Media studies homework

Film opening timeline

BLACK HAWK DOWN

• Text-based on an actual event
• Text-“only the dead have seen the end of war”-Plato
• (Music starts [person singing][violin playing] )
• Location – Somalia – East Africa 1992
• Text-years of warfare among rival clans cause famine on a biblical scale.
• Text-300000 civilians die of starvation.
• Text-Farrah Aidid, the most powerful of the warlords, rules the capital Mogadishu.
• Text-He seizes international food shipments at the ports. Hunger is his weapon.
• Text-the world responds. Behind a force of 20000 US marines, food is delivered and order is restored.
• (Music stopped [person singing])
• Text- April 1993. Aidid waits until the marines withdraw, and then declares war on the remaining UN peacekeepers.
• Text-in June, Aidid’s militia ambush and slaughter 24 Pakistani soldiers, and begin targeting American personnel.
• Text-in late August, America’s elite soldiers, Delta Force, Army Rangers and the 160^th SOAR are sent to Mogadishu to remove Aidid and restore order.
• Text-the mission was to take three weeks, but six weeks later Washington was growing impatient.
• Film title
• Date- Saturday – October 2^nd, 1993.
• Building- red cross food distribution center.