Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film produced by, directed by, and based on the nonfiction book of the same title by Mark Bowden. The film depicts the Battle of Mogadishu, a 1993 raid integral to the United States' effort to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
Black Hawk Down Real PeopleThe movie features, Tom Sizemore, Ewen Bremner, Glenn Morshower, and among many, many others.In a raid, a task force of Delta Force soldiers, Army Rangers, and Special Operations Aviation Regiment attempt to capture two of Mohammed Farah Aidid's senior subordinates in the Bakaara Market neighborhood of Mogadishu. The mission is led by Major General William F. Garrison and was supposed to take no more than one hour. The extraction by the Delta team is successful, but the Somali militia, armed with RPGs, shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, and the resulting rescue extends the mission to over 15 hours. This movie contains examples of:.: Many elements were added to make the action sequences more exciting for cinematic audiences. You want a Ranger Body Armor vest or RBA, alice gear with a buttpack, make it look like a heavy loadout so load up the belt with lots of pouches, a Y harness ( I can sell you one for $10 if you like), PASGT, kneepads, most likely Woodland Bijians. Chief Warrant Officer Cliff Wolcott, the veteran pilot of Super 61, the first Blackhawk shot down in the battle. Ed Yurek, a 26-year-old Ranger from Wilmington, Massachusetts who tried Boston College and a number of jobs, none of them with great success, before enlisting in 1990. He was a team leader assigned to Chalk Two. Black Hawk Down is the 2001 feature film adaptation of the non-fiction Mark Bowden book that recounted the events surrounding the ill-fated US mission to capture a Somali warlord in 1993. Directed by Ridley Scott, the film was notable for its depiction of modern US warfare.The film received support from the US Department of Defense, who provided extensive training for the actors with members. In the DVD commentary, some of the soldiers involved in the Battle of Mogadishu gave these embellishments (particularly the scene with the recoilless rifle) their approval because of how cool they were. Little Birds are depicted as having advanced head-mounted targeting systems during the nighttime gun runs. This was done because audiences were going to have a hard time believing that Little Bird pilots were actually aiming using a simple mark drawn onto their windscreens with a grease pencil.: Not many, but a notable one is Hoot comforting Sgt. Hey guys watching black hawk down with the girl last night and i was kinda curious if anyone ever did a delta force clone of their rifles? And if so how it turned out? Or any ideas what might be a good stand in for their rifles. ALL songs in the movie listed here. Saturday, January 26, 2002 (11:54 a.m.) Alright.I -finally- found a full track list of songs in the movie on a message board at cinemamayhem.com. Thanks to Andreas for compiling this Hopefully this will answer any and all questions about the songs used in. Black Hawk Down (2001) Director: Ridley Scott. Summary Edit. The film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. Sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Even in the hood, nature still finds a way. Even in the hood, nature still finds a way. Skip navigation. Stand off between hawk and cat - Duration: 4:25. Jamesthemaster7 2,702,509 views. Eversmann after they were unable to save Smith. Likewise, the scene where Aidid's propaganda minister gives Durant a thoughtful lecture on the nature of the conflict they're fighting is a real standout. Hassan: You are the ranger who kills my people?Durant: I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.Hassan:, Durant refuses) That's right, none of you Americans smoke anymore. You all live long, dull, uninteresting lives.Durant: What do you want with me?Hassan: You have taken hostages, we have you.Durant: My government will never negotiate for me.Hassan: Then perhaps. You and I can negotiate, eh?Durant: I'm not in charge.Hassan: Of course not, you have the power to kill but not negotiate. In Somalia, killing is negotiation. Do you really think if you get General Aidid, we will simply put down our weapons and adopt American democracy? That the killing will stop? We know this, without victory, there can be no peace. There will always be killing, you see. This is how things are in our world. (tosses Durant his dogtags).: The first thing CPT Steele does after catching SGT Pilla doing imitations of him is to acknowledge to the other Rangers of how funny it was. The second thing he does is and walk off with him explaining why he shouldn't undermine his authority like that. The company clerk pressed into service as an infantryman is named 'Grimes' in the film, as the actual Ranger who was in this situation was later sent to prison for rape. The film takes great pains to make the audience aware of the character's new name. Many of the Delta operators also have different names from those given in the book, though in some cases they are actually.: The real Tommy McKnight has noted that he doesn't smoke and rarely shouts or swears, unlike how Tom Sizemore portrayed him in the film. He also didn't go out for the final extraction as he'd been ordered to stay put due to the severity of his neck wound rather than stubbornly insisting on being deployed.: Although some of the things done by the American forces in the movie seem stupid or absurd, they make more sense in the book where the author explains that, up to that point, typical missions lasted no more than an hour. For example, the Rangers dumped the weight of armor plates and water in favor of more ammo because they would be pulling security (and thus have a man guarding their rear at all times) and be riding on helicopters to the objective, not exactly an intense activity. It was a case of falling into habits after a long deployment.: Inverted; the Americans are only able to get their men from the city when their UN allies finally arrive. Hoot: Hey, we started a whole new week! It's Monday!.: In the book, after the bodies of a helicopter crew are mutilated after crashing, a fellow Black Hawk crewman vowed that he would scream one of their names each time he killed a Somali. 'The D-boys in back kept looking up at him, wondering what he was doing.' .: 'Nothing' / 'It's nothing,' and possibly 'Don't go without me' are repeated throughout the movie.: Has.: The Little Bird pilot who pulls the Delta operator out of the first downed Black Hawk is played by Chief Warrant Officer Keith Jones, who did the exact same thing during the real Battle of Mogadishu.: What the Pakistanis use to get the American troops out: big and thick-armored APCs that look like they could take direct hits from tanks and keep going.:. The comm lines are highly secure. Too bad the delay caused by them cause the ground team trying to reach the downed helicopters to miss their turns, over and over again. Having high flying oversight from P-3C Orion spy planes: awesome. Having no radio communication with those planes: bad. The delay caused by getting the directions from the planes, to the Joint Operations Center, to the C-2 officers in the helicopter was more than a minute, and ended up resulting in the wrong directions (they were trying to direct the convoy to the wrong crash site).: Subverted/Mocked. Just about every character that makes one gets screwed by it. The Rangers in the hangar (preparing for takeoff) tell Grimes to leave his night vision goggles and canteens behind since they're not going to be gone long enough to need them; the strike force is so tough that no possibility of mission failure enters their minds. (Granted that the mission as planned was supposed to take only 30 minutes, but military planning is supposed to be about preparing for the worst-case scenario.) They also tell him to leave the rear ballistic plate out of his kevlar flak vest; supposedly he will only need it if he is running away from the enemy. The Rangers spend much of the movie surrounded and taking fire from all sides. The very worst Badass Boast comes from Private Blackburn, who tells Grimes, 'I'm here to kick some ass.' This is completely subverted as he misses the fast-rope after an RPG forces the Blackhawk to juke, falls from the helicopter, breaks his back, and is evacuated on a Hum-Vee without firing a single shot in battle.: Captain Steele. The movie version, anyway. Opinions vary as to his real-life counterpart (in the book, Delta SFC Paul Howe had a poor view of the Rangers, but especially of CPT Steele).: Averted. The sound of the minigun is accurately portrayed (its actual rate of fire and lethality, however, are grossly inferior to the real thing). The latter is actually fairly common in films and television, as a real minigun's barrels spin so fast a camera wouldn't be able to register their motion, and they'd appear completely stationary.: On the side of the trope. Hoot: When I go home.and people ask me: 'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? You some kind of war junkie?' I won't say a goddamn word. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the men next to you.: Several notable things were changed for the movie, most concerning Eversmann. In real life he jumped on the convoy as it was pulling out the first time, and when it eventually returned to base, so did he. Upon arrival, he note Luckily the Somalis never noticed. If they had, they would've quickly overrun the base and the Rangers would've been thoroughly screwed and immediately went to work correcting that. He did not participate in most of the combat depicted in the film, and his lieutenant, DiTomasso, was more important at the first crash site. Also, PFC Grimes is a fictional composite. The real PFC Stebbins on whom 'Grimes' is based was later convicted of a distasteful crime and is rightfully considered a disgrace by the Army in general and the 75th Rangers in particular. The Pentagon requested that Stebbins not be mentioned in the film. However, his actions during the battle were too important to omit, so the fictional character of Grimes was created to replace him. Both the studio and the Army were subsequently accused of either glorifying a sexual predator or whitewashing his crimes. ![]() Sometimes you just can't win.: Grimes and Sanderson develop this relationship. Twombly and Nelson are forced into it when the convoy leaves without them. And of course, the kings of this trope are the late Shughart and Gordon.: Grimes complains about sitting at a desk during major US Ranger conflicts. He finally gets his chance to go into combat. And gets hit by an RPG blast a few minutes in for his troubles. It only gets worse for him from there. Steele: I thought I heard a noise out here!McKnight:.: 'Hoo-ah!' In Army usage (and to a lesser degree in the Air Force), the word can be taken to mean anything and everything except for 'No.' Wilkinson: (as the chopper is being punctured with bullet holes). Bonus points, he's played by.: The MH-6 Little Bird helicopters, which make gun and rocket attacks that kill literally dozens of militia.: Grimes gripes about being given desk duty because his skill at typing makes him too valuable to put him in the action. In 1993, basic computer literacy was much more valuable than in 2001. Today, any adult is automatically assumed to know his way around a computer.: 'Convoy is encountering light resistance' (cut to the convoy getting shot up and blown up every which way).: When Specialist Mike Kurth sees a woman about to pick up a gun. He yells for her not to do it. And Struecker unhesitatingly shreds her when.: A Delta operator racks the charging handle on the after he takes the place of the Ranger who was just killed. A; US Soldiers are trained to cycle the weapon once when replacing a dead or wounded gunner to ensure the weapon is still functional and in a ready-to-fire state, making it one of those rare and wonderful moments that are both cool/dramatic and.: sarcastically claims that all Americans are Type 1, who don't drink, don't smoke, and live long, healthy, uninteresting lives.: 18 Americans died. Contrast that with the 1000-2000 killed.: The bulk of the American units shown in the film;, 160th Special Operations Air Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Air Force Pararescue, and Deltas.: Maddox, one of the Humvee drivers, gets an faceful of glass when a Somalia shoots an RPG that shatters the windshield of his Humvee. Granted, his vision isn't completely destroyed.:. Randy, last mag! Gary Gordon. Gordys gone, man. Ill be outside. Good luck. Randy Shughart. 'Te-tell my girls.I'll be okay.' Wex.: The first sign there's something wrong occurs when a attempts this trope but misses because the chopper had to dodge an RPG. In the book the film's based on, there's no RPG and no swerve, he just has a hand/eye coordination moment.: Subverted with Mike Durant, who survives the conflict as a Somali hostage.: Gallentine pretty much loses his thumb and just tapes it to his hand to keep it in place.: The Little Bird and Black Hawk choppers are both equipped with miniguns, which basically.: A rare non-comedy example. An officer from the 10th Mountain Division tells Colonel McKnight that between the 10th Mountain and the UN troops, the relief force will have more than enough manpower to get to the crash sites and retrieve the Rangers. McKnight's men don't need to go back out into the city. The very next shot is McKnight climbing into a Humvee at the head of the convoy, before rolling back out, passing the UN tanks standing guard at the entrance to the stadium.: The mission was supposed to last thirty minutes (technically, it does- the objective is completed early in the film. The problem is the chaos that results from that objective).: All the time, considering the fact that war isn't pretty. 'There's a fucking ROCKET in him, sir!' . One soldier, in the middle of a firefight, comes across a fellow soldier's severed hand, and immediately blinks out of combat mode as he wonders what to do with it (he eventually stuffs it into a pocket). In the incident, the soldier knew whose hand it was, and put it into the pocket of the soldier that had lost it, causing a bit of a ruckus back at the base later when an unprepared nurse found it and freaked out. One of the Deltas (Wex) is torn in half when an RPG hits the armoured car he's in. It doesn't kill him instantly.: During the gun battle at night, where AH-6J Little Birds were called in to provide fire support — shredding any unfortunate Somalis caught in their sights.: Delta operator Wex, who loses the lower half of his body to an RPG.: To be expected in a film like this. Special mention goes to Hoot's coordinating the takedown of a technical gunner with an elaborate series of hand signals.: Non-romantic example. At the end of the movie, two Rangers who have just returned safely to their base do this as a sort of manly, utterly exhausted alternative to a hug.: After catching Pilla performing his, and acknowledging that it was, Captain Steele asks to have a word, before putting Pilla into a headlock and walking off with him in tow.: Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, the two Delta operators that go to help Durant take him from the chopper and place him in a nearby building, then go back to defend the chopper. This doesn't make much sense until you realize they didn't have enough men to guard the building. They were drawing the militia fighters away from Durant by using themselves as bait. However, it does almost end up becoming a, considering Durant got captured by the Somali militia anyway. Almost, in that they thinned out the armed crowd and it ended up mainly being unarmed Somalis who beat on Durant. He was then spared by Aidid's propaganda minister who decided to take him as a hostage. He was also helped by not being armed at the time of his abduction. In the book, it becomes significantly more clear that they knew exactly what they were doing by going in on foot. They didn't have a chance of extraction by helicopter, and they were aware that the pilot (Durant) was unable to move fast enough to be extracted by foot. They went in knowing that there was a good chance they would be overrun by the hundreds of militia members they could see from their vantage point in the helicopter, and they did it anyway. There's a reason they were both awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions.: In one gruesome scene, arterial blood sprays the faces of the team trying to treat it.: The Pentagon pressured the screenwriter to give this to Ewan McGregor's character, SPC John 'Grimsey' Grimes, who was based on SPC John Stebbins. The real-life Stebbins was sentenced to thirty years in prison for raping his six year old daughter.:. The recoilless rifle being used by Mo'alim, the Aidid militia commander seen through the movie, being turned on him by U.S. Soldiers. The kid and his dad that try to ambush a soldier as he exits a building. He slides to the ground as he exits the (couple feet high) door and the kid shoots his own dad instead.: While the movie is based on a true story, it removes any references that Malaysian Peace Keepers were also involved in the rescue of the downed Black Hawks. This angered the Malaysian government since the movie was implying the Malaysian did nothing when in reality Malaysian soldiers both fought and died together with their American counterparts in that rescue operation. The roles and actions of certain characters were changed as well, usually in the spirit.: Smoke grenades, strobe lights, and other beacons used for marking positions for friendly aircraft, like the IR strobe Eversman threw onto the roof of a Somali-occupied building to mark it for a strafing run, are actually used to mark friendly positions. This avoids the possibility of an enemy picking up the beacon and throwing it back - note that one of the Somalis does in fact pick up the strobe in puzzlement, but is killed immediately afterwards.: by two Blackhawk pilots as Wolcott and Durant argue over the legitimacy of the word 'Limo'. Wolcott: You touch my limo and I'll spank you, Night Stalker. You hear me?Durant: Yeah. Promises.: SGT Eversmann. He receives some over his being a dyed-in-the-wool believer in America's mission to help the Somali people.: A Somali boy and his father attack a Ranger from both sides. The Ranger slips and falls, and the boy (shooting from the hip) shoots his own father.: Kowalewski is killed when he is shot with an RPG, which passes partway out the other side of his body without blowing up.: The Somalis keep their AKs on full-auto and tend to not aim all that much, whereas Delta Force and the Rangers take decently aimed single shots most of the time. The sheer number of Somalis makes this 'spray & pray' strategy more effective than it would be otherwise.: Sgt. Dominick Pilla becomes the first American fatality when he gets shot in the throat while manning a Humvee turret. Hoot: When I go home people'll ask me, 'Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, are you some kinda war junkie?' You know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that, and that's it. That's all it is.: Subverted. The bullets used by both Delta and the Rangers were a new 'penetrator' type, essentially light armor-piercing rounds. They had a particular tendency to not kill people who were hit by them, as the bullet wounds ended up being, instead of the rapidly expanding or tumbling effects usually observed by full-metal-jacket rounds. According to the book, it was extremely common to shoot three guys, only for two of them to get up and drag the third out of the combat zone.: Between the Rangers and the Deltas. Steele outright accuses the Deltas of being undisciplined cowboys while Delta regards the Rangers as subpar soldiers hamstrung by conventional Army thinking.:. Captain Steele tends to be a bit of a, giving condescending lectures to Delta Operators who he considers. At the same time, it's obvious that he acts out of concern for his men's well being, and he tends to come off as note The book makes it clear that Delta's methods do not work with the more traditional infantry role that the Rangers fulfill. He was trying to discourage his Rangers from doing the same sorts of things that Delta Operators did, because while Delta was extremely effective in their missions and seriously elite, the Rangers had a different mission to perform. Hoot in particular stands out as he seems more than a little callous about the whole conflict, and about the lives lost, not to mention his disregard for firearms safety. However, he is just hyper-professional, and encourages Eversmann not to doubt himself or how he handled the mission. In his last scene, he more or less says that the reason he fights is And then he puts the jerkass demeanour invoked back on, telling an Eversman not to try and go back out with him, because he works better alone.: One Ranger gleefully boasts that he doesn't need the kevlar plate in the back of his vest since he 'doesn't plan on getting shot in the back running away.' It didn't work out so well for him. Struecker: (Racing his Humvee down a city street while bullets ricochet all around) I don't wanna talk about it right now, Colonel. Grimes:.: Averted, as a man who got shot in the leg dies painfully (both for him and the viewers; the scene where they try to stop him from bleeding out from the femoral artery is ).: One of the Somalis that captures Durant uses his AK-47 as a makeshift club and smacks him across the face with the stock.: According to the book, most of the men in the platoon were just married, intending to marry, intending to get a new job or a promotion, a new father, an expecting father, etc. Justified because marrying and having kids young is very common in the military for various reasons, most prominent being that they are in a career where they could be killed at any moment.: In the book, one USAF Pararescueman runs across a street to pick up IVs and medical supplies. Not once, not twice, but three times. While the Rangers and Somalis are trading fire. He doesn't get hit at all.: SGT Pilla is entertaining a group of Rangers by pacing back and forth, mock-lecturing them in the style of. CPT Steele:.: We occasionally see the Somalis' low-tech tactics. To neutralize the speed advantage of helicopters, they'd just have someone hang around near the American base and set a tire fire when a large group left, to act as a warning to Aidid's militia that they were about to have company.: Grimes keeps getting shot with RPGs. Okay, so it's not a funny running gag. (In the actual campaign, Stebbins really did find himself near far too many explosions. Each time, his squadmates thought he was done, but each time he managed to survive somehow. He eventually makes it out of the combat zone with a badly injured foot.).: Zig-zagged. The sacrifice the two Delta operators that go to help Durant somewhat becomes this, as Durant ends up getting captured by the Somali militia anyway. On the other hand, he did survive to see another day, which may not have happened if he was left wedged inside the helo wreckage firing an MP5.: The first American death is the, SGT Pilla, who is killed early in the fighting.: Historical inaccuracies aside, the film was and remains one of the best portrayals of the US military in action, and of war in general.: One soldier has always been away from the fighting, a fact he says isn't his fault. It's because he has a rare and valuable skill beloved by the infantry that keeps him busy: he can type. Note Although this might seem absurd to modern viewers, remember that in the early 90's, personal home computers were a relatively new thing and not everyone knew how to type or use those archaic, command line-based data entry systems.: Durant is the only member of Super Six-Four's flight crew to survive the battle. Gordon and Shughart (who are both killed-in-action defending him) manage to keep him safe long enough for Aidid's men to take him prisoner, (and he is eventually released) but the mob that descends upon the crash site murders the other survivors.:. Averted. Nelson is left mostly deaf for the rest of the movie after a 5.56mm M249 squad automatic weapon is fired from within a foot from his head. Subverted at another point in the film; Grimes barely dodges a Somali RPG and is knocked off his feet and partially buried by the dirt churned up by the blast. When a Delta digs him up, the viewer sees things from Grimes' perspective, including temporarily distorted audio due to the blast momentarily deafening him. McKnight: No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, late afternoon when they're all fucked up on Khat, only part of the city Aidid can mount a serious counter-attack on short notice. What's not to like?.: Durant when Randy is killed.: Courtesy of LTC Gary Harrell: 'Black Hawk down, we have a Black Hawk down.' .: All of them, especially Durant, who is taken prisoner.: Set the image of modern warfare for virtually every movie or video game that came after it.: The film is based on true events, so every trope depicted is pretty much true.: Everytime McKnight's convoy stops, he gets out and strolls around, apparently oblivious to the bullets flying past his head, to find out what's wrong.: The character of Grimes was created to replace John Stebbins. They renamed that character, since Stebbins is serving 30 years for raping his own pre-teen daughter.: One of the few modern depictions of this trope prior to works based on the invasion of Iraq in 2003.: A recoil-less gun mounted on a militia technical is taken over by Deltas and turned against the on-site commander, who had been causing them trouble all throughout the battle.: The Rangers tend to use 'hooah' almost as a punctuation mark, which is, as 'Hooah' can, depending on context and tone, mean anything and everything except 'No.' .: One of the Delta operators tells Grimes to 'stay off the walls' with no explanation. If you are leaning against a wall in a firefight, two things might happen: bullets striking the wall at a shallow angle might end up traveling along the wall and hit you, or an explosion will go off nearby and the wall will shake hard enough from the recoil to violently smash into you.: After Durant is captured, the Somalis look ready to finish him off. Just then, members of Aidid's militia show up and claim him before they can kill him, firing a warning burst of gunfire to order the mob to stand down and back off. Granted, it's just so they can have a hostage to negotiate with, but it beats the certain death Durant would've faced otherwise.: 'The only way to negotiate is to kill.' .: An M14 battle rifle for Randy Shughart.: During Hoot and the Delta team's stealth attack on the militia's recoilless cannon, Grimes—as the only non-Delta Force member of the team—is assigned a role as a momentary distraction to draw their attention right before Hoot and the Delta commandos use the opportunity to garrote the militia and hijack the cannon. Notable in that the entire scene is coordinated without a word being spoken: Hoot uses hand signals to lay out the plan.: The Lieutenant responsible for Chalk 4 has a seizure on the eve of the battle, forcing Eversmann to lead his unit. Similarly, when Cpt. Steele's Rangers have too many wounded to continue to the crash site, Delta Sgt. Sanderson (RL Sgt. Howe) has to push on without him.: Grimes has spent most of his career making coffee for his fellow Rangers, due to being.: The strategy employed by the lightly armed mobs, who were only nominally under warlord control. The paramilitary forces (none of the warlords had access to a real, regular army) controlled directly by the warlords were better equipped, trained, and led, if only by comparison, and were responsible for the downings of the Blackhawks and most of the pressure put on Eversmann's strongpoint throughout the night. Black Hawk Down is a 2001 produced and directed by from a screenplay. It is based on the 1999 by journalist about the 1993 raid in by the U.S. Military, aimed at capturing faction leader. The ensuing firefight became known as the. The film features a large, including, and.Black Hawk Down won two for and at the. In 2009, an extended cut of the film was released on DVD. The cut contained an additional eight minutes of footage increasing the running time to 152 minutes. This extended cut was released on and in 4K on May 7, 2019. Following the ousting of the central government in 1993 amid the in Somalia, the United Nations Security Council authorizes a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. After the bulk of the peacekeepers were withdrawn, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to declared war on the remaining UN personnel. In response, the U.S. Army deploys three of its –, counter-terrorist operators, and aviators – to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president.To consolidate his power and subdue the population in the south, Aidid and his militia seize Red Cross food shipments, while the UN forces are powerless to intervene directly. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture, a faction leader selling arms to Aidid's militia. The US then plans a mission to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdiid, two of Aidid's top advisers.The U.S. Forces include experienced men as well as new recruits, including 18-year-old Todd Blackburn and John Grimes, a desk clerk. Matthew Eversmann receives his first command, of Ranger Four, after his lieutenant suffers a seizure. Eversmann responds to mocking remarks about Somalis from fellow soldiers by saying he respects the Somalis and has compassion for the terrible conditions of civil war for the Somali people, saying there are two things we can do, 'We can help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN.' The operation begins and Delta Force operators capture Aidid's advisers inside the target building, while the Rangers and helicopters escorting the ground-extraction convoy take heavy fire. Blackburn is severely injured when he falls from one of the helicopters, so three Humvees led by are detached from the convoy to return Blackburn to the UN-held.Dominick Pilla is shot and killed just as Struecker's column departs, and shortly thereafter Black Hawk Super Six-One, piloted by Clifton 'Elvis' Wolcott is shot down by a. Both pilots are killed, the two crew chiefs are wounded, and one Delta Force sniper on board, Busch, escapes in an helicopter.The ground forces are rerouted to converge on the crash site. The Somali militia erects roadblocks, and Danny McKnight's Humvee column is unable to reach the crash area while sustaining heavy casualties. Meanwhile, two Ranger Chalks, including Eversmann's unit, reach Super-Six One 's crash site and set up a defensive perimeter to await evacuation with the two wounded men and the fallen pilots. In the interim, Super Six-Four, piloted by Chief Warrant Officer, is also shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashes several blocks away.With 's Rangers pinned down and sustaining heavy casualties, no ground forces can reach Super Six-Four 's crash site nor reinforce the Rangers defending Super Six-One. Two Delta Force snipers, and, are inserted by helicopter to Super Six-Four 's crash site, where they find Durant still alive. The site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, and Durant is captured by Aidid's militia.McKnight's column relinquish their attempt to reach Six-One 's crash site and return to base with their prisoners and the casualties. The men prepare to go back to extract the Rangers and the fallen pilots, and Major General Garrison sends Lieutenant Colonel Joe Cribbs to ask for reinforcements from the, including Malaysian and Pakistani armored units from the UN coalition.As night falls, Aidid's militia launch a sustained assault on the trapped Americans at Super Six-One 's crash site. The militants are held off throughout the night by strafing runs and rocket attacks from helicopter gunships, until the 10th Mountain Division's relief column is able to reach the American soldiers. The wounded and casualties are evacuated in the vehicles, but a few of Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are from the crash site to reach the Safe Zone at the stadium.The end titles recount the immediate aftermath of the mission and end of US military operations in Somalia: Michael Durant was released after 11 days of captivity, after which withdrew all US forces from Somalia. During the raid over 1000 Somalis died and 19 American soldiers lost their lives (the names of the 19 soldiers who died, including Delta Sgts. Gordon and Shughart, who were the first soldiers to receive the Medal of Honor posthumously since the, were listed by name). Mohamed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996. The following day, General Garrison retired.Cast. Adapting by was the idea of director, who suggested to that he should buy the film rights and let West direct. West moved on to direct (2001) instead.was credited as screenwriter, and others contributed uncredited: wrote an adaptation of his own book, was hired to do a rewrite, and Ezna Sands rewrote the majority of Gaghan and Nolan's work, actor (MGen. Garrison) rewrote some of his own dialogue, and wrote Josh Hartnett and Eric Bana's concluding speeches. Ken Nolan was on set for four months rewriting his script and the previous work by Gaghan, Zaillian, and Bowden. He was given sole screenwriting credit by a committee.The book relied on a dramatization of participant accounts, which were the basis of the movie. SPC John Stebbins was renamed as fictional 'John Grimes.' Stebbins had been convicted by court martial in 1999 for sexually assaulting his daughter. Mark Bowden said the Pentagon, ever sensitive about public image decided to alter factual history by requesting the change. Bowden wrote early screenplay drafts, before Bruckheimer gave it to screenwriter Nolan. The -captor conversation, between pilot Mike Durant and militiaman Firimbi, is from a Bowden script draft.To keep the film at a manageable length, 100 key figures in the book were condensed to 39. The movie also does not feature any actors. Additionally, no Somali consultants were hired for accuracy, according to writer Bowden.For military verisimilitude, the Ranger actors took a one-week Ranger familiarization course at, the Delta Force actors took a two-week commando course from the 1st Special Warfare Training Group at, and Ron Eldard and the actors playing 160th SOAR helicopter pilots were lectured by captured aviator at.The U.S. Army supplied the and the helicopters from the. Most pilots (e.g., Keith Jones, who speaks some dialogue) had participated in the historic battle on October 3–4, 1993.On the last day of their week-long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who portrayed the Rangers received letters slipped under their doors. It thanked them for their hard work, and asked them to 'tell our story true', signed with the names of the men who died in the Mogadishu firefight. A platoon of Rangers from B-3/75 did the scenes and appeared as extras; John Collette, a Ranger Specialist during the battle, served as a stunt performer.Many of the actors bonded with the soldiers who trained them for their roles. Actor Tom Sizemore said, 'What really got me at training camp was the. I don't think most of us can understand that kind of mutual devotion. It's like having 200 best friends and every single one of them would die for you'.Filming began in March 2001 in, and concluded in late June.Although the filmmakers considered filming in, they found the city of too built up and landlocked. Scott and production designer subsequently turned to, where they had previously worked on. Scott preferred that urban setting for authenticity. Most of the film was photographed in the cities of and; the Task Force Ranger base sequences were filmed at.The film features soldiers wearing helmets with their last names on them. Although this was not accurate, director Ridley Scott used this device to help the audience distinguish among the characters because 'they all look the same once the uniforms are on'. Main article:The for Black Hawk Down was composed by, who previously collaborated with director Scott on several films including (1991) and (2000). Zimmer developed the score through a collaboration with a variety of musicians that blended ' rhythms and sounds with a more conventional synthesizer approach.' In doing so, Zimmer avoided a more traditional composition in favor of an experimental approach that would match the tone of the film. 'I wanted to do it like the way the movie was,' said Zimmer. 'So I got myself a band together and we just went into my studio. and we'd just be flailing away at the picture, I mean, you know with great energy.' Black Hawk Down Imfdb DownloadA soundtrack album was released on January 15, 2002. Box officeBlack Hawk Down had a limited release in four theaters on December 28, 2001, in order to be eligible for the 2001 Oscars. It earned $179,823 in its first weekend, averaging $44,956 per theater. On January 11, 2002, the release expanded to 16 theaters and continued to do well with a weekly gross of $1,118,003 and an average daily per theater gross of $9,982. On January 18, 2002, the film had its, opening at 3,101 theaters and earning $28,611,736 in its first wide-release weekend to finish for the weekend. Opening on the, the film grossed $5,014,475 on the holiday of Monday, January 21, 2002, for a 4-day weekend total of $33,628,211. Only had previously grossed more money over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Black Hawk Down finished first at the box office during its first three weeks of wide release. When the film was pulled from theatres on April 14, 2002, after its 15th week, it had grossed $108,638,746 domestically and $64,350,906 overseas for a worldwide total of $172,989,651. Critical responseOn the film holds a approval rating of 76% based on 171 reviews, with an average rating of 6.85/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'Though it's light on character development and cultural empathy, Black Hawk Down is a visceral, pulse-pounding portrait of war, elevated by Ridley Scott's superb technical skill.' On, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.magazine gave it a verdict of 'ambitious, sumptuously framed, and frenetic, Black Hawk Down is nonetheless a rare find of a war movie which dares to turn genre convention on its head'. Film critic Mike Clark of wrote that the film 'extols the sheer professionalism of America's elite Delta Force—even in the unforeseen disaster that was 1993's Battle of Mogadishu,' and praised Scott's direction: 'in relating the conflict, in which 18 Americans died and 70-plus were injured, the standard getting-to-know-you war-film characterizations are downplayed. While some may regard this as a shortcoming, it is, in fact, a virtue'.The film has had a small cultural legacy, which has been studied academically by media analysts dissecting how media reflects American perceptions of war. Newsweek writer Evan Thomas considered the movie one of the most culturally significant films of the. He suggested that although the film was presented as being anti-war, it was at its core pro-war. He further wrote that 'though it depicted a shameful defeat, the soldiers were heroes willing to die for their brothers in arms The movie showed brutal scenes of killing, but also courage, stoicism and honor The overall effect was stirring, if slightly pornographic, and it seemed to enhance the desire of Americans for a thumping war to avenge.' Klien, writing in Critical Studies in Media Communication, argued that the film's sensational rendering of war had the effect of encouraging audiences to empathize with the film's pro-soldier leitmotif and 'conflate personal support of American soldiers with support of American military policy' and discourage 'critical public discourse concerning justification for and execution of military interventionist policy.' Soon after Black Hawk Down 's release, the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in California denounced what they felt was its brutal and dehumanizing depiction of Somalis and called for its boycott.In a radio interview, an actor who briefly appeared in the movie, said the version of the film which made it onto theater screens significantly differed from the one recounted in the original script. According to him, many scenes asking hard questions of the US regarding the violent realities of war and the true purpose of their mission in Somalia were cut.In a review featured in, film critic expressed dissatisfaction with the film's 'lack of characterization' and opined that the film 'reeks of glumly staged racism'. And Sean Burns, the film critics for the mainstream magazine and the alternative newspaper, respectively, echoed the sentiment that the depiction was racist.American film critic also found the film's 'absence of motivation and characterization' disturbing, and wrote that while American audiences might find the film to be a 'paean to patriotism', other audiences might find it to be a 'deliberately hostile enterprise'; nevertheless, Dixon lauded the film's 'spectacular display of pyrotechnics coupled with equally adroit editing.' , the film's producer, rejected such claims on, putting them down to political correctness in part due to 's liberal leanings. Philadelphia Weekly.Somali nationals charge that the African actors chosen to play the Somalis in the film do not resemble the culturally unique features of the, nor does the language they communicate in sound like the tongue spoken by the. They also claim the abrasive way lines are delivered and lack of authenticity regarding Somali culture fails to capture the tone, mannerisms, and spirit of actual life in Somalia. No Somali actors were used in the movie.In an interview with the, the faction leader said that many aspects of the film are factually incorrect. Taking exception with the ostentatious character chosen to portray him Ali Atto claimed he neither looks like the actor who portrayed him, nor smokes cigars or wears earrings, all later confirmed by SEAL Team Six sniper in his 2012 memoirs. Wasdin also indicated that while the character in the movie ridiculed his captors, in reality, Atto seemed concerned that Wasdin and his men had been sent to kill rather than apprehend him. Atto additionally stated that he had not been consulted about the project nor approached for permission, and that the film sequence re-enacting his arrest contained several inaccuracies:First of all when I was caught on 21 September, I was only travelling with one, not three vehicles as it shows in the film And when the helicopter attacked, people were hurt, people were killed. The car we were travelling in, (and) I have got proof, it was hit at least 50 times. And my colleague Ahmed Ali was injured on both legs I think it was not right, the way they portrayed both the individual and the action. It was not right.Navy SEAL Wasdin similarly remarked that while olive green military rigger's tape was used to mark the roof of the car in question in the movie, his team in actuality managed to track down Atto's whereabouts using a much more sophisticated technique involving the implantation of a homing device. (This was hidden in a cane presented to Atto as a gift from a contact who routinely met with him, which eventually led the team directly to the faction leader. )military officials whose own troops were involved in the fighting have likewise raised complaints regarding the film's accuracy. Retired Brigadier-General Abdul Latif Ahmad, who at the time commanded Malaysian forces in Mogadishu, told the that Malaysian moviegoers would be under the wrong impression that the real battle was fought by the Americans alone with Malaysian troops relegated to 'mere bus drivers to ferry them out'., who later became President of after a coup, similarly accused the filmmakers of not crediting the work done by the Pakistani soldiers. In his autobiography, Musharraf wrote:The outstanding performance of the Pakistani troops under adverse conditions is very well known at the. Regrettably, the film Black Hawk Down ignores the role of Malaysia and Pakistan in Somalia. Troops were trapped in the thickly populated Madina Bazaar area of Mogadishu, it was the Seventh of the that reached out and extricated them. The bravery of the U.S. Troops notwithstanding, we deserved equal, if not more, credit; but the filmmakers depicted the incident as involving only Americans. Mogadishu MileIt is often believed that the soldiers involved in the had to run all the way to the, as shown in the film. However, in that scene the filmmakers took artistic license and dramatized the event, departing from the book. In the film, the Mogadishu Mile ends with about a dozen soldiers entering the Mogadiscio Stadium having run all the way through the city. In the book, it ends with soldiers reaching a rendezvous point on National Street (in the opposite direction from the stadium):'As he approached the intersection of Hawlwadig Road and National Street, about five blocks south of the Olympic Hotel, he saw a tank and the line of APCs and Humvees and a mass of men in desert battle dress. He ran until he collapsed, with joy'It was not only the Rangers and Delta Force soldiers who made the Mogadishu Mile, but soldiers from the U.S. As well:'We didn't ride off the crash site. We didn't run out. We walked expediently in a formation for about a mile to get to an awaiting convoy.' On the whole, the film version where the convoy leaves the soldiers running through the city alone does not correspond to the real event:'No one ran out of the city. The Mog mile was to a rally point where the tanks and the vehicles from 10th Mountain were, waiting to take the men of TFR out to the Pakistani stadium.' 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Black Hawk Down Film CastContents SummaryThe film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. Sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack by Somalian forces brings two of the helicopters down immediately. From there, the U.S. Soldiers must struggle to regain their balance while enduring heavy gunfire.Male Deaths. Sgt. Casey Joyce. MSG Chris Wex. MSG Gary Gordon. Sgt. Dominick Pilla. Cpl. Jamie Smith. Sgt. Lorenzo Ruiz. CWO Clifton Wolcott. Pilot Donovan Briley. Pvt. Richard Kowalewski. SFC Randy Shughart. SSG Daniel Busch. Yousuf Dahir Mo'Alim/Somali Militia LeaderFemale Deaths. NoneTrivia. first feature film. Black Hawk Down Full Movie YoutubeSome of the radio chatter in the movie was taken from actual radio transmissions made during the battle. had to drop out of the role as Cpl. James 'Jamie' Smith due to a serious injury sustained during basic training. A large number of the actors who played American soldiers are actually from different countries. The list includes: (Scottish), (Australian), (Canadian), (Welsh), (Scottish), (English), (Slovenian), (Danish), (English), (English), (English) and (English). On the last day of their week-long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who played the Rangers received a letter that had been anonymously slipped under their door. The letter thanked them for all their hard work, and asked them to 'tell our story true', signed with the names of the Rangers who died in the Mogadishu firefight.
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