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Boing Boing notes an interesting bit of dialogue from the original Syriana script, pictured above, that didn't quite make it to the screen:

The line, as people have seen in the trailer and the movie, is "Corruption is why we win." This is a monologue about the virtues of corruption delivered by the actor Tim Blake Nelson, who plays an Oil industry lobbyist from the south named Danny Dalton, to Jeffrey Wright, an African-American corporate lawyer named Bennett Holiday.

We assume Wright did not request the edit, seeing as he had no apparent problem subjecting his character Belize in Angels in America to Roy Cohn ordering him to "Move your nigger cunt spade faggot lackey ass out of my room!" 8 performances a week for years on Broadway, with Al Pacino eventually "Woo ha!"-ing the very same words for the HBO filmed adaptation. No, sometimes it's just a matter of a writer/director, in this case the passionate Stephen Gaghan, getting a little too carried away pounding towards the truth on his laptop; one cold reading from a capable actor is all you need to realize, "My movie's edgy. But not that edgy."