MICHAEL MANN TEXAS KILLING FIELDS

THE KINGDOM BLACKHAT

TEXAS KILLING FIELDSPlot: Homicide detectives Mike (Sam Worthington) and Brian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) investigate the murder of a girl and the disappearance of a young woman. Meanwhile, Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz), a neglected local girl whose mother Lucie (Sheryl Lee) is a drug addict, goes missing.

Main Characters: Sam Worthington as Detective Mike Souder, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Detective Brian Heigh, Jessica Chastain as Detective Pam Stall and Chloë Grace Moretz as Little Anne Sliger

• SETTING: A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS

• MUSIC: LOOK ON DOWN FROM THE BRIDGE WRITTEN BY DAVID ROBACK AND HOPE SANDOVAL, GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME WRITTEN BY DAVID A. TERRY, CHRISTOPHER COOKE, KIMBERLY TERRY, ALAN TERRY, PURE BRED AND COUNTRY FED WRITTEN BY MARK HAM, KISS YOUR EYES COMPOSED BY PATRICK FERRIS, WHEN THE BLAZE IS BLUE COMPOSED BY PATRICK FERRIS, TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.

THE KINGDOM• PLOT: AFTER A TERRORIST ATTACK ON AN AMERICAN

HOUSING COMPOUND IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, WHERE FAMILIES AND FBI AGENT FRANCIS MANNER ARE MURDERED, FBI AGENT RONALD FLEURY BLACKMAILS THE SAUDI ARABIAN CONSUL TO GET FIVE DAYS OF INVESTIGATION IN THE LOCATION. HE TRAVELS WITH AGENT GRANT SYKES, JANET MAYES AND ADAM LEAVITT TO AVENGE THEIR FRIEND AND TRY TO FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOMBING. THE AGENTS FIND ALL SORTS OF DIFFICULTIES IN THEIR INVESTIGATION, BUT THEY ARE SUPPORTED BY COLONEL FARIS AL GHAZI THAT ADVISES THE TEAM HOW TO ACT IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT.

• SETTING: RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

• MUSIC: THE KINGDOM (TITLES), THE KINGDOM: WAITING, ATTACK ON THE COMPOUND, THE DETONATOR, THE KILLING ROOM / TROUBLE COMING, TO THE PRINCE'S, DIGGING DEEP, STARTING TO CLICK / SAVING LEAVITT, FRIENDSHIP, THE CHASE, THE SALES PITCH, THE MARBLE

• MAIN CHARACTERS: JAMIE FOXX AS SPECIAL AGENT RONALD FLEURY, TEAM LEADER, CHRIS COOPER AS SPECIAL AGENT GRANT SYKES, BOMB TECHNICIAN, JENNIFER GARNER AS SPECIAL AGENT JANET MAYES, FORENSIC EXAMINER, JASON BATEMAN AS SPECIAL AGENT ADAM LEAVITT, INTELLIGENCE ANALYST.

BLACKHAT• PLOT: NICK HATHAWAY, AN EXTREMELY TALENTED HACKER WHO HAS

GONE ASTRAY, FINDS HIS WAY OUT OF A 15 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE WHEN PARTS OF A COMPUTER CODE HE ONCE WROTE DURING HIS YOUTH APPEARS IN A MALWARE THAT TRIGGERED A TERRORIST ATTACK IN A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN CHINA. THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL REUNITE HIM WITH AN OLD FRIEND BUT WILL ALSO PUT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF A POWER GAME BETWEEN THE AMERICAN AND CHINESE GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS AN ARCH VILLAIN HACKER WHOSE IDENTITY HE HAS TO FIND IF HE WANTS TO KEEP HIS FREEDOM AND HIS LIFE.

• MAIN CHARACTERS: CHRIS HEMSWORTH AS NICHOLAS HATHAWAY, A CONVICTED COMPUTER HACKER, LEEHOM WANG AS CAPTAIN CHEN DAWAI, VIOLA DAVIS AS FBI SPECIAL AGENT CAROL BARRETT, RITCHIE COSTER AS KASSAR

• SETTING: CHAI WAN, HONG KONG• MUSIC: SNAKE CHARMER WRITTEN AND

PERFORMED BY EAGLE EYE WILLIAMSON, THE CHINKWRITTEN BY ANTHONY WEN, KENJI LIN, GUAI MENG WRITTEN BY C. YEHAIYAHAN, J. VAN OLFFEN, PELIGROSO WRITTEN BY DANIEL INDART, DANNY OSUNA, SARA TRAINA, LUIS RANGEL, DARKNESS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY RYAN AMON ETC.

MICHAEL MANN• HIS FILMS OFTEN INVOLVE A TRAGIC RATHER THAN A HAPPY ENDING• MANN'S FILMS OFTEN FEATURE MALE PROTAGONISTS, USUALLY HIGHLY

GIFTED AND INDEPENDENT-MINDED PROFESSIONALS WHO STRUGGLE TO RECONCILE THEIR MENTAL LIVES, SUCH AS CHRIS HEMSWORTH WHO IS THE MAIN CHARACTER AND A HACKER IN ‘BLACKHAT’

• MANN'S FILMS CONTAIN FAST-PACED, ARTFUL SCENES THAT STRONGLY DEPEND ON POWERFUL MUSIC, WHERE OFTEN TWO OPPOSING SIDES INTERMIX FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE FILM, ‘THE KINGDOM’, THERE WAS FAST PACING MUSIC WHEN THE FBI GET INVOLVED AND A FIGHT BREAKS OUT

• OFTEN IT IS HARD TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN OPPOSING SIDES FOR EXAMPLE, POLICE VS. CRIMINALS IN THE FILM, ‘TEXAS KILLING FIELDS’, WHERE THE ACTIONS, DRESS, AND MANNERISMS OF THE CHARACTERS ARE EXTREMELY SIMILAR