Comments on: Kathryn Bigelow & Writer Mark Boal Did Get Their Hands On Classified Info After All For ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-20120524/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Stevo the Magnificent https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-20120524/#comment-77762 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:29 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-110342/#comment-77762 I don't blame Kathryn Bigelow for this, if I were her, I would have jumped at the access she supposedly got, it's the fault of the current U.S. administration and their seemingly cavalier attitude to national security, not to mention their determined mindset that partisan political concerns should trump the normal official rules and regulations concerning highly classified information… if a Republican administration had done this, every Democrat, liberal, and organ of the lamestream media would be screaming for impeachment hearings and Congressional investigations, what's good for the goose should be good for the gander…

]]> By: thatsallIcareabout https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-20120524/#comment-77763 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:29 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-110342/#comment-77763 all I care is that this is shot in 2.35:1

]]> By: No https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-20120524/#comment-77764 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:29 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-110342/#comment-77764 After the movie comes out and everybody collects their awards and notices, will anyone be concerned about the one man left behind: Dr. Shakil Afridi?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/world/asia/doctor-who-helped-find-bin-laden-given-jail-term-official-says.html?_r=1&ref=world

]]> By: Kevin Klawitter https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-20120524/#comment-77765 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:29 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/kathryn-bigelow-writer-mark-boal-did-get-their-hands-on-classified-info-after-all-for-zero-dark-thirty-110342/#comment-77765 You seem to have missed the part where a spokesperson for the Nationa Security Council said “When people, including press, authors, filmmakers, documentarians, who are working on projects that involve the President ask to speak with administration officials, we do our best to accommodate them to make sure the facts are correct… That’s hardly a novel approach to the media. We do not discuss classified information. The information that the White House provided about the bin Laden raid was focused on the President’s role in that decision making process. The same information was given to the White House press corps.”

And besides, before he became a screenwriter, Mark Boal was (and still is ) a journalist. If you wan to tell a story, getting your facts straight is the name of the game.

I can't help but wonder where these controversies were when "Act of Valor" (also said to be based on true events, excuse me, true "acts of valor") was being filmed.

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