Lord of War
Lord of War Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lord of War is a 2005 American crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, and co-produced by and starring Nicolas Cage.
The film was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, to positive reviews and grossed $72.6 million at the box office.
Cage plays a fictional illegal arms dealer, inspired by the stories of several real-life arms dealers and smugglers.The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the issue of illicit arms trafficking by the international arms industry
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| Running time | 121 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $50 million
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| Box office | $72.6 million
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![Nicolas Cage - Cinema Magazine Cover [Germany] (5 March 2006)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/1/8/18n90a4ksdt50k8t.jpg?skj2io4l)
Yuri Orlov: (pauses,sighs) My family has disowned me... my wife and son have left me... my brother is dead. Trust me, I fully appreciate the seriousness of my situation.
- When Yuri finds Vitaly in the Bolivian boarding house, the shape Vitaly has laid the coke in represents Ukraine, the brothers' country of birth.
- No US studios would back the film. International finances were secured instead.
- In the opening scene of the bullet being manufactured and then traveling along the conveyor and into its box. Just before the box is sealed, the box in front of it has: Odessa, Ukraine, stamped on it. Subsequently, this is where Yuri's family came from before settling in America.
- Weston Cage: Nicolas Cage's son is the young Mi-24 Hind helicopter mechanic Vladimir. In the movie, Cage Sr. speaks to the mechanic in Russian: "Son, get off there before you get hurt."
- When Yuri first enters the lobby of the hotel in Monrovia there are two men in front of the television and making comments about it. They are watching O.J. Simpson's murder trial, which places the action somewhere in October of 1995.
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