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...carry a handful of dangerous players to watch, but Penn has broken away from this tradition. “The danger of Penn is the opposite,” Delaney-Smith said. “They have a bunch of players and on any given night one can hurt...
TIME: What was the origin of The Hurt Locker? Mark Boal: I wanted to do a story that explained why the war was not going well and that showed the logistical futility of the war. So in 2004 I pitched a story to my editors at Playboy to do a piece on the bomb squad, and found myself in Baghdad eight months later. At some point while I was over there, it occurred to me that the insanity of the war was not being expressed in the popular media and that it could make a really eye-opening, gut-wrenching...
...like Platoon and Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List and Apocalypse Now, were not just cinematic experiences but were informative in terms of creating a sense of what those wars were like. They served that function in the culture. I was aiming for something along those lines with The Hurt Locker - to make a movie that hopefully, 20 years later, somebody would watch and say, Oh, I didn't know the war was like that...
...have the title in your head the whole time? Pretty early on. It's something I heard in Baghdad a couple of times, and it stuck with me, that phrase, the hurt locker. It means the place of ultimate pain - a painful place...
...knee injuries really hurt me a lot, just because…I was finally playing again after missing freshman year, and it was nice to be back on the court,” he recalls. “Then I went down with the same injury twice in back-to-back years, so that was definitely disheartening...