and Cultural Literacy II 12 October 2011 Hurt Locker: An Addiction To War The Hurt Locker can give almost anybody the nerves with its numerous suspenseful moments. But what lies inside all the tension filled scenes is a much deeper meaning. Kathryn Bigelow stresses an important message in this Oscar-winning epic. Although the film depicts the gruesome horrors of war‚ Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is not an anti-war film. The Hurt Locker is a film about James’s addiction to war because it
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Zachary Haefeli Film Essay HUM-1201 2012 October 18 What is war? The media has struggled and been criticized for this question forever. Year after year films come out portraying what they believe war is actually like. Criticism that comes with these films is pretty extreme and the media gets bashed for certain scenes and some are even famous. War Veterans are the first to comment and obviously have opinions on what the film was depicting and what it left out. The media really cares about
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Kathryn Bigelow‚ director of The Hurt Locker could have never imagined her movie winning six academy awards. While the opinion from the audience played a role in these winnings‚ the technical aspect of the movie all the way down to the first shot of the movie‚ played the biggest role in this achievement. Bigelow used things such as moving camera shots‚ camera angles‚ lighting‚ and the use of long shots to create a realistic feel throughout the movie. Throughout the movie it appears that most of
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The Hurt Locker and PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that runs through our military system and is often vastly overlooked. It is a little-known mental health problem that is poorly understood. It can be traced back to the times of the Civil War and has been given names like shell-shocked syndrome‚ PTSD‚ soldier’s heart‚ and combat fatigue. A soldier who has experienced combat or military exposure of any level of severity can be susceptible to this anxiety disorder and
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The Emotional effects of war on soldiers. Manali Oak describes war as "a manifestation of death and destruction". “The Hurt Locker” aptly captures the above definition of war. It is one of the best movie releases of the year 2009 and by the trends; it continues generating a lot of hype for quite sometime (Manali O). Personally‚ I couldn’t get enough of watching the scenes over and over again‚ as I kept asking myself‚ "Is this exactly what is happening in Iraq? Are these soldiers really
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The Hurt Locker is a film that tells the story of an Army bomb squad fighting to stay alive in Iraq. The Sand Storm is a play by Sean Huze in which a series of monologues about the Iraq war are performed by a group of Marines. Both of these follow a series of characters through the war and shows it affects them not only as a soldier in the war but as a civilian back home. To compare and contrast these I would look at the base similarities and differences first‚ and then move on to a more analytical
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Movie Review The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker is a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow‚ set in the Iraq war. The film is about three men who makeup an explosives ordinance team; Staff Sargent Matthew Thompson (Guy Pearce)‚ Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie)‚ and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty). In the beginning‚ a bomb disposal goes bad and Sargent Matthew Thompson is killed by the blast‚ Eldridge blames himself for his friend’s death because he had the chance to shoot the bomber‚
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April 16‚ 2013 Editing: Memento & The Hurt Locker Memento is a film in which editing is part of the narrative while The Hurt Locker is a film in which the narrative uses editing. These two great films are very different when examining the editing. For example Memento has a very difficult story to understand due to the editing of the narrative and the story that Leonard Shelby is trying to tell. For the film‚ The Hurt Locker‚ the editing in the film is used to create dramatic emotion and create
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How do at least two of the following production elements combine to engage audiences with what is occurring one scene or sequence of the narrative you have studied. Scene 6 escalates the growing tension between James and Sanborn through sound and camera work. The audience assumes that the situation is extremely dangerous at the beginning of the scene due to the air raid siren sounds and the long shot establishing the evacuation of the UN building. This chaos is further emphasised by the shaky camera
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Another OB theory that is examined in The Hurt Locker is Leadership. This theory is defined as the ability of an individual to influence‚ motivate‚ and enable others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of organizations of which they are members. There are four perspectives on Leadership; these perspectives include Trait‚ Behavioral‚ Contingency and Transformational. The trait or competency perspective of leadership proposed that leaders are more likely to have certain personality
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