Revenge of the Green Dragons

Traveling...

Across oceans,

through endless days and weeks.

As a 10-year-old, it's an adventure.

But a child's eyes,

they haven't learned to recognize fear, or sacrifice

or the pain that comes from losing everything.

This is a story about coming to America.

Only, it's not that story, the one where everyone lives happily ever after.

No, this isn't that story.

...on the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

Through this golden door, under the gaze of that mother of exiles,

has come millions of men and women

who first set foot on American soil

right there on Ellis Island, so close to the Statue of Liberty.

In 1980 President Carter signed into law the Immigration Reform Act,

granting immigration status to any individual able to show well-founded fear

of persecution in their homeland...

Border Patrol officials speculate the number of illegal aliens entering this country

rose from 30,000 a year to almost 190,000.

I'd like to see something done about the illegal alien problem

that would be so sensitive and so understanding about labor needs

and human needs that that problem wouldn't come up.

This is an interesting day, August 19th,

because today we will have 500,000

or half a million applications for legalization or amnesty.

It is true our borders are out of control.

It is also true that this has been a situation on our borders

back through a number of administrations.

Hot dog.

The irony is, this country was built by foreigners.

And yet, if you ask Americans today,

more than half of them are anti-immigration.

These families came here to work, they came to grow.

Others came to America in different and often harrowing conditions.

But this place symbolizes what they all managed to build,

no matter where they came from.

They didn't ask what this country could do for them,

but what they could do to make this,

this refuge, the greatest home of freedom in history.

When you come to a new country, who you were before,

none of it mattered.

You had to play by new rules.

And in Flushing, it was the Green Dragons who made all the rules.

They were always on the hunt for new recruits.

School day.

Don't need books to scrub a pot!

This is no fucking Cordon Bleu, okay?

White devils only know fortune cookie, okay?

Two spoons MSG! Two spoons!

Yeah, yeah.

With Chinatown bursting at the seams,

Flushing became a landfill for the hundreds of Chinese

arriving every month.

Most of us lived near the Orient Express,

the 7 train.

To the Greeks and Jews who lived there,

it seemed like overnight their quiet little neighborhood

became littered with Chinese restaurants,

and of course, mahjong parlors.

Hi, Uncle Charlie.

Darwin noticed that the beaks of the finches were shaped differently

depending on the type of food found in their environment.

So, upon his return from the Galapagos,

Darwin realized that the survival of the species...

We only got half an hour.

I can't hold it!

Yes, Mr. Wong?

Yo, man!

Tell you what, you stop bleeding, we'll stop.

You having fun?

Come on, man!

Another one! Get the fuck out of here.

- I gotta shit. - My boy has to shit!

So? Shit!

No. No! You wanna shit?

Hey, how about right here?

You want some shit? Pop a squat right here.

No, stop! Stop!

Come on, right here. You wanted to take a shit, right?

Here, let me help you out.

There you go. There you go.

Don't forget chapter 11 for tomorrow. Class dismissed.

Oh, shit!

Where is he?

- I don't know. - Liar! Go find him! Go, go, go!

Hey, I'm looking for a kid. Steven Wong.

You seen him around?

Yeah.

Come here, I'll tell you.

Fuck you!

Get him!

Come on!

Harder! Hit him harder!

Hit him! Harder!

Harder!

Chicken Wing, take his pants off.

I'm gonna cut his fucking dick off.

You brought it upon yourself. Say goodbye to little Steven!

Wait for Prince Handsome?

I tell you...

I got 20 girls that wait for your shitty job.

I'm looking for...

Fuck you!

Get out!

When you're a kid, a day can seem like a week.

Steven wasn't missing for long.

Those were the longest days of my life.

Hey! You, you, come! Now!

Steven!

I already paid Green Dragons money.

What do you guys want here?

Get the fuck out of here.

Fuck you, dog.

Get lost, maggot.

Come with me, brother.

Yeah, go. Tell Paul I said no problem.

Come on.

"Land where my fathers died.

"Land of the Pilgrim's pride.

"From every mountainside..."

See anything you like, little brother?

Yeah.

Dai Lo wants to see your friend.

What's up?

We Chinese, assholes of America.

We need to take power.

Be in control of our destiny.

What your old man do?

He's living with my mom.

What's your mother do?

Slave at Tien Chau.

Check out his mom.

That you, in 20 years.

Me? I'm Green Dragon.

I know who I am. I know where I'm going.

What the world don't give me, I fucking take!

So you can stay with us, if you want.

Or you can go home, become like his mom,

a fucking nobody.

Listen, Sonny,

like Dai Lo say,

no one give a shit about us.

We nobodies.

But if you Green Dragon, at least you somebody.

There are six gangs in Queens.

Tung On Boys. Pussies.

Fuk Ching Boys. Faggots.

Born to Kill. Assholes.

Korean Power, losers.

White Tigers. Pieces of shit!

Always trying to steal our territory.

But we Dragons, we the baddest motherfuckers in Queens!

There are four simple rules to a clean kill.

One, use dump gun.

Two, never shoot whites.

'Cause cops, then they gonna give a shit.

Three,

leave no witnesses.

And four,

always shoot guy in head. Like taking candy from a baby.

We thought a long time about what you say, Paul.

Flushing. Why we need to go there?

I can help with that.

Forty-seven.

Seven.

Six.

Fourteen.

Today is your lucky day.

This is from Paul.

We're the Green Dragons.

Paul liked to say,

when you walk into a room

know where the exits are,

and always have a back-up plan.

The day Steven's gun jammed,

I was the back-up plan.

Asshole got his cherry popped.

Fuck you.

Earlier they marched again in huge numbers,

in what could be the last great demonstration of this current campaign.

Tens of thousands calling for people's law, not martial law.

What an asshole!

You think that kid's an asshole?

I know one thing for certain,

he's a fucking dead man.

Steven, what do you see?

I don't know.

You don't know?

What about you, Sonny?

What would it take for you to put it all on the line?

To stand down a tank.

Either the tank lives or I do.

There's no way both of us walk away, not from that.

Two immovable forces, neither side willing to back down.

In every crisis there's opportunity.

Paul made it a point to ask questions,

to encourage us to see things differently.

He was our leader, and we would've done anything for him.

It's a blast from the past