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Actors: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Jake Busey, Scott Caan
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Enemy of the State |
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ENEMY OF THE STATE is a Jerry Bruckheimer production directed by Tony Scott in 1998.
Robert Clayton Dean is a lawyer working in Baltimore. One day, he meets one of his old university friends -Zavitz- who manages to put into Clayton's bag, without his noticing, a disk. Zavitz leaves in a hurry and dies a few
minutes later run over by a bus.
The disk Zavitz was in possession of contains the film of the murder of a Senator by hitmen of a NSA subgroup working for Jon Voight. Voight badly wants an amendment allowing the use of satellites for the surveillance of
people to be voted in the Senate. That's the reason he ordered the murder of the Senator who didn't want to play by Voight's rules.
Now Clayton is under satellite surveillance 24 hours a day as Voight has understood that he has the disk. A few hours later, Clayton has lost his job and his wife and he hasn't any money left as his credit cards have been blocked. In the company of Gene Hackman, a former NSA
employee who tells Clayton what is really going on, he'll try to fight back with the same weapons used against him.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Enemy of the State |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- computer/high tech focus
The terrorist enemy is...
- evil subgroup in govt
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- very short/crewcut (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 8 (a significant amount)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- run over
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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