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However, very quickly everything goes terribly wrong. Like the battles of Vietnam, these soldiers were dropped into a hot LZ with the first order of business to secure a defensive position while parts of the force swept a near-by building searching for the targets. A quick and simple in-and-out job of what should have been 30 minutes lasts 15 hours, and resulted in the death of 18 American soldiers, 73 wounded, and hundreds (maybe thousands) of Somalian's killed. In the course of a bloody and long battle, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters are shot down (hence the name). The story deals with a force of about 100 elite American Delta and Ranger troops who are dropped into Mogadishu, Somalia on October 3rd, 1993, to abduct two lieutenants of Somalian warlord Farrah Aidid. Why is this? Perhaps itвЂ™s as simple an explanation as, 'because they can.'Д«LACK HAWK DOWN is the true story of the longest sustained ground battle involving American soldiers since the Vietnam War. A growing theme in the war movies of today is the desire by the filmmakers to show us, up close and personal, just how hellish war really is.

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The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, and will star Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, and Ewan McGregor, among others.

So right away recognition to the author of the book BLACK HAWK DOWN, Mark Bowden, and the accredited screenwriter of the film, Ken Nolan, must be given. It would of course be impossible to do in a two-hour movie. Something to the effect that his movie, the men portrayed in it, are representative of all of those who were there as not every one of them could be singled out. I think Randall Wallace said it best in his letter to the families of the soldiers depicted in his movie. Sometimes many characters have to be folded into one. Timelines have to be compressed and characters condensed. Sometimes liberties probably have to be taken. As a screenwriter your job to weave an entertaining story and as a human being your responsibility is to try and take as few liberties with the true events as possible. I would think the results would be a lot of sleepless nights. Reconstructing a factual story where those who experienced it and the loved ones of those who died during it, must take a toll on the writer. In my WE WERE SOLDIERS review I mentioned that I couldnвЂ™t even begin to imagine how truly difficult it must be to write about such factual and horrific events as depicted in that script. There will always, inevitably, be things that will come across the wrong way and hurt those who were there. Goldman went on to say that never again will he write another factual movie where the people are still alive. If youвЂ™ve seen the movie you know Goldman of course changed it to another soldier standing with Frost. Frost was upset because he was not the one who spoke the line and was therefore terribly concerned that people will think he influenced the writing. The German commander approaches with a white flag and asks simply, 'Surrender.' (This actually happened by the way.) And in the script Anthony Hopkins (who plays Frost) considers this and in a typical British response says they donвЂ™t have enough room to take all of the them hostage, so therefore they cannot accept their request to surrender. (A sentence of dialogue!) There is a wonderful scene in the movie where the British are pinned down in the town, they are bloodied, battered and on the verge of collapse-not to mention surrounded. Goldman beautiful recants how during the meeting this shaken war hero was gravely concerned about a sentence of dialogue in the movie. After finishing the screenplay Goldman received a message from Frost asking that they meet for lunch. One of the characters, almost all of which were based on real people, was a thirty-one year old British Captain named John Frost who years later became a general. A true story centering on the awful battle of Arnhem during World War II. In William GoldmanвЂ™s book 'Which Lie Did I Tell?' he has a short section titled 'Because the people are alive.' In it he recalls an event right after he had written his script for A BRIDGE TOO FAR in 1976 or about. BLACK HAWK DOWN is his first produced script. He has sold three spec screenplays that have not been produced yet. Ken Nolan has been working as a screenwriter in Hollywood for over ten years (he arrived in 1990). Script Review: BLACK HAWK DOWN (Shooting Script) - by Ken Nolan