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| Behind Enemy Lines | |
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| Directed by | John Moore |
| Produced by | John Davis |
| Screenplay by | David Veloz Zak Penn |
| Story by | Jim Thomas John Thomas |
| Starring | Owen Wilson Gene Hackman Joaquim de Almeida David Keith Olek Krupa |
| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Brendan Galvin |
| Editing by | Paul Martin Smith |
| Studio | Davis Entertainment |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Serbian Bosnian |
| Budget | $40 million[1] |
| Box office | $91,753,202[1] |
Plot
In the final stages of a NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia in December 1995, US Navy naval flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), who are stationed on an aircraft carrier in the Adriatic Sea, are assigned a reconnaissance mission over Bosnia. During the reconnaissance mission, they spot suspicious activity in the demilitarized zone, in which armed factions are not allowed to engage in military activity; NATO aircraft are also prohibited from entering the area. Burnett persuades Stackhouse to fly their F/A-18 Hornet off-course to get a close look at the target and photograph it. However, both men are unaware that they photographed mass graves, and Serbs in the area spot the jet. The local Bosnian Serb Army commander, General Miroslav Lokar (Olek Krupa), is conducting a secret genocidal campaign against the local Muslim population. Not wanting the mass graves to be discovered, Lokar orders the jet to be shot down.Despite trying to outmaneuver the missiles shot at them, their aircraft is hit and both men are forced to eject. A short while after touching ground, a Serb patrol under Lokar's command finds Stackhouse and interrogates him. Stackhouse is then executed by Sasha (Vladimir Mashkov), a tracker and one of Lokar's right-hand men. Burnett, who was observing the Serbs' interrogation of Stackhouse from a hill, screams in horror, unintentionally alerting the Serbs to his location. Wanting Burnett dead as well, Lokar orders both Sasha and his second-in-command, Colonel Bazda (Marko Igonda), to find him.
Burnett contacts his commanding officer, Admiral Leslie Reigart (Gene Hackman), on high ground to inform him of what happened and is ordered to move to a certain location in order to be extracted. However, Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida) warns Reigart that the shooting down of Burnett's jet and any attempt to rescue the navigator in the no-fly zone could hamper or even cause the peace process to collapse. Therefore, as Burnett moves to the designated extraction point, Reigart tells him that he must move to a safer location miles away outside of the demilitarized zone in order to be rescued. At first, Burnett refuses to go that far but Reigart persuades him into making the journey.
Immediately after being informed, Burnett sees a Serb patrol led by Bazda that is looking for him. Burnett runs off as the Serbs continue their search for the downed navigator. As Burnett keeps running, he falls into the very mass graves that he and Stackhouse had photographed and hides under a dead body. As the Serb patrol arrives at the graves, they inspect the area to find Burnett and then withdraw with no success. When the Serbs leave, Burnett continues to run. Reigart, who was watching the moment via thermal satellite imagery, decides to report Burnett's situation to the media.
On his way to the new extraction point, Burnett is nearly killed by Serb soldiers in an abandoned factory, but manages to flee the scene after the Serbs are killed by mines. Later on, as Burnett has a near-encounter with Sasha, he encounters Muslim guerrillas aboard a pickup truck who offer him a ride. The guerrillas inform Burnett that they are heading to Hač, which is located within a safe area, but turns out to be a war zone in which Burnett's Serb pursuers are fighting to take control of the town. During the battle, Serb troops believe that they have found Burnett's body, but Burnett has switched uniforms with a dead Serb soldier and escaped Hač with Babic (Kamil Kollarik).
The Serbians parade the corpse wearing Burnett's uniform, but Sasha immediately notices that it is not Burnett. Although convinced, Lokar has the corpse presented on the news and the media reports the Serb claims that Burnett was killed by Bosniak guerrillas, as Lokar fears that a rescue team tasked with rescuing Burnett may be on its way. Their ruse works and the rescue mission is called off just as Burnett gets a view of the helicopter. Burnett, disappointed, then notices an angel statue that he parachuted down nearby as this is where his ejection seat landed. Burnett, whose radio was destroyed in Hač, wants to return to the site in order to prove to his carrier group that he is still alive as well as to obtain the evidence of Lokar's crimes, which is located on a hard drive attached to the seat. Burnett orders Babic to leave, returns to his ejection seat and reactivates the rescue beacon. Even though the carrier group notices his signal, Burnett also alerts the Serbs to his location.
Although knowing that doing so could have him relieved of command, Reigart prepares a task force aimed at rescuing Burnett. But meanwhile, General Lokar sends both Bazda and Sasha alone to kill Burnett, with Lokar instructing the latter to shoot the downed navigator in the head. On route to Burnett's location, Bazda steps on a landmine, forcing Sasha to leave the helpless soldier to die. Burnett hears the explosion and is alerted.
Sasha takes a position and sees Burnett hiding behind the ejection seat. After hearing approaching American helicopters coming to rescue Burnett, he walks toward the ejection seat, but after getting there, Sasha realizes that he was tricked. Burnett jumps out of a snowdrift behind Sasha and the two men engage in a hand-to-hand fight until Burnett pulls out a flare and stabs Sasha in the chest with it, killing him. Immediately after Sasha is killed, Lokar arrives with armored personnel carriers and infantry who begin to fire upon Burnett as he runs to the nearby angel statue. 1 Westland Lynx and 2 UH-1 Huey helicopters of the United States Marine Corps led by Reigart finally arrive and fire on the Serbs. After running back to the ejection chair to retrieve the hard drive containing the photos of the mass graves, Burnett runs back to the helicopter and gets in. The task force successfully withdraws back to the aircraft carrier, where Burnett receives warm applause from the carrier's crew members on the flight deck after getting off the helicopter.
The conclusion of the movie reveals that the evidence of Lokar's war crimes put him on trial. Reigart is relieved from command for his actions and is offered a desk job in Washington, D.C., but chooses to retire with the respect of his sailors for the sacrifice he made to recover the downed pilot. Burnett, who earlier in the film wanted to resign from active duty, decides to remain in the Navy.
Cast
- Owen Wilson as Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett, Callsign "Longhorn"
- Gene Hackman as Rear Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart, USN
- Joaquim de Almeida as Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet
- David Keith as Master Chief Tom O'Malley, USN
- Olek Krupa as General Miroslav Lokar
- Vladimir Mashkov as Sasha
- Gabriel Macht as Naval Aviator Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse, Callsign "Smoke"
- Charles Malik Whitfield as Captain Rodway, USMC
- Marko Igonda as Colonel Viktor Bazda
- Eyal Podell as Petty Officer Kennedy
- Geoffrey Pierson as Admiral Donnelly
- Aernout Van Lynden as Himself
Production
The film was shot in Slovakia, not Bosnia. During the shooting of the movie, it was the first time in 104 years that Slovakia had not received snow, so special effects were used to create snow for the movie.[citation needed]None of the actors playing Serbians were actually Serbians; the producers said that they hired Croats to instruct the actors in Serbian, because they could not find any Serbs willing to work on the film, due to hints of anti-Serb sentiment shown in some parts of the film. Vladimir Mashkov, the actor who played the Serbian sniper, Sasha, is Russian and Olek Krupa, the actor who played the Serbian General, Miroslav Lokar, is Polish. Some Slovaks also participated in the film, such as Marko Igonda, who plays Colonel Bazda, and Kamil Kollarik, who plays Babic, the young Muslim militant who aids Burnett in Hač.
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) was the aircraft carrier featured in the film. Exterior naval footage was filmed on board the carrier. Interiors were filmed on the Carl Vinson, and on the USS Constellation (CV-64), as well as on-set.[2]
During the scene in Hač, director John Moore was nearly killed as a tank crashed through a wall as he was directing the scene. However, a stuntman pulled him out of the way just before the tank might have hit him.[3]
During the mass grave scene, footage was borrowed from the movie Savior, which also focused on the war in Bosnia. The footage used was intended to show flashbacks of Serb soldiers killing civilians, but the footage used was actually a scene from Savior in which Bosnian Croat soldiers carried out a massacre of both Serbs and Muslims.[4]
Historical inspiration
The film bears some resemblance to the experiences of former USAF Captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down on 2 June 1995 over Bosnia. He managed to survive for six days before being rescued. He reportedly filed suit against the producers of this film for defamation of character, as well as making a film about his ordeal without his permission.[5] The characters and events the film portrays are, however, almost entirely fictional. O'Grady never entered populated areas, nor did he interact with civilians. Also, O'Grady never flew an F/A-18F (which was not in service in 1995) but rather an F-16 Fighting Falcon.[5] The film itself is also loosely based on the events of the Bosnian War (1992–1995), and the various genocides and war crimes that took place during the war that prompted NATO to intervene in the Bosnian conflict. The Cincinnati Accords, which in the film is the agreement that ended the Bosnian war, is based on the Dayton Agreement that was signed by the opposing factions in the war after the intervention of NATO forces, as well as the simultaneous Croatian offensive against Serbs in its own territory and in Bosnia that forced the Serbs to enter a fifth round of negotiations, which then resulted in the signing of the Dayton Agreement.Both Burnett and Stackhouse were in fact shot down in the Srebrenica region, the easternmost part of Bosnia, although in the film it is claimed they were shot down over southern Bosnia, despite a scene in the film showing the location of the plane crash was in eastern Bosnia.
Reception
The film made $18.7 million in its opening week in the U.S., landing at the #2 spot, held off the top spot by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Behind Enemy Lines eventually grossed $92 million worldwide, of which $59 million was from North America. The budget was estimated to be $40 million.[1] The film scored 37% on film aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 129 critics, deeming it 'Rotten'. [6]See also
- Peter Markle's 1988 film Bat*21 similarly tells the story of the rescue of a downed navigator. Both films feature Gene Hackman.
References
- ^ a b c "Behind Enemy Lines". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ Sutherland, Scott (November 27, 2001). ""Behind Enemy Lines" Showcases NAS North Island". FindArticles.com. US Navy Press Releases. Retrieved August 22, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ John Moore (V) - Biography
- ^ Behind Enemy Lines (2001) - Goofs
- ^ a b Susman, Gary (August 20, 2002). "Plane Truth: Downed airman sues over "Behind Enemy Lines"". Ew.com. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Behind Enemy Lines (2001)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
External links
- Behind Enemy Lines at the Internet Movie Database
- Behind Enemy Lines at AllRovi
- Enemy Lines.htm Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film) at Box Office Mojo
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