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He played mercenary Colonel Coetzee in the 2006 film Blood Diamond, which was partially filmed in South Africa. Vosloo has been involved in video games: his likeness, as well as his voice, was chosen for the main hero (Saul Myers) of video game Boiling Point: Road to Hell, published in the summer of 2005 by Atari.
Connelly co-starred in Blood Diamond opposite Leonardo DiCaprio where she portrayed journalist Maddy Bowen, who is working on exposing the real story behind blood diamonds. [88] New York magazine praised her performance: "Connelly is such a smart, sane, unhistrionic actress that she almost disguises the fact that her character is a wheeze."
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an ...
Josh and Benny Safdie came up with the idea of a Diamond District movie in 2009, influenced by their father's stories of working as a diamond salesman. [12] [13] [14] Co-writer Ronald Bronstein came from a similar background, as his father worked in the Garment District. [15] Their shared Jewish upbringing was essential to their crafting of the ...
Blood Diamonds is a television documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds.
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In retrospect, Antoine Fuqua shares his frustration with Tears of the Sun's production. He initially wanted to tell a raw, realistic story about human suffering in war, especially focusing on the African crisis. However, he faced pressure from the studio to make the film more commercially viable.
The real Gibson, an active blogger, lied in 2009 about only having four months to live following a brain cancer diagnosis. She said that after trying out chemotherapy, she was determined to heal ...