Lord off War

Lord off War is an American film written and carried out by Andrew Niccol, left in 2005.

Synopsis

Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) and his/her Vitaly brother (played by Jared Leto) were born in Ukraine during the Cold war, their parents emigrate with the the United States while being made pass for Juifs persecuted. Quickly, Yuri is made a place in the Trafic of weapons. He is not worried an ideology of his customers, it is not his business ( It is not our war ). As long as people want and can to buy weapons, Yuri answers present.

Vitaly hesitates before following Yuri in its business, wanting to become cook ( It is better anything to rather do than to do that ). But the call of the " Brothers of Armes" is strongest. At the time of a transaction, Yuri and Vitaly are found constrained to accept drug in the place of the agreed money. Vitaly will quickly become accro, until fleeing with a whole sachet of Cocaïne, quickly caught up with by his/her brother. It will spend several months in detoxification center. Yuri carries out its life of trafficker of weapons on a side, and that of father of family of the other, married with the mannequin Ava Fountain. Equipped with a Cynisme with any test, which enables him to face its Conscience, Yuri Orlov furrows the world to sell to its Arme S. His/her brother takes one day to him if his wife is with the current and he answers him: There one does not speak about these things. How much salesmen of cars speak about their work? How much salesmen of Tobacco? However their two products kill more world each year than mine. And on mine, there is a notch of stop. If these people can forget their work when they return on their premises, I can it too.

By love for his wife who discovers one day it pot-with-pinks, it decides to leave the business of the sale of weapons. But Andre Baptiste, the president of the Liberia, which is its main customers, forces it to return there.

Between its cases of conscience which emerge per moment and Interpol, represented by the agent Jack Valentine, Yuri with the hard life…

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Around film

  • Andrew Niccol took as a starting point five true traffickers of weapons to create the characters of Yuri but more resembling is Victor Bout. He has even thorough research until contacting some of these " professional ". The character of Andre Baptiste, the president of the Liberia, as for him would be based on the true former president, Charles Ghankay Taylor.
  • the majority of the events of films have precedents, even the rather mysterious release of a trafficker of weapons stopped in the United States.
  • Andrew Niccol used several " additional " who were completely real and costing even less than from the factitious ones. For a plan of film having to be located in Ukraine, instead of using the synthesized images to recreate about fifty tanks, it found a man in Czech Republic having 100 tanks Russian T-72 of manufacture and acceptor of him to rent some of them. " I bring them to you Tuesday to 9:00 of the morning: you are sure to find there them all perfectly aligned " he declared T it. The tanks were sold shortly after turning. It also buys 3  000 true AK-47, less expensive than of the false ones, than it then resold.
  • turning was held in the United States (New York and Wendover), in South Africa and a Czech Republic.
  • One should not confuse off Lord War (which of a little incorrect English could be translated by Seigneur of war ) with the film the Lord of the war ( The War Lord ) of Franklin J. Schaffner with Charlton Heston.
  • In the original version of film, the Liberia is presented as being a French-speaking country, whereas it is actually about an anglophone country.
  • Ironically, the name of Yuri Orlov is also that of a researcher in Nuclear physics, former dissident Soviet and activist of the Human rights (see Yuri Orlov).

Original soundtrack

  • For What It' S Worth , interpreted by Buffalo Springfield
  • Money (That' S What I Want) , interpreted by Flying Lizards
  • the Bed of roses , interpreted by Grace Jones
  • Young Americans , interpreted by David Bowie
  • Coyita , interpreted by Gustavo Santaolalla
  • Cocaine , interpreted by Eric Clapton
  • It' S the Most Wonderful Time off the Year , interpreted by Andy Williams
  • Volga' S Boatmen' S Song , interpreted by The National Tatarstan Orchestra and Choir
  • U Ready to Die , interpreted by Quake
  • Fade into You , interpreted by Mazzy Star
  • Bombay Theme Tune , interpreted by Allah Rakha Rahman
  • Hallelujah , interpreted by Jeff Buckley
  • D-Tune , interpreted by Zino and Tommy
  • has KIS to Build has Dream One , interpreted by Louis Armstrong
  • O, Little Town off Bethlehem , interpreted by Sidney James
  • Kill That , interpreted by SX-10
  • Glory Box , interpreted by Portishead
  • Diarabi , interpreted by Issa Bagayogo
  • Mama Africa , interpreted by Young Bakubas
  • Sore-Dioulasso , interpreted by Sheik Lô
  • Swan Lake , composed by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
  • the Ride of the Valkyrie , composed by Richard Wagner

Reference

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