Elephant White (film)
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Elephant White is a 2011 action-thriller film starring Djimon Hounsou
and Kevin Bacon
. Filming took place in Bangkok
, Thailand
.
when 14-year-old child prostitute
, Mae, witnesses Church kill a group her captor Chang Cao gang members and frame the Jong Ang Gang. Church sees her, but decides to flee the scene. Word reaches Chang Cao Gang advisor, Bhun, that the Jong Ang have broken the truce. However, it seems suspicious that a bomb was used as that is unlike the Jong Ang.
Church collects his payment for the job from his client, Rajahdon, whose daughter was murdered. Church then goes to a club which Jimmy the Brit (Bacon) is visiting, however upon seeing Church, Jimmy flees the premises thinking he is there to kill him. Church eventually catches Jimmy and explains that he was not the target, and he just wanted to buy some weapons. They drive to Jimmy's warehouse where Church purchases a sniper rifle
.
Church travels to his hideout near a monastery
and within sight of Kitty Kat, a Jong Ang Gang club. While Church is eating, Mae arrives. After interrogating her, he ties her up and gags her. The next day Mae is suffering from drug withdrawal, but Church won't let her leave. That night the Chang Cao attack Kitty Kat, and Church fires at them from his lookout. The attack is repulsed the survivors tell Boss Katha there were snipers, which again is unlike the Jong Ang.
In the morning Church forces Mae to help him find her former owners (Chang Cao Gang) by threatening to kill the monks. Mae takes him to a landfill
, where she reveals she joined a church mission because her father sold her to them. She then takes him to a building with many Chang Cao gang members. Church returns to his client who wants to break the contract, but Church says the agreement was for all the gang members that killed his daughter.
Back at Kitty Kat, Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun have brought the Jong Ang a white elephant
as a peace offering. On the way back, Katha tells Bhun he did a good job making the truce, and that his decision for his successor is torn between Bhun and his son.
Church revisits Jimmy to buy another gun. However, Jimmy says the Chang Cao Gang, which Church has been killing, allows him to operate his business and doesn't want to anger them. Church insists and they drive to another hidden weapon cache, where he buys a much more powerful anti-material rifle (AM). Jimmy is convinced Church's new mission is suicide. Church breaks Jimmy's nose to make it appear as a robbery.
Church makes his way to a rooftop in view of the Chang Cao Gang building Mae showed him. After opening fire, he sees that Mae is inside. He is then shot by a sniper, returns fire, but the gun jams. After being shot again, he abandons his gun and hides in an alley as gang members rush by. To make his escape, he hijacks one of the gang's trucks and retreats under a hail of gunfire into oncoming traffic. After stopping he opens the back of the truck to find Mae and several wounded girls. Offering them freedom, most want to go back, thinking they will be found and killed for escaping.
Badly wounded Church leaves in a taxi with Mae, who says she was at the building because she was telling the gang if they stopped what they were doing, Church would stop killing them. The driver keeps glancing back at Church during the conversation and tells Church he is crazy. Mae leads Church back to the monastery where the monks bandage his wounds and draw symbols on his body.
Advisor Bhun and Boss Katha are mad at the failure to kill Church and inspect the gun he left behind. Bhun takes it to Jimmy who lies about it being stolen by an imaginary robber. Bhun doesn't believe him and orders his men to watch Jimmy.
Church has strange dreams of Mae, then awakes in the monastery. He leaves immediately and kills the snipers watching Jimmy's club, taking one of their cellphones. Church wants to buy another gun, but Jimmy refuses. Church answers the gang member's cellphone asks Jimmy if he wants to talk to Boss Katha. Jimmy impersonates a Thai weapons dealer to avoid being connected to Church. Church finally threatens Jimmy at gunpoint and they return to the warehouse, where Church buys a shotgun.
Church arranges a meeting with Rajahdon, but hides outside until Rajahdon leaves. Church follows him back to a brothel
and pays for a room. After entering the room, he asks the girl if Rajahdon is the boss and where he is. She tells him the boss is upstairs, but then raises the alarm. Church kills all the guards on the way to the boss, Rajahdon. Church confronts him for lying about an imaginary daughter, but he says he'll double the payment if Church kills Advisor Bhun.
Jimmy is tortured into giving up who Church is, but tells Advisor Bhun that Church will kill them all. Church goes to the forest outside the gang's headquarters, and sees a ghostly Mae through his rifle scope. Wind and leaves paint the symbols back on him the monks had drawn. He then fights his way to compound, killing all the guards, first using his sniper rifle then switching to a handgun and knife. He then leaps through the bushes and slits Advisor Bhun's neck. He sees Mae riding a white elephant toward him and wakes up at his hideout. He tells Mae his business is finished in Bangkok.
Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun discuss how to find Church when Rajahdon walks in, and Katha calls him his son. Rajahdon says he will take care of Church himself. Church calls Jimmy to tell him he's leaving, but wants Jimmy to take care of Mae. Jimmy tells Rajahdon that Church is leaving, but Rajahdon still wants to kill Church to assure his position as successor to Boss Katha.
Church returns to his hideout and and gives Mae a white dress, thanking her for all her help. He makes her promise to wait there for Jimmy. While Church is waiting for his flight at the airport, Jimmy calls and tells him that no one was at his hideout. Rajahdon hears the conversation and sends his men to the airport, however Church is already leaving to find Mae and sees them first. He steals one of their parked cars and drives to the monastery to find many of the monks killed. He enters the hideout and sees the white dress left behind.
Church drives to the gang headquarters and crashes through the wall into the room where Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun are. Church holds Katha hostage while Jimmy and Rajahdon arrive. Church begins to tell Katha about the bounty Rajahdon placed on Bhun, so Rajahdon tries to shoot him, but Jimmy kills Rajahdon first. The guards then shoot Jimmy. Church takes a picture of Mae off the wall and Katha says she was the first girl he brought in. Bhun says that was thirty years ago. Church is confused, but agrees to a deal for all of Katha's girls. Jimmy and Church leave with the girls, but Church tells Jimmy he has to go back. Jimmy says he will make sure the girls get help.
, which was also made by Nu Image/Millenium Films the previous year.
Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Diaw Hounsou is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.-Early life:Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He emigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond....
and Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
. Filming took place in Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
.
Plot
American mercenary Curtie Church (Hounsou) is completing a job in ThailandThailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
when 14-year-old child prostitute
Prostitution of children
Prostitution of children or child prostitution is the commercial sexual exploitation of children in which a child performs the services of prostitution, for financial benefit. The term normally refers to prostitution by a minor, or person under the local age of majority...
, Mae, witnesses Church kill a group her captor Chang Cao gang members and frame the Jong Ang Gang. Church sees her, but decides to flee the scene. Word reaches Chang Cao Gang advisor, Bhun, that the Jong Ang have broken the truce. However, it seems suspicious that a bomb was used as that is unlike the Jong Ang.
Church collects his payment for the job from his client, Rajahdon, whose daughter was murdered. Church then goes to a club which Jimmy the Brit (Bacon) is visiting, however upon seeing Church, Jimmy flees the premises thinking he is there to kill him. Church eventually catches Jimmy and explains that he was not the target, and he just wanted to buy some weapons. They drive to Jimmy's warehouse where Church purchases a sniper rifle
Sniper rifle
In military and law enforcement terminology, a sniper rifle is a precision-rifle used to ensure more accurate placement of bullets at longer ranges than other small arms. A typical sniper rifle is built for optimal levels of accuracy, fitted with a telescopic sight and chambered for a military...
.
Church travels to his hideout near a monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...
and within sight of Kitty Kat, a Jong Ang Gang club. While Church is eating, Mae arrives. After interrogating her, he ties her up and gags her. The next day Mae is suffering from drug withdrawal, but Church won't let her leave. That night the Chang Cao attack Kitty Kat, and Church fires at them from his lookout. The attack is repulsed the survivors tell Boss Katha there were snipers, which again is unlike the Jong Ang.
In the morning Church forces Mae to help him find her former owners (Chang Cao Gang) by threatening to kill the monks. Mae takes him to a landfill
Landfill
A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
, where she reveals she joined a church mission because her father sold her to them. She then takes him to a building with many Chang Cao gang members. Church returns to his client who wants to break the contract, but Church says the agreement was for all the gang members that killed his daughter.
Back at Kitty Kat, Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun have brought the Jong Ang a white elephant
White elephant
A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth...
as a peace offering. On the way back, Katha tells Bhun he did a good job making the truce, and that his decision for his successor is torn between Bhun and his son.
Church revisits Jimmy to buy another gun. However, Jimmy says the Chang Cao Gang, which Church has been killing, allows him to operate his business and doesn't want to anger them. Church insists and they drive to another hidden weapon cache, where he buys a much more powerful anti-material rifle (AM). Jimmy is convinced Church's new mission is suicide. Church breaks Jimmy's nose to make it appear as a robbery.
Church makes his way to a rooftop in view of the Chang Cao Gang building Mae showed him. After opening fire, he sees that Mae is inside. He is then shot by a sniper, returns fire, but the gun jams. After being shot again, he abandons his gun and hides in an alley as gang members rush by. To make his escape, he hijacks one of the gang's trucks and retreats under a hail of gunfire into oncoming traffic. After stopping he opens the back of the truck to find Mae and several wounded girls. Offering them freedom, most want to go back, thinking they will be found and killed for escaping.
Badly wounded Church leaves in a taxi with Mae, who says she was at the building because she was telling the gang if they stopped what they were doing, Church would stop killing them. The driver keeps glancing back at Church during the conversation and tells Church he is crazy. Mae leads Church back to the monastery where the monks bandage his wounds and draw symbols on his body.
Advisor Bhun and Boss Katha are mad at the failure to kill Church and inspect the gun he left behind. Bhun takes it to Jimmy who lies about it being stolen by an imaginary robber. Bhun doesn't believe him and orders his men to watch Jimmy.
Church has strange dreams of Mae, then awakes in the monastery. He leaves immediately and kills the snipers watching Jimmy's club, taking one of their cellphones. Church wants to buy another gun, but Jimmy refuses. Church answers the gang member's cellphone asks Jimmy if he wants to talk to Boss Katha. Jimmy impersonates a Thai weapons dealer to avoid being connected to Church. Church finally threatens Jimmy at gunpoint and they return to the warehouse, where Church buys a shotgun.
Church arranges a meeting with Rajahdon, but hides outside until Rajahdon leaves. Church follows him back to a brothel
Brothel
Brothels are business establishments where patrons can engage in sexual activities with prostitutes. Brothels are known under a variety of names, including bordello, cathouse, knocking shop, whorehouse, strumpet house, sporting house, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, and bawdy house...
and pays for a room. After entering the room, he asks the girl if Rajahdon is the boss and where he is. She tells him the boss is upstairs, but then raises the alarm. Church kills all the guards on the way to the boss, Rajahdon. Church confronts him for lying about an imaginary daughter, but he says he'll double the payment if Church kills Advisor Bhun.
Jimmy is tortured into giving up who Church is, but tells Advisor Bhun that Church will kill them all. Church goes to the forest outside the gang's headquarters, and sees a ghostly Mae through his rifle scope. Wind and leaves paint the symbols back on him the monks had drawn. He then fights his way to compound, killing all the guards, first using his sniper rifle then switching to a handgun and knife. He then leaps through the bushes and slits Advisor Bhun's neck. He sees Mae riding a white elephant toward him and wakes up at his hideout. He tells Mae his business is finished in Bangkok.
Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun discuss how to find Church when Rajahdon walks in, and Katha calls him his son. Rajahdon says he will take care of Church himself. Church calls Jimmy to tell him he's leaving, but wants Jimmy to take care of Mae. Jimmy tells Rajahdon that Church is leaving, but Rajahdon still wants to kill Church to assure his position as successor to Boss Katha.
Church returns to his hideout and and gives Mae a white dress, thanking her for all her help. He makes her promise to wait there for Jimmy. While Church is waiting for his flight at the airport, Jimmy calls and tells him that no one was at his hideout. Rajahdon hears the conversation and sends his men to the airport, however Church is already leaving to find Mae and sees them first. He steals one of their parked cars and drives to the monastery to find many of the monks killed. He enters the hideout and sees the white dress left behind.
Church drives to the gang headquarters and crashes through the wall into the room where Boss Katha and Advisor Bhun are. Church holds Katha hostage while Jimmy and Rajahdon arrive. Church begins to tell Katha about the bounty Rajahdon placed on Bhun, so Rajahdon tries to shoot him, but Jimmy kills Rajahdon first. The guards then shoot Jimmy. Church takes a picture of Mae off the wall and Katha says she was the first girl he brought in. Bhun says that was thirty years ago. Church is confused, but agrees to a deal for all of Katha's girls. Jimmy and Church leave with the girls, but Church tells Jimmy he has to go back. Jimmy says he will make sure the girls get help.
Cast
- Kevin BaconKevin BaconKevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
... Jimmy the Brit - Djimon HounsouDjimon HounsouDjimon Diaw Hounsou is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.-Early life:Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He emigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond....
... Curtie Church - Jirantanin Pitakporntrakul ... Mae
- Weeraprawat Wongpuapan ... Boss Katha
- Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul ... Advisor Bhun
- Sahajak Boonthanakit ... Rajahdon
- Ron Smoorenburg ... Bodyguard
- Byron Gibson ... Bodyguard
- Tony Teulan ... Kid Kicks
Marketing
At the beginning of the film, in a shot showcasing Bangkok is a billboard advertising The ExpendablesThe Expendables (2010 film)
The Expendables is a 2010 American ensemble action film written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, and directed by Stallone. Filming began on March 28, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and the film was released in theaters on August 13, 2010 in North America.The film is...
, which was also made by Nu Image/Millenium Films the previous year.