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PR: The Hurt Locker

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  1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE HURT LOCKER

    The Film, Winner Of the Gucci Prize At Venice Film Festival, Features Music By
    Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

    (January 12, 2010- Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the original soundtrack for The Hurt Locker, available digitally (iTunes and Amazon Digital) on January 12th and in stores on January 19, 2010. Marco Beltrami (3:10 To Yuma, Scream, Max Payne) and Buck Sanders (Max Payne, Mindgame) composed the music.

    Marco Beltrami is known for his unconventional approach to film scoring. After studying at Brown University and the Yale School of Music, composer Marco Beltrami continued his training in Italy under the Italian master Luigi Nono. He then relocated to Los Angeles to undertake a fellowship with Academy Award® winning composer Jerry Goldsmith. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Beltrami was hired to score Scream, the Wes Craven film that would become a successful trilogy. Following Scream, Beltrami went on to write his critically acclaimed score for Mimic. His recent compositions include Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines, Hellboy, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and 3:10 To Yuma, for which he earned an Academy Award® nomination.

    Buck Sanders has been working with Marco Beltrami since 1997. After studying guitar performance at UCLA, he has designed the sonic palettes and overseen score productions for over 40 films. He has co-composed the scores for Max Payne and 13 with Beltrami.

    The Hurt Locker is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s most unrecognized heroes: the technicians of the bomb squad, who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world’s most dangerous places. Three members of the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and each other as they seek out and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad -- in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear - protect and save - but it’s anything but easy, for the margin of error on a war-zone bomb is zero. A thrilling and heart-thumping look at the effects of combat and danger on the human psyche, The Hurt Locker is based on the first-hand observations of journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq.

    Visionary director Kathryn Bigelow brings together groundbreaking realistic action and intimate human drama in a gripping film starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, with cameo appearances by Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly, and Guy Pearce.

    “Kathryn's main goal sonically was to blur the line between sound effects and score to enhance realism and not have an overtly orchestral score leading the film,” said Sanders, “We decided to use a small ensemble and some of the film’s production sounds and then fused them together.”

    Beltrami continues, “Thematically we decided it should conjure up images of a western since the main character’s attitude is that of a independent cowboy. Then we used various performance techniques to achieve the atmosphere of an unpredictable, alien landscape”

    Summit Entertainment presents The Hurt Locker available on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 12. The Hurt Locker original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and Amazon Digital on January 12th and in stores on January 19, 2010.

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    For more information contact: cinemediapromo@yahoo.com
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    Some of us talked about a not so realistic, Americanized glorified version of Iraq in HURT LOCKER. It seems to have started creating a buzz among people who are professionally involved with Iraq as well.

    http://www.truthout.org/the-hurt-locker … loses57572


    "Other aspects in the movie were a mere fraction of what actually occurs. Iraqi citizens are not only routinely disrespected, they are simply abused, verbally or physically, by military members and civilian contractors. What is worse is that too many of these people in Iraq are simply trigger-happy, firing upon civilians."


    http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/ent … 29950.html
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    Yeah, I don't think John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter and Sean Connery were actually present at the landing in Normandy in 1944 either.
    <shrug>

    This kind of "Hollywood doesn't tell it like it is" moaning is of all times.
    People who are unable to distinguish between a film and political reality pretty much deserve all the scorn they get.

    If it's a good film, it's a good film.
    I'll be happy to discuss the political and military reality of Iraq in any thread not referencing films.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    Well, a good film about the subject doesn't need to get all the facts straight, as long as it does get people to talk about it. And The Hurt Locker seems to be doing just that. Plus, I'm sure the film manages to capture the essence of the work that is being done over there.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    Your view doesn't count Martijn. You're already a well known supporter of the opinion that every problem the earth has starts from and because of the Middle East wink tongue
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    Let me see...Oil, organized religion, tribal mindsets... yeah, I'd say that was about right...

    wink
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    Martijn wrote
    Let me see...Oil, organized religion, tribal mindsets... yeah, I'd say that was about right...

    wink


    FACT!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    I am glad to see that US civilization-attempts all these years, part of those life-saving operations accurately portrayed in such films as the hurt locker - have stopped all the problems related to oil, organized religion, tribal mindsets stemming from those regions. Glad they have freed the poor people of those countries previously living under the helotism of vicious local land / oil lords and who are now living in free lands, prosperity and wealth.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    'Oil lords'

    hehe biggrin
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    shame biggrin
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    Always remember that Hollywood is all about money. If most people really knew what was going on I wonder if they could really handle it. I don't think so.
    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!
  12. I am looking forward to The Pacific (the series). I hope that the series will be honest about the atrocities done by BOTH sides of the Pacific theatre.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010 edited
    PawelStroinski wrote
    I am looking forward to The Pacific (the series). I hope that the series will be honest about the atrocities done by BOTH sides of the Pacific theatre.


    Did the allies starve POW, make them march hundreds of miles, torture and behead them on a massive scale?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  14. No, but for quite while they took no prisoners and even if they did, they shot them down on the way to the camp. Too much fuss.

    Eastwood's Letters of Iwo Jima show such a situation.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    I know Pawel, I was just playing devil's advocate, the allies did the same with German POW in certain circumstances.

    The Pacific is MUST SEE tv for me.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  16. I actually got HBO for a few months PRECISELY to watch The Pacific biggrin
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    I'm afraid I'm going to have to wait slant

    I believe it starts tomorrow night? I'd like to hear your opinion Pawel....with [spoiler][/spoiler] where necessary. wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  18. We start out day after the US premiere. In the US it starts on Sunday, Poland on Monday. First time it happens.

    But I won't see it until Tuesday, I happen to have classes then. Of course I will share my opinion and BTW. It's no Band of Brothers, but I *do* like the score. It's sad, melodic, mournful, I think actually pretty inspired, just more restrained than Kamen and of course, not as good compositionally, but Zimmer has never been Michael Kamen.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    I haven't made any comment on The Pacific music, I haven't heard it. Despite not really caring for the Zimmer sound I always keep an open ear.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    PawelStroinski wrote
    No, but for quite while they took no prisoners and even if they did, they shot them down on the way to the camp. Too much fuss.


    Not quite comparable to structural strategies geared towards genocide and annihilation, though (as both the Germans and Japanese had). Let's keep a little perspective, shall we? Atrocities committed by the axis were incomparably greater in scale and scope than those committed by the allies.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
    Christodoulides wrote
    I am glad to see that US civilization-attempts all these years, part of those life-saving operations accurately portrayed in such films as the hurt locker - have stopped all the problems related to oil, organized religion, tribal mindsets stemming from those regions. Glad they have freed the poor people of those countries previously living under the helotism of vicious local land / oil lords and who are now living in free lands, prosperity and wealth.


    *groan*
    Apparently Chomsky is alive and well and living in Greece.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  22. Martijn wrote
    PawelStroinski wrote
    No, but for quite while they took no prisoners and even if they did, they shot them down on the way to the camp. Too much fuss.


    Not quite comparable to structural strategies geared towards genocide and annihilation, though (as both the Germans and Japanese had). Let's keep a little perspective, shall we? Atrocities committed by the axis were incomparably greater in scale and scope than those committed by the allies.


    I am not saying that they were comparable, I am just saying that they aren't often spoken of and I hope that the series will be honest in depiction of BOTH sides.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010
    hopefully you'll be correct
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010 edited
    Martijn wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    I am glad to see that US civilization-attempts all these years, part of those life-saving operations accurately portrayed in such films as the hurt locker - have stopped all the problems related to oil, organized religion, tribal mindsets stemming from those regions. Glad they have freed the poor people of those countries previously living under the helotism of vicious local land / oil lords and who are now living in free lands, prosperity and wealth.


    *groan*
    Apparently Chomsky is alive and well and living in Greece.


    So is reality wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010
    Sure, D.
    Everything isn't perfect and it's all the fault of the Americans.
    I long for the carefree days of Saddam, the kind benevolence of the Taliban.
    Only the Iranians got it right when they deposed the US-supported shah and imposed a peaceloving, freedom embracing theocracy.

    I also strongly support the Facebook groups urging the US to finally refrain from earthquakes in Chili and Indonesia.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010
    Yeah. And between any 2 extremes there's always the middle ground. It's called looking around you. Being unbiased; down to earth, realistic. Measuring BOTH pros and cons.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010
    Ahhhh, realistic. Like you were above? angelic
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn

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