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Blood Diamond Film Analysis

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Blood diamond is a movie directed by Edward Zwick realised in 2006 and basses on a civil war in the 1990s in Sierra Leone. The genres are adventure, drama and it is a thriller. The three main character are Danny Archer(Leonardo DiCaprio), Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) and Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly) who meet each other with different intentions and at the end clarify the misery of the war to the first world countries. We first encounter with Maddy Bowen, a American journalist, when she gets to know Danny Archer for the first time at a beach bar in Sierra Leone. She is a beautiful young woman who is determent to make a difference. Her first impression is friendly, intelligent flirty but also manipulative. She tries to find out about the reality of the diamonds and how they are traded. Her plan is to use Danny to find out about the diamond trading’s that happen illegally. While the movie progresses Maddy and Danny see that they can help each other and they arrange an deal in which she will help him get to the diamond witch he is looking for and he has to tell her about the way the diamonds are traded. Maddy is a cleaver woman who knows what she wants. She is …show more content…

The parallel to the Constant Gardner is the relationship between Danny and Maddy. At first they are just flirting with one another, but their relationship progresses. They soon after have stronger feeling towards each other; however they are determent to succeed their mission. Close to the end they recognise the love they have to one another however Danny dies before they can build up there relationship. In both movies the one lover dies and the other tells the story how their lover has died, with the help of others. Solomons relationship and love towards his family, in blood diamond, is very important. He would do anything for them. This love towards them is the hope of Africa. One can get something if one really wants it doesn’t stop

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