Man Down Repelling from a hovering Black Hawk helicopter, racing through the streets of a foreign city, bullets whizzing past your ears, bombs exploding all around you, debris they fly in all directions and you have a job to do. In Black Hawk Down, director Ridley Scott mixes a wide variety of camera movements, angles, film speed, tone and music to immerse audiences in the thick of the fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia. Scott puts the viewer in the shoes of members of Delta Force, ARMY Rangers and many other military positions allowing you to experience the nightmare these soldiers are going through. William Arnold said: "Black Hawk Down is a fantastic 'journey' film that - like Private Ryan - drops us right into the middle of a harrowing combat situation, and forces us to 'experience' it for ourselves, as if we were one of the rattling participants" (para. 11). In the opening scene, "The Start", composer Hans Zimmer uses an ethnic musical style that relates to the African setting and causes a sense of unease in the audience. The feeling of unease is taken a step further with the blue color tone which creates a dark and depressing atmosphere. The camera pans to a man mourning a lifeless body, then fades to a black screen, allowing the audience to realize the gravity of the situation. The camera's limited focus on the many starving people shows how Mohamed Farrah Aidid is influencing the population of Mogadishu, thus eliciting greater sympathy from the viewer. The off-screen sound of a helicopter means that the US military has arrived to help capture Aidid and restore peace to Somalia. Once the helicopter appears on the screen, the pace of the music increases and becomes similar to that of James Bond... center of the card... Works CitedArnold, William. "The gripping 'Black Hawk Down' avoids war clichés, but loses its characters in the crossfire." January 18, 2002. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCE. .Black Hawk Down. Dir. Ridley Scoot. Revolution Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001."Black Hawk Down." Newsweek December 24, 2001: p42, 1/3 p.Chabot, George. “Black Hawk Down: No One Gets Left Behind.” Epinions.com. January 19, 2002. .Coatney, Lou. "Black Hawk Down." American Historical Review October 2002: 1338.Doherty, Tom. “New War Films as Moral Rearmament: Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers.” Cineaste Summer 2002: p4, 5p, 9bw. Premier Academic Research EBSCOhost. Mississippi College Lib., Clinton, MS. February 24, 2006 .Matray, James I. "Black Hawk Down." Journal of American History 89.3 (2002) : 1176 - 1177.