I love Andy Jr's reaction on the armour piercingng bullets - he's like delighted with the customer service. It's like his equivalent of when you find out a restaurant can add bacon to your burger. "You can do that!? PLEASE!"
@@nukacoaal it was not really humour from cage... as I understood it, his outcry was genuinely due to shock and he was opposed to the killing. the "used gun" was simply the first thing that came into his mind that would rationalize his outcry as anything but what it was.
andy wanted to know where is his Nicolas stance on the current situation the best arms dealer talk only commercial interest once Nicolas made the outrage into the usage of his yet to be bought firearm which is his property instead of the killing of Andy property the soldier andy can respect that and be assured going forward that his arms dealer dont really give a shit how he use his weapons toward property in his mind which is the people
@@RKBock well it's him being smart. Being angry he shot the kid would have positioned himself as having doubted his decision making. Effectively calling him out as a ruthless dictator. However making it seem like he was pissed about it being a "used gun" demonstrates Cage was only pissed about greed lol and demonstrates him to be a MORE trustworthy arms dealer, as it's clear he holds high standards for the guns he's selling even though practically nobody cares about whether a gun is used or not.
This movie portrayed the dictator so well. Scary and without "normal moral values", but still very charming and likeable in a weird way when you talk with him.
sociopaths can be like that. VERY charming. smooth talkers. but in the end, will lie cheat steal and even murder you when the time comes. when i go to heaven, im asking God did you create sociopaths narcissists and pedophiles? if yes... WHY!?
Most narcissists are relatable. They are good at portraying likability. Nothing on earth is worse than arms dealers. Not talking about FFL. Even the aristocracy relies on these lowlifes. Shame on these lowlifes.
Personally my favorite warlords in Liberia were General But Naked, general Hitler and General Mosquito. But Naked was an outstanding commander and knew just how to inspire his naked legion of cannibal kids.
"Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters." Yuri Orlov I'm still rather surprised they were willing to acknowledge that fact so openly.
You either sell arms or you don't. If you do they will inevitably end up with people that have the money to buy them. Many of the guns in this movie were from exYugoslav states, so really easy to aquire stuff without necessary paperwork in places undergoing bureaucratic rebirth. Otherwise there are legitimate armed forced and police units that require weapons, there's many of them around the world very often purchases can either appear to be for them or are redirected elsewhere in shipment. West (as well as other ex Soviet states) arms practically everyone except few countries that have homegrown industries, but generally most of these countries don't descend into decades long genocidal conflict where cannibalism and child soldiers are on the table.
But they actually need them in this movie. Africa's a sunny place and it doesn't have the obnoxious green filter the machines installed over the Matrix.
I still think this is Nicholas Cage's best film. When he tries he can be a really good actor. His acting skills are great for a character that has little to no empathy.
I don't think his problem is not wanting to be good, his problem is that he signed up for lots and lots of movies that were so bad not even Heath Ledger could have saved them.
@@zyron7115 Because it shows in a creative way dictators hypocrisy. He is pretending that he is some benevolent leader, maybe he even believes he is, but all he created was war and misery for his country. You know how they say comedy is al about timing? Well... This scene is all about timing
It seems like the dictator scene was a much much deeper interaction between them, he wanted to see how cage would react to the shooting and he did react to the human life being taken but he caught himself and quickly made his interest become in the gun being used, he showed no fear and indifference to human life therefore gaining the trust of the dictator
@Parental Guardian Yes it was, a dictator as ruthless as him wouldn't want his gun dealers trying to get involved into politics. As that would effect the deals. Remember the scene when yuris brother tried to sabataodge the deal and threw a grenade into one of the trucks, therefore getting him killed? Yeah, thats why he wanted to see if yuri was a pussy like his brother.
That is, without a doubt - the greatest save by a movie character, in history. He was within seconds of death, by his reaction to the killing of the kid who was flirting, but flips it into indignation at the use of the gun. Brilliant.
He should have also been reacting to the hearing loss of shooting off a gun indoors without hearing protection. 😮 It’s a few hours of feeling like you’re wearing earmuffs, along with a constant high pitched ringing. The ringing returns a few times a day for the next several days. “WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!” “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
i thought yuri was being genuine. i considered your premise, maybe i dismissed too fast. i feel denial that yuri would be shocked. yet he didnt smirk in humor and seemed upset genuinely. when it should be a demonstration piece he wasnt going to sell anyways.
I love that you can tell that the dictator can tell that the shock was genuine and that was him saving face, but he seemed charmed by the quick-thinking brazenness of this play - he knows that this is a man he can do business with.
I just don't understand Nicholas Cage. he's starred in some of my favorite movies and some of my least favorites. His acting can be stellar, and also terrible
"They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they oughta say was; evil prevails." That quote still stuck with me. Brilliant film. People like to shit on Nic Cage but he's an amazing actor, he just can't seem to pick his roles right. Or maybe he has bad agents.
Well the reason why he's such in awful films before making is resurgence in Mandy and Pig is that he wasted his money in a lot of things like monuments and even an Action Comics 38, he got into so much debt that he started accepting every role he could in order to pay off his debts.
Not too hopeful. Bout sold half the Russian Army's modern weapons stockpile. A serious contributor to Russia's failures in Ukraine. I'd stay away from windows if I was Bout.
This film deserves credit for debunking the myth that a Glock can get through airport security. No it can't. The whole slide assembly is metal, the magazine spring is metal, and of course the bullets in the gun are metal.
It started with the film Die Hard 2, I believe. Apparently, the film's armorer begged them not to do it, but they did it anyway. Glock did it on an x-ray machine to prove it wasn't true. Only 40% off it is plastic. Also the ammo.
@@MrPolicekarim Ah yes, the infamous "Glock 7" from Die Hard 2. I've talked to gun shop clerks who say they've had customers ask them for one of those. They might as well be asking for a plasma rifle in 40-watt range.
@sushi4life no one is anti 2A , you just anti- 1A, and myth also wasn’t spread by anti-2A it was more a movie thing. Also the Hollywood is heavily funded by the military and there is even a whole branch who’s main objective is to make sure that all Hollywood movie about America in war shows America military in the best light possible in order to get good funding and tax incentives.
Andre Baptiste is a fictionalized version of Charles Taylor, the warlord who was President of Liberia from 1997-2003. He was infamous for his brutality during both the first civil war, as a rebel, and during the second civil war, as president. He was eventually sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes against humanity. During the second civil war, a number of lumber companies became fronts for arms dealers in exchange for lumber export licenses, which Taylor had canceled when he came into office. Leonid Minin and Viktor Bout, who Yuri Orlov's character is based on, are both thought to have sold Taylor weapons through those lumber companies. Leonid Minin was born in Ukraine and later moved to Tel Aviv, among many other cities on many continents. He is known to have sold to Taylor and to rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, and he is thought to have additionally dealt with Slobodan Milosevic. Viktor Bout was (likely) an ethnic Ukrainian born in Tajikistan. After the fall of the USSR, he began selling arms to various countries, earning the nickname "Sanctions Buster" for his ability and willingness to evade UN arms embargoes. Minin was arrested in Milan in 2000 and released 2 years later. He is still alive (75 years old) and thought to be a major figure in the Odessa Mafia, through which he still deals arms as of 2018. Probably, he has moved to his other properties in London or elsewhere due to the invasion in Ukraine. Bout was harder to catch, as he kept changing out company names, residences, shell companies, and so on. He is thought to have acted on orders from the KGB/FSB. The US froze his assets in 2004 and he was arrested in Thailand in 2008; for the next two years, Russia argued for his release, claiming that his arrest was politically motivated. He is currently in a federal prison in Illinois. EDIT: I made this comment months ago how tf you guys keep finding me. Stuff happened, check the comments.
best outcome for Africa is for China to buy them out, clear away the warlords, end the constant battles for the diamond mines and kick out any other conquers who wish to set foot. otherwise, Africa is going to continue walking the endless cycle of getting freeloaded by other countries, being stuck in endless civil wars, being left in rubble and having no potential for growth.
I just listened to a podcast about Charles Taylor. Messed up dude. General "butt naked" was also involved. Liberia has had quite a tumultuous history to say the least.
I think it had more to do with the fact that he realized that Yuri had just grabbed the gun out of his hand, *while it was pointed at him.* Baptiste knew that took some massive brass balls to do, and he respected the hell out of him for it.
I love the brutal honesty of the reality Nicolas cages character gives, also I’m sure people in the west care but their governments make sure their people are distracted.
Yeah it's just a bit of a mine field to help as far as I can tell helping those that live in these types of states, give aid you are destabilising/corrupting the local economy and making them dependant besides the fact that often many local governments (mafia) will just take most of it for themselves. Invest and you will be often considered too be exploiting them or being imperialist for buying out their country (besides the fact a lot of the really troubled countries have really high corruption or chance of nationalisation of investments making investments risky), and an intervention to attempt to help will be automatically viewed as neoimperialism (and also likely make things way worse see well anywhere America recently went) . So you can see how politiclly its often considered just kicking a hornets nest. And whenever they do one of the above as it's going to automatically seen in that view anyway so they think they might as well just go ahead and take advantage of what everyone thinks is happening anyway. Though I should add I really do believe that we should help countries that are stable and actually care about their people with a whole lot more investments and support to further help build up countries which just don't have the capital necessary to fix certain issues. Btw sorry if I came across to strong honestly I don't know too much about the goings on over there this is just my impression I've received over here, since you seemed curious what was the 'the peoples stance' however I can only really speak for myself.
No. No they dont. They just pretend to care to score virtue points.Those who truly care leave for Africa to actually help. The rest talk about it on social media and the one who virtue-signals the best gets the most likes. But its not about helping anyone. It never is. Its simply the latest fashion, a pissing contest between wealthy, healthy people in first world societies. In the past one showed how cultured they were by displaying knowledge of art, fashion, music etc. Now they do it by showing how "aware" they are of "injustice" and how "woke" it makes them feel. The only real goal is status among their peers.
This proves to me that Nick Cage is a phenomenal actor. For the movies he believes in, his acting is superb, and then, you see him in movies where he is terrible, and, I think that's his way of making a mark, in that, if he believes in the project, you get the real Nick Cage performance, if he thinks the project isn't, he still takes it, and you get the "Flash a famous name on the marquee" Nick Cage. If you look at all his "Great Roles", you start to see a pattern on who Nick Cage is, what motivates him, and when it matters, he dials his skills to 11.
Well thats kind of dishonest in his part. Unless someone forces him to act on movies, you deliver the performance you're hired to deliver. It shouldnt matter if you believe it in or not, dont take the job if you hate it. I'm sure as a rich actor he can pick his roles..
For those of you confused why andre baptiste sr. (the dictator) shot the soldier is because the soldier was flirting with one of baptiste's lovers, so being the lunatic murdering sociopath that he is baptiste sr. killed the soldier.
Don't flirt with other man's woman. Pretty simple lesson to learn. One of the most basic things to learn on Earth. Every culture knows this. Some cultures take it more seriously though. Then again Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten. Some people just don't learn by words. So a bullet will do.
I enjoy stealing Norm McDonalds jokes and saying “the worst part is the hypocrisy” in places it doesn’t make sense. Pretty everyone just nods along when you say it.
@@geobloxmodels1186 Just the other day, Officer Tatum was talking about BLM stealing... Er... REDISTRIBUTING... 6 Million dollars in donations to buy real estate. I perused the comments and didn't really see that I had anything useful to add that anybody else hadn't already said, so I dropped in - *"Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the fucking money, shithead?"* 😁
I like how Andre knows that Yuri was trying to cover his ass with the “used gun” shtick. As an illegal arms dealer, *all* his products have been used before.
The guns might be old, but many of them are not used. They often just sit in armories never used until they are decommissioned, then sold by people like himself.
"Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?" "Part one, two or three?" "I've only seen part one." That's some subtle but clever writing there. Rambo Part 1 was the one whose core message was 'war is bad because PTSD' and only one guy dies in the entire movie. Andre Junior completely failed to see the movie's message and just treated it like an action movie.
I watched American History X in class (rural town, lots of racists) and it was funny because I could literally see the gears turning on some of my classmates as they realized that maybe, just maybe their beliefs were not true. And then the ending comes where the brother gets shot and they instantly conclude “oh, black people are bad”. Smh
@@lonewolf0281 Your grammar is wrong first of all. It should be, “it was way ahead of its time.” You know, with the period before the last quotations. Moreover, it appears 13 other people agreed by upvoting my comment. What difference does it make what generation I’m even from? I’m 27 if that helps you, sweetie. I’m glad my comment was able to trigger you so badly, lmao.
This really shows how disconnected he was to the weapons he sold. Selling guns to dictators and cartels didnt bother him at all, but one person dying in front of him scared him. You'd think he sold vacuum cleaners with the way he initially reacted. To him it was just a product to profit from, he didn't have to see the children getting massacred by the guns he sold.
@@an0nym00se4 they just want their post dystopian child fucking gun toteing paradise. Free of poor people and non pedophiles. They want impunity. They want devastation. They always get what they want. We should all love our families with reckless abandon from here on out. We never really know how much time we have left.
FYI, 00:00 to 00:13 is a very accurate explanation of Africa's geopolitical situation from 1991 to 2001. Countless civil wars fought in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Angola among other countries.
@@jabronis33 This is what the tandem cycle of random violence breeds! A vengeful black hit-sludge with a grudge hath brought the reaper you've sown in the goo of your guilt, as the créme-de-karma is roosting home to harm ya. It always ends up boning the poor.
This was one of my most most favourite films of all time, and this scene hit me. I was a quiet young awkward kid in college when I saw this. It inspired me to be a salesperson like Yuri, and it changed my life almost 180. So many years have past and to think my life was so different. Thank you Lord of War.
@@user-bu4ut2li1m i was soo young when I saw this. I was like damn I wanna be like this guy, because I'm so awkward shy person when I was in college. So I took up part time job as a promoter selling cars. After so many years different jobs, now I'm selling food sauces to chain restaurants.
@@rhyswong8976 In my late-teens I wished to become such person who's on short leg with many people, doing grey-business or to be journalist in a war-zone. Now I study design and IT, but feel that this office job is lacking real life creativity, street-wisdom. Especially, now, when AI coming, and in 15 years it will probably perform the most of routine jobs in IT and elsewhere. But no AI will ever replace a human for other human, same as our thinking out the box. That's for sure!
@@user-bu4ut2li1m you study design and IT, and yet you still have passion in original creativity and street wisdom (which nowadays is so rare)... to me that's a positive thing man. That industry maybe lacking what you said, but perhaps that's where you are needed.
Now, that was HIS stellar role. What an actor, Eamonn Walker is.... Look at him on this one: the very exact opposite of everything Kareem Saïd represented. And He portrayed it just as fine.
Andy may be wonton and sadistic; but he is also humorous and intelligent, and has a plan. Not a throwaway villain. If he does right by you, he's a stand-up kinda guy. That's why evil succeeds.
