Under Fire (1983)

Nick Nolte: Russell Price

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• Russell Price : [Russell's been thrown in a jail cell in Managua; there's another prisoner in the cell]  You're a priest, huh? A Padre? What are you doing here?

  Prison Priest : The government accused me of knowing Rafael.

  Russell Price : Government's always wrong, huh?

  Prison Priest : [a bit suspicious]  Who are you?

  Russell Price : Periodista... I'd like to find Rafael myself.

  Prison Priest : Whose side are you on?

  Russell Price : I don't take sides. I take pictures.

  Prison Priest : No sides?

  Prison Priest : [Russell shakes his head; the priest gives him a long look]  Go home.

• Russell Price : [In Spanish]  Do you know who controls this area?

  Sandinista with radio : [In Spanish]  Who knows?

• Russell Price : [At the rebels victory parade]  What the hell are you doin' here?

  Oates : It's a free country. I mean... it's free now anyway.

  Oates : [Drinking from a cup]  Nica libre - rum and coke and no ice. You want some?

  Oates : [Price ignores him and Oates looks mildly concerned]  You weren't gonna turn me in, are you?

  Oates : [Price walks away without a word and Oates smiles and shouts]  See ya in Thailand!

• Interrogating Officer : [releasing Russell from jail]  Mr. Price... It was all a misunderstanding. Your camera:

  Interrogating Officer : [intentionally drops the camera on the floor, breaking it]  I'm sorry.

  Russell Price : [Russell checks inside his bag]  Passport...

  Interrogating Officer : Before you go, there are some papers you will sign.

  Russell Price : What papers?

  Interrogating Officer : Your "visitation papers," Mr. Price. You were not arrested, you just came to visit. In case your embassy asks. You want your passport back, yes?

• Claire : [He and Claire are at a camp where Rafael is supposedly holed up]  What is it?

  Russell Price : Rafael is dead. I can smell it.

• [first lines] 

  Russell Price : Can I get a ride?

• [last lines] 

  Claire : Do you think we fell in love with too much?

  Russell Price : I'd do it again.

• Claire : You're going to love this war...

  Russell Price : Hmmm.

  Claire : Good guys, bad guys and cheap shrimp.

• Claire : Did you dream about Miss Panama last night?

  Russell Price : No, I dreamed about you.

  Claire : Have a good time?

  Russell Price : Yeah, and you did too!

• Oates : How d'ya like Nicaragua?

  Russell Price : It's beautiful.

  Oates : Yeah, it's a shitload of Greasers though, you know.

• Russell Price : Pardon my French, but who's fucking side are you on?

  Marcel Jazy : I work for everyone.

  Russell Price : That's a great job!

• Hub Kittle : Listen, Russell, let's grow up. It's very easy to fall in love with the underdog, but there's an upside and a downside to this thing. I just want to remind you, all this stuff about a "revolution of poets" is crap.

  Russell Price : It's great P.R., though, isn't it, Hub? So what's the upside?

  Hub Kittle : Simple. And it could happen. Somoza destroys the terrorist insurgents, rebuilds the country, shit-cans the purveyors of excess, stabilizes the Cordoba, and is kindly beloved as the savior of Nicaragua. "Our" pal. Gotta' smoke?

  Russell Price : [hands him a cigarette]  What's the downside?

  Hub Kittle : Commies take over the world.