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Traitor

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Traitor	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) was a Sudanese-born United States citizen who, after watching his father die in a car bombing when he was only twelve years old, went on to become an international Arms Dealer who specializes in selling explosives to terrorist organizations. While on business Samir meets a man named Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui), the leader of a small terror cell in Yemen, whom Samir offers to provide equipment and training so that his men, in Samir's words, "won't blow themselves up... unintentionally, that is."Their meeting is interrupted when a squadron of local soldiers, led by FBI agents Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) and Max Archer (Neal McDonough) assault Omar's compound and capture both Omar and Samir. After the FBI agent's unsuccessful attempt to persuade Samir to provide information on his clients in exchange for his freedom, the pair are left to rot in a Yemeni prison. Impressed by Samir's loyalty and devotion to the Islamic faith, Omar offers him a position in his group, and soon after they both escape the prison compound and flee the country.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Months later, when the bombing of a U.S. consulate building in France is linked to Samir, the FBI scrambles to dig up as much information as they can on the enigmatic man. Clayton and Archer travel the globe in an attempt to retrace his footsteps and to try to understand just what would motivate a man whose father was murdered by terrorists to join their cause and, more urgently, where the next bombing will occur.Traitor was directed by Jeff Nachmanoff, and produced and co-written by Steve Martin. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film was released in August of 2008.
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Traitor / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Traitor / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The film tries to portray extremist acts of terrorism objectively - and does so pretty well.
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Traitor / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Traitor / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Done by Omar when Samir shoots Fareed and Nathir.
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Traitor / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Traitor / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Lampshaded. Clayton points out that eighty percent of Muslims aren't Arabs and most aren't even Middle Eastern, so even if you've narrowed your suspect's identity down to "Islamic fundamentalist," he still could look like absolutely anyone.
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Traitor / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Traitor / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Omar doesn't originally trust Sayid, but their time together in a Yemeni prison brings them together.
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Traitor / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
Traitor / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: Well, the movie abounds with Muslim suicide bombers, so it is only to be expected. Also Samir near the end of the movie, when he decides to make a final move.
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Traitor / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Traitor / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Omar works for Fareed. Fareed works for Nathir. Fully justified, as terrorist networks like to protect their leaders, and the whole point of Samir's infiltration is to infiltrate the Nathir network level by level until he can bring the entire thing down.
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Traitor / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Traitor / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: When Samir gets the drop on Agent Clayton while on the run from the FBI and forced him to kneel, Clayton was surprised to be clubbed in the back of the head by his own pistol rather than shot with it.
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Traitor / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Traitor / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Fully justified! The explosion of the bus towards the end of the movie is dramatic, but when you've got thirty suicide-bombers on the same bus, at least several of whom blew themselves up at the same time, that's only to be expected.
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Traitor / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Traitor / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Samir, a U.S. Army veteran turned arms dealer. In a variation, this was originally done with the Army's consent: he was sent to Afghanistan in the 1980s to teach the anticommunist resistance how to build bombs. It's only later that he went into business for himself, fighting alongside Islamic militants in Afghanistan and Bosnia before finally ending up an arms dealer in Yemen where the movie picks up. And then it's revealed that this, too, was done for the U.S. government, which employs him as a deep-cover agent to infiltrate these movements.
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Traitor / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Traitor / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The jihadists and the American intelligence agency Samir is covertly working for. When Carter justifies collateral damage by saying that in a war, he does whatever it takes to win, he's reminded that jihadists use the same rationalization.
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Traitor / int_505ec51b	type	Immigrant Patriotism
Traitor / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: Downplayed and possibly subverted. Sayid is a Sudanese immigrant who did join the Army and serve in it for a time, and he's still working for the U.S. government in the war on terror. However, his religion seems to be a much greater motivator for him, at least by the time of the movie, and he seems fairly cynical about the U.S. government's actions in the war on terror.
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Traitor / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Traitor / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Nathir, the head of the terrorist network, as well as his lieutenant Fareed Mansour. They run a terrorist network, and are even willing to meet and interact with the troops themselves, but it's more than clear that they have no intention of strapping on a vest or getting into a gunfight themselves. Tellingly, we only ever see them in Western countries, where they appear to live as solid middle-class citizens, rather than in actual war zones like Yemen where Sayid and Omar spend a lot of their time.
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Traitor / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Traitor / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Sometimes sliding into Evil Versus Evil regions. It's not the kind of movie in which covert agents don't get their hands dirty.
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Traitor / int_663ffef6	type	Majored in Western Hypocrisy
Traitor / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Omar makes reference to having been raised in a boarding school in Switzerland. He's spent so much time in the West, he admits he now even dreams in English.
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Traitor / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Traitor / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License – Military: While the risk of attacks by Al Qaeda inspired extremists exists the kind of plot seen in the movie is reminiscent of the Bush era period of the War on Terror when fears of sleeper cells were frequently talked about. In real life, most Muslim extremists in the US are self radicalized and don't wait for any orders from high above. One of the reasons is (precisely because they might be discovered and their plans foiled like it happens in the movie).
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Traitor / int_7aeb0635	type	Arms Dealer
Traitor / int_7aeb0635	comment	Arms Dealer: Samir, when we meet him. He's the street-level variety, providing explosives rather than more sophisticated weaponry, and supplying individual terrorist cells rather than entire armies.
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Traitor / int_8103b995	type	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie
Traitor / int_8103b995	comment	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie: Obviously. A type three; the 9/11 attacks specifically are never mentioned, but the entire movie revolves around jihadist terrorism against Western targets.
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Traitor / int_879ac016	type	Realism-Induced Horror
Traitor / int_879ac016	comment	Realism-Induced Horrorinvoked: What the Nathir network plans to invoke with their terrorist attack. Most people don't work in obvious high-value targets, like the Twin Towers or the Pentagon. However, by blowing up thirty buses around the United States on the same day, Nathir wants to bring home to U.S. citizens the reality that any of them could be a target, and that even the most mundane activity, like getting on a Greyhound, could mean the end of your life.
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Traitor / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Traitor / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Samir agrees to put the suicide bombers on a bus. As in, putting all of them on one bus.
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Traitor / int_95b7e807	type	Middle Eastern Terrorists
Traitor / int_95b7e807	comment	Middle Eastern Terrorists: The Nathir network is the Islamic fundamentalist version. Somewhat subverted in that many of its members, while ethnically Middle Eastern, have been raised in Western nations and may have Western nationalities, making them Western Terrorists as well.
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Traitor / int_9e74f33	type	Flock of Wolves
Traitor / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: The bus passengers are all suicide bombers.
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Traitor / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Traitor / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Samir tries to maintain his cover, he improvises a fight with his contact, pretending that he was assaulted only to get his contact shot dead. The contact was also the only person who knew that Samir is a Deep Cover Agent. The local prison gang leader experiences a milder version when Omar and his jihadists comes to Sayid's aid.
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Traitor / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Traitor / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted. When Samir tries to subdue Clayton by hitting in the back of the head, it leaves the latter dazed but conscious.
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Traitor / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Traitor / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: Agent Carter presents Samir as such.
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Traitor / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Traitor / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Clayton and Samir. They're both strongly religious people, raised by strongly religious fathers, who've nevertheless become men of violence in the war on terror. They also share an urge to stand up against their religion's extremists, with Clayton remembering his youth helping put out the fires KKK arsonists started, and Samir working to infiltrate and neutralize jihadist cells. Samir and Omar. They're both devout believers in Islam who risk their lives for the religion they believe in. They don't have quite the same view of what that entails, though.
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Traitor / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Traitor / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Special Agents Clayton and Archer, respectively. When Clayton offers Samir his freedom after interrupting a beating from Archer, Samir questions how "good" Clayton really is.
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Traitor / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Traitor / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: While dying in the line of duty is to be expected by suicide bombers, what the 30 terrorists who had trained to attack the United States did not expect was to be secretly put on the same bus by Samir.
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Traitor / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Traitor / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The holy man who is exhorting the young men -most of them teenagers, actually- to don explosive suicide vests to carry out attacks in crowded areas. He's telling them it is their duty to Allah, that there is nothing more noble that to sacrifice the lives they were given to strike a blow against others, but it's perfectly clear that the piece of shit has absolutely no intention of putting on a vest himself.
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Traitor / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Traitor / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: After the U.S. consulate in Nice, France is bombed, the FBI learns that the CIA, who is notoriously hesitant to share their information with other agencies, sat on a tip they found six months prior that could have helped prevent the attack. Justified: the FBI turns out to have a mole inside it.
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Traitor / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
Traitor / int_eed678bf	comment	When Samir tries to maintain his cover, he improvises a fight with his contact, pretending that he was assaulted only to get his contact shot dead. The contact was also the only person who knew that Samir is a Deep Cover Agent.
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Traitor / int_fa4a59a3	type	Prepare to Die
Traitor / int_fa4a59a3	comment	Prepare to Die: Played with in the Samir and Clayton scene mentioned above. Samir asks Clayton if he knows Lord's Prayer and tells him to pray, all while aiming pistol at the back of his head. It appears that the prayer was to hide the sound of gun being de-cocked.
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Traitor / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Traitor / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Samir stands up for a fellow inmate who's being abused by the local prison bully. This, along with his refusal to submit to the bully because only God deserves that sort of respect, gain him Omar's respect and prompt him to intervene on his behalf and bring him into his trust.
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