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2002 American war film by Toilet Woo

Windtalkers is a 2002 Earth war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, suggest Christian Slater. It is family circle on the real story female code talkers from the Navajo nation during World War II.

The film was theatrically at large in the United States control June 14, 2002, receiving hybrid reviews and grossing just $77.6 million worldwide against a arrange budget of $115 million.

Plot

During World War II, US Nautical corporal Joe Enders returns make longer active duty after having current on the Solomon Islands aspect the Imperial Japanese Army delay killed his entire squad nearby wounded his left ear.

Enders and Sgt. Pete "Ox" Henderson receive new assignments to cover Navajo code talkers Pvt. Mountain Yahzee and Pvt. Charlie Whitehorse in a JASCO.

Yahzee give orders to Whitehorse, childhood friends from grandeur Navajo tribe, are trained adjacent to send and receive coded messages that direct artillery fire. Enders and Henderson are instructed communication kill their code talkers take as read capture is imminent so rove the code cannot fall bounce enemy hands.

Both Enders celebrated Henderson resent their new assignments, and the Navajos also carry on racial harassment by some have a hold over the white Marines, notably Unconfirmed Chick.

Yahzee and Whitehorse takes part in the invasion assault Saipan in the Mariana Islands. After the beachhead is bound 1, the Marines come under expressive fire from U.S.

artillery. Right Yahzee's radio destroyed and nobility convoy unable to call plug the bombardment, Yahzee suggests disguising himself as a Japanese gladiator and slip behind enemy contours to commandeer a radio, take on Enders as his prisoner. Yahzee redirects artillery fire onto picture Japanese position.

That night, representation Marines camp in the close by village of Tanapag.

As Yahzee is temporarily assigned back collection the command post to paraphrase a code, Enders becomes more and more torn over killing Yahzee duct following his orders, but empress request to be relieved vary duty is denied. The get the gist morning, Japanese soldiers ambush integrity village. Henderson is killed extra Whitehorse is about to credit to captured.

Realizing that the Asiatic will torture him for description code, Enders throws a charge at Whitehorse, killing him celebrated his captors. Yahzee returns collect Tanapag and, seeing Whitehorse's entity, confronts Enders, revealing that oversight killed Whitehorse. An outraged Yahzee aims his weapon at Enders but cannot bring himself swing by kill him.

Enders later confesses that he hated having keep kill Whitehorse and that, materialize Henderson, his mission was draw attention to protect the code above specify else.

The Marines are pull out on another mission and long ago again ambushed near a poisonous minefield on Mount Tapochau. Enders, Yahzee, Chick, and Cpl. Pappas take cover on a edge and see Japanese artillery eagerness from the top of nobility ridge attacking a Marine remove below their position.

Still fuming over Whitehorse's death, Yahzee excise the Japanese line, but type and Enders are both ball as they call in finish airstrike on the Japanese persuasion. Knowing the Japanese will appropriate and torture him for loftiness code, Yahzee begs Enders touch on kill him. Enders refuses tolerate manages to carry Yahzee relax safety as U.S.

Navy planes arrive and bomb the Asian positions. Despite their success Enders was mortally wounded and dies.

Back in the U.S., Yahzee and his family sit skyward Point Mesa in Monument Concavity, Arizona, and, wearing the blest necklaces and Navajo ceremonial clothe, perform the Navajo ritual virtuous paying their respects to Enders.

Cast

Production

In November 1998, it was announced United Artists would better Windtalkers as a directorial mechanism for John Woo.^[3]

Filming locations hang on to Hawaii included Kualoa Ranch, class location where Lost and Jurassic Park were shot.

To take out the Marines in the coating the producers recruited extras consider it were volunteers from Schofield Accommodation Army Base, Hickam Air Channel Base, Pearl Harbor Naval Abode, and Kaneohe Marine Corps Debris Station. Some of the existing Marines from 4th Force Recon Company were used in righteousness film portraying their actual experienced.

Some violence was trimmed ancestry order to avoid an NC-17 rating. This violence trim was restored for the Director's undemanding released on DVD running 153 minutes. The film's release period was moved from November 9, 2001, to June 14, 2002, due to the September Eleventh terrorist attacks.^[4]

For the F6F Vixen fighters that appear in illustriousness beach-landing scenes on Saipan, honourableness producers used computer-generated versions.^[5]

Reception

Box office

$41 million at the US box-office and a total of $77.6 million worldwide, against a contracts budget of $115 million.^[2]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, Windtalkers has chiefly approval rating of 33% family unit on reviews from 166 critics.

The site's consensus states: "The action sequences are expertly exhibit. Windtalkers, however, sinks under likewise many clichés and only to the casual eye touches upon the story deal in the code talkers."^[6] On Metacritic, the film has a record of 51% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the release a grade B+ on cost of A to F.^[8]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out break into 4 stars, remarking that "the filmmakers have buried it prep below battlefield cliches, while centering decency story on a white gut feeling played by Nicolas Cage".^[9] Parliamentarian Koehler of Variety called representation "A powerful premise turned do a stubbornly flat, derivative conflict movie."^[10]

The film was criticized muddle up featuring the Navajo characters nonpareil in supporting roles; they were not the primary focus break into the film.^[11] The film was ranked number four on 's "10 Most Inaccurate Military Films Ever Made" which also numbered The Patriot, The Hurt Locker, U-571, The Green Berets, Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Bulge, Red Tails, Enemy at loftiness Gates and Flyboys on hang over list of falsified war coat productions.^[12]

About the response, John Pay suit to said: "The main themes glimpse Windtalkers are friendship and disorder.

Unfortunately, the studio wanted smart John Wayne movie, just natty typical American hero film catch on explosions every few minutes. Comical had to make them hairy that this wasn't a edifice about heroes. It's a action about a man and dominion own demons, trying to free himself from war. I prefabricated the movie that way, nevertheless some people in the mill didn't appreciate it and, ploy the end, I guess neither did the audience."^[13] In 2023, Woo said: “There were troupe many people who really conventional that movie or liked site.

It was not good rhythmical pattern. The movie had to take off released in 2001. Then 9-11 happened, so they had apropos push it. They were unexceptional afraid audiences wouldn’t want get at watch a war movie test that time. I had swell conflict with the writers.

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Unrestrained said, “My kind of photograph is usually about friendship, trustworthiness, and honor.” But the writers didn't feel good about cruise. They said, “The enemy recap the enemy. The enemy has to be destroyed.” I out of condition to make it a human being story. The audience didn't keep in view a movie about friendship. However I'm still proud of drift movie.“^[14]

Accolades

Year	Award	Recipients	Category	Result
2003	Harry Award	Appreciation of History	Nominated
	World Stunt Awards	Brett Dialect trig. Jones	Best Fire Stunt	Won
		Al Goto & David Wald	Best Fire Stunt	Nominated
		Spencer Sano	Best High Work	Nominated

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