Word: bowman
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...Proof of Life is that it makes the problems of three show people seem less important than the drama of three compelling characters on a big movie screen. Inspired by a Vanity Fair article about a U.S. businessman kidnapped in Colombia, Tony Gilroy's script imagines that engineer Peter Bowman (the excellent David Morse) is seized by terrorist rebels, taken to an Andean prison aerie and held for a $3 million ransom. His wife Alice (Ryan) finds that Peter's company will not pay for the services of Terry Thorne (Crowe), an expert negotiator; she must hope Terry takes...
Midway through Proof of Life, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), an elite hostage negotiator, gets on the radio and begins the long, exhaustive game of cat and mouse that will decide the fate of Peter Bowman (David Morse), an American engineer in the hands of South American radicals. The voice on the other end demands an exorbitant sum of money. Thorne calmly refuses, offering a much lower amount, and the dialogue abrutply ends with the chilling threat that Bowman is as good as dead. As the surrounding family members freak out, Thorne brushes them off, saying "You'll get used...
...political turmoil is more acute than ever-thus negotiators with the steel-edged nerves needed to manipulate the most delicate of situations have become a critical necessity (not surprisingly, an extensive article on the subject served as the basis for the screenplay). In a sequence of terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build a dam on the outskirts of Tescala, is merely driving to work when he encounters a barricade and is randomly snatched by men in ski-masks, who hustle him off into the mountains. Thorne, representative of the London-based K & R (Kidnap and Ransom), is brought...
...virtually unmatched and his screen presence here is utterly commanding. But in the end, the greatest accomplishment may belong to Morse, the veteran character actor and former St. Elsewhere stalwart, who takes a potentially thankless role and goes through a De Niroesque transformation to lend the character of Bowman atragic eloquence...
...determined and believe deeply in their convictions. In Chocolat, Caroline attempts to stand between her libertine mother Armande (Judi Dench) and her own son Luc (Aurelien Parent-Koenig), wishing to prevent their reunion, until Vianne foils her plan. Along with Chocolat, Moss can currently be seen as Commander Kate Bowman in Red Planet as well as Natalie in Memento. She has also committed the next two years to shooting two Matrix sequels, for which she will begin training shortly...