The Hurt Locker is an American war thriller of 2008 directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal was released on June 26, 2009. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. The film follows Iraq's Disarmament War Removal Team targeted by the rebels, and shows their psychological reactions to the pressure of combat, which some people can not tolerate and make others addicted. Boal makes use of his experience during embedded access to write scenarios.
The Hurt Locker was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, making him the first Best Picture winner by a female director; Bigelow also became the first female director to win Best Director.
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Plot
In 2004, First Class Sergeant William James, a former US Ranger Army, arrived as the new team leader of the US Combat Battleship (EOD) unit in the Iraq War. He replaced Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson, who was killed by a homemade explosive device (IED) in Baghdad. His team included Sergeant J. T. Sanborn and Owen Eldridge Specialist.
James is often approached by Iraqi boys dubbed "Beckham" trying to sell DVDs. James challenged him to play soccer and loved it.
Sanborn and Eldridge regard James's careless methods and carelessness, increasing the tension. When they were assigned to destroy the explosives, James returned to the scene of the explosion to retrieve his gloves. Sanborn openly contemplates killing him by "accidentally" triggering an explosive, making Eldridge uncomfortable. Nothing is done and the tension is on the rise.
Back at Camp Victory in their Humvee, the team met five men armed with traditional Arabian attire and casual clothes standing near Ford Excursion, which has a flat tire. Tim James has a tense encounter with their leader, who reveals that they are private military contractors and British mercenaries. They have captured two prisoners featured on Iraq's most wanted playing cards. The group was attacked; when prisoners try to escape in confusion, mercenary leaders shoot them, because they are worth dead or alive. Enemy snipers kill three mercenaries, including their leader. Sanborn and James borrowed a weapon to send three attackers, while Eldridge killed the fourth.
During a raid in a warehouse, James found a body that he believed was Beckham, where a bomb had been planted through surgery. During the evacuation, Lt. Col. John Cambridge, camp psychiatrist and an Eldridge friend, were killed in an explosion; Eldridge blames himself for his death. James broke into the house of an Iraqi professor, seeking retaliation for Beckham, but his search did not reveal anything.
Called to blow up a gas tanker, James decides to hunt down the responsible rebels, guessing they're still nearby. Sanborn protested, but when James started chasing, he and Eldridge reluctantly followed. After they parted, the rebels caught Eldridge. James and Sanborn saved him but accidentally shot him in the leg. The next morning, James was approached by Beckham, who he believed was dead, and walked quietly. Before being airlifted for the operation, Eldridge angrily blames James for his injury.
James and Sanborn units were called to another mission in the last two days of their rotation. An innocent Iraqi civilian has a bomb vest tied to his chest. James tried to cut the key to take off the vest, but the amount was too much. He left the man, who was killed when the bomb went off. Sanborn was baffled by his death. He confessed to James that he could no longer face the pressure, and wanted to go back home and have a son.
After the Bravo Company rotation ended, James returned to his ex-wife Connie and their son, who still lives with him at his home. However, he is tired of routine civil life. James confessed to his son that there was only one thing he knew he loved. He resumed his tour duties, serving with Delta Company, the US Army EOD unit on a 365 day rotation.
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Cast
- Jeremy Renner as First Class Sergeant William James
- Anthony Mackie as Sergeant J. T. Sanborn
- Brian Geraghty as Owen Eldridge Specialist
- Guy Pearce as Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson
- Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge
- David Morse as Colonel Reed
- Ralph Fiennes as unit leader of Private Military Company
- Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
- Christopher Sayegh as Beckham
- Malcolm Barrett as Sergeant Foster
- Sam Spruell as Charlie Contractor
Production
The small budget film was produced and directed independently by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer pinned as a journalist in 2004 with a US Army EOD team in Iraq. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy during 2008. After being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film was taken for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. As of May 2009, it was Closing Night's choice for the Maryland Film Festival. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 but received broader theatrical broadcasts on July 24, 2009.
Since the film was not released in the United States until 2009, the film qualified for the Academy Awards the following year, where it was nominated for nine Academy Awards. Although the film has not recovered its budget during the ceremony, she won six Oscars, including Best Movie, Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), and Best Original Screenplay for Boal.
Write
The Hurt Locker is based on Mark Boal's account, a freelance journalist embedded with an American bomb squad in the Iraq war for two weeks in 2004. Director Kathryn Bigelow is familiar with Boal's previous work. his experience, after adapting one of his Playboy articles as a short In 2002 television series. When Boal joined the squad, he accompanied his members 10 to 15 times a day to watch and keep in touch with Bigelow via email about his experience. Boal uses his experience as the basis of fictional drama based on real events. He said about the purpose of the film, "The idea is that this is the first film about the Iraq War that is meant to show the soldiers' experience.We want to show what passes the soldiers you can not see on CNN, and I do not mean it by the way I mean, the news does not really put the photographer with these elite units. "Bigelow was fascinated by exploring the" psychology behind the type of soldier who volunteered for this particular conflict and then, because of his talent, was chosen and given the opportunity to get into the bomb disarmament and go towards what everyone else is doing. "
While working with Boal in 2005 on the script, originally titled The Something Jacket, Bigelow started doing some early and rough storyboards to get an idea of ​​the specific location needed. The bomb disarmament protocol requires an area of ​​detention. He wanted to make the film as authentic as possible and "put the audience into the Humvee, into an experience on the ground."
Casting
For the main character, Bigelow makes a relatively unknown actor casting point: "it underlines the tension because with a lack of familiarity also comes an unpredictability." Renner's character, First Class Sergeant William James, is a composite character, with an individual-based quality that scriptwriter Boal knows when embedded with bomb squad forces. Bigelow cast Renner based on his work at Dahmer , a film about Jeffrey Dahmer, a famous serial killer whose victim is a boy. To prepare for the film, Renner spent a week of life and training at Fort Irwin, a US military reservation in the Mojave Desert in California. He was taught to use C4 explosives, learn how to make safe explosives, and how to wear a bomb jacket.
Mackie plays Sergeant J. T. Sanborn. Describing the filming experience in Jordan in the summer, he said, "The weather was very hot, and we were so easily agitated, but the movie was like playing, we were really looking at each other, and that was very good experience that made me believe in the movie. "
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees live in Jordan. Bigelow throws away refugees who have a theater background, such as Suhail Aldabbach. He plays innocent man used as a suicide bomber at the end of the film.
Filming
The film was shot in Jordan, within miles of the Iraqi border, to achieve the purpose of the authenticity of Bigelow. Iraqi refugees are used for extras and players work in the midst of the heat of the Middle East. The filmmakers have searched for locations in Morocco, but director Kathryn Bigelow feels her cities do not resemble Baghdad. In addition, he wanted as close as possible to the war zone. Some locations are less than three miles from the Iraqi border. He wants to make a movie in Iraq, but the production security team can not guarantee their safety from snipers.
The subject of photography began in July 2007 in Jordan and Kuwait. The average temperature is 120 Â ° F (49 Â ° C) for 44 days of shooting. Often four or more camera crews are simultaneously filmed, resulting in nearly 200 hours of footage. Producer Greg Shapiro spoke about the security issues filming in Jordan, "It's interesting to tell people we're going to make a movie in Jordan because the first question everyone asks is about the security situation here."
His choice for filming in the Kingdom encountered some resistance. In the discussion, Bigelow found that the cast and crew shared the stereotype of the region from American culture. "Unfortunately people in America and Los Angeles have this perception," he said. "But once you get off the plane, you realize it's like Manhattan without trees," he continued. As Iraq dominates discourse in America and around the world, Bigelow believes that filmmakers will continue to explore conflict, making Jordan a natural place for film.
According to producer Tony Mark, the blood, sweat and heat captured in the camera in production are mirrored behind the scenes.
"This is a tough and tough movie on a hard and difficult subject," Mark said in an interview, "There is a clear tension across the set.It's like the story on the screen of three people who quarrel with each other, but when the time comes to do work, they gather to finish the job. "
Renner remembers, "I have a food insect, then I got food poisoning: lose 15 pounds in three days". In addition to the heat load, the bomb suit should he wear all day weighing 80-100 pounds (36-45 kg). In a scene where his character carried a dead Iraqi boy, Renner fell down the stairs and twisted his ankle, which delayed filming because he could not walk. At that point, "people want to stop.All departments are struggling to finish their work, no one communicates". A week later, the filming continued.
Producer Tony Mark tells about David Fencl's panser completing 12 hours a day. He finds he has to stay up all night to make the right ammunition for a sniper rifle, as supplies do not clean up the Jordanian customs duties in time for unscheduled shooting. Due to import restrictions on military props, special effects film artist Richard Stutsman uses Chinese fireworks for gunpowder. One day, he was assembling a prop, and the heat and friction caused the fireworks to explode on his face. Two days later, he returned to work. Filming has a bit of normal Hollywood facilities; no one on the set who gets an air-conditioned trailer or private bathroom. Renner said that great attention was taken to ensure the authenticity of the film. According to Renner, film shooting in the Middle East contributed to this. "There were two-four with nails dropped from a two-story building that bumped me in a helmet, and they threw stones.... We got shot a few times while we were filming," Renner said. "When you see it, you'll feel like you've been fighting."
"You can not fake that amount of heat," Mackie said, adding, "When you're at the scene and all the extras are Iraqi refugees, it really informs the movie you made.When you start hearing stories from a true perspective.. , from those who really exist, it gives you a clear view of where you are as the artist and the story you want to tell. "It was an amazing experience to be there."
Cinematography
For this movie, Bigelow is trying to immerse the audience "into something raw, straightforward and deep". Impressed by Barry Ackroyd's cinematographer on United 93 and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Bigelow invited her to work on the movie. While the film was produced independently and filmed on a low budget, Bigelow used four Super 16 mm cameras to capture multiple perspectives, saying,
"That's how we experience reality, by looking at the microcosm and macrocosm simultaneously.The eye sees differently from the lens, but with some focal length and muscular editorial style, the lens can give you a microcosm/macrocosmic perspective, and that contributes to a total immersion feeling."
In staging the movie action sequence, Bigelow does not want to lose the sense of geography and use multiple cameras to enable it to "see each specific piece of each possible perspective."
Editing
The Hurt Locker edited by Chris Innis and Bob Murawski. Both editors work with nearly 200 hours of recording from some of the handheld cameras used during shooting. Adding to the challenge, Boal's scenario has a non-traditional and asymmetrical episodic structure. There are no traditional "criminals", and the tension comes from the internal conflicts of characters and the tension of explosives and snipers.
"The movie is like a horror movie where you can not see the killer," Innis said. "You know bombs can explode at any time, but you never know when it will happen, so the ideas of Alfred Hitchcock - about getting your audience anxious - are very influential for us when we do editing."
The raw footage is described as "hodge-podge motion disconnected, nausea-inducing that constantly crosses a 180 degree line".
Innis spent the first eight weeks editing a movie in a location in Jordan, before returning to Los Angeles, where he joined Murawski. This process takes eight months to complete. The goal is to edit a realistic picture of the brutal reality of the war, using minimal special effects or technical improvements. Innis stated that they "really want this movie to maintain the documentary quality of 'newsreel'... Too many stage-y effects will be annoying." Editing in this movie is about restraint.
Editing at the site causes additional complications in post-production. Production does not want to risk sending undeveloped movies through airports with high security where cans can be opened, rigged, or damaged. Thus, the film was taken by hand in flight by a production assistant from Amman to London. After the Super 16mm film was transferred to DVcam in a laboratory in London, the video daily was transported by plane back to the Middle East to be imported into an editing system. The entire journey will last from three days to a week and is described by Innis as "a modern day equivalent to delivery by donkey cart". Low production budgets and the lack of film infrastructure developed in the area hinder the process, according to Innis. "We worked with Super 16mm film, editing it in standard definition, we tried to download FTP, but at that time the facilities in Jordan could not handle it." Producer Tony Mark then negotiated the use of local radio stations late at night to receive low-grade QuickTime clips over the Internet so the crew would not fire blindly.
Reception
Critical response
The Hurt Locker received universal recognition, with the appearance of Renner receiving praise from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film approval rating of 97%, based on 271 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.5/10. It was the second highest movie of 2009, behind Pixar's Up . The consensus of critics reads, "The war epic action filled with intense and action-packed action, Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker is by far the best of the recent dramatization of the Iraq War." Metacritic, who gave a normal score, gave the film an average score of 94 out of 100, based on 35 criticisms, showing "universal recognition".
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times rated this movie as the best of 2009, writes, " The Hurt Locker is a great movie, a smart movie, a film that is filmed so clearly that that we know exactly who everyone is and where they are and what they do and why. "He praised how the tension was built, calling the film" stunning ". Ebert considers Renner "a major contender for the Academy Awards", writes, "His appearance is not built on elaborate speech but on visceral projections of who this man is and what he feels. He finally ranked it's second best film of the decade, behind just Synecdoche, New York .
Richard Corliss of Time magazine also praised Renner's performance, calling it the culmination of the film. Corliss writes,
"She's a normal, pale, silent face, and at first it seems like a lack of screen charisma to carry a movie.The assumption is gone in a few minutes, as Renner slowly reveals the power, confidence and uncertainty of a young Russell Crowe.Association of actors and characters is wrong one great thing to be loved about this movie... It's a horrible miracle to watch James in action He has cool confidence, analytical acumen and attention to detail from a great athlete, or a psychopath, maybe both. "
Corliss praised the "steely tranquil" tone of the film, reflecting its main character. Corliss sums up, " The Hurt Locker is an almost perfect film about the warring man, the guy at work." Through a strong image and violence, he says that even Hell needs a hero. "
A. O. Scott of The New York Times called The Hurt Locker the best American feature film made about the war in Iraq:
"You may come from The Hurt Locker shaken, excited and drained, but you too will think... This movie is an exciting, adrenaline-filled tour of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and scenes a busy battle, but it blows a hole in a degrading assumption that such an effect is just a blank spectacle or an unprovoked voice. "
Scott notes that the film perpetuates criticism of the war but writes about how the director handles film boundaries, "Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, filtering out the psychological essence and moral complications of modern warfare into a brilliant series, torturing set pieces." He also praised convergence of characters in the film, saying that it "focuses on three people whose contrasting temperament knit episodic exploration of danger and courage into a coherent and satisfying story." Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times wrote that the performances of Renner, Mackie, and Geraghty will raise their profile, saying that their characters reveal "unnoticed aspects", such as the character Renner is playing. with an Iraqi boy. Turan praised Boal's "lean and attractive" manuscript and said about Bigelow's direction, "Bigelow and his team bring an unbelievable ferocity to re-create endless bomb-lifting mania in an unfamiliar and culturally unimaginable atmosphere."
Guy Westwell of Sight & amp; Sound writes that cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provides "sharp handshake coverage" and that the sound design of Paul N.J. Ottosson "uses an almost invisible tinnitus ring to tighten the tension." Westwell praised the director's skills:
"Careful mapping of the subtle differences between each bomb, the game with the point of view... and the attenuation of the key action sequence... lend movies of distinctive qualities that can only be attributed to the smart and confident direction of Bigelow."
Critics noted different differences in the Iraq War film, writing that "it faces the fact that men often enjoy war." He concluded,
"The incessant celebration of the lust raised by testosterone for this war may be painful, but there is something original and distinctive about the film's willingness to acknowledge that for some men (and many movie goers), war brings an intrinsic, dramatic charge. "
Amy Taubin of Film Comment described The Hurt Locker as a "structuralist war film" and "a highly immersive, off-the-charts experience from beginning to end." Taubin praised Ackroyd's "brilliant" cinematography with multiple points of view. He said about editing the movie, "Editing Bob Murawski and Chris Innis is also fast and nervous; a quick change in POV as they cut from one camera to another makes you feel as if you, like a character, are under threat from all sides. "
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal calls it "first-rate action thrillers, a clear resurgence of urban warfare in Iraq, an in-depth study of heroism and performances for harsh technique, short writing and a trio of brilliant performances." Critics < Toronto Star Peter Howell said, "Just when you think the war of Iraq war drama has been fought and lost, come the one that demands to be seen... If you can sit through The Hurt Locker > without your heart almost pounding on your chest, you have to be made of granite. "Entertainment Weekly film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the rare" A "rating film, calling it," intense war images, actions, a prominent, muscular and efficient that simultaneously convey the feeling of fighting from within and what it looks like on the ground.This is not a war videogame. "
Derek Elley from Variety found The Hurt Locker became "gripped" as a thriller but felt that the film was weakened by, "fuzzy (and almost unspiritual) psychology." Elley writes that it's not clear to know where the drama is: "These guys stick with guts and ancient instincts rather than sissy hardware - but that's not a male drama-under genuine pressure too." The critic also feels that the script shows "artificial signs of tension for the depth of character." Anne Thompson, also writing for Variety , believes The Hurt Locker becomes a competitor for Best Picture, mainly based on the unique subject pursued by female directors and is an exception to other films about The Iraq war, which underperformed.
Tara McKelvey from The American Prospect wrote that the film is pro-US. Military propaganda, though it shows it's anti-war with the opening statement: "War is a drug." He continued,
"You feel empathy for the soldiers when they shoot, and in this way, the full impact of the Iraq war - at least as it did in 2004 - becomes clear: American soldiers shoot Iraqi civilians even when, for example, they happen to be holding phones and standing near the IED. "He concludes," For all graphic violence, bloody explosions and, literally, the massacre of humans featured in the film, The Hurt Locker is one of the most effective recruiting vehicles for the US Army which I have seen. "
John Pilger, a journalist and documentary, criticized the film in New Statesman, writing that it "offers a surrogate sensation through not to mention the psychopathic problem of high standards of violence in other peoples countries where the death of a million people who submit on a forgotten cinematic. "
In 2010, Independent Movie & amp; The Television Alliance chose this film as one of 30 Most Significant Independent Movies over the last 30 years.
The Hurt Locker was named "The 21st Century Best Film So Far" in 2017 by The New York Times film critics A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis.
Top ten list
The Hurt Locker is listed on the top ten list of critics.
Response between veterans
The film has been criticized by some Iraqi veterans and journalists for not accurately describing wartime conditions. Writing for The Huffington Post, Iraqi veteran Kate Hoit said that The Hurt Locker is the Hollywood version of the Iraq war and the soldiers who fought it, and their version is not accurate. described the film more accurately than the recently released war movie, but expressed concern that a number of errors - among them the wrong uniforms, lack of radio communications or misbehavior of soldiers - would prevent service members from enjoying the film.
Author Brandon Friedman, also a veteran of the Iraq and Afghan wars, shares the same view at VetVoice : " The Hurt Locker is a high-strain, well-made action movie that will surely making the most of the viewers are on the edge of their chairs. But if you know something about the Army, or about operations or life in Iraq, you will be so sidetracked by the unreasonable sequence and bend plot that it will ruin the movie for you. me. "Friedman criticized the inaccuracy of the representation of combat films, saying" in real life, EOD technicians do not do dangerous missions as a team of three autonomous men without communications equipment... Another thing you rarely hear in battle is EOD E-7 suggesting to two or three of them that they left a blast in an Iraqi city saying: 'Come on let's split up.We can cover up more land in that way u. ' "
On the Army of Dude blog, Iraqi infantry and veteran soldier Alex Horton notes that "the way the team goes about their mission is totally unreasonable." He generally still enjoys it and calls it "the best Iraqi film to date."
Troy Steward, another veteran of combat, wrote on Bouhammer blog that while the film accurately depicts the scale of bomb violence and relations between Iraqis and troops, "almost anything else is unrealistic." Steward went on to say: "I am amazed that such a bad movie can earn any respect from anyone."
A review published March 8, 2010 at the Air Force Times cited an overall negative review of Iraqi bomb experts attached to the 4th Brigade, the 1st Armored Division, citing a team leader of the bomb disposal who called the portrayal of the film. a bomb expert "is highly exaggerated and inappropriate," and describes the main character as "more of a cruise cowboy type and weapon... exactly the kind of person we are not looking for." Another member of the bomb squad team said that the main character of "pride will put the team at risk, our team leaders have no invincible complex, and if they do, they are not allowed to operate" A team leader's first priority is to make his team whole.
On the embedded side, former correspondents for The Politico and Military Times Christian Lowe (embedded with US military units annually from 2002 to 2005) are described in DefenseTech : "Some scenes are very disconnected with reality being almost parody."
Former British bombing officer Guy Marot said, "James makes us look like hotheaded and irrational hot-headed addicts, very disrespectful to the many officers who have lost their lives."
On the other hand, Henry Engelhardt, an adjutant of the National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Association who has twenty years' experience in bombing, praised the film's atmosphere and depictions of work difficulties, saying, "Of course, there is no realistic film in all its details but things - things are done very well. "
Legal Charges
Sarver's demands
In early March 2010, US Army disposal expert, Sgt Master Jeffrey Sarver filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against The Hurt Locker. Sarver's claim states that he used the term "wound locker" and the phrase "war is a drug" around Boal, that his likeness was used to create the character of William James, and that William James's portrayal stained Sarver. Sarver says he feels "just a bit hurt, a little feeling left out" and deceived "financial participation" in the film. Sarver claims he is from a movie title; However, the title is the colloquial language of decades because of injury, as in "they sent him to a wounded locker." It dates back to the Vietnam War where it was one of the few phrases that meant "in difficulty or in a disadvantageous state, in bad conditions." Boal defended himself to the press, saying "this movie is a work of fiction inspired by many people's stories." He said he spoke with more than 100 soldiers during his research. Jody Simon, a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, notes that "soldiers have no privacy", and that when the military embeds Boal, they give him full permission to use his observations as he feels fit. Summit Entertainment, the film's producer, said in early March that they were expecting a quick resolution to the lawsuit. In the December 8, 2011 edition of The Hollywood Reporter, it was announced that Master Sergeant Sarver's lawsuit was thrown out by the court, and a federal judge ordered him to pay over $ 180,000 in attorney's fees.
Copyright infringement violations
On May 12, 2010, Voltage Pictures, the production company behind The Hurt Locker, announced that it will try to prosecute "potentially tens of thousands" of online computer users who download unauthorized copies of movies using BitTorrent and P2P networks. It is the biggest suit of its kind. On May 28, 2010, he filed a complaint against 5,000 unidentified BitTorrent users in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Voltage announced its intention to ask $ 1,500 from each of the defendants to release him from the lawsuit. Some people, however, have refused to settle in the studio. The US Copyright Group (USCG) has since then scrapped all cases against suspected controllers of Hurt Locker .
On August 29, 2011, the Canadian Federal Court ordered three Canadian ISPs - Bell Canada, Cogeco, and VidÃÆ' Ã… © otron - to reveal the names and addresses of customers whose IP addresses allegedly had downloaded copies of the film. ISPs are given two weeks to comply with orders.
Release
Festival festival
The Hurt Locker had her world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2008, and the film received a 10-minute applause at the end of its screening. At the festival, the film won the SIGNIS award, the Cinemagiovani Arca Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for "Best Film Venezia 65" (selected by an international youth jury); Human Rights Film Network Award; and the Venezia Cinema Award known as "Navicella". The film was also screened at Toronto's 33rd Annual International Film Festival on September 8, where it generated "interest", although the distributor was reluctant to buy it because previous films about the Iraq War performed poorly at the box office. Summit Entertainment purchased films for distribution in the United States in what is considered a "cool climate for image sales".
In the remainder of 2008, The Hurt Locker is screened at the 3rd Zurich Film Festival, the 37th Festival du Nouveau CinÃÆ'Â © ma, the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, 5, and the 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In 2009, The Hurt Locker was screened at the GÃÆ'¶teborg International Film Festival, Selects's 10th Film Commentary and the South by Southwest film festival. It was the closing film of the night at the 2009 Maryland Film Festival, with Bigelow presenting. It has a screening center at the 3rd AFI Dallas International Film Festival, where director Kathryn Bigelow received the Dallas Star Award. Other 2009 festivals include the International Human Rights Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Theatrical run
The Hurt Locker was first released publicly in Italy by Warner Bros. on October 10, 2008. Summit Entertainment chose the movie to be distributed in the United States after being featured at the Toronto International Film Festival for $ 1.5 million. The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with limited releases in four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. During the first weekend the film grossed $ 145,352, averaging $ 36,338 per theater. The following weekend, starting July 3, the film grossed $ 131,202 in nine theaters, averaging $ 14,578 per theater. It holds the highest-screen averages of any film that is played theatrically in the United States during its first two weeks of release, gradually moving to the top 20 charts with the much broader studio studio budgets released. It's held around number 13 or number 14 on the box office chart for an additional four weeks. Summit Entertainment took The Hurt Locker wider to over 200 screens on July 24, 2009 and over 500 screens on July 31, 2009.
The gross final film is $ 17,017,811 in the United States and Canada, and $ 32,212,961 in other countries, bringing the total worldwide to $ 49,230,772. It was a success to his budget of $ 15 million.
According to Los Angeles Times , The Hurt Locker performs better than the latest drama on Middle East conflict. The film outperforms all other Iraq war films such as In the Elah Valley (2007), Stop-Loss (2008) and Afghanistan themed Lions for Lambs (2007).
In the United States, The Hurt Locker is one of only five Best Picture winners ( The English Patient , Amadeus i>, and The Shape of Water became four others) to never enter the box office weekend 5 since the top 10 rank was first recorded in 1982. It is also one of only two Best Photo of the winner recorded never entered the top box office of the weekend 10 ( The Artist became another).
The Hurt Locker opened in the top ten in the United Kingdom in 103 theaters, scoring an average of the $ 4,607 fourth highest screen, ranking between GIs and GI Joe in the whole grosses. The film garnered half a million dollars during its opening weekend in Britain from August 28 to August 30, 2009, and earned more than a million dollars in Britain, Japan, Spain and France until March.
Distribution: The lack of independent film printing
According to an article in Springfield, Illinois Journal List-Country , in August 2009 there was a shortage of film prints The Hurt Locker , as well as other independent hits. movies like Food, Inc. Distributors tell the theater owners that they have to wait several weeks or months after the initial US release date to get some of the available prints that have been distributed. "Sometimes distributors litter," says a movie buyer for a theater. "They misjudged how wide they should go." One theory is that independent films have a hard time competing for screen space during the summer against blockbuster tent-pole films that take as much as half the screen in a particular city, flooding the US market with thousands of prints. Theater owners also complained about distributors "collecting too many films too close together". It is also suspected that independent film distributors are trying to cut their losses on molds by recycling them. Given the popularity of some films that are "hard to come by", this strategy may leave box office money on the table. Home media
The Hurt Locker was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 12, 2010 This disc including additional audio commentary featuring director Kathryn Bigelow, author Mark Boal, and other members of the production crew; photo gallery from photo shoot; and a 15-minute EPK feature that highlights the filming experience in Jordan and film production. English DVDs and Blu-ray have no comment.
US DVD sales reached $ 30 million by mid-August 2010.
Awards and awards
Starting with an early screening at Venice 2008 International Film Festival, The Hurt Locker has received many awards and honors. It is also ranked in the top 10 list of film critics over other films of 2009. It was nominated in nine categories at the 82nd Academy Awards and won in six: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Movie Editing. It lost the award for Best Actor for Crazy , Best Original Score for Up , and Best Cinematography to Avatar . Bigelow became the first and, to date, only women who won an Oscar for Best Director.
Kathryn Bigelow was awarded the Guild of America Board of Directors for Extraordinary Achievement in Film Feature for this film, the first and, to date, only time that a female director has ever had. The film won six awards at BAFTA held on February 21, 2010, including Best Movie and Best Director for Bigelow. The Hurt Locker was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards.
The award of the Washington Area Film Critics Association D.C. for Best Director awarded to Kathryn Bigelow, the first time honor was given to a woman. The film sweeps most of the critics group awards for Best Director and Best Movies, including Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas, Los Angeles, an association of New York film critics groups. The Hurt Locker is one of only five films that have won all three major prizes of the US critics group (LA, NY, NSFC), along with Goodfellas , List Schindler , LA Secret , and Social Network .
Five awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics are the most by the organization for one film in 30 years of group history.
In February 2010, film producer Nicolas Chartier emailed a group of Academy Award voters in an attempt to influence them to vote for The Hurt Locker rather than the $ 500M movie (referring to Avatar ) for Best Picture award. He then issued a public apology, saying that it was "out of line and not in the celebration spirit of the cinema that this recognition is". The Academy banned him from attending the awards ceremony, the first time the Academy ever banned individual candidates.
See also
- Nine From Aberdeen , 2012 book by Jeffrey M. Leatherwood on the pioneer of World War II EOD, closing remarks by CSM James H. Clifford, military consultant for The Hurt Locker .
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External links
- Official website
- The Hurt Locker on IMDb
- The Hurt Locker at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Hurt Locker in Metacritic
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