Mohammed (Elevator)

Mohammed is a supporting character turned main character in the 2012 psychological thriller film Elevator. He is a security guard at Barton Industries and a former military soldier who is among 9 people that get stuck in an elevator with a bomb inside and has to fight to get out alive. 
He was played by Waleed Zuaiter. 
==Biography==
Mohammed’s story is unknown, only thing added is being a medic in the army. He is first seen in the film opening and reading a card from an unknown individual and cries. He's next seen at Barton Industries inside the elevator working as a security guard. Comedian George Axelrod makes a joke about Mohammed’s race which he replies that he is a security guard. After the emergency stop button is pressed by Henry Barton's spoiled granddaughter Madeline, the elevator stops. When Mr. Barton presses the parking button several times for it to move, Mohammed advises him to pull out the stop button but when Barton does that, the elevator is still frozen. When George says the f word three times in a panicking manner, Mohammed tells him to watch it as there were women and children inside. This makes George argue another topic on Mohammed's culture. 
A couple minutes later, the nine people are still stuck inside the elevator still attempting to press buttons to make the elevator move. When Mr. Barton presses the 42nd button, Mohammed tells him to stop for it could interfere with what maintenance was doing. Minutes later, Don Handley wanted Mohammed to use his walkie-talkie to have his team help everyone get to the party floor but Mohammed informs that it died and that they'll have to wait from there. When Jane Redding falls over, Mohammed and most of the others tend to her care. Jane asks him where was he from which he answers that his family is from Iran and George stated that he was a Muslim and that he had known it. Mohammed then asks George that just because he's a Muslim, he couldn't be a loyal American which George responds that its possible but calls Mohammed a suspect. Then when George claims that after 5000 years of suffering and that he has a certain sensitivity, Mohammed answers by calling George a Jew, as they begin arguing on their cultures. 
When Jane begins to have a panic attack, she denounces that she has a bomb and passes away said by Mohammed, who used to be a medic in the army. Don kept telling Mohammed to check if she really had a bomb because he was a security guard but Mohammed states that he doesn't check for bombs because there were experts that could do it. After the dispute, Celine Fouquet yells that she'll check instead. After searching her purse, Martin Gossling asks Mohammed if suicide bombers keep the bomb under their clothes which Mohammed answers that he wasn't a suicide bomber, nor did he know anyone who was a suicide bomber and never had touched or seen a real bomb in his days. When the bomb is discovered, everyone needed to figure out how to get out before it went off: first by using the escape hatch but the elevator didn't have one. Mohammed, George, Mr. Barton and Celine have a conversation on believing that the bomb is fake and that explosive material wasn't easy to get to with Mohammed stating that they could be bought along with George blurting out another racist claim on Mohammed's culture. This made Mohammed very angry and annoyed because George had been saying racist claims about his culture the whole night and he puts him in a chokehold. 
When things cool down, they decide to open the elevator doors to try to let someone know that they were stuck on the elevator but everyone in the building seemed to have evacuated after hearing about the bomb. Furthermore, when they realize that the bomb had a timer on it, they decide to press the button on the upper floor (Mohammed lifts Don up) but it is too high up so they use Jane's cane to try to press it. When Don manages to press the button, the elevator moved down but things went awry as it lowered down a few floors; Don and Mr. Barton were both injured with Don losing his arm and Mr. Barton sustaining a gash on the left side of his face. Mohammed goes over to treat Don’s wound by tying his tie around it in order to prevent it from letting out too much blood. While Martin calls the police, Mohammed goes to treat Mr. Barton’s gash by using his button-up shirt and wrapping it around his face. After George has an argument with Celine, Mohammed laughs thinking about the Porsche joke George made earlier. 
When the bomb maker is interviewed on the bomb, he denounces that it only has 10 minutes left from detonation. Everyone is shocked as Maureen Assana’s producer Martha calls to talk about how the bomb is only 10 minutes away from blowing up. Things aren’t looking too good but George gets an idea about lining up the elevator doors in case the police arrive to fix them so they try opening the doors to see if it works. None of the five were able to heave the doors open and they all let go. They discuss how they got it open before and Martin answers by saying they originally had Don and assuming Mohammed didn’t have his restless leg syndrome get in the way. This makes Mohammed mad and he angrily asks Martin how did he manage to move that way with Martin answering he barely touched him. They all get Mr. Barton to help and they managed to pull the doors open all the way but it’s just a wall. 
They almost accept their fates but they don’t give up. George has another idea in opening the doors and they all pull them open with George needing a sharp object. The only thing he could get was Mohammed’s nail cleaner and planned on dropping the bomb down the shaft. The only way he could get it off was cutting Jane’s corpse in half. The rest were reluctant and relied on the police to help them with their situation thinking of different ideas in getting off as Maureen denounces the bomb has only 3 minutes left of going off. Celine asks if it was against the law and Martin tells her to forget the law as it was their lives that were at stake and blames Jane for getting them in the situation they were in. Mohammed tells him that she’s still human. Martin says that she was human but at that time, she was now a corpse. Celine asks who will volunteer (George hands it to Celine who refuses because she already had to volunteer in finding out if Jane really had bomb. He tried handing it to Martin; he says he’ll only help. Tried handing it to Maureen; she says she couldn’t do it but she’ll assist). George decides to do it but he doesn’t know where to start. Martin thinks to cut under the ribs but George ignores him and asks Mohammed where to start but he didn’t know. George’s only choice was going anywhere and asks Maureen if she’d have sex with him; she answers no and George tries to get it to sound like if she said she would then there wouldn’t be any hope with Celine telling him to cut her and George proceeds but George stops and refuses to do it so Mr. Barton volunteers. While Mr. Barton cuts her, he discusses that in his high school days he used to spend his summers working in a butcher shop. He struggles to get deeper and asks Mohammed what does he do with it in which he answers that he uses it to clean his nails. Mr. Barton wanted to remove the guts and looks at George but he refuses. Mohammed walks over and volunteers along with George who seemingly changed his mind. The four proceeded to remove Jane’s guts attempting to reach her spine but it’s a difficult process. George asks how were they gonna do it; Mr. Barton responds each of them would remove one organ each. George tells Mr. Barton to give them all a million dollars if they get out alive. The adults flip Jane’s corpse over to cut it from the back side. While they are doing that, the elevator turns on revealing that the bomb squad has arrived to save everyone. They open the doors and everyone is helped out, except for Martin due to his weight. 
After getting out of the elevator and out of the building, Mohammed calls his wife but she hangs up on him; he goes to sit down. After George asks him one last question relating to his culture, Mohammed gets annoyed and asks him was he always an asshole with George responding that he wasn’t a good security guard which Mohammed had to concede on. He tries to tell George about his wife but George tells him that they were alive and Mohammed conceded again. While George called his wife, Mohammed looks on as the movie pans to the city. It is unknown what happens next but it’s possible Mohammed still works at Barton industries or works someplace else. 
===Appearance===
Mohammed is man of Iranian descent. As a security guard, he wears a black coat with a white button-up shirt and black pants. Under the shirt, he wears a white v-neck shirt. 
===External links===
*https://youtu.be/6tC8GGJZ1TQ?si=tuwOdtSBPgGYPl8m
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