Charles Bigelow

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How do Kathryn Bigelow’s films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty use language to portray the life of combatants in a battle? Introduction Kathryn Bigelow is one of the most iconic directors of the modern era. Her sense of depicting language remains unopposed. She is known for her specialty films of the war genre. Several of her works have been greatly appreciated, such as The Weight of Water, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, etc. These have won her several awards and secured her place as one

yet I suspect that it will not seem new, nor old, to most audiences -- only all too familiar. Bigelow's film is the nearest thing I can think of to an American counterpart of Paul Greengrass's docudrama Bloody Sunday. In its first act (of three), Bigelow approximates Greengrass's pseudo-verite style, immersing us in the buildup to the 1967 Detroit riots with jumpy immediacy, with great help from her Zero Dark Thirty editor, William Goldenberg. Over time, we are introduced to the characters who will

The Hurt Locker, a movie which depicts the the War in Iraq, looks at the many different aspects of war. The soldiers in this movie have to endure many severe conditions such as the possibility of dying on the spot because of an IED or trying to diffuse a bomb. Even though the mission is to win in a war, these fighters are still human beings. The soldiers look out for their own comrades, but also want to protect the Iraqis they have befriended. However, there were times when both the Iraqis and even

to explore each of the elements portrayed, and ultimately offers a more profound, subtle, and enduring explication than the film. Both The Hurt Locker and The Forever War discuss revenge as an integral part of the violent experience of the war. Bigelow begins this discussion by examining revenge as the rationale behind Sergeant James’ erratic and violent tendencies, and Filkins completes this discussion by thoroughly studying the prevalence of revenge as the propelling factor of violence. In The

displayed by the entertainment industry might, in most cases, as well be ballet” and it is because of this that the masses get a false sense of what war entails (Hedges 2002, pg.3, 84). The Hurt Locker does the opposite of that, director Kathryn Bigelow decides not to follow the typical structure of a war movie and elects to include the graphic images and sounds that remove the cover from this dream and reveal a nightmare. Specifically, the scene that stands out is when Staff Sargent William James

In “The Hurt Locker” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the filmmakers accentuate the fact that war and chaos are dangerous and never ending, and yet are addictive in a way that forms the soldiers’ passions and ways of life. The filmmakers do this by using unique camera shots and techniques to capture the real-life tension experienced by soldiers, as well as explore different points of views during a situation and by arranging the movie in a documentary style that makes a fictional movie and story seem

The movie hurt locker written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It displays the war in middle east vividly. The story began when the bomb tech team leader Sergeant Thompson was killed in an accident. Sergeant James was there to replaced him and the movie was reflecting on various conflicts that the tech team has encountered. Although hurt locker alludes to the typical hollywood heroism and patriotism, in fact, it actually suggested how war is terrible and how it destroy people by delivering

As most of you know by now the movie The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for movie of the year, and this makes me very angry. My civilian friends keep asking me why I'm so mad, because most of them enjoyed watching it. Simply put it's because the movie is full of lies, exaggerations, and ugly people. 'But it's a movie' they say, 'of course it's not realistic'. That's strange.. because the back of The Hurt Locker box says 'Powerfully Realistic'. Yet this movie is about as far from realism that a movie

The “Hurt Locker” by the filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow conveys several messages but I believe that the main message to the theme of the movie is presented at the very beginning of the film in the form of a quote. The quote that appears in the film states, “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” This quote comes from the book ‘War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,’ by Chris Hedges, a reporter for The New York Times. I believe this message is the main theme of this