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'''Dirk Pitt''': I don't know - it seems to be working so far. }}
 
[['''''Sahara]]''''' is a 2005 action-adventure [[Film]] based on the 1992 ''[[Dirk Pitt]]'' [[Sahara (novel)|novel of the same name]], starring [[Matthew McConaughey]] as [[Adventure Archaeologist]] Dirk Pitt. While engaged in a deep-sea salvage off the coast of Nigeria with his partner Al Giordino (Steve Zahn), Dirk discovers evidence that a lost Civil War ironclad may have managed to cross the Atlantic and wind up in Western Africa. Simultaneously, he saves the life of a WHO doctor ([[Penélope Cruz]]), who is investigating the source of a strange disease. Together they travel up the Niger River, searching for the missing ship and the toxins causing the disease, while evading the forces of General Kazim, who rules over the region and may have something to do with the plague.
 
Though reasonably successful at the box office, this film was a notable financial disaster, costing the studio over $100 million in losses. The movie was also famous for prompting a multi-million dollar lawsuit by the writer of the original novel, [[Clive Cussler]], against the producers of the film, a lawsuit that Cussler subsequently lost.
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** Er, yes and yes. The scene with the water is adapted from the book, the same thing happens though the location and delivery method is different. Also, the antidote is ''explicitly'' mentioned by the American embassy man as being distributed in the... Is it 'denouement'?
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: {{spoiler|Yves Massarde}}, doing business with an African dictator. Although he doesn't seem to be aware of all the consequences of his actions.
* [[Decapitated Army]]: {{spoiler|Kazim's death seems like this at first. Lampshaded when the ones who did it (and indeed planned on it) immediately note that it shouldn't have worked. [[Subverted Trope|It didn't.]] In actuality, [[The CalvaryCavalry]] had arrived and surrounded the army offscreen.}}
* [[Diegetic Switch]]: During the boat trip along the niger river the music goes from soundtrack, to the moored boat's radio. Later, after the heroes launch the boat again, the different tune on the radio shifts into soundtrack once more as the boat speeds away along the river.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Eva clearly is a scientist, no [[Action Girl]]. Dirk likes that.
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