#SLEEPING DOGS MOVIE FULL#

No Full Name Given: Smith, Bullen and Jesperson.

From Bad to Worse: What starts as a general strike in protest over an oil embargo that the government was unable to lift turns into full-blown civil war after a False Flag Operation occurs.

Film of the Book: Based on the book Smith's Dream by C.

False Flag Operation: Jesperson pays some thugs to shoot soldiers clashing with pro-union protesters, giving the Prime Minister the excuse he needs to institute a police state.

Bullen died just before, and the future of the war in New Zealand is left unknown.

Downer Ending: Smith is shot dead by Jesperson after defying him.

Day of the Jackboot: After a False Flag Operation in which soldiers are killed, the Prime Minister has a referendum held to grant himself vast emergency powers, declaring martial law, trial by military courts, the death sentence for offenses against the state, and instituting the paramilitary Special Police Force.

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It chronicles a man named Smith (Neill), living on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, who inadvertently gets caught up in the unrest overtaking the country and finds he is unable to extricate himself from being involved.ĭonaldson's directorial debut, the film is also notable as the first to be entirely produced and set in New Zealand. Sleeping Dogs is a 1977 action thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Sam Neill, Ian Mune, Nevan Rowe, and Warren Oates.

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