Three Kings Page #2

VIG:

War's been over five days, Jim,

ain't gonna be much more of this.

SOLDIER #5

Bobby, take my picture.

He holds the camera out.

SOLDIER #4

If he shot the guy, it's up to him.

SOLDIER #5

It's not like he shot a f***ing

deer. It's the enemy.

VIG:

Troy's enemy, yours for twenty.

Soldiers get their cash out, Troy takes it.

TROY:

Accept no substitute, this is the

real thing, oh, Jesus [winces] --

VIG:

What's wrong?

TROY:

I got a really bad headache all of

a sudden--

SOLDIER #7 bends next to the corpse and holds his camera out

at arm's length.

VIG:

No free pictures, motherf***er.

Vig shoves the soldier away and the two wrestle as they roll

down the sand berm.

"I Just Want to Celebrate" by Rare Earth comes on LOUD.

Troy walks away holding his temple in pain; SOLDIERS gather

to stare at the dead Iraqi, getting their cameras out.

EXT. IRAQI DESERT ROAD - AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT GEAR

dance on a road in the desert. "I Just Want to Celebrate"

BLARES as the CAMERA DOLLIES THROUGH the soldiers.

DOLLY INTO TENT TOWN, past bare chested soldiers pumping free

weights; jogging in formation; sunbathing on big water

storage mattresses; DOLLY OUT OF THE TENT TOWN, past a

soldier taking a makeshift foxhole desert bath, past a dead

Iraqi on the road, a chopper hovering in the distance, to

MORE DANCING SOLDIERS, as music continues --

BILL SMITHSON (O.S.)

Spirits are high and the music is

boisterous as these young troops

celebrate -- Sh*t. Let me try that

again.

DOLLY AROUND the dancing soldiers to see: hundreds of

stripped Iraqi soldiers lying face down in undershorts.

BILL SMITHSON (O.S.)

Spirits are high and the music is

f***ing motherfucking sand in my

eye --

PAN PAST CNN REPORTER BILL SMITHSON, 45, in white safari

jacket over Desert Storm fatigues, cleaning his eye; nearby

a cluster of ROWDY SOLDIERS who are mugging into the camera.

DOLLY TO ARCHIE GATES, 55, Lieutenant Colonel, Special

Forces, wearing sunglasses, talking to HAVICHON, a FRENCH

Special Forces Captain on CRUTCHES with a broken leg.

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