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'Zero Dark Thirty' Interview: Director and Cast Talk Controversy, Courage & Torture
Who's ready to take on a ton of pressure? Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal certainly must have been. Not only did Bigelow and Boal have to follow-up their Academy Award-winning work in The Hurt Locker, but the pair chose the most challenging material to do it with – the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Forget all the required research, possible political scrutiny and delicacy of the material; making the project even more demanding, bin Laden was actually killed just a short while before Boal completed his script detailing the failed hunt for bin Laden in the Toro Bora mountain range.
While participating in a press conference in New York City, Bigelow recalls, "While Mark was working on the screenplay, actually quite far along in the screenplay, May 1, 2011 happened and we realized, after some soul searching, that it was going to be a little difficult to make a movie about the failed hunt for Osama bin Laden when the whole world knew that he had been killed." And so the plan changed and Boal refocused his script on the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad – the raid that ultimately resulted in his death.
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Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Using his experience with an American bomb squad to develop a fictitious story for "The Hurt Locker" is one thing, but writer Mark Boal's decision to tackle the death of Osama bin Laden takes journalistic moviemaking to another level, one that comes with an immense amount of societal and ethical pressure, on top of the challenge of just making a good movie. But it's a good thing Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow were the pair to take on that challenge because it's highly unlikely any other duo could have pulled it off quite like them.
"Zero Dark Thirty" focuses on Jessica Chastain's Maya, a top-notch CIA analyst sent to Pakistan to join a team tasked with tracking down high-ranking members of Al Qaida, with an ultimate goal of taking out Osama bin Laden. At first, Maya doesn't take to the CIA Black Site's brutal interrogation tactics, but as the years go on and colleagues lose their jobs and, in some cases, their lives, Maya's determination peaks and she does whatever it takes to gather solid intel.
"Zero Dark Thirty" is a heavy-duty piece and Bigelow wastes no time putting the audience in the appropriate headspace. The film kicks off with a montage of 9/11 phone calls playing over black and the sequence is cut perfectly, rousing the heartache of that day through a sense of hysteria, but also by giving certain audio clips time to breathe, establishing a personal connection. By the time the film hits the "2 Years Later" title card, your heart is already pounding through your chest.
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