Da 5 Bloods
Da 5 Bloods is a 2020 American war drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Spike Lee. It stars Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Johnny Trí Nguyễn, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser, Jasper Pääkkönen, Jean Reno, and Chadwick Boseman (in his last movie released during his lifetime). The film's plot follows a group of four aging Vietnam War veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader, as well as the treasure they buried while serving there.
Plot
During the Vietnam War, a squad of black US Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, Paul, Otis, Eddie, Melvin, and their squad leader Norman, who dub themselves the "Bloods," secure the site of a CIA airplane crash and recover its cargo, a locker of gold bars intended as payment for the Lahu people for their help in fighting the Viet Cong. The Bloods decide to take the gold for themselves and bury it so they can retrieve it later. However, in the ensuing Vietnamese counter-attack, Norman is killed, and the Bloods cannot locate the buried gold after a napalm strike obliterates the identifying landmarks.
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author | Danny Bilson Kevin Willmott Paul De Meo |
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award | National Board of Review Award for Best Film |
contentLocation | Vietnam |
director | Spike Lee |
editor | Adam Gough |
genre | drama |
keywords | 1st infantry division abandon airplane crash ambush black lives matter black people bury capture cia dedicate falling on a grenade fight first time gold bar hand grenade hotel bar id kill lahu people leaping on top of it maga make america great again present day survive tour guide viet cong vietnam war |
musicBy | Terence Blanchard |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Original Score |
producer | Beatriz Levin Jon Kilik Lloyd Levin Spike Lee |
publisher | Netflix |
recordedAt | Bangkok Chiang Mai Ho Chi Minh City |
theme | black war |