UNKIND CUT.Byline: - Glenn Whipp Ed Zwick's ``Blood Diamond'' is making headlines well before its December opening. In fact, well before it started shooting, says star Djimon Hounsou Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated Beninoise actor, dancer and fashion model. Biography Early life Hounsou (pronounced / . ``We knew the diamond business would be backpedaling, justifying their own existence before knowing what our story is about,'' Hounsou says. ``They are nervous about our movie.'' Nervous enough that the World Diamond Council has supposedly earmarked as much as $15 million for a worldwide marketing campaign to refute the charges made in Zwick's film. ``Blood Diamond'' follows the travails of a mercenary mercenary Hired professional soldier who fights for any state or nation without regard to political principles. From the earliest days of organized warfare, governments supplemented their military forces with mercenaries. (Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ) and a tribal fisherman (Hounsou) who confront the diamond cartels that go to great lengths -- kidnapping, terror, enslavement en·slave tr.v. en·slaved, en·slav·ing, en·slaves To make into or as if into a slave. en·slave  ment n. --
to scare people into working the mines.
``The western companies trading diamonds with Africa, you can't help but say, `Where is the benefit to Africa?' '' Hounsou says. ``How can countries with so much wealth be so deprived? Please give me a justifiable answer.'' The action-adventure movie is set in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone (sēĕr`ə lēō`nē, lēōn`; sēr`ə lēōn), officially Republic of Sierra Leone, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,018,000), 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km), W Africa. in the 1990s against the backdrop of civil war and chaos. It's Hounsou's second movie with a connection to the African country, following Steven Spielberg's 1997 slave-ship mutiny mutiny, concerted disobedient or seditious action by persons in military or naval service, or by sailors on commercial vessels. Mutiny may range from a combined refusal to obey orders to active revolt or going over to the enemy on the part of two or more persons. story ``Amistad.'' The Diamond Council has already taken out newspaper ads, saying that the brutality portrayed in the movie is a thing of the past. The trade group points to the Kimberly Council, a 3-year-old, United Nations-backed certification system designed to keep so-called blood diamonds off the market. Hounsou isn't convinced by the rhetoric. ``These terrible things are still going on in some places,'' the actor says. ``Security councils don't enforce rules. It's the same story all over Africa. Hopefully people will think about these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. when they see the movie.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ``BLOOD DIAMOND'' Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou Dec. 8 |
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