Black Hawk Down (2001)
- The incredible score for Black Hawk Down was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- The original script for Black Hawk Down was written over a decade before production finally began in 2001.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting the real Battle of Mogadishu on October 3-4, 1993, in which a U.S. military operation to capture two lieutenants of a Somali warlord went catastrophically wrong when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, trapping American soldiers in hostile territory for 15 hours. The ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, and Orlando Bloom, portrayed real soldiers whose accounts formed the basis of Mark Bowden's 1999 book. Ridley Scott's direction plunged the audience into the chaos of urban combat with relentless intensity, using handheld cameras, rapid editing, and the actual Moroccan locations to create the most viscerally overwhelming military combat footage since Saving Private Ryan.
The film won two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Black Hawk Down earned $172 million worldwide on a $110 million budget.
