Ain’t no thing, Blood. This is simply business.Otis: What did he just say?Hedy: That the green is more important than black. Come on now. Accident. Stormin’ Norman: War is about money. Son, if you’re reading this, you know I’ve met my maker. I forgive you. Eddie: That gold should go towards black liberation.Paul: Yeah. You’re dead to me. They don’t know s**t. Do your thing. Spike Lee ’s Da 5 Bloods is his take on Vietnam through the eyes of African American grunts, both past and present. No.Otis: Just let it go!Paul: No, f*** that. Paul: I see ghosts, y’all. [they all hold hands as they cry]David: Blessed holy God. No, sir. He wasn’t no Tom. The white GI taught us that word. So why don’t you go chew on some m*therf***ing chopsticks? He was a bad mother, shut your mouth. You dig? [as David reads a letter from Paul]Paul: Dear David. Yeah, that’s right. We got a bond. Handle your business. Now, let’s bury our gold.Paul: Reparations.Stormin’ Norman: Bloods. You’re rich. Paul: I know all about My Lai.Quân: And you, GI murder, killer of innocent children and babies.Paul: There were atrocities on both sides. Trying to f*** me with salt in the Vaseline. Love is God. I saw him die, man.Otis: So, what, you’re blaming yourself?Paul: You don’t even know. We’ll give you a share.Vinh Tran: How much is that?Otis: Million.Hedy: We want in too.Otis: You want in?Hedy: Yeah.Otis: Alright.Melvin: Damn, Otis. Please? I’m broken, man. You got back to the world, you made that transition. than to be ordered into a war to die, or to be maimed for life, without the faintest idea of what’s going on. [after it’s revealed it was Paul who killed Norman by accident after an ambush]Stormin’ Norman: There it is. Eddie: That gold should go towards black liberation.Paul: Yeah. I came back to confront the demons that haunted me and tortured you. Otis: Yeah. We come around your mighty throne of grace to thank you for this day. Not this time. I am sick and tired of trying to get you fools to love one another. Please? This f***ing place bathed me in that lymphoma Agent Orange herbicidal stew. Accident. Whatever.Eddie: I’m not rich! [David holds up his shovel and toilet roll]Paul: Go on, son. Norm and I were holding those gooks back when the man bought it. You ain’t been nothing but an anchor around my neck since the day you were born. Quân: You killed my brother!Paul: I did. [after Paul insists David gets a share of the gold]Melvin: When did you turn into a grade-A, first-rate, certified, old, tired, and crazy m*therf***er?Paul: Oh, f*** you, man. [as David reads a letter from Paul]Paul: But to eternity and back, your dear mother, Jackie, and I, will love you always. I know it. They’re my brothers. [as Quân and his men are making Paul dig]Quân: Where’s gold?Paul: Stormin’ Norman took it, man. She knows nothing about this. Every brother and sister stolen from Mother Africa to Jamestown, Virginia way back in 1619. He believes the Bloods were in Vietnam fighting an immoral war for rights black people did not have. [after they meet up at the hotel in Vietnam]Eddie: Yeah, brother man, we are back.Melvin: The Bloods is back!Paul: Five Bloods don’t die, we just multiply!Eddie: Yeah, yeah!Otis: Soon to be five.All: Amen. Trained us in the way of the jungle. You know that, right?David: You’ve got a funny way of showing it.Paul: Yeah.David: But I do. And I mean it too. Come on, Paul. I love you back. We was too dirty to even clean the toilet. F*** you! I mean, I was fast asleep. Have a good day, gentlemen. I can’t. Daughter who loves you. [the vision of Norman then embraces Paul]Stormin’ Norman: It was an accident. [after gunmen show up demanding the gold]Quân: Do you know Calley, brother?Paul: Yeah. And I know California, yeah.Quân: You imbecile! Paul: I was asleep. For now. Your dear mother would be ashamed of you! Being back here, it is not easy.David: It’s cool.Paul: I don’t like the way you did it, but I’m glad you’re here. I got my son, David. [during Vietnam; after the five friends find the box full of gold bars]Paul: Out of sight!Melvin: Great googly-moogly.Stormin’ Norman: You know what this means? He never let me forget that either. Trying to f*** me with salt in the Vaseline. Said by our uncle.Otis: What uncle?Vinh Tran: Uncle Ho Chi Minh.Otis: Now he’s your uncle?Vinh Tran: Actually, he’s the father of modern day Vietnam. You feel me? The goddamn US of A saved your a**es. Like your George Washington.Otis: Oh, my dear misinformed, misguided Vietnamese brother. I’m intruding. Our brother Stormin’ Norman always commanded us Bloods, love one another. Your email address will not be published. Paul: Where you going, boy?David: I’mma go down to the bank and make a deposit. [after they find find Norman’s remains]Paul: Hey, Norm. We’re some gold-plated m*therf***ing fools.! Come on, Blood. It was his.Quân: Who’s Stormin’ Norman?Paul: One bad black m*therf***er.Quân: Where’s all the GI?Paul: No, I will never tell. You hear me? Be safe. So why don’t you go chew on some m*therf***ing chopsticks? Those army bastards, they scorched the earth with it. Worst f***ing doctors in the world. In a way, we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black bard of Harlem, who had written earlier, “O, yes. He has hated me since the day I was born. Norm had a way of keeping us from going off. Knocked out, man. And if you didn’t know, if you ain’t got no dough, then you don’t go. I know it. Huh? Required fields are marked *. Continuing in prayer, Lord, we ask you for traveling grace, and the mending of hearts. Peace out! [referring to David and Melvin’s handshake routine]Hedy: Well, if we live, you’ll teach me that.Melvin: We’re all going to live. Vinh Tran: And as they say in our colonists second language, touché. Right on. I forgive you. Da 5 Bloods recaps a long history of state-sponsored murder and abuse of Black people, and suppression of protests just like those against the recent police murders of … Vinh Tran: Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. It’s none of my business.David: My father, he loved her more than me. It’s none of my business.David: My father, he loved her more than me. [speech at Riverside Church, New York, April 4th, 1967]Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “To save the soul of America.” We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free, or saved from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear. Let me tell you something. They don’t know s**t. Do your thing. I should’ve died instead of my mother. Be safe. Our black liberation. [at Radio Hanoi]Hanoi Hannah: Black GI, the South Vietnamese people are resolute against these fascist acts against N****es who struggle for civil rights and freedom. Stormin’ Norman: That I can’t do, Paul. At the end of "Da 5 Bloods," it's revealed that Eddie's (Norm Lewis) $2 million share of the gold is given to the New York City chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement. We need to consider the sacrifice they made.Desroche: We have all sacrificed. Eddie: You’re one lazy-a** m*therf***er.Melvin: You a Thanksgiving jive turkey giblet sorry-a** m*therf***er. They ask, we say the VC got it. From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a new joint: the story of four African American Vets - Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) - who return to Vietnam. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, line producer: Vietnam, Indochina Productions, second makeup artist / special makeup effects artist, makeup department head (as Joanna 'Jojo' Rodriguez), unit production manager (as Jonathan D. Filley), foreign dub mixing supervisor (uncredited), action vehicles assistant supervisor: Thailand, set dresser (as Sripradoo Pipat) / set dresser, special effects (as Watcharachai Panichsuk Sam), executive producer: The Molecule (as Andrew Bly), digital artist: The Molecule (as Rodrigo DeLaParra), digital artist: The Molecule (as Mark Friedman), digital artist: The Molecule (as Greg Gangemi), digital artist: The Molecule (as AlexOkJoo Lee), visual effects producer: Moving Picture Company, digital artist: The Molecule (as Matthew Perry), visual effects supervisor: Moving Picture Company, digital artist: The Molecule (as Eli Saliba), digital artist: The Molecule (as John Sung), visual effects executive producer (uncredited), visual effects supervisor: The Molecule (uncredited), visual effects dailies editor: Mr. X (uncredited), Production Manager: Mr. X Inc. (uncredited), visual effects production manager (uncredited), Global Managing Director: Mr. X (uncredited), visual effects coordinator: Mr. X (uncredited), visual effects editorial: Mr. X (uncredited), Stunt Double: Clarke Peters / assistant stunt coordinator / stunt driver, Stunt Double: Chadwick Boseman / stunt performer (as Khalil LaMarr), costume supervisor: Los Angeles (as Dana Hart), post-production coordinator: Netflix (as Jasmine Everett), second assistant editor: shoot (as Pilar Gómez-Igbo), dailies technician: additional photography, dailies engineer: Company 3 - New York / dailies producer: EC3, colorist: dailies: additional photography, first assistant editor (as David C. Valdez), musician: violin, 2nd position (as Julie Ann Gigante), musician: trombone, 1st chair (as Alexander Iles), musician: percussion (as Kenneth McGrath), musician: trombone (as William Reichenbach), musician: contrabass (as Karl Vincent-Wickliff), musician: percussion (as Donald Williams), assistant production coordinator: Thailand, military consultant and advisor: Bangkok Thailand, in grateful acknowledgement of (as Paul DeMeo), special thanks (as Major Countess D. Irvin), special thanks (as Bernice Albertine King). Malignancy? You couldn’t kill me then, with three tours, you sure in the f*** can’t kill me now. Leave in peace. [as he points his gun to shoot Otis, he gets shot in the face by David]. [after he falls and his bag of gold gets stuck up on a tree branch]Paul: You got it, Norm. Whether it’s in your mind or in reality. I see him. Got a wife who loves you. Eighteen years-old.Melvin: Hey, look, I love y’all, and all that bulls**t, but I ain’t doing that. We was the very first people that died for this red, white, and blue! Our…Tiên Luu: Yes, she is. Stormin’ Norman: That I can’t do, Paul. VA don’t know s**t from Shinola. You do for self.Eddie: I’m talking about black reparations, man.Melvin: Well, I got mine’s. Ain’t no thing. Black GI, your government sent six hundred thousand troops to crush the rebellion. anti-commie Kool-Aid they was selling. [with his share of the gold, he walks off and starts sobbing and praying out loud]. Hey, you got me now. Who got the bug spray? Otis: If I got to go out, I got to go out like a man, Blood.Melvin: Morals and ethics. Norm and I were holding those gooks back when the man bought it. Eddie: Yeah, that man jumped on that grenade and saved his Bloods lives. Whatever.Eddie: I’m not rich! I will choose when and how I die. We’ll give you a share.Vinh Tran: How much is that?Otis: Million.Hedy: We want in too.Otis: You want in?Hedy: Yeah.Otis: Alright.Melvin: Damn, Otis. Finger-licking good. You got back to the world, you made that transition. There are just degrees.Otis: Tell me about it.Vinh Tran: If I happen to die, send my share here. I don’t do it. A direction, a purpose. S**t. You made me malignant. But, no, that ain’t going to never happen again because of this. No, no, no! Otis: Your pops was never the same after we lost Norman.David: You know, he calls his name in his sleep.Otis: I can believe that.David: Who was that guy?Otis: Norm? Life is a b**ch! We all here, man. Being back here, it is not easy.David: It’s cool.Paul: I don’t like the way you did it, but I’m glad you’re here. Da 5 Bloods: Inside the Making of Spike Lee's Harrowing War Story The Oscar-winning filmmaker explores soldiers who fought for a country that failed to value their lives. Just put the gold on Craigslist! I wish I could turn back the hands of time. [after David meets Hedy at a hotel bar and reveals she’s the founder of LAMB]Hedy: I must look like some Patty Hearst heiress who’s cast herself as a guilt-ridden bourgeoisie cliché.David: Hey, look, I know all about bourgeoisie clichés. [after they find the burried box containing the gold is empty]Otis: F***ing fool’s gold.Paul: We are some gold-plated fools. God poked and woke me. And the US government will not take me out. We are not going to die in Nam. “1-2-3-4”? God poked and woke me. Not me. Melvin: Damn! She was a bastard child of the enemy. He taught us about black history when it wasn’t really popular back then. However, my guilt trip is a lot less dangerous than yours.Hedy: Yeah, less dangerous.David: Yeah. [after Paul insists David gets a share of the gold]Melvin: When did you turn into a grade-A, first-rate, certified, old, tired, and crazy m*therf***er?Paul: Oh, f*** you, man. It’s not a state. Black GI, is it fair to serve more than the white Americans that sent you here? Paul: How do I know that you two ain’t a con artist team?Desroche: As you said, you simply must trust us. Let me tell you something, them N**is weren’t no punks neither. Paul: Well, we going to see who’s standing in the end. [referring to the gold]Vinh Tran: I can help you get it out of the country.Otis: Alright. It's a moment that could have been shot today as protests continue across the country , rather than when the … I was a whore. Come on, now. You do what you want with your share, and we’ll each decide for ourselves.Otis: That’s what Norman said now.Eddie: Now, see? “That gold should go to our people.” [after gunmen show up demanding the gold]Quân: Do you know Calley, brother?Paul: Yeah. [as Paul has a vision of Norman]Paul: What you doing here, bro?Stormin’ Norman: I’ve been wanting to talk to you.Paul: About what?Stormin’ Norman: You know.Paul: Go away, man. Our brother Stormin’ Norman always commanded us Bloods, love one another. They kill them while you fight against us, so far away from where you are needed. Otis, Melvin, Eddie. You know, one of our blood. Da 5 Bloods is a 2020 Netflix original film directed by Spike Lee and centers around 4 black Vietnam War veterans who return to the country in search of a fallen comrade and a secret cache of buried gold. Melvin’s money is sent to his son. Right here. by MovieQuotesandMore.com | Best Quotes | 0 comments, Starring: Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors, Jasper Pääkkönen, Jean Reno, Paul Walter Hauser. [as David reads a letter from Paul]Paul: But to eternity and back, your dear mother, Jackie, and I, will love you always. You couldn’t kill me then, with three tours, you sure in the f*** can’t kill me now. Otis: Was Tiên in on all this? Go with God. Eddie: You remember what Norm said about money?Paul: I don’t remember that.Eddie: No. My mom, she had a very difficult delivery. Stormin’ Norm ain’t with the living. No fun. Da 5 Bloods sees the four veteran actors as Vietnam War veterans traveling back to the country for first time in decades to recover the body of their former squad leader, ... By Eddie Huang. No fun. I say it plain America never was America to me. You know that, right?David: You’ve got a funny way of showing it.Paul: Yeah.David: But I do. Eddie: What about our people?Melvin: What about my people? [after which he sings Marvin Gaye’s “God Is My Friend” and is then killed] Just put the gold on Craigslist! [to David as the mango on his plate then falls to the floor]Paul: You see what you made me do, man? David: After everything you’ve put me through, I’d say you getting a basement bargain.Paul: You ungrateful lil’ Black Studies teacher n*****. Da 5 Bloods also references thee 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where Black U.S. athletes Tommie James and John Carlos expressed their solitary with the Black Power movement by raising their fist during the national anthem, this coming after they'd placed first and second in the 200-meter competition. Their blackness does not make their sacrifice any greater. Ain’t no thing. Melvin: I got thug-a** hardheads moving into my hood. The story follows four African American veterans, Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.), who return to Vietnam in search of the remains of their fallen Squad Leader, Norman (Chadwick Boseman), as well as the buried treasure they found during the Vietnam War. They should’ve just sent Mickey D’s, Pizza Hut, and The Colonel, and we would have defeated the VC in one week. Amen. You will not kill Paul. [referring to David and Melvin’s handshake routine]Hedy: Well, if we live, you’ll teach me that.Melvin: We’re all going to live. Sounds like Stormin’ Norman.Otis: You know, I keep hearing his voice in my head, telling me to do right, just to get it right. Ever heard of My Lai? Vinh Tran: After you’ve been in a war, you understand it really never ends. I’m broken, man. Ain’t no thing, Blood. 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