When it comes to a movie about modern warfare, I believe that "Black Hawk Down" must be an inescapable work. This movie can be said to be a very realistic description of what happened to the U.S. military in that battle. Whitewashing the traces of the behavior of the US military, but this is not the point. The point is that the plot of this movie is still very real, at least the description of the US military in terms of military operations is still in place.
However, do you know? The war scenes in the movie are very exciting, but the behind-the-scenes story of the movie may be far more exciting than the movie itself, and even the U.S. Pentagon at that time was completely collapsed by the crew, because the Pentagon paid $2 million in sponsorship at that time, which almost accounted for the crew. One-third of the total investment, they wanted to change the script, but were stabbed by the crew to the media. What happened?
The story is going back to the pre-production period of "Black Hawk Down". At that time, the script had to be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, that is, the Pentagon. , then paid a good amount to the crew, how much? A full $2 million, many people may think that this money is not very good, but don't forget, this was in the 90s, and the dollar at that time was very resistant.
But the Pentagon just after giving the money found an embarrassing thing. It was the prototype of a US soldier in the movie. After returning to China, he committed a child rape. The Pentagon thought it was too embarrassing, so it asked the crew to The character was changed. Under the pressure of the Pentagon, the crew could only choose to change the character's name to Gorm, but it's not over yet!
The Pentagon at the time also requested that this matter not be known to the outside world. As a result, after the change was over, the director of the crew, Ridley Scott, stabbed the matter to the New York Times and described it as It was because the Pentagon put pressure on them. Once this incident came out, the public opinion was called a snowball, which completely collapsed the Pentagon and almost turned the table over.
However, the most ironic thing is that the many crimes committed by the U.S. military in Somalia have turned what the U.S. military has done in Somalia into a just action under the propaganda of Hollywood. It caused tens of thousands of casualties in Somalia, and most of the tens of thousands of them were civilians. Even this incident was boycotted by the whole world, which made the Americans choose to withdraw their troops from Somalia.
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