Taglines: America Has The Last Word.
During World War II when the Americans needed to find a secure method of communicating they devised a code using the Navajo language. So Navajos were recruited to become what they call code talkers. They would be assigned to a unit and would communicate with other units using the code so that even though the enemy could listen they couldn’t understand what they were saying.
And to insure that the code is protected men are assigned to protect it at all costs. One of these men is Joe Enders, a man who sustained an injury that can make him unfit for duty but he manages to avoid it and is told of his duty and that the man he is suppose to protect is Ben Yahzee. Initially there is tension but the two men learn to get along.
Windtalkers is a 2002 American war film directed and produced by John Woo, and starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Frances O’Connor, Martin Henderson, Mark Ruffalo and Kevin Cooney. The film was released in the United States on June 14, 2002.
Filming locations on Hawaii included Kualoa Ranch, the location where Lost and Jurassic Park were shot. To portray the Marines in the film the producers recruited extras that were volunteers from Schofield Barracks Army Base, Hickam Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor Naval Station, and Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station.
Some of the actual Marines from 4th Force Recon Company were used in the film portraying their actual job. Some violence was trimmed in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. This violence trim was restored for the Director’s cut released on DVD running 134 minutes.
For the F6F Hellcat fighters that appear in the beach-landing scenes on Saipan, the producers used computer-generated versions. The film was a box office bomb, grossing only just under $41 million at the US box-office and a combined $77.6 million worldwide.
Windtalkers (2002)
Oirected by: John Woo
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Frances O’Connor, Martin Henderson, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Cooney
Screenplay by: John Rice, Joe Batteer
Production Design by: Holger Gross
Cinematography by: Holger Gross
Film Editing by: Jeff Gullo, Steven Kemper, Tom Rolf
Set Decoration by: Richard C. Goddard
Art Direction by: Kevin Ishioka
MMakeup Department: Frederico Cervantes, Janis Clark
Music by: James Horner
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive graphic war violence, and for language.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: June 14, 2002
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