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Movies where considerable resources are used to save one life

posted a year ago by damocci (1514)
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At the top my list is The Martian. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars to rescue Matt Damon's character.

Saving Private Ryan is another. So many lives lost to save just one person.

I think The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, should also count. That experimental mind-diving tech sounds expensive, as well as all the police resources.

Are there any other movies where an inordinate amount of resources were used to save one person? Preferably "normal" people, not presidents or royalty or billionaires etc?

[–] [deleted] a year ago

That's a question I haven't come across on movie boards before.

In Dawn of the Dead (2004) the group living in the mall ends up leaving earlier than planned to rescue a teenage girl after she went out to find her dog. It lead to disaster.

[–] Martindo (58) a year ago

Good question. So mere millions of dollars aren't enough, like in the Russell Crowe movie Proof of Life?

[–] damocci (1514) a year ago

I haven't seen Proof of Life so I don't know if it should count. I'm avoiding simple hostage situations where someone is asking for millions in exchange for a hostage's life. A good real-life example of what I am looking for is the recent rescue of the those Thai soccer players who were stuck in a flooding cave. Five thousand volunteers from around the world, dozens of governments, even billionaires banded together and offered their time, expertise and technology to rescue them. That's an unusual amount of resources devoted to saving a very small group of people.

[–] Martindo (58) a year ago

Uh, didn't you say ONE life? If you're talking ratios, then wait for movie about this, or watch the TV series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH370:_The_Plane_That_Disappeared

[–] AndyKing1967 (38133) a year ago

Virtually every episode of Thunderbirds.

[–] MaximRecoil (4615) a year ago

RoboCop (1987)

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

But it happens in real life, when a child gets trapped in a well or something.

Remember the Thai Cave Boys? 12 little boys trapped in a cave by rising flood waters, and the villagers literally flooded their own farms, pumping water out of the cave system just to keep hope alive that the kids wouldn't drown if the water level was a little lower. The kids were all saved, thanks to massive efforts and hundreds of volunteers from many nations, a heroic cave diver died, and the farmers in the village lost at least a year's income because they destroyed their own crops. All to save a few kids.