09-01-2005, 05:17 AM
Rhydderch Hael,Aug 31 2005, 08:42 PM Wrote:And another from the same director, Tears of the Sun. Unlike it's theatrical competitor Black Hawk Down, it didn't downplay the story of African civil strife into a gallery of "let's shoot every single black person in sight".
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I disagree with your stance on your Black Hawk Down. The book BHD and the movie by Ridley Scott were about a battle in Mogadishu. The history of the rival warlords and civil war was only a backdrop for the true story - Delta Operators and US Rangers were sent in to the city to capture some of the warlord's henchmen and ended up in one of the heaviest firefights since Vietnam. It was about a city gone mad and the soldiers relying on each other and their training to survive.
If you read the book and watch the movie there is a little bit of racism, with the references of 'skinnies.' That was historical fact. 'Killing every black person in sight' is not what happened. There was the enemy and there were civilians. It just happend to be that the enemy and civilians were nearly 100% black. The book and the movie did not portray racism as motive for the killing that took place.
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