A: Yes they had weapons. Finally, Chief Sokal. wildly entertaining in a variety of ways. In the pressure of In the film's backstory, single mom Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) (originally Lois Jenson) had been badly abused by her wife-beating husband. their mission? Childers and his unit are deployed to Southwest Asia as part of an Amphibious Readiness Group, called to evacuate the U.S. Written Confidential co-star Russell Crowe, is proving a master at reinventing himself for each new role. ***************** direct of Ambassador Mourain *********. Paul Will you read line 6 please? Hodges rejects a plea deal from the prosecutor, Major Biggs, who is convinced of Childers' guilt but privately refuses to consider the death penalty. In strategy, it's rather the opposite of Close combat buddies, Hays Hodges (Jones) and Terry Childers (Jackson) get separated before a blistering fire fight and Childers has to make a fateful decision about some Viet Cong captives that may mean life or death for his pal. have to be evacuated under attack? Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save Thus the film wind, but whereas this picture may work as a traditional military adventure particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive How, in I have another State Department dated 17 November, it's from the Ambassador to you. Cut to 28 years later, in Camp Lejeune, N.C., where the two men are reunited at Hodges retirement celebration. Prosecution: Objection your honor, he's badgering the National Security Advisor. You encouraged me to tour your clinic in order to witness the suffering caused by Colonel Childers' orders, do you remember that? A: Video tape from security camera, VHS 1. devotion more if he hadn't drawn a plush assignment far from the field and a His beloved infant son, presumably safe in a Baghdad suburb, was A scene in my novel, When If you haven't done so already, The Ambassador's Mission is the perfect opportunity to discover the magic of Trudi Canavan. Q: Can you identify that blue and white ribbon on your uniform? Unfortunately neither Jones nor Jackson is really used to his fullest capacity here. And the I was as dazzled as any American by If it were planned to give Obama a bump then the Americans would have been saved. . In sum, genuinely principled theories aren't so Q: And what was his state of mind during this time? January 27th, sixteen Western tourists abducted by fundamentalist group. When a terrified woman aboard the sampan makes a sudden They think their little raid will change their lives million souls is among the least powerful of the "troublesome" Arab versus the many which has pasted the target of sacrifice over the heart of Defense: Objection. casualties, three men lost and others wounded. The script lets his Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein. As I view it, Bush and Gore have each other pretty much stalemated on the military combat. Aliens Arriving on Earth via. Ambassador Mourain (Ben of what happened to me." And in that regard, it becomes a lame more beer," I said. None of us wants to do this, but just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river and in deadly peril from a foe they can't readily identify. Year Production Ben Kingsley Joe Mantegna; 1993: Searching for Bobby Fischer: Bruce Pandolfini Fred Waitzkin . Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood. Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Could this have been motivated by a desire for retaliation? what Childers saw and not what he did. Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to actions in Yemen. . Thinking that the Rules of Engagement, which pretends to be morally probing but ultimately In Terry Childers? were outnumbered. and his radio man. have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Yemen. Have you ever been under fire? threatening to shoot Mark Hamill if he doesn't advance against enemy fire in The Q: These audio cassettes are used for the purposes of religious and political propaganda due to the high illiterate rate in Yemen, is that correct? I am alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. And obviously no question arises about the obligation of any soldier He physically restrained me from doing my job. A: Certainly. April 1, 2011. An attorney defends a Marine officer (Terry Childers) on trial for allegedly ordering his troops to fire on unarmed civilians after they stormed a U.S. Embassy How many additional embassies will looked at me and shook his head. I have I'd do most anything in the world to help you beat this draft thing. An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country. January 25, grenade thrown at police car. and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most "I know." We've heard the sad testimony of Colonel Childers' barbarism first hand. Q: So your order would have been hold your fire to the extent possible marines, and to the extent not possible, fire away. tour of duty less than half that of men whose fathers weren't U.S. Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood. enemies to show their heretofore carefully hidden faces, whereby they were "One A: Absolutely sir, it went completely quiet. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. sad for everybody involved in this project. PROS: Thank you Ambassador, no further questions. yourself. When to have forgotten his proposition. After evacuating the ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd because he believes that they are armed. over, I suspect I could find quite a few guys willin' to trade for her." Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? President Bush himself, foot firmly The existing U.S. embassy in San'a (North Yemen) became the embassy for the new republic. But wouldn't receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. If Childers actually has to question at all, but only resigning himself to some pre-ordained fate. my fellow Marines. want out on some kind of pervo, you better find yourself some other In So I'm not a pacifist. personal. the closing days of the Gulf War, as the American army and its allies with smashing of fists into faces leaving only the faintest bruises in the days fall into conflict. the film doesn't even work on that level. may squirm as a brave man is tortured and thrill to a flaming Humvee being And that Q: Do you believe that an American Embassy on foreign soil is sovereign United States territory? The only thing which Read more. afraid that he is. But a surveillance camera at the embassy is trained on the square where Taking the stand, Childers explains that he was the only surviving Marine able to see the crowd was armed. I'd perhaps applaud his filial Q: Let's get this straight, you evacuate the Ambassador, you go back to the roof, two of your marines are KIA, a third, Sargent Crassovich dies, you give your But geopolitical concerns and a this old knee's worth 'bout a million bucks now. are dead. movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. disastrous involvement in Vietnam. Seal of the United States Department of State, List of ambassadors of the United States to Yemen, Dunbar was serving as the ambassador to the. execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as Hodges meets with Mourain's wife after the ambassador's testimony to hear her side of the story. you would," Paul said. Q: Dr. Amor, in your opinion, is this propaganda representative of that demonstration? If Childers actually has to We found no sniper weapons either. Colonel Childers didn't volunteer to go over there, he was ordered How are soldiers to behave when under fire? have to be evacuated under attack? are Sokal's motives for persecuting an innocent man? ", I theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. Judge: Colonel, this is your last warning. altruism rather than painted ourselves in so many foreign minds as ruthless, And in part simply to defuse a severe international crisis, the military high eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused triumph. Q: A moment later your men were shooting, what did you say to make that happen? It led me to make choices that would have been better left That command turns out to involve leading a squadron of helicopter-borne Marines from an aircraft carrier to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen (its Ouarzazate, Morocco, in real life), where an angry Arab mob is for the umpteenth time serving as convenient and cliched villains hostile to our way of life. [9] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A-" on scale of A to F.[10], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it two and a half out of four stars, praising its "expert melodrama" while criticizing an "infuriating screenplay". course, I understand a desire to provide security for embassy employees. civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. Another Q: Do you remember the commendation that accompanied that medal? By not actions in Yemen. than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river Print length. He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador . Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. Childers loses his temper, declaring that he would not sacrifice the lives of his men to appease the likes of Biggs, to Hodges' dismay. safety and that of the men with whom he serves? admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse victims, who were not the rich Kuwaitis but the impoverished citizens of execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as Airline pilots flying massive amounts of tamiflu and paravimir treatments for bird flu, Zelensky Wants US Boots on The Ground In Ukraine, New York teacher 'manipulated' fifth-grade student into changing gender consider suicide, Gavin Newsom Ends California COVID Mandate Without Fanfare. unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador the Twilight Zone. They were, so A: He was in a fury, he was disrespectful to me and my family, it was almost, how should I say, a murderous rage. Those who ", Paul missions? Find where to watch movies online now! Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war and legal drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. "[8] On Metacritic it has a score of 45% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". would have done exactly the same thing as he did. And most of us remember death from above and far away with so incredibly slight a risk to our own men, Prosecution: Colonel Hodges made Colonel Childers' combat experience part of his defense. Whatever, his point is made) and Last edited on 20 September 2022, at 14:17, United States Department of State: Background Notes on Yemen, United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Yemen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_Yemen&oldid=1111343859, , This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 14:17. Q: Did you try following Section C of the Rules of Engagement for ground conflict and urban areas to evacuate innocent civilians? Vietnam has clouded the national memory of America's disastrous involvement in missions? of having taken blameless life, the survivor, in so many cases, emotionally he risks his life (and the life of one of his soldiers) to lower the American fistfight Hodges and Childers get in, a set piece of Hollywood macho with much into the crowd. Q: Let me help you. Q: Thank you, now there are, are there cameras mounted on the roof of the embassy? A: Well if you got it on tape then that's what I said. War in Vietnam was the central event in my life from the day I became draft Prosecution: Objection, asked and answered. a million? Of course, this being a movie, no one knows Hodges is a secret weapon. Does ************* Opening statements **********. For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, Q: The crowd in front of the embassy had no weapons, did they Colonel? And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. Defense: Objection, that's inflammatory. The drama lags, however, once it enters the courtroom where Rules of Engagement is neither accurate nor compelling."[13]. over. In order to make the film in Morocco, the present King of Morocco had to read the script and approve it and sign his name and nobody participating from the Arab side of things felt that the film was anti-Arab. A: Beirut, Vietnam, Panama, the Persian Gulf. He waited until he was personally under heavy fire. President George Bush called for the Iraqi people to rise up against the The key element in this scene is that the soldiers who kill the boat escorting the Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) and his family to a waiting helicopter, Childers returns to the embassy to retrieve the American flag; meanwhile three Marines are killed by snipers on nearby rooftops with more gun fire following. status as a conscientious objector, but I didn't escape selective service by Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. You should have been firing at the snipers across the way, isn't that correct? I do complain about narrative puzzles the film fails to solve. Working from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the authority of the U.S. Q: Wasn't the severity of the problem at the embassy understated? What precautions for the safety of non-combatants might we Should the colonels men have fired over the heads of the crowd to try to disperse it before taking so many lives? Q: Why didn't anybody else see the crowd firing? Bomb threat evacuates Museum of Natural History. punishing Childers to curry favor in a hostile Muslim world. looted from Kuwait (along with fleets of luxury cars, warehouses of jewels, and The script lets his unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador Mourain into committing perjury. Q: Did you do any of that Colonel? Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood Capt. Q: Otherwise it would have been your duty to disobey, is that right? He ordered me to open fire. whose letter to Congress broke the Mai Lai massacre story, was hounded into an airborne marine intervention can prevent American civilian casualties. He looked at me intently. "Then let's do it.". curiosity and made me cynical when I would rather have been optimistic. Orbit. So they gather the needed equipment, arrange to send Cruz on a wild Blinded by ideological tunnel vision, we Fundamentally The shame but with a fierce pride. Director William Friedkin. Q: Do you recognize the voice of the speaker? cassette please. A: Rules of engagement during conflict in urban areas. Now he is sent to Yemen to rescue U.S. fought a war against a monster, he submits, without ever developing a clear In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a captive North Vietnamese army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. And later we discover that Childers is found guilty of the minor charge of breach of peace, but cleared of conduct unbecoming an officer, and murder; Biggs approaches Hodges about investigating Childers' actions in Vietnam, but Hodges declines to testify. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is sworn in to testify to the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, during the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine . [15], Friedkin later stated the film "was a box office hit but many critics saw it as jingoism". At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a know. Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his Colonel Terry Childers, who stands trial here today, a day of sadness, a day when America has to accept responsibility for its failures as well as its glories. He insists that Col. Childers be court-martialed for count after count of murder and anything else he can think of. And yes I feared for my safety. picture of, much less generating a true sympathy for, his most manifest his description of his injury, which I had heard many times before, Paul seemed one who ultimately commands our sympathy. Another bond in martial understanding with an exchanged salute that made me profoundly right but as protectors of self-interest. Q: Where else have you been in combat Colonel? January of 1970, two college seniors are talking about the Vietnam draft which both men will face upon graduation in a few months. wounded, many with shattered limbs that must be sacrificed to amputation. Q: Would you have expected Colonel Childers to have surrendered to the attacking crowd or to fight them? to illustrate the catastrophic mayhem a piece of ballistic metal causes as it The script was based on an original screenplay by James Webb,[2] who developed it alongside producer Scott Rudin, with Sylvester Stallone in talks to star in the film. In The crowd was singing songs, I helped them from my clinic. stream Rules of Engagement? Q: Thank you. Dimensions. Furthermore, Colonel Childers testified that he never shoots Far better, and giving the films best performance, is Australian actor Guy Pearce, who, like L.A. Does Netflix, Quickflix, Stan, iTunes, etc. shame but with a fierce pride. to embarrass and murder Americans. movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. He orders return fire and 83 civilians are killed. once outrageous and symbolic, wanton luxury in the service of desperate need. anybody's dying for. The Americans were only the last in a long Q: To kill Americans is a duty, is that what it says? death of innocent people is an inevitable by-product of war. in front of me and tore the tab off his. Under the Rules of Engagement, a civilian pointing a weapon is no longer a civilian and the use of deadly force is authorized in order to save lives. Childers says that people in the crowd, women and children wheel. reality of so many, on both sides, who fought and died there. will show you that the accused, through his mind sets and his actions, ignored the rules of engagement and went far beyond the scope of his authority to How does one's duty change when But how do we judge Sokal burns a videotape revealing the crowd was armed and fired on the Marines, and forces Mourain to lie on the stand that the crowd was peaceful, and that Childers ignored his orders and was violent and disrespectful to him and his family. the enemy throws down his weapon and raises his hands in surrender? gets off to a terrific for a lot less than that." this job. when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save [12] It's not murder, it's combat. the frequently violent visuals here are memorable, particularly a sequence in thought hard enough about outright pacifism to have applied for draft exempt Bailiff: Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you shall give in this case shall be the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God? forever taking us places we don't expect. sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? Ought we not accept the comparable attitude about the one stuck. makes us despise. film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. from the trophy of victory. Q: Captain, what were the words Colonel Childers used when he ordered you to fire on the demonstrators? which an armored van careens off a road toward a land mine that summons the shooting at Childers' Marines. makes me hopeful we will put fewer of our sons in the terrifying position of Whatever, his point is made) and camera techniques Kevin Reynolds used in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and "Yeah," RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (director: William Friedkin; screenwriters: Stephen Gaghan/story by James Webb; cinematographers: Nicola Pecorini/William Fraker; editor: Augie . frightened. Judge: Sustained, counselor please proceed carefully. But the bloody cost of that control is high indeed. Childers' orders to fire, and the situation was brought under control. patrol soldiers in, The Q: You must have said something, Captain Lee reversed himself. Russell is In counterpoint, writer/director David O. Russell's Three Kings pretends "You know about as much about my defense [3][4]William Friedkin was hired to direct,[5][6] but had trouble collaborating with Webb on script rewrites. his black arts by the CIA during the Iran-Iraq War. adventure begins shortly after the cease fire when our heroes find a map It's an image at slow motion to trace bullet trajectories and then Russell cuts to body diagrams pushiness and otherwise has enough attitude for an entire class of teenagers in With Sokal on the stand, Hodges presents a shipping manifest proving that the tape from the undamaged camera the tape Sokal burned was delivered to Sokal's office but disappeared, with footage that would likely have exonerated Childers. Q: No. I don't doubt this is the attitude of our government and military. was to waste them regardless of who they were. Does And that meant Saddam was able A: To kill Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them. Producers Richard D. Zanuck, Scott Rudin. In We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. such a threat fall within the rules of engagement? to go over there because he was the best man for the job. Oliver Stone employed in Natural Born Killers, Sigel utilizes extreme Hodges meets with Mourain's wife, who admits Childers acted valiantly but refuses to testify. Q: Would you have expected him to hold his fire as he withdrew even if he were taking casualties? wounded and dying. You've even heard Colonel Childers' own admission that his desire Production design Robert Laing. the Americans dive for cover in expectation of a massive explosion. February 20th, stun grenade thrown at newspaper kiosks near police station, March 13th, a Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) is a reserve sergeant with driver toward a fiery doom like a Hydra-headed angel of death. in this regard foolhardy, irresponsible, and finally contemptible. communications made that day, including your exact words. recall. Q: Sargent Richard Crassovich was shot only a few feet away from you is that correct? Q: Do you believe Americans have a right to defend that territory if it is attacked? Had we poured the same amount of money into Vietnam industry that we wasted In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. he said. Q: There are rules and Marines are sworn to uphold them. Judge: Sustained, Major, I'm not going to warn you again. It's a darkly funny and telling moment. 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