Blood Diamond 는 아프리카의 시에라리온에서 벌어지는 암울한 생활을 카메라에 담아서
메시지를 전달하는 내용입니다.
보고 애기를 나누기에도 좋은 영화라 생각합니다.
또한, Danny Archer 의 역할을 하는 레오나르도 디카프리오의 연기도 디파티드의 형사
역할보다 더욱 강렬하고 성숙한 연기력을 보였으나, 대령을 죽이는 장면을 만들어 내기위한
내면연기가 시나리오상에서 부족하지 않았나 하는 느낌도 들었습니다.
'블러드 다이아몬드' 영화를 보면서 다이아몬드를 생산하고 유통, 판매의 모든 과정을
세계적으로 지배하고 있는 드비어스 De Beers 회사가 생각났으며, 독점적의 지위를 가지고
성공한 회사로 평가받는 점에 대한 재평가를 암시하는 느낌을 받게 되었습니다.
희귀하기에 값이 비싼 다이아몬드. 희소성의 가치를 더욱 극대화하는 드비어스와 같은
회사의 마케팅 전략을 어떻게 생각하여야 하는 것인가 ? 라는 물음을 남겨봅니다.
그리고 블러드 다이아몬드에 대한 이슈를 다루고 있는 웹사이트와 다이아몬드의 진실이라는
PDF문서를 링크합니다.
영화 홈페이지와 포스터 : http://blooddiamondmovie.warnerbros.com/main.html
* 주연 배우가 말하는 영화에 대한 소개와 영어공부(?)를 위한 VOA News
| 'Blood Diamond': New Movie Dramatizes Trade in Conflict |
| By Alan Silverman Hollywood 02 December 2006 |
Listen to Silverman report
Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou co-star in a politically charged action-drama set during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. Alan Silverman has a look at the new film Blood Diamond.
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| Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou run from trouble in Blood Diamond |
When he uncovers a very large pink diamond, Solomon risks death by hiding it. He hopes he can sell it on the black market and buy his son's freedom. Arrested after government troops raid the rebel mine, Solomon finds himself in an unlikely and uneasy alliance with smuggler and former South African mercenary Danny Archer, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Though the film is set in 1999, Benin-born Djimon Hounsou says it gave him a rare opportunity to portray issues Africans are still grappling with today.
"Issues of child soldiers, of refugees [and] the displacement of millions of people throughout the continent that affects the neighboring countries. So it was a very powerful story for me, so being an African and being in Hollywood making movies, these are the kinds of stories I love to take on as a challenge and, certainly, to see it bring more awareness to the world," he says.
Dicaprio spent several months in Southern and West Africa researching his role and learning about real-life "Blood Diamond" stories.
"I think I was like anybody else. I heard whispers of it, but it wasn't until I got there and heard the firsthand accounts and started to learn about it that I really understood the immense impact that the diamonds have had on, certainly, Sierra Leone and other places in Africa," he said.
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| Jennifer Connelly in Blood Diamond |
Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly plays Maddy Bowen, an American journalist who initially sees smuggler Archer as a source for her investigation of conflict diamonds; but Connelly says she ultimately faces an all-too common journalistic conflict over whether to become involved in the story she is covering.
"Absolutely. I think it was something that she spent a lot of time thinking about. My guess is she was the type of woman who, every once in a while when she could, would do little gestures here and there, but had to keep in sight her goals for the long term and hope that, if she stayed true to her job, ultimately she could effect some change and be a positive force," she says.
As explained in the film, the global diamond industry responded to the issue of conflict gems in 2002 with a U.N.-mandated initiative: the "Kimberley Process" to certify that diamonds are mined and sold legitimately. The industry now claims more than 99 percent of diamonds for sale are from conflict-free sources. International diamond conglomerates were originally up in arms over Blood Diamond, but eventually saw the film as an opportunity to publicize and strengthen the Kimberley Process and protect the interests of the estimated 10 million people worldwide whose livelihoods are connected to the diamond trade. Leonardo DiCaprio says raising awareness was not his reason to make the film, but he sees it as a good side effect.
"I wasn't personally going out seeking films with social or political messages just to do it for the sake of doing it. There has to have entertainment value. It has to be a good movie and it has to convey a message without the audience feeling like they're being preached to; and I really felt strongly that this script accomplished that," he says.
Blood Diamond is directed by Edward Zwick with a screenplay by Charles Leavitt. The international cast features South African Arnold Vosloo and British actors Michael Sheen and David Harewood. Most of the film was shot in Africa including locations in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province and Maputo, Mozambique doubling for Freetown during the war years.