresting the trio while the rebels are recaptured. Archie, Troy and Chief nod to each other, and Archie proffers the buried gold to the American officers in exchange for letting the refugees through. All of the soldiers are cleared of the charges, thanks to Adriana's reporting. Archie goes to work as a military adviser to Hollywood action films, Chief leaves his airport job to work with Archie, and Troy returns to his wife and baby, running his own carpet store. The stolen gold was returned to Kuwait; however, it is implied that some of the gold was missing. George Clooney as Major Archie Gates, a career U. S. Army Special Forces officer close to retirement, who is disillusioned with the war. Mark Wahlberg as Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow, an office worker with a wife and baby daughter at home. He wears the U. S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch and identifies himself as a Civil Affairs Reservist. Ice Cube as Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin, an airline baggage handler who believes he is protected by a ring of "Jesus- fire", also wears the U. S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch. Spike Jonze as Private First Class Conrad Vig, a jobless, semi- literate soldier from a group home who idolizes Troy, also wears the U. S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations patch. Cliff Curtis as Amir Abdullah, a Shi'ite Iraqi rebel who has been captured by Saddam's troops. Educated in the U. S. at Bowling Green State University, he was an entrepreneur in Baghdad, running several cafes before they were destroyed by Coalition bombs. Nora Dunn as Adriana Cruz, a tough cable news correspondent who is determined to get a good story. Jamie Kennedy as Specialist Walter Wogeman, a bumbling soldier who Archie uses to distract Adriana. Sa. ГЇd Taghmaoui as Captain Sa. ГЇd, an Iraqi interrogator who tortures Barlow with electric shocks after he is captured. Mykelti Williamson as Colonel Ron Horn, Archie's superior officer, who discovers the plan to steal the gold. Holt Mc. Callany as Captain Doug Van Meter, Troy's superior officer, an obstreperous stickler for the rules. Judy Greer as Cathy Daitch, a journalist competing with Adriana who has sex with Archie early in the film. Alia Shawkat as Amir's daughter. Production[edit]Three Kings was filmed in the deserts of Casa Grande, Arizona, California and Mexico, with many of the extras played by actual Iraqi refugees. According to Russell, two of the cast members had "personally defaced 3. Saddam."[2] After one of the military advisers to the film died during production, Russell said the death was "perhaps due to chemicals he was exposed to in the Gulf."[2]Script controversy[edit]Former stand- up comic John Ridley had originally written the screenplay, then titled Spoils of War, as an experiment to see how fast he could write and sell a film. The writing took him seven days, and Warner Bros. When the studio showed a list of their purchased scripts to Russell, the one- sentence description of Spoils of War, "heist set in the Gulf War", appealed to him. Although Russell claimed he never read Ridley's script, so as not "to pollute my own idea", he admits that "John gets credit where it's due. The germ of the idea that I took was his."[2] Ridley maintains that Russell shut him out of the process, saying "I never heard a word while he was shooting the movie. Never saw any of the script changes. And then finally, a year later, I get a copy of the script, and my name isn't even on it."[3] Although Warner Bros. Ridley a "story by" credit, Ridley remains unhappy with the experience, and has blocked Russell's efforts to publish the Three Kings screenplay in book form.[3]Casting[edit]Russell penned the script with several actors in mind. Although Spike Jonze had never acted in a film before, Russell wrote the part of Conrad Vig specifically for him, and the two practised Conrad's Southern accent over the phone while Jonze directed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich. Although Russell had to convince a wary Warner Bros. Russell said Jonze's lack of previous acting work was beneficial to the film, citing the "chaos that a nonactor brings to the set.. The part of Archie Gates was originally planned for Clint Eastwood, but Russell decided to rewrite it as a younger character. George Clooney eventually saw a copy of the script and was "blown away" by it. When he heard the part was being re- written, he jumped at the chance to get involved. At this point in Clooney's career, he was best known for his role as the handsome Dr. Doug Ross on the popular television drama ER. Clooney was ready to pursue a role in film. Unfortunately, Russell seemed unwilling to cast Clooney in the role. Persistent, Clooney sent a humorously self- deprecating letter signed "George Clooney, TV actor" to Russell asking for the part, and showed up at Russell's New York City apartment to plead his case. Russell still wasn't satisfied that Clooney could portray the character. He instead convinced Nicolas Cage to play the role. However, when Cage became unavailable after being cast in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, Russell gave the part to Clooney.[4] Russell later stated that Clooney "was meant to play the part."[5]Many of the Iraqi roles were played by actual Iraqi refugees in the United States. A similar technique was used in The Killing Fields.
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