“The two sides aim their guns at each other, while the aim of the mediator is to push them down and get them to meet,” says Anthony Weintraub, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Paul Weitz.Īt this point, something more than the usual “full disclosure” probably is in order. More than that, humanity is the stuff that negotiators work with-sometimes all they have to go on when dealing with people whose basic reflex is to kill. “He is a very human character,” Minnig said. Much about the character in the movie reminded him of his own experiences: the high tension the long waits the many frustrations. “Yeah! Yeah, that was good!” he said after we’d both gone to the screening. As one of its people noted, “the ICRC doesn’t like to see itself associated with vulgarity,” and one should be sure to say the movie dialogue is “attributed to a character in the film adaptation of a work of fiction.”īut retired ICRC negotiator Michel Minnig, on whom the character is loosely based, just loves it. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which is identified as the negotiator’s employer (and indeed was a sponsor of the film’s premiere in New York last week), is not crazy about this scene.
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