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Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell, Jim Carter, Ana Sofrenovic, Daniel Caltagirone,
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Legionnaire |
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A boxer is asked to take a dive or else he will be killed. Instead he plans to win and leave with his girlfriend. His plan backfires when he is almost caught. As an escape he joins the French Foreign Legion. There he trains for battle. After training the Legion he is sent out to battle an Arab group.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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A young boxer in Marseilles in the 1920's gets paid by a gangster to take a dive, but wins instead, and tries to escape with his sweetheart (who is married to the gangster). His plan fails, so he joins the French Foreign Legion. The usual adventures ensue, with the polyglot platoon, the comeradery, and the last stand against the Arab horde.
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Legionnaire |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1900-1920's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
- Mercenaries
Sports story?
- boxing
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- athlete
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Arab
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
Desert?
Yes
Desert:
- hostile arabs
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- flamed
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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