Un avvocato difende un ufficiale sotto processo per aver ordinato alle sue truppe di sparare sui civili dopo che hanno preso d'assalto un'ambasciata degli Stati Uniti in un paese del Medio O... Leggi tuttoUn avvocato difende un ufficiale sotto processo per aver ordinato alle sue truppe di sparare sui civili dopo che hanno preso d'assalto un'ambasciata degli Stati Uniti in un paese del Medio Oriente.Un avvocato difende un ufficiale sotto processo per aver ordinato alle sue truppe di sparare sui civili dopo che hanno preso d'assalto un'ambasciata degli Stati Uniti in un paese del Medio Oriente.
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 2 candidature
- Jimi
- (as Ahmed Abounouom)
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- QuizWhen Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to the bombed-out embassy, there is a picture of then Vice President Al Gore on the charred wall. Gore and Jones were roommates at Harvard.
- BlooperSeveral strange things about the inability of anyone to testify that the crowd was armed and hostile. First, Colonel Childers' initial orders were to engage hostile targets, to which Red Six replied that there were women and children in the line-of-fire (tacitly admitting that there were hostile targets). Childers' reply was to question whether or not Red Six heard the order. Red Six requests clarification, asking if he is to fire into the crowd, and Childers replies "Yes, Goddamn it!" This exchange was taped and used in the trial. The problem is that Red Six is the one who first mentions the crowd, in direct response to Childers' order to engage hostile targets. By inference, he stated that there were hostile targets in the crowd.
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Colonel Hayes Hodges: You ever had a pissed-off Marine on your ass?
National Security Advisor William Sokal: Is that a threat?
Colonel Hayes Hodges: Oh, yes, sir.
- Versioni alternativeSome international prints, made for DVD/TV broadcast, have removed the Paramount logo and fade straight into the Seven Arts Pictures logo. The opening titles also now read "Seven Arts Pictures Present in association with Paramount Pictures". This is due to the fact that Seven Arts owned the international rights and wanted prime credit.
- Colonne sonoreOn the Threshold of Liberty
by Mark Isham
Contains a sample performed by Mark Isham
Courtesy of The Windham Hill Group
The movie is extremely manipulative, and comes from the equally manipulative director of The French Connection, William Friedkin. The movie's bad guys, oddly enough, are a crowd of irrational arabs, together with career politicians who won't just let military men do what they have to do.
The problem with the entire scenario is that the entire massacre could have been prevented with a couple of well aimed teargass grenades. Secondly, not a lot of time is spent on the character development of the 'bad guys', namely the Yemenis (in this case), who all seem to be very eager to die killing Americans, including their (the Yemeni's) toddlers. The later images of the little girl shooting a pistol is very manipulative indeed ("oh, see, she deserved to get her leg shot off after all!").
And thirdly, the incident most like it, namely the US Army Rangers debacle in Mogadishu, caused the death of 18 Rangers but 1000 Somali Mogadishuans, most of which were non-combatants. No-one seems to have been called to task for that event, let alone be thrown to the lions to appease public opinion, like Samuel Jackson's character is over a "mere" 83 deaths. (The same thing can be said for the invasion of Panama, where there was a similar death toll among civilians - the truth of the matter is that since WWII, conventional weapons have become infinitely more efficient, with the result that if conflict breaks out in built-up areas, _lots_ of civilians are killed.)
However, the one redeeming value (other than the acting) is that it shines a light on the changed nature of the political war that is required of the modern soldier in places like Somalia, Bosnia, etc., and that started in Vietnam.
- Alex-372
- 28 feb 2002
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- Rules of Engagement
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- Marocco(Embassy)
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- Budget
- 60.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 61.335.230 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 15.011.181 USD
- 9 apr 2000
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 71.732.303 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 8 minuti
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