Lone Survivor (2013) on Netflix
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Four Navy SEALs are sent into Afghanistan's mountains to capture Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Found by herders, Marcus Luttrell and his teammates debate whether to kill them or let them go.
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Plot summary
In 2005, Ahmad Shah, a Taliban warlord in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, is blamed for the deaths of Marines and of villagers who aided American forces. A four-man Navy SEAL team is ordered to capture him: Michael Murphy, Marcus Luttrell, Danny Dietz, and Matthew Axelson. Inserted by helicopter overnight, the team moves through the mountains toward Shah's last known position, where the terrain makes radio contact with base difficult. The team identifies Shah, but local villagers discover the SEALs, one of them carrying a walkie-talkie, and the men debate whether the villagers should be freed or killed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lone Survivor (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Peter Berg became the first civilian to embed with a Navy SEAL team, living with them for a month in Iraq while writing the screenplay.
- To keep costs down, director Peter Berg worked for the minimum DGA salary of $17,000 a week and convinced cast and crew to lower their asking prices.
- Beretta paid the production $250,000 to use its guns in the film instead of the Sig Sauer P226 and Kimber 1911s actually used by SEAL teams.
- Marcus Luttrell moved into director Peter Berg's home for a month while Berg wrote the script, serving as a consultant on his eyewitness account.
- The film's first cut ran two and a half hours before editor Colby Parker Jr. trimmed it to two hours by intercutting scenes.
- After the film's success, Taliban militants who obtained bootleg copies threatened Mohammad Gulab by phone, and a device exploded in front of him, which he survived.
