Talk:Sahara (2005 film)

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The tone of this article is way too upbeat about how much money it made, I'd be really surprised if the movie had managed to break even, the studio typically only keeps 55% of box office earnings, totalling about $66 million and I doubt they made $64 million on dvd sales and rentals, plus there's also production costs, which are not mentioned. Sapoguapo 20:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Merger 2 Overtones of racism? 3 Solar Energy Plant 4 Famous Places 5 Error's section questions

[edit] Merger

No way to a merger... WestJet

It just wont't fit and the topics in the article about the book are just about the gold mine.... anonyamous —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.10.106.59 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Overtones of racism?

So I just watched Sahara and I'm shocked that no one had any issues with all the white guys shooting and beating the black guys. It wasn't until practically the final scene when one black guy got to poison a white guy. As for the rest of the movie - whitey was ruling. Seriously, I went on imdb and here expecting to see posts of this nature. Perhaps I'm too PC...

The whole subplot with the Confederate ironclad seems to have been added for the film (though I have not read the book). It strikes me as angling for the USA's considerable white-racist audience, while not doing anything so overt that mainstream audiences would be put off. --GwydionM 21:03, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

No the ironclad subplot is not added for the movie, in fact it's much more important in the book, without spoiling it, in the movie it's the reason he goes to Mali to begin with. In the book however, while it is a very important sub-plot, Pitt goes to Mali, and is lost in the desrt long before he is even aware of the confederate ship. In fact he first hears about it in the desert from a crazy old explorer named Clive Cussler (he often makes minor appearances in his books). Magu 07:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Solar Energy Plant

Is the solar energy plant a real facility somewhere? You know like Arecibo Observatory in James Bond's GoldenEye. Some place bad guys use it to do some bad things. But it's pointless to built one only for filming a movie. Also it doesn't look like a CGI product to me. Maybe some CGI effect was used to make it to serve some purpose such as Dirk said, no outgoing transmission lines. Anyway somebody knows if it's a real solar power station of somewhere? --Mato Rei 04:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Famous Places

I believe there are several famous places in this movie needed to be introduced. Great Mosque of Djenné for example is one of those. Also the city of Tuaregs and the ruin city where helicopter chased the Avions Voisin look like some famous places, though I have no idea what they are. Anyone can help? --Mato Rei 04:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error's section questions

Hi all I want to bring up some concerns I have about teh errors section, specifically:

There were ocean-going Ironclad warships from 1859, but these were conventional design. The Texas's sister-ship the CSS Virginia was blown up when Norfolk, Virginia fell to Union forces, not being seaworthy enough to enter the ocean.

I fail to see how this is an "error". Like almost any fictional book it is not intended to be an accurate account of history, but is the above comment at all relative? The ship was never claimed to be ocean worthy in the book. I think ultimately that is why it ends up in Africa instead of it's actual destination. I think Cussler relied on an *anything could happen* approach as he often does and many writers do.

Jefferson Davis did not regard the fall of Richmond as the end of the Confederacy. Had a ship been able to escape with a fortune in gold, he would have sent it to another Confederate port, or possibly to Mexico, an ally while ruled by Emperor Maximilian.

Wether it was perceived as the end of the confederacy or not, the ship was not by any means intending to go to Africa. In the book, it was under orders to go to the Bahamas to rebunker with coal, and then proceed to any neutral port it could get to. If unable, it was to sink using charges that the crew had pre-placed to sink the ship and destroy the archives it carried. The crew lived to make it to Africa, I won't spoil the rest. Magu 08:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

• I have also been thinking about it for a while. Many fictional works alter real things but are based on or inspired by them in the first place. It's like some sort of adaption to the reality. So I think we should find a proper word or words instead of the title of section Errors. What will you call it? If the section is merged with Trivia, I think it could also be a solution. --Mato Rei 04:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)