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'''''The Hurt Locker''''' is a [[2009 in film|2009]] [[Cinema of the United States|American]] war thriller directed by [[Kathryn Bigelow]].<ref name="NYTimes">[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/movies/20comm.html?_r=1 The New York Times "Recovering Treasures From Below the Radar" February 20, 2009, By A. O. SCOTT]</ref> Shot in [[Jordan]], the film is based on recently declassified information about a U.S. Army [[Explosive Ordnance Disposal]] (EOD) (bomb squad) team in present day [[Iraq]]. ''The Hurt Locker'' is written by [[Mark Boal]], a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad.<ref name="ToMakeLocker">[http://www.movieweb.com/news/93/21193.php Kathryn Bigelow to Make The Hurt Locker]</ref><ref name="Guardian">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/07/venicefilmfestival "A few choice triumphs keep the Lido afloat" The Guardian UK, by Nick James September 7 2008]</ref>
'''''The Hurt Locker''''' is a universally-acclaimed, award-winning [[2009 in film|2009]] [[Cinema of the United States|American]] war thriller directed by [[Kathryn Bigelow]].<ref name="NYTimes">[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/movies/20comm.html?_r=1 The New York Times "Recovering Treasures From Below the Radar" February 20, 2009, By A. O. SCOTT]</ref> Shot in [[Jordan]], the film is based on recently declassified information about a U.S. Army [[Explosive Ordnance Disposal]] (EOD) (bomb squad) team in present day [[Iraq]]. ''The Hurt Locker'' is written by [[Mark Boal]], a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad.<ref name="ToMakeLocker">[http://www.movieweb.com/news/93/21193.php Kathryn Bigelow to Make The Hurt Locker]</ref><ref name="Guardian">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/07/venicefilmfestival "A few choice triumphs keep the Lido afloat" The Guardian UK, by Nick James September 7 2008]</ref>


''The Hurt Locker'' was picked up by distributor [[Summit Entertainment]].<ref name="Summit">[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991968.html?categoryId=13&cs=1&nid=2854 "Summit takes 'Hurt Locker' in U.S." Variety, by Sharon Swart, Sept. 10, 2008]</ref> The film was released in the U.S. on June 26, 2009 in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its limited run, the independent film began to go wider on July 24, 2009.<ref name=ReleaseDate>[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/summit-updates-release-date-for-the-hurt-locker-synopsis-for-eclipse-and-clip-from-knowing Rope of Silicon "Summit Updates: Release Date for The Hurt Locker, Synopsis for Eclipse and Clip from Knowing" by Brad Brevet, January 27, 2009]</ref><ref name="Release">[http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0640793/ IMDB - Hollywood Chicago com “The Hurt Locker” Release date announced]</ref><ref name="OscarChances">[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hurt_locker_to_summit_and_che_to_ifc "'Hurt Locker' to Summit and 'Che' to IFC: Festival pick-ups find their Oscar chances" Rope of Silicon, by Brad Brevet, September 10, 2008]</ref><ref name="LATimes910">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/09/toronto-the-hur.html "Toronto: "The Hurt Locker" sold to Summit Entertainment" LA Times blog, by Mark Olsen, Sep 10 2008]</ref><ref name="Rope">[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/oscar_update_dark_knight_push_brothers_bloom_update_and_more "Oscar Update" Rope of Silicon]</ref>
''The Hurt Locker'' was picked up by distributor [[Summit Entertainment]].<ref name="Summit">[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991968.html?categoryId=13&cs=1&nid=2854 "Summit takes 'Hurt Locker' in U.S." Variety, by Sharon Swart, Sept. 10, 2008]</ref> The film was released in the U.S. on June 26, 2009 in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its limited run, the independent film began to go wider on July 24, 2009.<ref name=ReleaseDate>[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/summit-updates-release-date-for-the-hurt-locker-synopsis-for-eclipse-and-clip-from-knowing Rope of Silicon "Summit Updates: Release Date for The Hurt Locker, Synopsis for Eclipse and Clip from Knowing" by Brad Brevet, January 27, 2009]</ref><ref name="Release">[http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0640793/ IMDB - Hollywood Chicago com “The Hurt Locker” Release date announced]</ref><ref name="OscarChances">[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hurt_locker_to_summit_and_che_to_ifc "'Hurt Locker' to Summit and 'Che' to IFC: Festival pick-ups find their Oscar chances" Rope of Silicon, by Brad Brevet, September 10, 2008]</ref><ref name="LATimes910">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2008/09/toronto-the-hur.html "Toronto: "The Hurt Locker" sold to Summit Entertainment" LA Times blog, by Mark Olsen, Sep 10 2008]</ref><ref name="Rope">[http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/oscar_update_dark_knight_push_brothers_bloom_update_and_more "Oscar Update" Rope of Silicon]</ref>

Revision as of 02:30, 6 August 2009

The Hurt Locker
Directed byKathryn Bigelow
Written byMark Boal
Produced byTony Mark (executive)
Nicolas Chartier
Kathryn Bigelow
Mark Boal
Greg Shapiro
Donall McCusker
(co-producer)
StarringJeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Brian Geraghty
Evangeline Lilly
Ralph Fiennes
David Morse
Guy Pearce
Christian Camargo
CinematographyBarry Ackroyd
Edited byChris Innis
Bob Murawski
Music byMarco Beltrami
Buck Sanders
Distributed bySummit Entertainment
Release dates
October 10, 2008 (Italy)
June 26, 2009 (US, limited)
Running time
131 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$11 million (estimate)
Box office$7,426,885
(U.S., Italy & Iceland) [1]

The Hurt Locker is a universally-acclaimed, award-winning 2009 American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow.[2] Shot in Jordan, the film is based on recently declassified information about a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) (bomb squad) team in present day Iraq. The Hurt Locker is written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad.[3][4]

The Hurt Locker was picked up by distributor Summit Entertainment.[5] The film was released in the U.S. on June 26, 2009 in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its limited run, the independent film began to go wider on July 24, 2009.[6][7][8][9][10]

Plot

The Hurt Locker follows a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit as it works to defuse a series of improvised explosive devices (IED) in the streets of Iraq. Jeremy Renner plays the leader of the EOD team, as he contends with not only defusing bombs in the backdrop of a war, but also the psychological and emotional strain that it inflicts.[11][12]

As the unit deals with one explosive device after another, it confronts the unpredictable and extreme violence of a growing Iraqi insurgency. Team members struggle constantly to distinguish enemy insurgents from innocent Iraqis and to protect themselves while avoiding civilian casualties. [11]

Overview

The Hurt Locker stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, and Evangeline Lilly.[13][14][15][16][17]

The script was written by first-time screenwriter Mark Boal, a freelance writer who has contributed to Playboy, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone magazines and who also wrote the short story that inspired the film In the Valley of Elah.[13] Boal spent time embedded with a real bomb squad, which was a source for the story.[18] According to Boal, "It's the first movie about the Iraq war that purports to show the experience of the soldiers."[19]

Other members of the key filmmaking crew include director of photography Barry Ackroyd, film editors Chris Innis and Bob Murawski, production designer Karl Júlíusson, production sound mixer Ray Beckett, and costume designer George Little. The film's real explosions and special effects were designed by Richard Stutsman and his team. The score was composed by Academy Award nominated composer Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders.

The Hurt Locker was shot mainly on location in the Middle East, over forty-four days from July to September 2007, during the height of the Iraq war surge. Often four or more camera crews filmed simultaneously, which resulted in nearly 200 hours of footage.[20][21] There were also two days of pick up shots filmed in or around Vancouver, Canada, to accommodate home town actress Evangeline Lilly.

Although the filmmakers scouted for locations in Morocco, director Kathryn Bigelow sought greater authenticity and decided to film in Jordan because of its close proximity to Iraq. Some of the locations were less than three miles from the Iraqi border.[20] All the Iraqi roles in the film were played by displaced Iraqi war refugees living in Jordan, many of them trained actors who had been forced to flee their country.[20]. They included roles by Suhail Aldabbach, Nabil Koni, Feisal Sadoun, Imad Dadudi, Hasan Darwish, Wasfi Amour, Nibras Quassem, Nader Tarawneh and very notably Christopher Sayegh in the role of "Beckham", the Iraqi street vendor kid who befriends Staff Sergeant William James played by Jeremy Renner.

Lead actor Jeremy Renner, who trained with real EOD teams prior to shooting the film, says that great pains were taken to ensure the film's authenticity.[22] According to Renner, shooting the film in the Middle East contributed to this. "There were two by fours with nails being dropped from two-story buildings that hit me in the helmet and they were throwing rocks... we got shot at a few times while we were filming," Renner said. "When you see it, you're gonna feel like you've been in war."[23]

"You can't fake that amount of heat," Anthony Mackie who plays Sgt. Sanborn says, adding, "When you are on set and all of the extras are Iraqi refugees, it really informs the movie that you're making. When you start hearing the stories from a true perspective... of people who were actually there, it gives you a clear viewpoint of where you are as an artist and the story you would like to tell. It was a great experience to be there."[24]

Premieres and festival screenings

The world premiere of The Hurt Locker was at the 65th Annual Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on September 4, 2008.[25] According to VARIETY, the bomb-squad actioner "jolted Venice" with high-adrenaline, receiving a ten minute standing ovation.[26]

The film also won the SIGNIS grand prize at the Venice Film Festival. According to the jury’s statement, the motivation for this choice is "the filmmakers' uncompromising approach to the Iraq war and its consequences seen through the experience of the bomb technicians for whom war is an addiction rather than a cause. The film challenges the audience’s view of war in general and the current war in particular because it demonstrates the struggle between violence to the body and psychological alienation."[27] The Hurt Locker received several other awards in Venice, including the Arca Cinemagiovani Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for "Best Film Venezia 65" (chosen by an international youth jury); the Human Rights Film Network Award; and the "La Navicella" – Venezia Cinema Award.[28]

The film's North American premiere was at the 33rd Annual Toronto International Film Festival, where it was listed as being among the "top 6 picks" of the festival.[29][30] Festival co-director Bailey says that The Hurt Locker "unlocked the key to making a film about the Iraq War. It transcends what is going on in the headlines... and finds something that's mysterious and symbolic."[31] Entertainment Weekly's film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum listed the film as her number one find at Toronto, adding: "Jeremy Renner gives a knockout performance... Every step he takes is truly a matter of life and death — for him as well as for the soldiers he serves with... the anxiety and tension of battle (are compressed) into every frame."[32]

The Hurt Locker is currently on a film festival world tour, having been screened out of competition at the Zurich Film Festival[33] and the 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal.[34][35] It was scheduled as the opening film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina in mid-November 2008 and at the Fifth Dubai International Film Festival on December 16, 2008.[36][37][38] The film premiered at the 2008 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, and also at the Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden in January 2009.[2][39][40][41]

The Hurt Locker was screened at the 2009 tenth annual Film Comment Selects Festival of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.[42] The 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas also included The Hurt Locker screening out-of-competition.[43][44]

The film was a centerpiece presentation at the third annual 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival, where director Bigelow received an honorary Dallas Star Award.[45][46] The Hurt Locker also screened in Bologna, Italy as part of the 2009 Bologna Human Rights Nights Film Festival which ran from March 27, 2009 through April 5, 2009.[47] The Hurt Locker has also screened at The Seattle International Film Festival in May 2009 and at the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival.[48][49]

Reception

The Hurt Locker has been very well received among critics, with a 93 average rating on Metacritic and a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics".[50][51] Several reviewers have described it as the best film yet made about the Iraq war.[52][53][54]

Reviewing the film for TIME magazine at Venice, film critic Richard Corliss said, "The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes."[55] Toronto Star critic Peter Howell said, "Just when you think the battle of Iraq war dramas has been fought and lost, along comes one that demands to be seen... If you can sit through The Hurt Locker without your heart nearly pounding through your chest, you must be made of granite."[56] Entertainment Weekly's film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film the rare "A" rating, calling it, "an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground. This ain't no war videogame."[57]

Film critic Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times praised the film with, "The Hurt Locker has killer impact... Overwhelmingly tense, overflowing with crackling verisimilitude, it's the film about the war in Iraq that we've been waiting for."[58]

The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote of the film, "The Hurt Locker is the best nondocumentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq... You may emerge from “The Hurt Locker” shaken, exhilarated and drained, but you will also be thinking."[59] Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal called it, "A first-rate action thriller, a vivid evocation of urban warfare in Iraq, a penetrating study of heroism and a showcase for austere technique, terse writing and a trio of brilliant performances."[60] Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times gave it four stars stating, "The Hurt Locker is a spellbinding war film... The suspense is real, and it is earned."[61]

Less favorably, Variety's Derek Elley comments "war may be hell, but watching war movies can also be hell, especially when they don't get to the point."[62] Elley did praise the film's editing, cinematography, costume and production design, while Variety contributor Anne Thompson has called the film, "riveting and intense", suggesting that it could be an early contender for the 2009 Academy Awards.[63][64][65]

Kyle Smith of the New York Post said "Despite its pumped-up admiration for our troops and some scenes that spurt adrenaline like a fire hose, this sort-of-thriller about a bomb squad working in 2004 is stretched both timewise and for plausibility."[66]

Box office

The film had the highest per-screen average box office during its limited opening weekend, which averaged $36,000 per screen besting that of box office hit, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.[67][68] It held the highest per-screen-average of any movie playing theatrically in the U.S. for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart with much wider-released, bigger budget studio films. It has hovered around number 13 or number 14 on box office charts for an additional four weeks.[69] Based on that success, distributor Summit Entertainment went wider to more than 500 screens on July 24, 2009.[1][70][71][72] As of August 5,2009, the independently produced and financed film has grossed a total of $7,426,885 in the U.S., Italy and Iceland. It has not yet been released in other foreign countries or territories.[1]

According to the Los Angeles Times, The Hurt Locker has performed better than most recent dramas about Middle East conflict. The independent film was acquired by Summit Entertainment at last year's Toronto International Film Festival for $1.5 million and has since made more than seven million. According to the Times, The Hurt Locker has already outperformed 2007's In the Valley of Elah (which had $6.8 million domestic theatrical gross), will soon go by 2008's Stop-Loss ($10.9 million) and even could surpass 2007's Lions for Lambs ($15 million), which starred A-listers Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.[73]

Awards and nominations

Besides the four award wins and five nominations at the Venice Film Festival, The Hurt Locker was also nominated for International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE PLUS Grand Prix Golden Frog award for best cinematography by Barry Ackroyd.[74] Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie were nominated for best acting categories for the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards.[17] The AFI Dallas 2009 International Film Festival has awarded the AFI DALLAS honorary Star Award to the film's director, Bigelow.[45][46] The film's director has also received recognition from ShoWest, the annual film exhibition confab in Las Vegas.[75] At the 14th Annual Nantucket International Film Festival in Massachusetts, the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting was awarded to The Hurt Locker screenwriter, Mark Boal.[76]

Year Award Result Category Recipients
2008 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Nominated Best Film The Hurt Locker
Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize Won Best Film
Venice Film Festival - Arca Cinemagiovani Award
(Arca Young Cinema Award) 		Won Best Film Venezia 65
Venice Film Festival Human Rights Film Network Award Won Best Film
Venice Film Festival Young Cinema Award - "La Navicella" Won Best Film
CAMERIMAGE PLUS Grand Prix - "Golden Frog" Nominated Best Cinematography Barry Ackroyd
2009 Independent Spirit Awards Nominated Best Actor Jeremy Renner
Nominated Best Supporting Actor Anthony Mackie
Seattle International Film Festival Won Best Director Kathryn Bigelow
Nantucket International Film Festival Won Best Screenplay Mark Boal

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