Black Gold (2011 Qatari film)

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Black Gold (also known as Falcon Day and Or noir ) is an epic war film of Qatar-France-Italy-Tunisia-2011 epic history, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia The Great Thirst and The Arab ). The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, produced by Tarak Ben Ammar and produced by the Doha Film Institute. Tahar Rahim movie stars, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Mark Strong and Riz Ahmed.

The film has a budget of US $ 40 million, making it one of the most expensive movies supported by an Arab about Arabic subjects.

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Plot

At the beginning of the 20th century, Emir Nesib (Antonio Banderas), Sultan Hobeika, and Sultan Amar (Mark Strong) of Salmaah have been in a border war over a wide barren line they call "The Yellow Belt". When Nesib wins he forces Amar to agree on a peace pact: The Yellow Belt will not belong to anyone, become a no man's land between their territories, and Emir Nesib will take the sons of Sultan Amar, Saleh and Auda, as hostages. Amar reluctantly agrees, knowing the hostages is a sacred trust that binds Nesib as well. They both swear by covenant before God. Nesib promised to raise the children of Amar with his own children, Tariq and Leyla.

Saleh, Amar's eldest son, is a free spirit who is interested in the traditional quest of an Arab emir, while Auda is a dedicated nerd. Leyla and Auda became good friends, until they were separated in adolescence. Ten years passed. Auda (Tahar Rahim) is still a bookworm, while Saleh (Akin Gazi) longs to go home and with his father.

Sam Thurkettle (Corey Johnson), a geologist who works for the Western firm "Texan Oil", examines the Yellow Belt and believes there is high-grade crude oil under its shale. He told Nesib that the findings would make him richer than the King of England, and Nesib was more than willing to listen; he must watch, helpless and have no money, because his people suffer from cholera outbreaks and his own wife died because of it. Nesib allowed the Thurkettle company to extract oil from the Yellow Belt - thus violating its peace pact with Sultan Amar.

Money flows in and Nesib begins to modernize his empire with schools, hospitals and electricity. He made his son Tariq a Colonel, appointed Auda as his national librarian, and sent a messenger to Amar to make a deal to extract the oil from the Yellow Belt. But desert tribes attacked one of the oil sites and killed the crew. Their earnings are threatened, Nesib began to encourage the various tribes to accept the extraction of oil, using luxurious gifts and gold as persuasion.

The messenger sent to Amar returned and reported to Nesib: Amar regarded the exploitation of the Yellow Belt as a breach of their covenant. Saleh told Auda that he could convince their father and decide to escape; he killed his bodyguard while running away. He was caught, but Ibn Idris killed him in retaliation for killing the guards, who were Ibn Idris's cousins.

Desperate to maintain oil revenues, Nesib executes a brilliant political maneuver: he marries Auda with his daughter Leyla (Freida Pinto). At one blow he has altered Auda's position from hostage to family member, thereby dissolving the pact with Amar and freeing himself from his religious oath. Auda reluctantly agreed, knowing it was a plan to prevent Amar from attacking Nesib. Nesib decides to send Auda to convince Amar for using a yellow belt. Auda met Amar, who was surprised to learn that Auda had come as a representative of Nesib. Auda learned more about his father during his stay there. Amar told Auda that Nesib offered 5%, then 35% of the income but he refused the offer. Nissib even promised to throw the Amar children as a kind of property value. When Auda tries to explain to him, he says that everything in his house is made of blood or love, but not money and the money has no value. The next day the meeting was held with the Amar allies. They say that by letting foreigners take the oil they let themselves be destroyed, their culture will disappear, while Auda can not manage to argue by saying if god does not intend to use it, he will not give it on their land.

Amar sent a messenger, Hassan Dakhil, to Nesib offering to stop all enmity if Nesib agreed to close the oil well and drive out the stranger. Nesib refused and made a counter offer to Hassan Dakhil. Then Amar received a message from Hassan that seemed to indicate that Hassan had defected to Nesib. After this setback, Amar made a plan to send all his prisoners into the desert with weapons to act as bait, to lure Nesib troops into the desert while Amar took his original army to capture the city of Nesib, Hobeika. He offers bait leadership to Auda. Auda protests, objecting that to send the prisoners to the desert would mean certain death, but in the face of his father's disapproval, he reluctantly agrees and seeks out, accompanied by his half-brother Ali, a doctor, who apparently does not share their father's xenophobic mindset. The plan worked and Nesib sent six armored cars after them. But the heavy cars were trapped in the sand and the Auda people were able to defeat the inhabitants, though not without great loss. The camel carrying the carrier pigeon was killed and the pigeon fled. One of them made it back to Salmaah. The blood on the pigeon along with the absence of a written message made Amar believe that no one survived. When armored cars failed to return, Nesib sent a plane with Tariq on board to reconnoiter. Auda put up another bait, ordered his men to lie down and play dead around the destroyed armored car. When Tariq landed to investigate, Auda's man clustered around him. Tariq made it back to the plane, but Auda's men forced him down. Auda found his body in the subsequent ruins and was overcome with regret at all unnecessary deaths. He collects the remaining prisoners and offers to split the remaining water between them and set him free. The prisoners decided to follow Auda, who took them overboard with the conviction that they would find water there, based on what he heard from a dying camel rider.

The army, now Auda's army, finally arrives at sea but is disappointed to find no fresh water, until Ali finds a spring under the sea. After refilling their water skin, the army moved away and came to the slave tribe of Beni Sirri. Auda led a small group of men to meet the Sheikh Beni Sirri tribe and during the meeting the Sheikh defeated Aicha (Liya Kebede), a slave girl, brutally. The shaykh apparently holds the Zamiri tribe of the slave with a mockery because Zamiri is one of the few tribes that allows women to obtain the same freedom given to men. Auda tries to protest and offers to buy the slave girl in exchange for her mother's ring, which belongs to the same tribe as the slave girl. An argument ensues, and the Sheikh reveals that Nesib has bought Beni Sirri's allegiance and that they intend to kill him in exchange for a reward. The remaining Auda troops launched a surprise attack, besieging and paralyzing Beni Sirri, leaving Auda to bind and embarrass the Beni Sirri tribe leaders and free the slaves. To add insult to injury, Ali frees the sheikh from the gold watch given to him by Nesib at Auda's wedding. With gratitude for freeing the slaves, the other tribes pledged their own resources to Auda. Aicha offers to lead Auda back to her own tribe to ask for their help. However Auda was mistakenly shot by one of the tribes and appeared to have been killed, only to revive in the midst of his own funeral ceremony. Ali realizes that Auda's condition is actually a medical phenomenon known as putativa mors where head trauma induces all the symptoms of death. But the tribes believe that Auda has been revived from the dead by way of the prophet of Islam Muhammad and that he is the leader predicted in Zamiri tribal legend. Ali, despite knowing the true nature of Auda's injury, did nothing to block this idea. The Zamiri tribe now surrounded Auda as their leader. One Nesib aircraft managed to track and open fire. The tribes managed to shoot down the plane, but not before Ali's fatal wound. Auda arranged for her final ceremony as Ali lay dying in his arms. With his last breath Ali made Auda promise to 'cancel the chessboard' that asked him to overthrow Amar and Nessib, thus ending the conflict.

Auda climbed with his troops to the gates of Nessib. Amar arrives and meets Auda, who reveals that he has united all the other tribes and intends to keep the Yellow Belt for them. Amar reveals that Nesib had agreed to Amar's condition and demanded that Auda surrender his troops to Amar. During the discussion, Amar was shot dead by the shaykh of Beni Sirri tribe, who had actually targeted Auda. Auda's army was angry, believing that Nessib had doubled them and tried to kill Auda during the negotiations. Nessib's army commander realized that with Amar's death, nothing could stop Auda from attacking. When it rained, Auda gave up hope for the conversation and led his troops to sweep Nessib's defenses. Although Nessib had superior weaponry, the combined strength of all the tribes in Auda's army controlled them in abundance.

Auda was thrown from his horse by a wild hoe and attacked by Sheikh Beni Sirri. The sheikh easily defeated him in close combat and mocked him, asking if Auda was studying the fence 'in the library'. Just before the sheikh can land a killing blow, Aicha stabs him in the back and rescues Auda. Learning about its development, Nesib releases the throne for the only remaining child, Leyla. Auda, through her marriage to Leyla is now the ruler of both cities. In town, Auda's army found Hassan in the crypt, indicating that he never betrayed Amar, but instead was jailed by Nesib. Auda walked to the library where she found Nesib, who praised her for her achievements and asked what Auda wanted to do. Auda replies that unlike his father, he does not like strangers and that he believes they have many things to offer each other. When asked by Auda about what to do with Nessib, she admits that if she were in Auda's place, she would get her killed, quickly and painlessly. Auda instead chose to send him to Houston to sit on the Board of Directors of an oil company, where he could protect the interests of their people. Auda offers him a backhanded compliment saying that 'he can not think of anyone more cunning' than Nesib to fill the role and that oil companies 'deserve it'. The film ends with Auda having a meeting with several foreigners, possibly representatives of the oil company.

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Reception

Although there is praise for its ambitious scope, values ​​and production acts, the film as a whole is not well received, criticized for being boring and slow, as well as ethnic from its main actors (ie Banderas and Strong). "Referred to as an Arab breakthrough into the international cinema arena, Black Gold has put Mark Strong and Antonio Banderas against each other as emirs of war between traditional and modern temptations, but regardless of their intent Dear Black Gold touched the ground with a great thud, his broken English dialogue squeezed his life practically from the outside, "The Guardian's Andrew Pulver wrote in his analysis.

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Black Gold on IMDb
• Black Gold at Rotten Tomatoes

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