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A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds.
By Maria Emmanoelides. The film Blood Diamond spotlights the illicit diamond market that fueled the Sierra Leone civil war, showing the inner workings of the trade and its effects on the country. The plot follows a diamond smuggler and an enslaved fisherman through their journey to find a rare diamond in hopes of escape and family reunification.
- Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film directed by Edward Zwick.
- The movie explores the issues surrounding diamond mining in war-torn Sierra Leone during the late 1990s.
- Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Danny Archer, a mercenary diamond smuggler who forms an unlikely alliance with Solomon Vandy, played by Djimon Hounsou, a fisherman who is searching for his lost son and a rare pink diamond.
- The story is set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone Civil War and highlights the unethical trade of conflict diamonds.
The main plot focuses on the adventures of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler, and Solomon Vandy, an African fisherman who was enslaved to work in the diamond field. Vandy’s son was captured by Captain Poison, the leader of RUF forces so that Solomon. In the course of the war, the diamonds serve to provide the army with a weapon.
PLOT: It's 1999 and African Danny Archer (LEONARDO DiCAPRIO) is a former mercenary turned diamond smuggler who knows all of the angles and right people -- such as Colonel Coetzee (ARNOLD VOSLOO) -- to get the stones from Sierra Leone to his main company buyer back in London, Van de Kamp.
May 13, 2008 · Against this historical backdrop, Blood Diamond, set in Sierra Leone in 1999, tells the story of the intersecting lives of Danny Archer, an Anglo ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, Solomon Vandy, a fisherman from Sierra Leone, and Maddy Bowen, a American reporter. The film begins with an RUF raid of Solomon's village.
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Jun 13, 2018 · “Blood Diamond” by Edward Zick presented a dark side of the African world of which Hollywood had never seen before. Three characters of widely different backgrounds come together in the search for an extremely sought after gem. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film playing Danny Archer, a native South African diamond smuggler. DiCaprio vacillates between...
