Talk:Rendition (film)

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I'm tempted to change "unorthodox interrogation" to torture. Any objections?

--Mr link 00:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You say torture, I say awesomeness, S&M people might disagree.

149.169.100.230 23:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just watched this and I'm pretty sure the film is not explicitly identified as being set in Morocco or indeed any specific country (although it is strongly hinted at by the boat to Malaga at the end), so I have removed that from the plot summary. (It was filmed there, however.) Barnabypage (talk) 20:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the country in question was specifically referred to as Egypt at some point. I did notice, though, that someone had believed that it was set in South Africa. For anyone else who shares their belief, the country that it is set in is clearly a country with Arabic as a main language. South Africa's main languages (although it has many official ones) include Zulu, Xhosa, Northern and Southern Sotho, English and Afrikaans, but not Arabic. Grieferhate (talk) 09:50, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Grieferhate, I think you are confusing parts of the movie. The opening shot is of Table Mountain in Cape Town. That's where the detainee's conference was and where he left for DC by plane from. The bombing and interrogation took place in an arabic african country, which I agree, Barnabypage, was probably Morocco. Egypt is where the detainee was born. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.251.110 (talk) 23:48, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisia

Within the cable that Jake sends to the US about the list of names, it is clearly stated that they are in

thewolfchild 16:40, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply

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Headlines

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• Oscar Winner Gavin Hood on Rendition
• Rendition Interviews
• Talking Politics With the Stars and Creators of 'Rendition' at TIFF
• Witherspoon, Gyllenhaal promote new thriller 'Rendition' at Toronto festival
• "Rendition" brings torture to Toronto festival
• Arar case on Rendition director's mind
• Cast of Rendition Interview
• Jake Gyllenhaal's Rendition Of Timing
• Director talks global politics
• Gavin Hood on Rendition

2

• Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Director Gavin Hood Discuss Rendition
• A tortured debate about 'Rendition'
• Director looking to spark debate with "Rendition"
• 'Rendition' is art as outrage
• Gyllenhaal: 'Rendition' shows torture is wrong
• INT: Gavin Hood
• Rosie Malek-Yonan in Rendition
• Close to home

Headlines. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The link provided should actually be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_%28verb%29 . Agreed? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 07:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The use of a

is a technique both used in terrorism, and in conventional industries. On some mass transit vehicles the driver depresses a pedal or lever, which releases the brake. If the driver falls asleep, or has a stroke, or is otherwise incapacitated, the brake is automatically re-engaged. The re-engagement if the driver drops dead is the provenance of the name "dead man's switch".

I just watched this film, prior to reading this article. Currently the article says:

Fatima begs him not to do it, arguing that the target is her father. After removing the pin of his detonator he hesitates, and is therefore killed by the organizers of the attack.

I didn't see the bomber remove a pin. I saw him holding a dead man's switch.

I am going to wait a reasonable amount of time, and if this passage hasn't been rewritten I will rewrite it myself. Geo Swan (talk) 18:41, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think Lee Mayers was the name of the agent, played by J.K. Simmons, who was killed at the beginning of the movie. Grieferhate (talk) 10:10, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It won't play in a lot of the players and none of the computers I own. It seems to be region 1 on this disc so that's not the issue. Not sure why it's broke, but looking at it in Windows Explorer shows a 736MB VTS_01_0.BUP (should be 26KB since VTS_01_0.IFO is), and I guess the players are choking because they try to read the entire file. In fact, the BackUP files are all different sizes than the IFO files - What a broken mess! Thinking of calling the company up and asking for a fixed version.  :/ Anyone have any references to what they did, and is this notable for the article? At the least, a link to an article on the copy protection method in the bottom? 67.190.106.206 (talk) 21:31, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]