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kleinbl00  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What’s Wrong With Black Hawk Down

What a stupid speech.

I have not read the script to Black Hawk Down. I did, however, read the Philly Enquirer articles as they went online and I saw the movie. Mark Bowden's writing was then and is now about putting the reader in the perspective of those he documents; BHD goes from a bunch of special forces troops attempting to keep order in a forgotten corner of the world for abstract reasons to an absolute in-your-face shitstorm in which your perspective constricts to about six inches in front of your face. The movie captures this quite effectively.

Somalia is/was an archetypal example of failed foreign policy through proxy warfare but it's hardly the only one. At the time of this speech the US had been boots-on-ground in Afghanistan for four months; the exact opposite argument has been made there by people hella smarter than a B-list actor.

It's hardly the first time an actor in a movie chooses to bitch about the movie after the fact... but cash the paycheck anyway. It's also not the first time doing so discourages producers from hiring said actor, which explains more than a little about Brendan Sexton III's career.