The document provides information about the 2008 film "The Hurt Locker" directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It discusses the film's plot about a bomb squad in Iraq, its critical and box office success including six Academy Awards, and analysis of its themes around the impact of war.

2. DIRECTED BY:
KATHRYN BIGELOW
WRITTEN BY:
MARK BOAL
PRODUCED BY:
NICOLAS CHARTIER

3. PRESENTED BY:
IRFAN ALI
PRESENTED TO:
MS. HINA SAEED
PRESENTATION OF
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

4.  The Hurt Locker
 Made in 2008
 Director: Kathryn Bigelow
 Writer: Mark Boal
 Genre: War/Thriller
 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best
Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.
:ABOUT THE MOVIE:

5. REASON FOR CHOOSING:
The main reason behind choosing this movie is:
 My personal interest in watching battle and warfare movies.
 Because of one of my best actor playing the leading role Jeremy
Renner.
 “WAR IS A DRUG” a quotation which is so realistic. As we see not
even in movies and dramas, even in real life everyone is solving their
personal problems by making pollution of war. War is a good choice
for fighting with enemies but not a good choice to pollute the society.

6. RELEASE YEAR :
USA 31 JULY 2009
ITALY 10 OCTOBER 2008
CANADA 8 SEPTEMBER 2008
BUSINESS:
Budget
$15,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$145,352 (USA)
€48,188 (Italy)

7. IMDb AND ROTTEN TOMATOES RATING:

8. OSCARS WON:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Kathryn Bigelow
Mark Boal
Nicolas Chartier
Greg Shapiro
Best Achievement in Directing
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for
Best Director.
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Mark Boal
Best Achievement in Film Editing
Bob Murawski
Chris Innis

9. Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Paul N.J. Ottosson
Ray Beckett
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Paul N.J. Ottosson

10. CAST:
JEREMY RENNER AS
STAFF SERGEANT WILLIAM
JAMES
ANTHONY
MACKIE AS
SERGEANT JT
SANBORN
EVANGELINE
LILLY AS CONNIE
JAMES
BRIAN
GERAGHTY AS
SPECIALIST OWEN
ELDRIDGE
RALPH FIENESS
AS CONTRACT
TEAM LEADER
GUY PEARCE AS
SERGEANT MATT
THOMPSON

11. SUMMARY OF THE MOVIE:
“The Hurt Locker” was filmed in Amman, whose streets,
in spite of the filmmakers' efforts to simulate Iraq's
rubble and crippled, half-starved cats, will strike anyone
familiar with Baghdad as a little too spiffy.
The movie is based on the accounts of American
journalist Mark Boal, who was embedded with an
American bomb squad in the war in Iraq. Boal also co-
produced the movie. The press pack for Kathryn
Bigelow's film claims "hurt locker" is GI slang for severe
injury. But the film's writer, who picked up on the phrase
during his time as an embedded journalist with an
Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in 2004, is rather more
vague in his definition.

12. ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE:
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations,
but “The Hurt Locker” opens with a
statement presented as fact: “War is a drug.”
After watching this movie I noticed that this
movie is directly linked to those soldiers who
risked their lives for us. Defusing the bombs
is not so easy task. It needs brave heart, guts
and presence of mind to make this all
happen. We should respect our soldiers and
appreciate them because fighting a war is not
a kids game.

13. TARGET AUDIENCE:
This poster targets multiple audiences. The most
prominent one is people who enjoy watching war films
or films that have armed forces in them. The poster
features a possible soldier, wearing armour for bomb
defusing. So people will see these signifiers of war and
want to watch the film, if they enjoy this genre.
Another possible target audience is people who enjoy
action films. This is possible because the man wearing
the bomb defusing armour is surrounded by some sort of
bomb. The audience will know that bombs explode and
then associate explosions with the action genre. One of
the reviews on the poster says ‘a full-tilt action picture’
which will further persuade fans of the action genre to
watch the film.