Crimson Tide
- R
- Year:
- 1995
- 116 min
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This is Richard Valeriani
reporting live...
for CNN from the French
aircraft carrier Foch...
somewhere in the Mediterranean.
Six days ago,
as the rebellion in Chechnya...
spread to the neighboring Caucasus
republics, the Russian president...
ordered massive bombing strikes
against rebel positions...
around Rutul and Belokany.
Appalled at the loss of human life,
the President of the United States...
joined by the French president
and the British prime minister...
suspended all foreign aid
to Russia.
Ultranationalist leader
Vladimir Radchenko...
denounced the U.S. Pressure
as an act of war...
against the Russian Republic
and Russian sovereignty.
Denouncing his own president
as a U.S. Puppet...
he called on the Russian people
to join him in revolt.
He said, "This brutish and hypocritical
American intervention...
will not go unanswered."
On Tuesday, at 10:00
in the morning Moscow time...
the Russian parliament was suspended
and martial law was declared.
With the government in crisis,
the Russian Republic...
was entering into what can only
be described as a state of civil war.
Then yesterday at dawn,
Radchenko and rebel forces...
seized the region around Vladivostok,
including a naval base...
and a nuclear missile base
housing Russian ICBMs.
As regular Russian military forces
move in to encircle Radchenko...
allied military forces
are in a state of high alert.
These French planes
taking off behind me...
have been deployed near the Caucasus
since the beginning of the crisis...
in the Caucasus
has now spread to the Far East...
and appears to be turning into the worst
standoff since the Cuban missile crisis.
This is Richard Valeriani
reporting live for CNN...
from the French aircraft carrier Foch,
somewhere in the Mediterranean.
Abracadabra!
- I can't hear you.
- [Screaming] Abracadabra!
[Children Exclaiming]
I need a volunteer
from the audience.
- [Kids] Me! Me!
- Me, me, me!
A brave volunteer.
[Kids] Me! Me! Me!
Preferably...
Preferably somebody who was born
on October 18...
nineteen hundred and ninety.
That's you, honey. That's you.
[Magician] Over here? Over here?
Ahh! You must be the birthday girl.
- What's your name?
- Robin.
[TV] Russian ultranationalist leader,
backed by his rebel army...
threatened nuclear attack
on the United States and Japan.
The threats come as a response
to U.S. Involvement in Chechnya...
and are not considered idle.
Now sit on the board.
And tell me, Robin,
do you believe in magic?
- Where'd he go?
- Good. Because if you believe...
- I'll get him.
- We can suspend you in the air...
- Be right back.
- Without the help of a flying carpet.
Meeting in an emergency session...
You'll miss your daughter's levitation.
While the President is sequestered
with his joint chiefs of staff.
[Automatic Gunfire]
That footage was taken yesterday,
but half an hour ago...
surrounded by hostile forces,
rebel leader Vladimir Radchenko...
Maybe it's not as bad as it looks.
- [Phone Rings]
- Threatened to use nuclear arms
on the United States and Japan...
should anyone, including the Russian
Army, attempt to move in on him.
[Ringing Continues]
- Based on the history of this man...
- [Pager Beeps]
- This can't be viewed as an idle threat.
- [Beeper Continues]
- Sander Vanocur standing by...
- It is.
Commander Hunter.
[Thunder Rumbling]
- [Classical]
- Annapolis.
Five patrols on fast attacks.
Two on boomers;
one as X.O.
- [Continues]
- Hmm.
A year at...
Excuse me. Harvard?
He tells me he tried to adopt you.
As you no doubt heard,
my X.O. Has appendicitis.
He's the best
I ever had.
I need a good man
to fill his spot.
Your name was
at the top of the list.
Well, that's good to know, sir.
It was a short list.
Your interests, Mr. Hunter.
What do you like to do? Do you, uh...
Do you paint, play ball, play
an instrument, ride motorcycles, what?
- I ride horses.
- Horses.
What's the best horse
you ever rode?
- Arabian, sir.
- An Arabian? That's a powerful animal.
- Yes.
- [Chuckles]
- You ever ridden one?
- Me? Are you kidding?
Nah, I couldn't handle an Arabian.
Nah, just give me an old paint.
Yeah, horses are
fascinating animals.
Dumb as fence posts
but very intuitive.
In that way, they're not too different
from high school girls.
They might not have
but they do know
all the boys want to f*** 'em.
Don't have to be able to read Ulysses
to know where they're comin' from.
- No, sir.
- [Barking]
He approves of you.
Jack Russells.
Smartest dogs alive.
Name's Bear.
Goes everyplace with me.
Well, welcome aboard
the Alabama, son.
- Do me proud.
- I will, sir.
- Congratulations, Mr. Hunter.
- Thank you.
If one Russian citizen
is killed...
and I am president...
then I will kill 900,000 of the people
who are responsible.
- You'd use nuclear weapons?
- Yes, I would hit them...
- Attention!
With nuclear weapons.
- At ease. Be seated.
- [Reporter] Sir, such talk
is highly inflammatory.
[Radchenko] My dear young lady,
I do not engage in "talk."
These are serious threats, which I hope
to be in the position to carry out.
I take it you've seen enough?
Gentlemen, after a nice little vacation,
looks like we're back at it again.
I hope you enjoyed the peace, because
as of now, we're back in business.
In the good old days of Cold War, the
Russians could always be depended on...
doing whatever is in
their own best interests.
But this Radchenko's playing a whole new
ball game with a whole new set of rules.
but I don't think this man's talking
to get his picture in the paper.
He seems to have a serious weed
up his ass and a legitimate gripe.
Always a dangerous combination.
And I think he's capable...
of doing every damn thing
he says he's going to do.
That's why we have to go out there
and give the man a moment of pause.
So ends theory.
Thus, let us begin the facts.
We've been informed by the NSA...
that an entire rebel corps
of the Russian Army is involved.
That's four armored divisions
numbering 60,000 men.
There seems to be
massive defections.
Vladimir seems to be winning the hearts
and minds of the Russian soldiers.
- Admiral.
- Thank you.
They've seized the region by the Chinese
and North Korean borders.
That includes a submarine base...
from which they've surged
four Akula-class attack subs.
They have acquired
a nuclear base at Artem...
for Russian ICBMs...
armed with up to
ten warheads apiece.
Now the Russian government has
assured us that talks are underway.
They claim that Radchenko forces
do not possess the launch codes.
But if Radchenko
were to crack them...
our west coast direct...
or come in over the Pole,
take out Washington and New York.
[Admiral] The Commander-in-Chief...
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