Original title: Blood Diamond
Production U.S. - 2006
Director: Edward Zwick
Subject: Charles Leavitt and Gaby Mitchell
Screenplay: Charles Leavitt
Production Designer: Olivia Bloch-Lainé
Costumes: Ngila Dickson
Photography: Eduardo Serra
Editor: Steven Rosenblum
Music: James Newton Howard
Actors and Characters: Leonardo Di Caprio - ( Danny Archer), Djimon Hounsou - ( Solomon Vandy), Kagiso Kuypers - ( Dia Vandy - son of Solomon), Jennifer Connelly - ( Maddy Bowen - American journalist ), David Harewood - ( Captain Poison), Arnold Vosloo - (Colonel Coetzee )
Synopsis, Review and Trailer
1999 Sierra Leone - If a war should continue, then we need weapons, if this war must go on, because there is high demand for diamonds and we are eager hands ready for anything.
I know Danny Archer, although he and White, Africa has it in the blood, but he learned too well not to love and serve her, to go a bit 'longer meeting the idea of \u200b\u200bwelfare industrialized countries and consequently his.
He is the product of his past and some things leave a mark, the soul dry, make dry, or maybe it's just a hard one to put on armor to survive. Danny has always acted without getting too many questions, and slipped him, all the injustice, violence and abuse around him. Ex-mercenary in Rhodesia, then wily arms dealer, has learned to deal easily with the rebels who lit the fires of insurgency and keep alive the civil war. are the RUF (Revolutionary United Front ), violent, untrustworthy and cruel, but they need him and his treacherous goods, as well as Danny needs them. It 'an equal exchange, weapons in exchange for diamonds!
Eager buyers are already there, ready in many parts of the world.
Multinational unscrupulous men who know where they came from those shiny stones stained invisible scarlet, but close your eyes, in the name of the god of money.
Village Mende - clear skies and lots of dreams. Solomon Vandy, a moment shaking her son before letting him go to school, they will have to do many km to reach it. How many sacrifices, but it is safe one day become a doctor. You want a better future for him, it will become an important person and respectable. The sound of sudden bursts
dissolve this moment of tender peace of mind, making him fall in his new reality made of disbelief and pain.
A mad rush to the poor houses, where a brute force destroys everything, devastate guerrillas, killed, dragged away by force the children present. Solomon fails in a desperate attempt to take away his family, separate him brutally by his wife and children before he can remove them from hell. He
, fisher free, good, always hopeful for a better future, instead finds himself, along with many desperate people, trapped in a remote area on the edge of the forest, with a gun a few steps, digging through the earth that ungrateful red in spite of all of Africa that loves to sink your feet in the muddy, this time not to try to fish for his family, but precious stones, diamonds for the men who destroyed his life.
think that for him the wealth is something quite different, is represented by the people he loves and would do anything for them. He feels, however, startled, when soon after he found amongst the hands a huge pink diamond!
From now on, a succession of events weave the story of Danny and Solomon are two different men but both Africans and the second, however, has skin the color of the dark soil and soul the pride of its origins, love the simple things and especially for his family.
background of dusty roads traveled by guerrillas of unprecedented ferocity, or long chains of refugees in disarray, including child soldiers and heroic missionaries, surrounded by the din of destructive weapons, or the surprising silence of a wilderness of magnificent beauty , be united by force and by necessity, driven by dissimilar objectives, but also in the fight per la sopravvivenza e con il miraggio di un futuro migliore.
Sulla scena arriverà anche Maddy, un'intrepida giornalista, assetata di verità. Idealista e determinata, giocherà un ruolo importante nella vicenda.
- Blood Diamond , diamanti insanguinati, un titolo forte che racchiude già crudeltà e violenza, forza bruta e inenarrabili ingiustizie. Pare quasi un'eresia vedere accostate due parole così diverse. Ancor più perché la purezza, la trasparenza di queste pietre rare e preziose, hanno sempre trasmesso un'idea di regale perfezione. Invece, spesso, tante verità sono celate dietro quell'eterea brillantezza, narrano di sofferenze, soprusi e sangue, portano noise of firearms, violence and pain.
Blood Diamond is a film-complaint, a period drama tells the story of some parts of Africa, raped by bitter conflicts fomented by interest submerged.
The director, Edward Zwick , places the plot to late 90's, weaving the stories of the characters with real and bloody civil war that devastated this unfortunate period in that area of \u200b\u200bour planet. tells a bitter truth, speaks of the recent past, of a land raped on several fronts, internal strife dressed in fake patriotic ideals, by greedy hands and silence the rest of the world. In the first part of pellicola, sceglie di dare maggiore spazio al conflitto. Dà voce alle armi. Azioni di guerriglia si susseguono sullo schermo, crude immagini di devastazione e violenza, case distrutte, sparatorie, scoppi e urla a fare da colonna sonora . Quasi un reportage che arriva direttamente dal passato . Tali scene, sature di confusionaria, crudele atmosfera, possono apparire eccessive, distogliere un po' dal filo logico e cronologico della trama, per fortuna, il tutto comincia ad assumere contorni ben più definiti, man mano che i vari personaggi risultano più caratterizzati. Il lato psicologico prende il sopravvento sul resto, riuscendo a far entrare ancor più lo spettatore nell'anima dell'avventurosa vicenda, che si snoda attraverso daring and dramatic vicissitudes of the protagonists.
Charles Leavitt wrote on the subject, in collaboration with Gaby Mitchell . The latter is also dealt with the screenplay and while remaining faithful to chronicle the dramatic, shameful page in history, has seen fit to include two fictional characters, Danny and Solomon. Through them to relive the injustices suffered by many men, tells two different ways of living this land of contrasts, where live, love and violence, Good and evil, wealth and extreme poverty. The result is really good, can be emotionally involved, so that the middle of the film and final, it can also be hard to hold back the tears.
The choice of the director, actors make use of known and beloved as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly , is certainly not random, needless to say that it also aims to bring this up even more attention to the film. A shrewd move, but apt, and given the important theme of the film, I can not help but place it in full.
Both agents, however, give life to characters of great charisma. The smuggler Danny Archer, DiCaprio portrays the part corrupt, cynical and opportunistic, providing it at the same time mysterious soul, full of facets, which aims to confuse things a bit 'the viewer, but that may even surprise him. What about its interpretation: engaging and intense.
Brava also Jennifer Connelly, plays the role of American journalist Maddy , one of the few female characters in the film, certainly the most important. In this universe of poverty and social environment degraded by war, moves like a hero, almost an icon of women's emancipation, in contrast to the more subdued role of so many unfortunate, compelled to force the conflict to an inhuman life. It's up to you, idealistic and determined , animated by a sense of justice, represent that part of the world that dares to ask questions before such destruction.
Djimon Hounsou is certainly less known than the other two protagonists, but also has holdings in several major films, such as Eragon, Gladiator, Amistad, and others. Who better than he could understand the good and brave man African Solomon Vandy? Undoubtedly perfect. Born and lived in Africa until the age of thirteen years, the amount of acting skill to the physical ideal for such a role. His unforgettable characters and scenes that involve opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, along with outline two different ways of seeing the wealth that if one can represent the value of material well-being given a rare diamond, on the other contours assume deeper and more sentimental, as it may be only a means to achieve something far more precious to him: his son Dia! A
David Harewood the task is not easy to transfer over all evil if they were capable of so many of those men who have taken an active part in the conflict in the movie and become the ruthless Captain Poison . Its role, if not leading, it is important to draw a nasty and ruthless violence, which certainly has deep roots, and is also a reflection of the harsh reality that surrounds him, but who knows if he was not as a of the many child soldiers abducted and raped the soul? A sentence of the film summarizes this well:
- " You think I'm the devil, but believe me, it's only because I lived in hell and I want to get out !"
Another of the strengths of the film is without doubt the ' captivating scenery.
The camera does not spare himself in the capture and immortalize beautiful natural landscapes, alternating with skilful reconstructions of great emotional impact. So the action scenes, dominated by expansive vistas of desolate towns and villages in ruins, just follow those touching the extensive slums in the refugee reception centers, then to achieve spectacular peaks dramatically in some shooting from the top, which open onto an area crossed by a long trail of desperate poor, women, men, children, internally displaced persons who advance slowly. conjures up images already seen several times on the news.
A great deal of credit must be no doubt in Eduardo Serra, who oversaw the photography and gave up bringing the best eclectic beauty of this land of Africa, giving us also the view of the Great Plains, arid expanses of land red, green forested areas fascinating sunsets, breathtaking views.
The soundtrack, made his major part in giving greater intensity to the plot, music dominated by alternating rhythmic sounds of tam-tam, a suggestive substrates female choirs.
I highly recommend watching, because it is a mix of fast-paced action, beautiful scenery, dramatic truth. It 's a bit like giving voice to those who no longer exists. Cry (metaphorically speaking) through this movie thousands of people who have lost their lives, their dignity as free men, children robbed of their innocence, kidnapped, drugged, become murderers, the new slaves of greed and consumerism.
to see, to appreciate the spectacular scenes, why are many aspects to investigate and reflect upon, the many delightful spots that catch the eye, which leaves almost, "A sore of Africa" \u200b\u200band one vision is not enough!
For the topic and some bloody scenes, watching Blood Diamond is not suitable for children.
- Duration: two hours and twenty-three minutes
Curiosity
- Blood Diamond scenes were shot almost all of Sierra Leone, Mozambique and South Africa, the other in London, India and in Belgium.
- It's only a movie, but what could be more true. To be as faithful to the dramatic reality, the director has used the help of the known documentary Sorious Samur document and its truth "Cry Freetown ", girato direttamente durante quel sanguinoso periodo di guerra.
- Il conflitto in Sierra Leone è durato dal 1991 fino al 2002, ben undici anni di violenta guerra civile, che si è lasciata dietro distruzione e immani atrocità. Questa sfortunata terra, che in realtà ha un potenziale di ricchezza rappresentato da giacimenti d'oro e di diamanti, si ritrova in estrema povertà, violentata da chi non si è lasciato sfuggire la golosa opportunità di depredarla dei suoi tesori. Ancora oggi porta i segni indelebili di questo suo drammatico passato di sopraffazione e morte.
Nel 2003, un accordo internazionale di sessantanove Stati, ha dato vita al Protocollo Kimberley, or rather the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme , an important step to control the origin of diamonds, so you do they come from countries at war, and thus counteract the smuggling, violence and blood.
Problem solved? It is undoubtedly a very important step towards the rule of law, without wishing to sound too pessimistic but I also located a spontaneous reflection.
Common sense says that from now on, being able and willing, before buying a diamond must first ascertain its origin. Ok, but how far you can really trust that stated? And I'm not referring to some common jewelers. Who was capable of so treacherous actions, of those appalling crimes in the name of money, which has hidden the truth for so long, has funded a war in order to obtain the value of those "crimson stones," then the hidden to make them rare and thus increase the market price, may perhaps not find a way to get around this law and to get them out of that glitter left passing them off as clean?
- This film participated in the Oscar night of 2007 well with five nominations ! For the title of "Best Actor " and "Role " for "Best Sound ", "Best Editing ", "Best sound editor .
He also won two awards at National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards in 2006.
He also participated with a Golden Globe nomination of 2007 and the other two Sag Awards 2007 .
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