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Press Room Media Crush, Backstage Oscar(R) 2010 Edited by Quendrith Johnson ("THE HURT LOCKER" - Best Screenplay)
Q: Congratulations. MARK BOAL: Thank you. Q: You had mentioned in your speech that your father would have been proud of you. How has your father inspired you? MARK BOAL: In so many ways. Just really teaching me and encouraging me to follow my heart. Q: Are you scared to death about Best Picture? MARK BOAL: Well, I'm feeling a lot better about it now than I was 15 minutes ago. Q: You know, when you're very successful, people take pot shots at you and there's going to be there's a lawsuit against you. How do you feel about that, a guy who is claiming you took his story? MARK BOAL: Well, as I've said before, Jack is a brave soldier, and the screenplay is a work of fiction and it's not based on any one person's story and that's really all I have on it. Q: These kind of movies, we see a lot of these movies more in Morocco and South Africa and you chose to shoot in Jordan, which is close to Iraq. What did it bring to the picture? MARK BOAL: Well, we couldn't have made the movie without the assistance of the Jordanian film commission and the Jordanian Royal Family and I think it brought a level of authenticity to the aesthetic qualities of the film, and it was just a great experience for all of us to make a movie about the Middle East in the Middle East. Q: What prompted you to write this particular screenplay? What is it about that subject matter that drew you to write? MARK BOAL: In a way, I thought it was an eye opening and inspiring let's just say I had an eye opening experience in Baghdad in the end of 2004, and I thought that the story of these guys who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world would be an interesting way to look at the war in a broader sense. And as I said on stage, it was just an idea and the fact that it's become this is really a I'm tremendously grateful and humbled by the outcome. Q: Talk to us a little bit about what your collaboration with Kathryn Bigelow brought to the movie. MARK BOAL: Well, I mean, as I've said, sometimes I don't know why but if anybody from time to time people have asked me for advice and my advice to them as a screenwriter is that it always helps to have a genius for a director, so that about sums up my feeling about that. And she obviously took the work and knocked it out of the park, in my opinion. Q: Hi. Not every movie about, you know, the war has been successful. There's the Green Zone and yours is not going to be the last movie -- MARK BOAL: Green Zone has not come out yet. Let's not damn it. Q: Yours is not going to be the last movie, you know, written about this war. What advice do you have for filmmakers and screenwriters who are going to be writing movies about this war? MARK BOAL: I don't have any, actually. There are many stories left to be told and I'm so proud to be part of a community of filmmakers that has engaged in this topic. And I hope there are many more movies and documentaries and articles and discussion on Iraq, and also in Afghanistan, because these are extremely important historical moments that need to be explored by artists.  Screenmancer on Oscar(R) site link: click here for Nicholl Fellowship... Go to the Movies for Free Here... Burn After Viewing?! Hollywood Horoscope: Surreal, Daily, Relentless! Screenmancer's News, Interviews, Reviews SCREENMANCER thanks the ACADEMY and OSCAR(R) |
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