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''[[Black Hawk Down]]'' (2001) is a war film produced by [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] and directed by [[Ridley Scott]] and based on the book of the same title by Mark Bowden. It depicts the Battle of Mogadishu, a raid integral to the United States' effort to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The movie features [[Josh Hartnett]], Tom Sizemore, [[Ewan McGregor]], Eric Bana, Ewen Bremner, William Fichtner, [[Sam Shepard]], Jason Isaacs, Glenn Morshower, and Orlando Bloom.

* [[Running Gag]]: Grimes keeps getting shot with RPGs. Okay, so it's not a ''funny'' running gag. (In the actual campaign, Stebbins really did find himself near far too many explosions. Each time, his squadmates though he was done, but each time he managed to survive somehow. He eventually makes it out of the combat zone with a badly injured foot.)

* [[Scenery Gorn]]

* [[Steel Ear Drums]]: Averted. One character is left mostly deaf for the rest of the movie after a 5.56mm M249 squad automatic weapon is fired from within a foot from his head.

** Subverted at another point in the film; Grimes barely dodges a Somali RPG and is knocked off his feet and partially buried by the dirt churned up by the blast. When a Delta digs him up, the viewer sees things from Grimes' perspective, including temporarily distorted audio due to the blast momentarily deafening him.

 

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[[Category:The Nineties]]

[[Category:Ridley Scott]]

[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

[[Category:Films Based on Books]]

[[Category:Military and Warfare Films]]