"Mumbai Hotel" is based on the terrorist attacks that occurred in 12 locations in Mumbai from November 26 to November 29, 2008, focusing on the Taj Hotel, the most landmark in Mumbai, which has also attracted the largest international and media attention. The rhythm of the story and the rendering of the atmosphere are very well grasped, making the audience very substitious, and even some plots are too thrilling (for example, Nanny is hiding in the closet of the suite with the baby, the gangster is studying the toilet, or David is hiding behind the elevator dining car , The gangsters are eating pizza, etc.), although I know that there must be a dramatize component, but I am curious about the degree of the director and screenwriter's degree of dramatize for the real event adaptation of the terrorist attack theme; and the movie still caused I am very interested in the original event. I want to see how true the characterization and storytelling are in the play, so I watched the HBO documentary Terror In Mumbai after watching the event , except for the person who witnessed the event and the only one. In addition to the interviews of the assailants who were captured alive , there are also real-time recordings of the phone calls between the assailants and the top of the organization intercepted by the Indian intelligence service at the time of the incident . Combine the interviews and sort out the comparison.
Hotel Attendant Arjun (Dev Patel)
The role of Arjun is very central in the line of saving hotel guests in the film, and also plays an important role in taking the police to the CCTV room. There are two prototypes for this role: one is the waiter in the restaurant at the time. After discovering that the gangster started attacking in the lobby, he quickly turned off the lights of the restaurant and asked the guests to hide under the table; and the plot of the police brought to the CCTV room was Combined with the experience of another hotel security. Arjun's character background should be fictitious. His wife and children, including Sanjay who saw the private party that he wanted to go to, fell in a pool of blood (whoop, so long) should all be extra settings.
Couple David (Arimie Hammer) & Zahra (Nazanin Boniadi)
This role of husband and wife should be a combination of the experience and decision-making process of several couples who witnessed the incident, including a Jewish couple who was brutally murdered outside the Taj Hotel. The gangster entered a Jewish community center/church in Mumbai on the night of November 26 (providing religious and community services for local and traveling Jews), shot and killed the rabbi and his wife who were running the place, and rescued the rabbi The couple's two-year-old son is the Indian nanny Sandra who has worked here for five years. The role of the nanny Sally with the couple may have a reference to this line. And Zahra began to recite the story of Salal before the criminals were about to shoot her. It may be based on the experience of the Turkish couple who were taken hostage at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, another place where they were attacked. Show that you are also Muslims. After the gangster shot the other hostages, let them enter another room. When the husband said that he would let the gangster shoot here, the gangster said to him in English "No kill, you, brother."
Vasili (Jason Issac) (played by Jason Issac)
Some lines of the Russian rich and horrified, at the time of the crisis, fully demonstrated the fighting ethnic origin (aka the stereotyping of all Russian roles in Hollywood movies), what about pulling the clothes slanting right shoulder to the left abdomen with a ten-inch scar, spitting The gunman showed disdain on his face. In short, he was different from the American tourists who only begged for mercy. He was very communist; and he has been protecting and taking care of her since the separation of David and Zahra (huh?). This character is a combination of a real rich man and a retired special soldier in the incident, so the interaction with Zahra should also be mostly fictional.
Chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher)
In the film, the chef who organized his staff and rescued and protected a large number of hotel guests is indeed someone. The director stated that because the heroic behavior of the chef is well-known in India, the audience can guess who it is even if the real name is hidden, so he simply uses the real name. The chef’s line is basically consistent with the situation on the day. He took his staff to escort the guests to a safer chamber on the side of the hotel. The chefs even used their bodies to form a barrier to protect the guests from evacuating from the service exit to the back door of the hotel. Born; it’s a pity that the scene where the gangsters shot when the guests were evacuated actually happened. The chefs’ words to soothe the guests before—don’t worry, the bullets will pass through their bodies first and won’t hit them—they Words come true. The most oolong thing is that the attacker knew the location of the chamber because Indian television reported that it was safe for the guest to hide in the hotel chamber, and the leaders of the Pious organization, who followed the media reports closely, told the attacker by phone.
Some other places based on reality but slightly changed: the Chamber where the guest fled is located on the ground floor of the hotel instead of on the top floor of the Taj Hotel; the two gangsters who hijacked the police car finally entered a women’s hospital but did not reach the Taj Hotel; from rural Pakistan The attackers who came to Mumbai did feel fresh about everything in the modern city. They didn’t know if the toilet and pizza were true. However, in the recording, when the attackers broke into the Taj Hotel guest room, they did admire the high level of the organization on the phone. A big computer screen; the incident in the movie lasted all night, but in fact the real terrorist attack started on the 26th and ended on the 29th.
The Mumbai police is as desperate as in the movie. Mumbai is not equipped with special forces. Therefore, it has to deploy troops from New Delhi, which is more than 800 miles away, to deal with 10 terrorists. The Mumbai police did little before that. When the two gangsters attacked the station, they gathered outside the station, completely unable to control the situation at the scene, and decided not to act rashly (?). What is consistent with reality and frightening is that the Pakistani extremist organization Pious Army did only send 10 assailants-they took AK47 and some grenades to hijack a boat, and got on a taxi like in the movie. , Sneaked into various target locations in Mumbai, and caused this terrorist attack that lasted for several days and attracted the attention of the world; and the manipulator behind also used the phone to communicate with them like in the movie, manipulated them to attack, kill, and told them Heaven is waiting for them, and death is their ultimate task.
Armie said in an interview that shootings and terrorist attacks are too frequent nowadays. Many people tend to sit through it. They happened, paid attention to, and forgotten. In addition to giving us an immersive and thrilling movie-watching experience, "Mumbai Hotel" is more important than its significance with other terrorist films. It teaches the world not to forget the harm and fear caused by terrorism. Praise courage, kindness and life.
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