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Taken - Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson)
Plot:
Bryan is an ex-CIA agent who retired in order to build upon his relationship with his daughter Kim although after her 17th birthday she goes travelling with a friend after being given "forced" permission from Bryan from extensive pressure given by his ex-wife Lenore. Whilst in Paris Kim is kidnapped in order to be trafficked by an Albanian pimp, but just before she notices people in her house and phones her father to help, he hears the entire kidnapping. He must then try to figure out how to get his daughter back...

Bryan Mills: - Retired CIA officer, highly trained
                   - Father of Kim (Maggie Grace)
                   - Divorcee of Lenore (Famke Janssen)

The clip above shows Bryan on the phone to his daughter's kidnappers as he threatens them, I feel that it shows him personally as determined, angry and protective of his family.

From the beginning of the film we see Bryan visiting his daughter on her 17th birthday as he brings her an expensive karaoke set knowing that since she was little she wanted to be a singer, however he is "down-staged" by her step-dad who buys her a horse, this shows Bryan to be not as lucrative and slightly unable to treat his daughter as well as others.
We then see him being fairly resistant to letting his daughter go travelling with her friend due to knowledge and therefore fear of what could happen, however his ex-wife, Lenore, persists on letting her "live her life". By this Bryan then is shown to be fairly persuasive with his decisions although still very protecting as he insists on Kim keeping constant contact with him throughout the trip.
Next we see Kim phoning her dad as she knows there are people in her apartment, but then with Bryan previous knowledge of working with the CIA he must tell her to let them take her and shout out as many physical details as possible for him to hear. By this I feel that it shows him to be prepared for sacrifice if it means he can succeed and get his daughter back as quickly and safely as possible.

As Bryan searched France and Europe for his daughter Kim we see him fighting for her at fast pace, as he pushed himself to reach his "aim" ... his determination shows to get back his daughter before it's too late. Until eventually his high skill from the CIA helps him to find her traffickers.. soon to be punished for it.

From this clip we learn that Bryan is a very clever man and will not be patronised or condisended in anyway at all, this is good for his values as it displays himself to be a man who is in control of the situation whether it is bad or good and also that he won't take any "nonsense" from anyone. This "in control" image that is portrayed shows a side of Byran that makes him dominant in many if not all aspects of his life such as protecting his daughter (being the situation he deals with in this film).