Blood diamond C a character analysis
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The document provides character analyses for several characters in the film "Blood Diamond". It describes Danny Archer as a mercenary who takes risks and double crosses people. Solomon Vandy is a poor fisherman who wants a better future for his family. Maddy Bowen is a journalist who wants to uncover the illegal diamond trade. The document also analyzes how the civil war and diamond trade in Sierra Leone impacted and motivated the characters.
Blood diamond C a character analysis
- 1. Blood Diamond C A character Analysis Section C Group 5
- 2. ? Focuses on the Illegal Diamond Trade in Sierra Leone ? Used to sponsor the civil war ? Quest for pink diamond ? Analysis of key characters and how their individual choices and decisions are influenced by external factors Introduction
- 3. External Factors ? War in Sierra Leone ? UN Presence ? Diamond Trade Influencing Factors ? Struggle for Results Independence ? Fractured Society Factors affecting the characters ? International policies ? UN Sanctions ? Prolonged Conflict, ? Consumer Demand, and the system Arms Supply Natural Resource exploitation
- 4. Danny Archer ? Mercenary, very smart, improvises when needed ? Good negotiator, tries to get the best deal, risk taking ? Seems OK with double Ccrossing people ? Has High MACH ? Lost both his parents in tragic circumstances, no family now ? Despite being a soldier, has no faith in the ongoing war, killing etc. Experiences some kind of emotional dissonance. ? Unhealthy motivation ? Undergoes Ethical transformation Character Analysis
- 5. ? Poor Mende fisherman; finds the diamond ? Very protective of his family, wants the future to be better. Wants Dia, his son to become a doctor ? Compassionate, courageous, has integrity ? Can be na?ve and childlike in simplicity yet astute enough to suspect Archer ? Great amount of self respect ? Major Driving Factor: o Love for family: goes to great extremes to find them o Very strong emotions and sense of duty Solomon Vandy
- 6. ? Profession: Journalist ? Upbringing: Daughter of a war veteran ? Personality traits: a) wants to make a difference b) street smart c) wants to unearth the illegal diamond trade d) knows how to get the truth out of people e) ?Action Junkie? f) Emotional Maddy Bowen
- 7. Personal Effort Performance Reward Goal If she goes If her Her to Sierra report is personal Leone, she published, goal to will be able she will be bring a to get able to change in substantial unearth the world evidence the illegal would be on blood trade satisfied diamond Maddys Motivation (Vrooms Expectancy Theory)
- 8. ? Son of Solomon Vandy ? Bright student, attached to family ? parents wanted him to become a Doctor ? In the identity vs Role confusion stage; ? Taken away from family by the RUF ; ? loses his identity/innocence and became ruthless ; confused ? RUF through coercive persuaion makes him a killer ? Becomes Captain Dia, see me no more ? Gets into drugs/alcohol ? Refuses to reconcile with Solomon, calls him a traitor ? Seems confused as to what he is, a terrorist or an innocent boy, pulls a gun on his own father ? Rediscovers himself after his father?s emotional persuasion Dia Vandy
- 9. ? A resident of Sierra Leone ? Humanitarian and believes that people are inherently good ? He sees RUF child soldiers as innocent children, psychologically conditioned to kill people ? Runs rehabilitation camp to bring them back to mainstream life ? Risks his life by being so trustful, gets shot in the end but remains empathetic to child soldiers ? Greatly influences Danny in his reformation Benjamin
- 10. Archer Maddy Solomon Benjamin Extraversion Agreeableness Conscientiousnes s Emotional Stability Openness to Experience NA NA BIG FIVE analysis
- 11. ? Social Climate ? Big Impact of RUF on people. ? Motto (so called) ? Work against the government and for people. ? Methodology ? Gain power, control the diamond trade. ? Psychologically condition children. ? Probable reasons for directionless efforts ? Lack of leadership with a wider vision, absence of a role model. ? Deficiency of ethical or moral values. ? Shortsightedness. RUF (Shed their blood!!)
- 12. Kidnap children to create Army Spend your money and Use this army army in wars to control diamond Need more of trade ?em Going Nowhere Use the Buy weapons weapons to from money fight against from diamond government trade RUF Operations: Very Smart!!
- 13. ? Talks about ethical issues, motivation(healthy and unhealthy), selfish actions leading to chaos, atmosphere created by lack of morals and values, the courage of ethical people etc Labor(forced) Smugglers Officials(Corrupted) Illegal Diamond trading Companies ? Almost every one in the movie wanted the Diamond for some reason ? Human price paid for diamonds ? Valuable diamonds or lives of families ? Conclusion
Editor's Notes
- RUF depicts the realistic social climate of Sierra Leone in the movie.It is an organization that claims to be working for people and against the existing government.Although they lack a vision to establish a sustainable government for people, they concentrate only on gaining power and controlling the diamond trade. They are rebel without the cause.To support their so called ideology of freedom they recruit children by taking them away from their families and psychologically conditioning them to be fearless soldiers.They incentivized children by promoting them to ranks. Reasons for their directionless atrocities may be lack of leadership and absence of any role model to guide them on ethical paths.Ruthless, thrives on fearUsing diamond trade to fund weaponsPsychologically conditions children into killersRuns on CommunitarianismAction did not match Ideology