Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
by Edward Zwick
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Actor: Arnold Vosloo, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Leonardo DiCaprioDirector: Edward Zwick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Edward Zwick
Producer: Ben Waisbren
Producer: Genevieve Hofmeyr
Producer: Gillian Gorfil
Producer: Graham King
Writer: C. Gaby Mitchell
Writer: Charles Leavitt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
Published: 2007-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 111762
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately bea
DVD Reviews of Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Blame American teens for Africa!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Blood Diamonds is racist, anti-Semetic, anti-American, pro-EU, and pro-Marxist.
Blood Diamonds actually starts off as a fascinating, graphically realistic portrayal of ethnic slayings along Africa's northwest coast where diamonds are mined. There could have been a compelling story here, but, unfortunately, Hollywood is at the helm so do not expect anything artistic, creative or even close to factual. Although Leonardo DiCaprio is palatable as a Rhodesian white man (his accent comes and goes) trying to make a quick buck off the diamond trade, his character is a bit too sacrosanct to be realistic. It seems his character is made to be morally superior as a convenience for the filmmakers to spew their Hollywood-style platitudes at every opportunity, regardless if they are completely out of character or irrelevant to the scene. In one scene, DiCaprio and co-star Jennifer Connelly (the only white people in the entire region apparently) are at a bar when, suddenly, Bill Clinton appears on the bar's TV screen apologizing for his infamous sex scandal. Connelly's character (she's a journalist, by the way) announces that no one should care who the president is sleeping with; there are far too many problems in the world to worry about. Hint: we're supposed to feel guilty for not doing more to save Africa.
After this jarring scene, we are subsequently informed that the horrific violence along the west coast of Africa is to be blamed on--you got it!--Americans (although a British EU official hints early on that Americans buy 2/3 of all Africa's diamonds). Several times DiCaprio's character rants that he wouldn't need to smuggle diamonds if there wasn't such a huge demand in the Great Satan. But it's not the science or technology industry that DiCaprio lambastes (the largest consumers of diamonds in the United States), it's teen-age American girls in pink dresses who demand diamonds to wear to their proms! I am not making this up. This is what the filmmakers want us tot believe. (Based on many of the reviews on amazon of this film, they have succeeded in convincing people consumerism is the evil culprit.)
It's not that Hollywood millionaires ever buy diamonds. Yea, right! As usual, Hollywood points its finely manicured finger at those dirty Americans who live somewhere between Hollywood palaces and Manhattan aeries. Factually, Americans do not purchase 2/3 of Africa's diamonds, despite the EU official in the film stating so. America doesn't even out buy Scandinavia or France when it comes to diamonds. You might even say this film is anti-Semetic since Jews overwhelmingly dominate the diamond trade--but most jewish diamond merchants live in Europe and the UK. America's interests and presence in Africa is practically non-existent (Madgadishu was an anomaly--and totally altruistic). Not once do the filmmakers criticize Africans themselves for the brutal violence. Not even the African dictators and corrupt war generals are challenged in this film. Not even the Europeans who have a far larger presence in West Africa than the Unite States (after all, Africa was extensively colonized by Europe) are vilified. It's teen-age American girls who are the villains. Every time you see some African tribesmen chop off someone's hand with a machete, we're supposed to picture those bourgeois American teens with their consumerism and selfishness frolicking in pink dresses. (Don't worry, it's not the UN's, the EU's or Africa's fault--it's teeny boppers from America who are causing the bloodshed!).
Okay, so the filmmakers do mention Belgians chopped off some Africans' hands for the sake of the diamond trade. Why not harp on that, instead of American consumerism. Evil American consumerism does not play a role in West Afrida. The entire diamond industry is almost entirely contained in Belgium, and the UK. London is the diamond capital of the world.
Hollywood apparently cannot make a movie unless it blames America for whatever tragedy is taking place somewhere in the world, even when the United States has a limited, if any, presence there. (China has more a presence in Africa than the United States). Nowhere in the film do the filmmakers take France to the task of explaining its military's presence in a region that just happens to be loaded with diamonds and cocoa. NO WAR FOR CHOCOLATE!
And typical of Hollywood elitism, there is a genuine level of racism throughout the film, although, of course, completely unintended. Despite being surrounded by millions of beautiful black African women, DiCaprio only has eyes of the lily white Connelly--the only white woman in the entire film. Why couldn't DiCaprio fall for a gorgeous native African woman?
The real victim in this film is not Africa--it's art. Again, the preaching Left has foregone art for the sake of their religion of anti-Americanism. Hating America is endemic to the art world. You cannot escape it in books, theaters, galleries, music or movie theaters. Stories come to dead halts when characters suddenly engage in soliloquies of how America and capitalism are evil. No matter how much money they lose of films, the plutocrats in Hollywood just won't give it up. It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy further that fools buy into Hollywood versions of facts.
Description of Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory The Last Samurai) this urgent intensely moving adventure shapes gripping human stories and heart-pounding action into a modern epic of profound impact.Running Time: 143 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085391117629 Manufacturer No: 111762Bestsellers in DVD
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