Black Hawk Down (2001)
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Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Josh Hartnett, Sam Shepard, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner
Pilla: Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
McKnight: Well shoot back!
Struecker: It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Randy D. Shughart: My love, you are strong and you will do well in life. I love you and my children deeply. Today and tomorrow, each day grow and grow. Keep smiling and never give up, even when things get you down. So, in closing, my love... Tonight, tuck my children in bed warmly. Tell them I love them. Then hug them for me. And give them both a kiss good night for Daddy.
Atto: You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.
General Garrison: 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war, Mr. Atto. That's genocide.
General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
Durant: Where's the rescue squad?
Shughart: We're it.
Struecker: No one gets left behind, you know that.
Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
Harell: We got a black hawk down, we got a black hawk down.
Matthews: Super 61 is down. We got a bird down in the city. Super 61 is on the deck now.
Garrison: You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.
Abdullah Hassan: You Americans don't smoke anymore. You live long, dull and uninteresting lives.
Todd Blackburn: Well, I'm here to kick some ass.
Visible crew/equipment: Near the end of the movie when the convoy is heading back to the Pakistan Stadium, a Humvee stops briefly to allow a man to walk across the street with a child in his arms. When the shot changes and the Humvee begins driving again, a crew member or cameraman is seen inside the Humvee wearing a white shirt. All of the men who entered the Humvee were wearing fatigues. (02:05:27)
Trivia: According to veterans of the actual event, when the Rangers got the go-ahead for the mission and were getting their gear ready, "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N Roses was playing on the base's loudspeakers. There were some half-serious comments among the men about the appropriateness of this song. However, the film's producers failed to secure the rights to use "Welcome to the Jungle," so they substituted Faith No More's "Falling to Pieces"--which is perhaps thematically in line with what happened on the raid. (00:27:28)
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