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Actors: Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Under Fire |
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UNDER FIRE is a film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in 1983.
Russell Price is a well-known war reporter whose photographs have already made the cover of Time magazine. Russell is in Managua, Nicaragua in 1979. The situation is more and more tense everyday in the country as the Sandinistas, led by the commandante Rafael, fight guerrilla operations against the army of the dictator Anastasio Somoza.
Price gets a unique opportunity to meet the Commandante Rafael but only Rafael's dead body is shown to him. Price is asked by Rafael's friends to take a fake picture him to convince people Rafael is still alive. Price agrees after having witnessing the bloody mass murders committed by Somoza's army against the Nicaraguan population.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Under Fire |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- communist revolution!
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- journalist
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Central
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Folk music
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