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** The mercenary intervention of Executive Outcomes in the Sierra Leone civil war began in May 1995 and ended in January 1997. By the time of the RUF invasion of Freetown in 1999, when the film is set, they were long gone. A handful of men ''did'' volunteer to stay behind to assist in Freetown's defense but they had neither the numbers nor the firepower portrayed in the film and when the city finally fell, even ''they'' were forced to flee. The civil war was only ended by a combination of British and UN forces in 2001. This was likely changed to avoid associating either group with the film's much worse mercenaries. Additionally, the mercenaries are paid in diamond mining concessions, which was not the case for Executive Outcomes.
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** The mercenary intervention of Executive Outcomes in the Sierra Leone civil war began in May 1995 and ended in January 1997. By the time of the RUF invasion of Freetown in 1999, when the film is set, they were long gone. A handful of men ''did'' volunteer to stay behind to assist in Freetown's defense but they had neither the numbers nor the firepower resources portrayed in the film and when the city finally fell, even ''they'' were forced to flee. The civil war was only ended by a combination of British and UN forces in 2001. This was likely changed to avoid associating either group with the film's much worse mercenaries. Additionally, the mercenaries are paid in diamond mining concessions, which was not the case for Executive Outcomes.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Solomon escapes with the diamond and is reunited with his family. Maddy exposes the blood diamond trade. Danny, directly responsible for both of these outcomes, dies slowly on a hill in Africa after being gutshot.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Solomon escapes with the diamond and is reunited with his family. Maddy exposes the blood diamond trade. Danny, directly responsible for both of these outcomes, dies slowly on a hill in Africa after being gutshot. While the war would continue, the conflict would be decisively ended by a British military intervention the next year.]]
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* The90s: The film is set in 1999 but aside from a brief reference to the Monica Lewinski scandal, [[AnachronismStew you'd hardly know it.]]
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** The mercenary intervention of Executive Outcomes in the Sierra Leone civil war began in May 1995 and ended in January 1997. By the time of the RUF invasion of Freetown in 1999, when the film is set, they were long gone. The civil war was ended by a combination of British and UN forces in 2001. This was likely changed to avoid associating either group with the film's much worse mercenaries. Additionally, the mercenaries are paid in diamond mining concessions, which was not the case for Executive Outcomes.
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** The mercenary intervention of Executive Outcomes in the Sierra Leone civil war began in May 1995 and ended in January 1997. By the time of the RUF invasion of Freetown in 1999, when the film is set, they were long gone. A handful of men ''did'' volunteer to stay behind to assist in Freetown's defense but they had neither the numbers nor the firepower portrayed in the film and when the city finally fell, even ''they'' were forced to flee. The civil war was only ended by a combination of British and UN forces in 2001. This was likely changed to avoid associating either group with the film's much worse mercenaries. Additionally, the mercenaries are paid in diamond mining concessions, which was not the case for Executive Outcomes.
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* PovertyPorn: {{Discussed}}. Maddy, an American journalist, starts writing a report about the social ravaging caused by the wars in Sierra Leone but grows frustrated because she feels it won't make any real effect. She compares it to advertisements featuring starving children. Guilted by her vexation, the listening Archer starts admitting his inside knowledge of the blood diamond trade, giving her report a stronger call to political action.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Solomon is probably the most sympathetic character, but give him a shovel and a few close-ups of his guttural screams, and you've got one scary dude.
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* ScaryBlackMan: ScaryBlackMan:
** Solomon is probably the most sympathetic character, but give him a shovel and a few close-ups of his guttural screams, and you've got one scary dude.
** Solomon is probably the most sympathetic character, but give him a shovel and a few close-ups of his guttural screams, and you've got one scary dude.
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-->(during a shootout) [[spoiler:Archer!]] You are a dead man!
-->(bleeding from a gunshot wound with no escape possible) Yeah, yeah...
-->(bleeding from a gunshot wound with no escape possible) Yeah, yeah...
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-->(during a shootout) [[spoiler:Archer!]] You are a dead man!
-->(bleedingman! \\
(bleeding from a gunshot wound with no escape possible) Yeah, yeah...
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(bleeding from a gunshot wound with no escape possible) Yeah, yeah...
* EagleEyeDetection: The officer who catches Danny smuggling diamonds--he looks suspiciously at Danny's goats[[labelnote:*]]He was likely looking for a goat that didn't immediately turn away when approached[[/labelnote]], finds a seam on one of them and cuts it open revealing the diamonds underneath.
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---> '''Poison''': You think I am a devil. But that is because I've lived in hell. ''I want out''.
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* AfricanTerrorists: The RUF, led by Captain Poison. Among other things, they train ChildSoldiers into vicious killers by feeding them drugs and forcing them to commit horrendous atrocities.
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* AfricanTerrorists: The RUF, led by of whom Captain Poison.Poison is a leading figure. Among other things, they train ChildSoldiers into vicious killers by feeding them drugs and forcing them to commit horrendous atrocities.
