https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-20130207/ Sun, 22 May 2016 03:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-20130207/#comment-111951 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-249367/#comment-111951 Additionally for film comps I'd add Zodiac, in terms of both the relationship between the story itself and 'story'telling; and the film's approach and structure.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-20130207/#comment-111952 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-249367/#comment-111952 That's funny, people who aren't Mark Boal are comparing him and Bigelow to Leni Riefenstahl. I guess it's Triumph of the Lying CIA Dupes around here 24/7. It IS a scandal: http://wp.me/pwAWe-YR

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-20130207/#comment-111953 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-249367/#comment-111953 Yes, Black Hawk Down… another film that glorifies militarism.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-20130207/#comment-111954 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:19:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/mark-boal-compares-storytelling-of-zero-dark-thirty-to-all-the-presidents-men-black-hawk-down-the-social-network-249367/#comment-111954 They took the easy way by that "we're just depicting" routine, not daring to really tackle the subject, not giving it a real viewpoint. The script was pretty bad with that audience substitute lead and all. Bigelow's and DoP's visuality salvaged some of it, but still a weak movie.

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