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So, you want to tell a story about a real-life event in a remote, exotic location. Say, a revolution in Indonesia, a genocide in Cambodia, or the partition of the Asian subcontinent. Still, you can't make it ''too'' exotic, or you will lose your audience. So you give them a protagonist they can relate to, usually a reporter, doctor, tourist, or other plausible visitor from a rich western country. This character is given a story arc of his own that plays out against the backdrop of major world events. He may be taking an active interest in these events, or he may just be trying to live his life without getting involved. Chances are that at some point he will have to make a change, though. He will be made aware of how bad the situation really is, become disillusioned, and/or realise the country is no longer safe for him. This usually precipitates a sequence in the last third of the movie in which the protagonist must escape from Deepest DarkestAfrica (or Deepest Darkest Java, Deepest Darkest Indochina, etc.). Alternatively, he may end up GoingNative.
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So, you want to tell a story about a real-life event in a remote, exotic location. Say, a revolution in Indonesia, a genocide in Cambodia, or the partition of the Asian subcontinent. Still, you can't make it ''too'' exotic, or you will lose your audience. So you give them a protagonist they can relate to, usually a reporter, doctor, tourist, or other plausible visitor from a rich western country. This character is given a story arc of his own that plays out against the backdrop of major world events. He may be taking an active interest in these events, or he may just be trying to live his life without getting involved. Chances are that at some point he will have to make a change, though. He will be made aware of how bad the situation really is, become disillusioned, and/or realise realize the country is no longer safe for him. This usually precipitates a sequence in the last third of the movie in which the protagonist must escape from Deepest DarkestAfrica (or Deepest Darkest Java, Deepest Darkest Indochina, etc.). Alternatively, he may end up GoingNative.
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* Raymond Burr as reporter [[NamesTheSame Steve Martin]] in the US cuts of the original ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' and ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]''.
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* Raymond Burr as reporter [[NamesTheSame Steve Martin]] Martin in the US cuts of the original ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' and ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]''.
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* [[AluminiumChristmasTrees You might not believe this]], but ''Film/Titanic1997'', despite ostensibly being a love story between two fictional Americans aboard a historical British ship, one first class and one steerage, actually avoids this trope because the most numerous nationality among first class passengers and the second most numerous among steerage passengers, was indeed American. If anything, it's the lack of American passengers in steerage other than Jack that is an issue.
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* [[AluminiumChristmasTrees You might not believe this]], but ''Film/Titanic1997'', despite ostensibly being a love story between two fictional Americans aboard a historical British ship, one first class and one steerage, actually avoids this trope because the most numerous nationality among first class passengers and the second most numerous among steerage passengers, was indeed American. If anything, it's the lack of American passengers in steerage other than Jack that is an issue.
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* ''Film/ATaxiDriver'' Inverts this trope regarding the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. While the plot is largely driven by the West German journalist who sneaks into and out of the locked-down city to get the footage and expose the South Korean military regime's brutality to the rest of the world, the main character is the Seoul taxi driver whose OnlyInItForTheMoney initially before he witnesses what was being done against all civilians.
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* ''Film/ATaxiDriver'' Inverts this trope regarding the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. While the plot is largely driven by the West German journalist who sneaks into and out of the locked-down city to get the footage and expose the South Korean military regime's brutality to the rest of the world, the main character is the Seoul taxi driver whose who's OnlyInItForTheMoney initially before he witnesses what was being done against all civilians.
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* ''Film/ATaxiDriver'' Inverts this trope regarding the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. While the plot is largely driven by the West German journalist who sneaks into and out of the locked-down city to get the footage and expose the South Korean military regime's brutality to the rest of the world, the main character is the Seoul taxi driver whose OnlyInItForTheMoney initially before he witnesses what was being done against all civilians.
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Not to be confused with the Creator/AlfredHitchcock film [[Film/ForeignCorrespondent of the same name]].
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Not to be confused with the Creator/AlfredHitchcock film [[Film/ForeignCorrespondent of the same name]].
name]]. Also not to be confused with actual "foreign correspondents", or news reporters who specialize in reporting from foreign countries for their home country's news services, although one of these can be used to fulfil the trope in fiction.
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* ''Series/YoungIndianaJones'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
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* ''Film/{{Reds}}''. The Russian Revolution as experienced by journalist John Reed (based on his novel ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_that_Shook_the_World 10 Days That Shook The World]]'').
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* ''Film/{{Reds}}''. ''Film/{{Reds|1981}}''. The Russian Revolution as experienced by journalist John Reed (based on his novel book ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_that_Shook_the_World 10 Days That Shook The World]]'').
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* Nick Nolte is Russell Price, a foreign correspondent in the 1979 Nicaragua Revolution in ''Film/UnderFire''
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* Nick Nolte ''Creator/NickNolte'' is Russell Price, a foreign correspondent in the 1979 Nicaragua Revolution in ''Film/UnderFire''
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* Nick Nolte is Russell Price, a foreign correspondent in the 1979 Nicaragua Revolution in ''Film/UnderFire''[[/folder]]
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* In ''Film/WhollStopTheRain'' John Converse at the beginning is a disillusioned war correspondent in Vietnam, though most of the movie is in the United States.
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* In ''Film/WhollStopTheRain'' John Converse at the beginning is a disillusioned war correspondent in Vietnam, though most of the movie is in the United States.[[/folder]]
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*In ''Film/WhollStopTheRain'' John Converse at the beginning is a disillusioned war correspondent in Vietnam, though most of the movie is in the United States.
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* Newspaper editor William de Worde's cameo appearance in ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' offers an outsider's perspective into the crazy closed country of Borogravia. His insights even offer native characters a chance to see their country as it is viewed from the outside.
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* Newspaper editor William de Worde's cameo appearance in ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' offers an outsider's perspective into the crazy closed country of Borogravia. His insights even offer native characters a chance to see their country as it is viewed from the outside.
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* Invoked during production of the [[ShowWithinAShow movie being filmed]] in ''Film/TheirFinest''. The character of an American journalist has to be inserted to widen the movie's audience - and encourage then-neutral America to support the Allied effort.
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* HarryTurtledove milks this trope dry, though he probably does best the few times he [[InvertedTrope inverts it]] and uses an ''[[XenoFiction exotic]]'' foreign correspondent to describe a place the Anglo-Saxon author would be more familiar with. Examples include [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman Spanish soldier Lope de Vega on occupation duty in England in ''Ruled Britannia'', and German military attaché to the United States Alfred von Schlieffen in "How Few Remain"]].
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* HarryTurtledove Creator/HarryTurtledove milks this trope dry, though he probably does best the few times he [[InvertedTrope inverts it]] and uses an ''[[XenoFiction exotic]]'' foreign correspondent to describe a place the Anglo-Saxon author would be more familiar with. Examples include [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman Spanish soldier Lope de Vega on occupation duty in England in ''Ruled Britannia'', and German military attaché to the United States Alfred von Schlieffen in "How Few Remain"]].
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* [[AluminiumChristmasTrees You might not believe this]], but ''Film/Titanic1997'', despite ostensibly being a love story between two fictional Americans aboard a historical British ship, one first class and one steerage, actually avoids this trope because the most numerous nationality among first class passengers and the second most numerous among steerage passenger, was indeed American.
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* [[AluminiumChristmasTrees You might not believe this]], but ''Film/Titanic1997'', despite ostensibly being a love story between two fictional Americans aboard a historical British ship, one first class and one steerage, actually avoids this trope because the most numerous nationality among first class passengers and the second most numerous among steerage passenger, passengers, was indeed American.American. If anything, it's the lack of American passengers in steerage other than Jack that is an issue.
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* [[AluminiumChristmasTrees You might not believe this]], but ''Film/Titanic1997'', despite ostensibly being a love story between two fictional Americans aboard a historical British ship, one first class and one steerage, actually avoids this trope because the most numerous nationality among first class passengers and the second most numerous among steerage passenger, was indeed American.
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* HarryTurtledove milks this trope dry, though he probably does best the few times he [[InvertedTrope inverts it]] and uses an ''[[XenoFiction exotic]]'' foreign correspondent to describe a place the Anglo-Saxon author would be more familiar with. Examples include [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman Spanish soldier Lope de Vega on occupation duty in England in ''Ruled Britannia'', and German military attaché to the United States Alfred von Schlieffen]].
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* HarryTurtledove milks this trope dry, though he probably does best the few times he [[InvertedTrope inverts it]] and uses an ''[[XenoFiction exotic]]'' foreign correspondent to describe a place the Anglo-Saxon author would be more familiar with. Examples include [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman Spanish soldier Lope de Vega on occupation duty in England in ''Ruled Britannia'', and German military attaché to the United States Alfred von Schlieffen]].Schlieffen in "How Few Remain"]].
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfYoungIndianaJones'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfYoungIndianaJones'' ''Series/YoungIndianaJones'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
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LeadYouCanRelateTo and HomegrownHero.
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* The movie ''Flowers Of War'' is about the Rape of Nanjing and focuses on a group of Chinese women struggling to stay safe - yet for some reason the story takes the viewpoint of an alcoholic white American man who just happened to be there.
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* The movie ''Flowers Of War'' ''Film/FlowersOfWar'' is about the Rape of Nanjing and focuses on a group of Chinese women struggling to stay safe - yet for some reason the story takes the viewpoint of an alcoholic white American man who just happened to be there.
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* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_(film) Reds]]''. The Russian Revolution as experienced by journalist John Reed (based on his novel ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_that_Shook_the_World 10 Days That Shook The World]]'').
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* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_(film) Reds]]''.''Film/{{Reds}}''. The Russian Revolution as experienced by journalist John Reed (based on his novel ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_that_Shook_the_World 10 Days That Shook The World]]'').
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* A couple in Literature/WorldWarZ. One is a Canadian Spec Op to show the start of the plague in Afganistan. Another is the Englishman who explains about castles in the war. Notably, most Americans avert this trope and fight on America's soil, therefore averting AmericaSavesTheDay, which usually plague the genre.
* A couple in Literature/WorldWarZ. One is a Canadian Spec Op to show the start of the plague in Afganistan. Another is the Englishman who explains about castles in the war. Notably, most Americans avert this trope and fight on America's soil, therefore averting AmericaSavesTheDay, which usually plague the genre.
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* Contrary to what its title and marketing suggest, ''TheLastKingOfScotland'' is not so much about Idi Amin as about the fictional doctor Nicholas Garrigan who befriends him and gradually becomes disillusioned with his regime. Forrest Whitaker's Amin still steals the show, though.
* In ''Film/{{The Year of Living Dangerously}}'' the period leading up to Indonesia's 1966 coup d'état is presented through the eyes of two Australian journalists and a British civil servant.
* Played straight and then averted in ''TheKillingFields''. The first half of the movie shows the American reporter Sydney Schanberg trying to escape from Cambodia in 1973. In the second part, Dith Pran - Sydney's Cambodian interpreter - finds himself stranded in Cambodia and caught up in the genocide. This is notably one of the few films in which a native of the country in question is allowed to become the film's protagonist.
* ''BloodDiamond'' partially subverts this by having an African among its main characters, but most of the perspective is provided by a Western journalist.
* Contrary to what its title and marketing suggest, ''TheLastKingOfScotland'' is not so much about Idi Amin as about the fictional doctor Nicholas Garrigan who befriends him and gradually becomes disillusioned with his regime. Forrest Whitaker's Amin still steals the show, though.
* In ''Film/{{The Year of Living Dangerously}}'' the period leading up to Indonesia's 1966 coup d'état is presented through the eyes of two Australian journalists and a British civil servant.
* Played straight and then averted in ''TheKillingFields''. The first half of the movie shows the American reporter Sydney Schanberg trying to escape from Cambodia in 1973. In the second part, Dith Pran - Sydney's Cambodian interpreter - finds himself stranded in Cambodia and caught up in the genocide. This is notably one of the few films in which a native of the country in question is allowed to become the film's protagonist.
* ''BloodDiamond'' partially subverts this by having an African among its main characters, but most of the perspective is provided by a Western journalist.
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* Averted, strangely enough in the Creator/AlfredHitchcock [[Film/ForeignCorrespondent film of the same name]], where the editor states from the off-set that he does not want another Foreign Correspondent in Europe. He sends a crime reporter instead, who ''still'' gets embroiled in the start-up to WorldWarII.
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* Averted, strangely enough in the Creator/AlfredHitchcock [[Film/ForeignCorrespondent film of the same name]], ''Film/ForeignCorrespondent'', where the editor states from the off-set that he does not want another Foreign Correspondent foreign correspondent in Europe. He sends a crime reporter instead, who ''still'' gets embroiled in the start-up to WorldWarII.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* Although ''{{Film/Gandhi}}'' is primarily told through the eyes of its title character, chunks of it are also shown via various white foreigners, despite the fact that there are numerous Indian characters of much more historical significance on hand.
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* Ernest Callenbach's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia Ecotopia]]''. American newspaper reporter William Weston visits the title country, which was formerly part of the U.S.
* Not quite every one of their novels is like this, but a large percentage of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene novels are like this.
** For example ''The Quiet American'', described below, as well as ''Our Man in Havana'', in which the foreign correspondent is a vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-Castro Cuba.
* Not quite every one of their novels is like this, but a large percentage of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene novels are like this.
** For example ''The Quiet American'', described below, as well as ''Our Man in Havana'', in which the foreign correspondent is a vacuum cleaner salesman in pre-Castro Cuba.
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* Some novels of the French author Creator/JulesVerne have Frenchmen in relatively passive "observer roles" among an otherwise non-French cast. Examples are Passepartout in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' or Professor Aronnax in ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' (although the educational element in aforementioned novels is less about politics, and more about science and geography.)
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* ''TheAdventuresOfYoungIndianaJones'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
* Both Maddy and Daniel in ''SexTraffic''.
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* TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''TheLastAirbender'' persists in referring to Admiral Zhao as "Senior Fire Nation Correspondent Aasif Mandvi" as if he was reporting on the situation to TheDailyShow.
--> "I can hardly explain what I'm seeing, Jon, but the moon came back!"
* ''TheAdventuresOfYoungIndianaJones'' is made of this trope with the youthful Indy getting mixed up in all kinds of historical foreign conflicts.
* Both Maddy and Daniel in ''SexTraffic''.
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* TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''TheLastAirbender'' persists in referring to Admiral Zhao as "Senior Fire Nation Correspondent Aasif Mandvi" as if he was reporting on the situation to TheDailyShow.
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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' persists in referring to Admiral Zhao as "Senior Fire Nation Correspondent Aasif Mandvi" as if he was reporting on the situation to ''Series/TheDailyShow''.
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--> "I can hardly explain what I'm seeing, Jon, but the moon came back!"