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Spartan is an action-adventure/political thriller written and directed by David Mamet, and released in March 2004. The film's cast includes Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Tia Texada , and Kristen Bell.
Robert Scott (Kilmer) is a coldly-efficient Special Forces operative who trains recruits to serve in various capacities for the government, namely the Secret Service. When Laura Newton (Bell), the Harvard-schooled daughter of a high-ranking government official turns up missing, Scott is drawn into the operation to find her. He is aided on his assignment by two of his trainees, Curtis (Luke) and Jackie Black (Texada). The investigation takes him from Boston into the heart of a white slavery ring operating out of the Middle East, as he navigates through a number of twists, doublecrosses, and tested loyalties along the way.
Mamet, a master of the confidence game, uses the framework of the studio action picture to touch on a few points about the symbiosis between the mass media and the political arena. The end result is not unlike a more sinister examination of themes explored in Mamet's script for Wag the DogWag the Dog (1997) is a film starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Anne Heche about a Washington spin doctor (De Niro) who distracts the electorate from a presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to create a fake war. The sc. He also manages to exude a workman's touch with the film's many scenes of sudden, brutal violenceViolence is a general term to describe behavior, usually deliberate, that causes or intends to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. Violence is often associated with aggression. There are essentially two kinds of violence: random violen, free from the stylized mayhem of many larger-budget studio affairs. As always, the dialogue -- a rhythmic mishmash of profanityProfanity is a word choice or usage which many consider to be offensive. The original meaning of the term was restricted to blasphemy, sacrilege or taking God's name in vain profane speech or swear word , especially expressions such as "God damn it", "go, jargonJargon as distinct from slang, is specialist technical terminology used by those who work in a particular profession. Calling something jargon may have mild pejorative connotations. A more neutral phrase is term of art especially in legal language, the im, and anachronismAn anachronism (from Greek ana back, and chronos time) is an artifact that belongs to another time, a person who seems to be displaced in time (i. who belongs to another age) or something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred. One o -- reveals Mamet's gift for otherworldly, grandiloquent banter.
The title makes allusions to Leonidas ILeonidas was a king of Sparta, the seventeenth of the Agiad line. He was one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta. He succeeded, probably in 489 or 488 BC, his half-brother Cleomenes I, whose daughter Gorgo he married. In 480 he was sent with abo, king of SpartaThis page is about the ancient and modern Greek city of Sparta. For other uses see: Sparta (disambiguation Sparta was an ancient city in Greece, the capital of Laconia and the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. The city lay at the northern end of th, who, when a neighbor state needed militaryMilitary (from latin militarius miles "soldier") as an adjective describes anything related to soldiers and warfare. Used as a noun, it is equivalent to Armed force. See also Armed force Martial art Militaria Military history Military rule Military by cou aid, would send one man. As Scott puts it, "One riot, one ranger."
Of note:
The film's Dubai settings were actually filmed in Los Angeles.
Eric Haney, a career Army officer and member of Delta Force, was a technical advisor on the film.
