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'''Hollie Chapman''' (born c.1989 possibly in [[Gaddesby]] in [[Leicestershire]], [[England]]) is an [[English people|English]] [[actress]].<ref name="Aussie TV show break">[http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/Hollie39s-Aussie-TV-show-break.356698.jp ''Hollie's Aussie TV show break'']</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/theatre_and_arts/2003/03/leics_annual_awards_showcase.shtml ''BBC - Leicester Theatre and Arts - Say hooray for local talent'']</ref>
|director = [[Andrew Niccol]]
|writer = [[Andrew Niccol]]
|starring = [[Nicolas Cage]]<br>[[Jared Leto]]<br>[[Ethan Hawke]]<br>[[Bridget Moynahan]]
|producer = [[Nicolas Cage]],<br>[[Chris Roberts]],<br>[[Andreas Grosch]]
|distributor= [[Lions Gate Films]]
|budget = ~ US$42,000,000/pl
|| gross = '''Domestic''': $24,149,632<br>'''Worldwide''': $70,763,303
|released = [[16 September]] [[2005]]
|runtime = 122 mins
|language = [[English language|English]]
|imdb_id = 0399295
|}}
'''''Lord of War''''' is a 2005 [[film]] written and directed by [[Andrew Niccol]] and starring [[Nicolas Cage]]. It was released in the [[United States]] on [[September 16]], [[2005]], with the [[DVD]] following on [[January 17]], [[2006]] and the [[Blu-ray Disc]] on [[July 27]], 2006.


==Career==
Cage plays the [[antihero]]ic protagonist, an illegal arms dealer with a striking similarity to Russian arms dealer [[Viktor Bout|Victor Bout]]. It is also believed that he is based at least partially on billionaire commodities trader [[Marc Rich]]. [[Eamonn Walker]]'s character (André Baptiste Sr.) is believed to be based on former [[List of Presidents of Liberia|President of Liberia]] [[Charles G. Taylor]].


She was trained in acting at the [[Sylvia Young Theatre School]] in [[London]].<ref name="Aussie TV show break"/><ref name="BBC-Alice Speaks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080630233143/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/backstage/alice_speaks.shtml ''BBC - Radio 4 - The Archers - Backstage - Alice Speaks!'']</ref> Around 1996 she appeared as Tessie in a West End production of ''[[Annie (musical)|Annie]]''.<ref name="BBC-Alice Speaks"/><ref name="Compare Aussie TV show break">Compare [http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/Hollie39s-Aussie-TV-show-break.356698.jp ''Hollie's Aussie TV show break'']</ref> She acted also in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' as Maria, in ''Annie'' (village production), the title role, in [[Whistle Down the Wind (1996 musical)|Whistle Down the Wind]] (West End production)<ref name="BBC-Alice Speaks"/> and in ''[[Smike]]''.{{CN}}
==Plot==
*[[Tagline]]s:
:''Where there's a will, there's a weapon.''
:''He Sells Guns... And He's Making A Killing.''
:''The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise.''
{{spoiler}}


She got her first TV role in 2001,{{CN}} in an episode of the UK TV serial ''[[Holby City]]''. In 2002 she played in the [[Five (TV)|Channel 5]] TV serial ''[[Don't Blame Me (TV series)|Don't Blame Me]]'' (or ''Don't Blame the Koalas''), regularly appearing as Gemma King,<ref name="Aussie TV show break"/> a lovable and arrogant English girl who goes with her brother and mother to [[Australia]].{{CN}} This is arguably her greatest work to date. In 2006 she was the voice of the soft puppet Cuddle in ''Softies'', a pre-school TV-series.<ref>[http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/cv.asp?ref=F68132&pub=1&pic=html&tab=3 Natasha Stevenson Management - Hollie Chapman - Voice Over]</ref> ''Softies'' (aired since 2003) is a TV serial with 80 episodes. Each episode has a duration of 5 minutes.<ref>[http://www.handsuppuppets.com/html/Softies.html ''the softies uk tv preschool Series'']</ref> In 2006 she acted in two episodes of ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'', the British television soap opera.{{CN}} and {{CN}}
The movie begins with Yuri Orlov ([[Nicolas Cage]]) matter-of-factly stating, "[t]here are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other eleven?" The opening credits follow the journey of a bullet, from a munitions assembly line in the [[Eastern bloc]], to the head of a small African boy.


In the British radio soap opera ''[[The Archers]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]] she plays Alice Carter (née Aldridge).<ref name="Compare Aussie TV show break" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090218192915/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/radio4/archers/timeline/timeline_2000s.shtml ''BBC - Radio 4 - The Archers Timeline - 2000s'']</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Alice Carter|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/32fHR6CBT7K1zGPV9JNf6ct/alice-carter|website=The Archers|publisher=BBC|accessdate=26 February 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/718086/The-Archers-BBC-Radio-4-Alice-Carter-Brian-Aldridge-Twitter Express. The Archers fans SLAM ‘all filler no killer’ episode for lack of plot]. Retrieved 26 February 2018</ref> In 2011 she played the character also in [[Ambridge Extra]], a spin-off about the radio drama’s younger characters.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8419818/Ambridge-Extra-its-the-teenage-Archers.html The Telegraph. Ambridge Extra: it's the teenage Archers]. Retrieved 26 February 2018</ref>
The rest of the movie is told in flashback, starting in the 1980s and ending in the completion of the opening scene.


== Filmography ==
Through [[voiceover]], Yuri Orlov describes how he first became an [[Arms industry|arms dealer]]. Yuri and his family came to the [[United States|U.S.]] from [[Ukraine|the Ukraine]] when he was a young boy. His family pretends to be Jewish for favorable immigration conditions. His family owns a restaurant, which is useful, "because people are always going to have to eat." After Yuri sees a [[Russian Mafia]] boss kill his two would-be assassins, he decides to provide another necessity: guns.


* ''Holby City'' (2001) (Episode: Forgiveness of Sins) as Ruth Boul
Before beginning his career in earnest, he approaches Simeon Weisz ([[Ian Holm]]), a seasoned arms dealer, at an arms convention with a business proposal. Weisz turns him down, dismissing him as an amateur. He partners up with his brother, Vitaly ([[Jared Leto]]), and begins selling arms. Yuri keeps his multiple identities and paperwork in a security container. It starts small and begins with him selling US [[M-16]] rifles they left behind from the [[1982 Lebanon War]].
* ''Don't Blame Me'' (or Don't Blame the Koalas) (2002) as Gemma King
* ''Softies'' (2006) as Cuddle ([[Voice-over]] only)
* ''Doctors'' (2006) (Episode: Marilyn, Sometimes) as Kirsty Wheeler
* ''Doctors'' (2006) (Episode: Trust) as Kirsty Wheeler


==References==
As he grows, Yuri (through voiceover) tells of his first incident with Jack Valentine ([[Ethan Hawke]]), a dogged [[Interpol]] agent who can't be bought with money. The first encounter in the movie is when Yuri is on the ship ''Kristol'' smuggling a shipment of weapons, including M16s. He gets a call stating that the authorities have been tipped off; Yuri changes the ship name to the ''Kono'' and uses a [[Flag of France|French flag]] turned sideways to seem like a [[Flag of the Netherlands|Dutch flag]], and the first encounter with Jack Valentine smoothly plays out in Yuri's favor.
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During his latest business deal with a [[Colombian]] drug lord, Yuri is paid in cocaine instead of cash. Yuri objects and is shot in the heated exchange. He hastily agrees to the deal and leaves in a taxi with the load of cocaine. Vitaly is unsure of what to do next and asks Yuri what to do. Yuri answers by saying "let's celebrate." They both end up snorting cocaine, but Vitaly becomes addicted, and Yuri takes him to a rehabilitation center. From then on, Yuri conducts the arms business alone. Shortly after this episode, he begins to court Ava Fontaine, a successful model. After booking a fake photo shoot for $20,000 and the entire hotel for $12,000, they marry and later have a son.

His business is still relatively small, but finally Yuri gets his big break when the [[Soviet Union]] [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)#Formation of the CIS and official end of the USSR|dissolves]]. [[Gorbachev]]'s Christmas Day 1991 resignation speech is shown on television; Yuri shows more interest in the TV than in his family. He contacts his uncle, Dimitri, a general of the former Red Army, now left in bureaucratic limbo, as the new Ukrainian government and military are in the infancy of their organization. Taking him onside with his business, Yuri buys Dimitri's tanks and AK-47s to expand his inventory. Meanwhile, Interpol agent Jack Valentine stalks Yuri, nearly catching him when Yuri is loading weaponry, along with an old model [[Mi-24 Hind]] onto a Russian ship bound for [[Burkina Faso]]. Fortunately, Yuri discovers a loophole in the law banning the export of military helicopter: if unarmed and converted to civilian use, their export is not prohibited. The weapons are removed and shipped separately. Valentine growls about the loopholes and vows that they will be closed, but has no choice but to release Yuri.

Shortly after this, Dimitri is assassinated by a car bomb, compliments of Weisz. Yuri moves on to selling arms to the West African dictator of [[Liberia]], André Baptiste (based on [[Charles Taylor]]). Jack Valentine continues his pursuit of Yuri, confident that he will eventually slip up. He doggedly searches the garbage of the Orlov household. After painstakingly reconstructing a dumpster full of Yuri's shredded documents, Valentine discovers that Yuri will soon be making a cargo run to [[Sierra Leone]].

Yuri's cargo plane, an [[Antonov An-12]], is intercepted by an [[Aero L-39|L-39]] jet trainer. Yuri instructs the pilot to land the plane on a dirt road, knowing the fighter will not be able to land there. After landing safely, and having been deserted by the plane's crew, he gives the entire shipment of arms away to passers-by. When Jack Valentine finally arrives, the plane is empty, and there is no evidence of the arms shipment. Jack deliberately keeps Yuri detained for twenty-four hours (the longest detention allowed without charge), before he is forced to release him, because, as he argues, any delay in the arms trade saves lives. Yuri is left unguarded in the wild for 24 hours with handcuffs on. In the meantime, all removable parts of the plane are stripped off by locals.

By now, Yuri has established a very good relationship with André Baptiste, but is horrified when Baptiste captures Weisz as a "present." Baptiste invites Yuri to kill Weisz. When Yuri refuses, Baptiste puts the gun in his hand while slowly pulling the trigger himself. Yuri is invited to say "stop" at any time, but only says it after the shot. Soon after this incident, Yuri sniffs "[[brown-brown]]," a mixture of cocaine and gunpowder, and becomes extremely intoxicated by the mixture. At a point in his delirium, he has sex with an African prostitute, despite the uncomfortably high probability that she is [[HIV]]-positive.

Jack keeps Yuri under surveillance, and reveals to Ava that Yuri is an arms dealer. At first, she does not believe him, but eventually realizes the truth. Ava confronts him about his business; he promises that he will stop. He makes more legal deals to exploit the resources of poor nations, but complains that the margins are low and competition is high. A year later, Baptiste and his son come over and visit Yuri (they are heading to the [[United Nations]]) with another arms deal offer. Yuri initially refuses, but when Baptiste indicates that he will be much more generous than usual, Yuri relents.

He takes Vitaly along to the deal, which turns out to be in [[Sierra Leone]]. However, during the deal, Vitaly becomes distressed: he sees men kill a mother and child in a nearby village of unarmed civilians and tells Yuri that their customers will kill all the villagers right after Yuri sells the weapons. He pleads with Yuri to cancel the shipment. Yuri, who goes by the slogan, "They're not our fight," tries to convince him that someone else will sell the weapons if they don't; he also argues that both of them will be killed if they try to cancel the deal. Vitaly pretends to agree. But in a bold act, he takes two grenades and destroys half of Yuri's shipments and kills Baptiste's son, before the guards then kill him. Yuri takes half of the payment for the remaining half of his shipment. Of the incident, Yuri says that it was true that the village dwellers were massacred after he handed the weapons over, but, "There were half a dozen other massacres that week. They say that 'evil prevails when good men fail to act.' It ought to be 'evil prevails.'"

Yuri ships his brother's remains back to the United States. He pays someone to remove the bullets from Vitaly's body, but one bullet remains, and Yuri is stopped by customs. Meanwhile, while being followed by Jack Valentine, Ava finds Yuri's security container, finally establishing the definitive proof of Yuri's guilt. Ava takes their son and leaves him. When Yuri calls his parents, his mother says, "Both my sons are dead." Valentine tells Yuri that he has a long jail sentence ahead of him, but Yuri abruptly brings him back to reality. In a forward statement, he proclaims that the United States government is a much bigger supplier of arms than him, that some of Orlov's customers are useful to US foreign policy (i.e. "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and that to put him on trial would bring too many embarrassing revelations. He tells Valentine that there will be a knock at the door, and that a high ranking military officer will be standing outside, and that he will order Yuri's release. Valentine realizes this reality and states, "I would tell you to go to hell, but I think you're already there." A few seconds later, there is a knock at the door, and events proceed as Yuri predicted.

A free man again, and without his family and friends, he returns to selling arms. In the closing scene of the film, he is in North Africa and gives two guards a packaging slip for a shipment of umbrellas. "Umbrellas? In the Sahara?" one guard asks incredulously. "Sun umbrellas," Yuri says. The guards lift up the slip &mdash; revealing a plush bribe &mdash; and both guards immediately wave them through. The movie ends by proclaiming that the [[U.S.]], the [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[France]], [[Russia]] and [[China]] (the 5 permanent members of the [[UN Security Council]]) are the world's leading arms dealers, closing with the statement that "This film is based on actual events" as the camera rolls over thousands of empty shell casings covered in mud and blood until they fade away and the credits ensue.

==Rules==
Orlov has four rules in [[gunrunning|Gun Running]].

#Never get shot with your own merchandise.
#Always have a fool-proof way to get paid.
#Never pick up a gun and join your customer.
#Never go to war. Especially with yourself.

==Trivia==
*There is a real [[Yuri Orlov]] who, ironically, is a human rights activist.
*The high-ranking United States military officer who protects Yuri is called "Colonel Oliver Southern", a pun on the name of real-life Col. [[Oliver North]], who was involved in a scheme to fund Nicaraguan [[Contra (guerrillas)|Contras]] via illegal arms sales to [[Iran]] (See also: [[Iran-Contra Affair]]).
*The UK DVD release of Lord of War has, prior to the film, an advert for [[Amnesty International]], showing the [[AK-47]] being sold on a shopping channel of the style popular on cable networks.
* The name ''Kono'', which Yuri paints as the Kristol's new registry, is also the name of a diamond rich province in [[Sierra Leone]].
*In 2004, the United States ranked first in arms transfer agreements with developing nations at $6.9 billion. Russia ranked second at $5.9 billion.
*The four West European suppliers, as a group (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy) registered a significant increase in their collective share of all arms transfer agreements with developing nations between 2003 and 2004. This group’s share rose dramatically from 5.5% in 2003 to 22% in 2004. The collective value of this group’s arms transfer agreements with developing nations in 2004 was $4.8 billion compared with a total of $830 million in 2003.
*In a scene where a bunker is shown with thousands of AK-47's, the director stated that it was cheaper to buy 3000 real AK-47's than 3000 fake ones.
*The plane Yuri flies in to ship arms to Africa was rented from an actual weapons courier that apparently was gun running into the Congo a week before it was hired.
*The fifty tanks shown on the Russian base were sold to [[Libya]] six months after the movie was shot.
*The closing caption states that the [[U.S.]], the [[U.K.]], [[France]], [[Russia]] and [[PR China]] (the 5 permanent members of the [[UN Security Council]]) are the world's top five arms exporters. This is actually inaccurate: China is ranked seventh, behind [[Germany]] and [[Canada]]. (see [[Arms industry#Top Arms Exporters|Top Arms Exporters]])
*The song playing during the film's opening credits is "For what it's worth" performed by 1960's band [[Buffalo Springfield]].

==Weaponry==
===Firearms===
*[[Uzi|Micro Uzi]] machine pistol
*[[Uzi|Mini Uzi]] submachine gun
*[[Uzi]] submachine gun
*[[AR-15]] rifle - displayed as if it were its military cousin - the M-16
*[[M16 rifle|M16A1]] rifle
*[[M16 rifle|M16A2]] rifle
*[[M4 Carbine]]
*[[GLOCK]] pistol
*[[S&W Model 686]] revolver
*[[M60 machine gun]] (known to André Baptiste Jr. as "the gun of [[Rambo]]")
*[[AK-47]] rifle
*[[Heckler & Koch G3|G3A3]] Battle Rifle
*[[Type 56]] rifle
*Custom [[AK-47S]](Yugoslavian) rifle (Gold-plated)
*[[MP5]] submachine gun
*[[MP5K]] shortened submachine gun
*[[RPG-7]] shoulder-launched missile weapon
*[[Beretta 92F/FS]] pistol
*[[Type 67 machine gun]]
*[[Steyr AUG]] rifle
{{listdev}}

===Vehicles===
*[[T-72]] Tank
* [[BMP-1|BMP-2 IFV]]
*Yuri Orlov's [[container ship]]
*[[Fast Attack Craft]] used by the [[Interpol]]
*[[Mil Mi-24]] helicopter
*[[URAL 4320]] Truck
*[[Antonov An-12]] Cargo Aircraft
*[[Aero L-39]] Jet Trainer/Light Attack aircraft
* Yuri's [[Cadillac Fleetwood]] [[Limousine]]
* André Baptiste's [[Citroën DS]]
* André Baptiste Jr.'s 1964 [[Pontiac Bonneville]]
*[[Blackburn Buccaneer]] Strike aircraft
*[[Hawker Hunter]] Fighter aircraft
{{listdev}}

==Cast==
*[[Nicolas Cage]] &ndash; Yuri Orlov
*[[Ethan Hawke]] &ndash; Jack Valentine
*[[Jared Leto]] &ndash; Vitaly Orlov
*[[Eamonn Walker]] &ndash; André Baptiste Sr.
*[[Sammi Rotibi]] &ndash; André Baptiste Jr.
*[[Bridget Moynahan]] &ndash; Ava Fontaine
*[[Ian Holm]] &ndash; Simeon Weisz


==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb name|1282685|Hollie Chapman}}
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-archers/whos-who/characters/alice-carter The Archers - Characters - Alice Carter - Played by Hollie Chapman]
*[http://www.lordofwarthemovie.com/ Official site]
*{{imdb title|id=0399295|title=Lord of War}}
*{{rotten-tomatoes|id=lord_of_war|title=Lord of War}}
*{{mojo title|id=lordofwar|title=Lord of War}}
*[http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5265 ''Lord of War''] at [http://www.moviemistakes.com/ Movie Mistakes]
*[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050915/REVIEWS/509150305/1023 Roger Ebert's review]

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Revision as of 15:28, 26 February 2018

Hollie Chapman (born c.1989 possibly in Gaddesby in Leicestershire, England) is an English actress.[1][2]

Career

She was trained in acting at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.[1][3] Around 1996 she appeared as Tessie in a West End production of Annie.[3][4] She acted also in The Sound of Music as Maria, in Annie (village production), the title role, in Whistle Down the Wind (West End production)[3] and in Smike.[citation needed]

She got her first TV role in 2001,[citation needed] in an episode of the UK TV serial Holby City. In 2002 she played in the Channel 5 TV serial Don't Blame Me (or Don't Blame the Koalas), regularly appearing as Gemma King,[1] a lovable and arrogant English girl who goes with her brother and mother to Australia.[citation needed] This is arguably her greatest work to date. In 2006 she was the voice of the soft puppet Cuddle in Softies, a pre-school TV-series.[5] Softies (aired since 2003) is a TV serial with 80 episodes. Each episode has a duration of 5 minutes.[6] In 2006 she acted in two episodes of Doctors, the British television soap opera.[citation needed] and [citation needed]

In the British radio soap opera The Archers on BBC Radio 4 she plays Alice Carter (née Aldridge).[4][7][8][9] In 2011 she played the character also in Ambridge Extra, a spin-off about the radio drama’s younger characters.[10]

Filmography

  • Holby City (2001) (Episode: Forgiveness of Sins) as Ruth Boul
  • Don't Blame Me (or Don't Blame the Koalas) (2002) as Gemma King
  • Softies (2006) as Cuddle (Voice-over only)
  • Doctors (2006) (Episode: Marilyn, Sometimes) as Kirsty Wheeler
  • Doctors (2006) (Episode: Trust) as Kirsty Wheeler

References

  1. ^ a b c Hollie's Aussie TV show break
  2. ^ BBC - Leicester Theatre and Arts - Say hooray for local talent
  3. ^ a b c BBC - Radio 4 - The Archers - Backstage - Alice Speaks!
  4. ^ a b Compare Hollie's Aussie TV show break
  5. ^ Natasha Stevenson Management - Hollie Chapman - Voice Over
  6. ^ the softies uk tv preschool Series
  7. ^ BBC - Radio 4 - The Archers Timeline - 2000s
  8. ^ "Alice Carter". The Archers. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  9. ^ Express. The Archers fans SLAM ‘all filler no killer’ episode for lack of plot. Retrieved 26 February 2018
  10. ^ The Telegraph. Ambridge Extra: it's the teenage Archers. Retrieved 26 February 2018
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