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Green Zone (film)
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Green Zone is a 2010 action thriller war film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is "credited as having been 'inspired' by"[2] the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which documented life in the Green Zone, Baghdad. The film stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. Production began in January 2008 in Spain and moved on to Morocco. The film was released in Australia and Russia on March 11, 2010, and in the USA and some other countries on March 12, 2010.

Plot

General Al-Rawi (Yigal Naor), in hiding in Baghdad, is meeting with his aides talking about the invasion of Iraq. Many of his aides propose fighting other Iraqi forces and American forces, however Al-Rawi suggests that they remain where they are and wait until the Americans arrive and perhaps make the Iraqi army an offer to join their forces (the earlier arrival of Al-Rawi, senior in the Iraqi government, is noticed by an an Iraqi we will come to know as Freddie).

Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his squad investigate a warehouse, believed to be holding Weapons of Mass Destruction. After encounters with a sniper and scanning the warehouse for radioactive activity, they find that the warehouse is empty, with the exception of an old piece of mechanical equipment. After regrouping with his squad, Roy Miller starts to question the intel given to him. At a debriefing, Miller brings up the point that the majority of the intel given to him is inaccurate and anonymous, stating that on his last three attempts to find WMDs, his team had come up with nothing. High-ranking officials quickly debunk Miller's theory about the intelligence being false.

Meanwhile, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) is welcoming Ahmed Zubadi (Raad Rawi) an Iraqi politician at Saddam International Airport, where he is interrogated by journalist Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan). She asks if she could speak to "Magellan", to which Poundstone says that he is heavily "locked up".

After the debriefing, Miller meets Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), an employee of the CIA, who tells Miller that the next place he is going to investigate for WMDs is also empty, as a team had already searched there months ago. Brown suggests that the intelligence he is being given is part of a cover-up.

Whilst investigating another site, a playground where WMDs are thought to be buried, Miller is approached by the Iraqi seen earlier, who calls himself "Freddie" (Khalid Abdalla), who tells Miller that he saw Al-Rawi at the meeting in a nearby house. Miller and his men swiftly go to the house but Al-Rawi narrowly escapes but they take one of his henchmen into custody. This man Seyyed Hamza (Said Faraj) happens to have a book containing the addresses of Al-Rawi's safehouses, but before Miller can extract any more information the man is taken by Special Forces, sent by Poundstone.

Miller goes to Brown's hotel to give him the notebook and tell him of what took place, and then Brown tells Miller to go and retrieve the man taken by the Special Forces and offer him $1 million dollars in exchange for co-operation. Before leaving, he is approached by Wall Street Journal correspondent Lawrie Dayne, who hands him her card if Miller should wish to disclose any information later on. When he gets to the prison where the informant is held, the man is in desperate need of medical attention due to interrogation, and after Miller suspects that Al-Rawi might be Magellan, the man responds with the word "Jordan" after Miller asks him about Al-Rawi's whereabouts in the run up to the invasion. With Brown's help, Miller's suspicions are confirmed and it is discovered that Al-Rawi met with Poundstone in February in Jordan as Poundstone's inside man.

Miller then goes in pursuit of Al-Rawi, and, having been kidnapped by Al-Rawi's men, Al-Rawi tells him that he told Poundstone there had been no WMD programme since the First Gulf War, and we learn that Poundstone lied to his superiors in Washington - so that Iraq would be invaded anyway. General Al-Rawi then flees as the Iraqi Army is disbanded by the CPA and Special Forces learn of his location and, in their helicopters track to try to kill him. Back with Miller, he kills his captors and races to capture Al Rawi before the Special Forces get him. Meantime Freddie is shadowing Miller who does catch Al-Rawi, after shooting dead a high ranking terrorist working with Al-Rawi, al-Malik, who had just killed Major Briggs, the leader of the special forces team, and says to him that if he surrenders he will take him back to Brown. At this point Freddie appears and shoots Al-Rawi to death, saying it's not Miller's choice.

At a meeting the next day where the Iraqi denominations are trying to broker a deal, Miller confronts Poundstone with what he found out and gives him a strongly-worded report of how the whole invasion was based on a lie. Poundstone denies any knowledge of meeting Al-Rawi or lying about the existence of WMDs but instead tells Miller "We're not stopping", in reference to America's push for democracy in Iraq. Miller violently grabs Poundstone but the encounter is split up by security guards. Poundstone then rejoins the Iraqi meeting, only to find it breaking down completely.

Afterwards, Miller e-mails his report to Dayne, as well as many major news corporations and newspapers in the western world to expose the scandal. The camera then pans out to show Miller driving off on a Iraqi highway, with the Iraqi oil fields in the background.

Cast

Matt Damon portrays Roy Miller,[3] a warrant officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for weapons of mass destruction.[4] Roy Miller is based on real-life Army chief warrant officer Richard (Monty) Gonzales, whose Mobile Exploitation Team was charged with finding the WMDs during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Damon joined the film with the assurance that production would conclude by April 14, 2008 so he could start working on the Steven Soderbergh film The Informant! on April 15, amidst the scheduling difficulties caused by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[5]
Amy Ryan[6] portrays Lawrie Dayne,[3] a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal who investigates the U.S. government's claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.[4] One reviewer saw, despite the "usual ... fictitious ... disclaimer," former New York Times reporter Judith Miller in the Dayne character.[2]
Brendan Gleeson portrays Martin Brown, the CIA Baghdad bureau chief.[7]
Greg Kinnear portrays Clark Poundstone, Pentagon Special Intelligence.[3][4] One reviewer saw, despite the "usual ... fictitious ... disclaimer, ... Paul Brenner [sic]," Coalition Provisional Authority head in 2003-4, in the Poundstone character.[2]
Yigal Naor portrays General Al-Rawi.[8]
Nicoye Banks portrays Perry.
Jason Isaacs portrays Maj. Briggs, an unscrupulous Special Forces operator.[9]
Martin McDougall portrays Mr. Sheen, CIA Baghdad assistant bureau chief.[10]
Khalid Abdalla portrays Freddy, an injured Iraqi who has a "penchant for Bryan Adams". In the movie he becomes Miller's translator. Abdalla was cast in the role after impressing Greengrass with his performance in United 93. The actor prepared for his role by learning the Iraqi Arabic dialect and reading Iraqi blogs like Riverbend and Alive in Baghdad.[11]
Antoni Corone portrays a colonel.[4]
Tommy Campbell portrays the Chopper Comms Commander.[12]
Paul McIntosh portrays a CIA officer.[13]
Sean Huze portrays U.S. Army Sergeant Conway, a member of Roy Miller's MET team.[14][15]
Robert Harrison O'Neil portrays a TV Journalist.

Production

In January 2007, after completing The Bourne Ultimatum, director Paul Greengrass announced his intent to adapt a film of the 2006 non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a journalist for The Washington Post. Greengrass wrote a script based on the book, working with researchers Kate Solomon and Michael Bronner, who helped the director research for United 93 (2006). The script was reported to be developed more in advance than the script for The Bourne Ultimatum, which had undergone changes during production.[16] Screenwriter Tom Stoppard was originally requested to write the script for Greengrass, but because Stoppard was too busy,[17] screenwriter Brian Helgeland instead collaborated with the director to shape the film's premise.[4] Greengrass expressed interest in casting in the lead actor Matt Damon, with whom he had worked on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum,[18] and the actor joined the project in June 2007.[19] Actors Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Antoni Corone were later cast in January 2008.[4] Greengrass said of the project's contemporary relevance, "Film shouldn't be disenfranchised from the national conversation. It is never too soon for cinema to engage with events that shape our lives."[18]

Production of Green Zone was originally slated to begin in late 2007.[16] Instead, it began in Spain on January 10, 2008,[4] moved to Morocco, and finished filming in the UK in December 2008.

Reception

Critical response

The film has received generally mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 53% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 134 reviews.[20] Its consenus states that "Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass return to the propulsive action and visceral editing of the Bourne films -- but a cliched script and stock characters keep those methods from being as effective this time around." [20] However, another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating of 0-100 on top reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an "generally favorable" score of 61% based on 35 reviews. [21]

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 4 stars and wrote that Green Zone is "one hell of a thriller."[22] James Berardinelli of ReelView gave the film 3.5 stars, stating that the "most rewarding aspect of Green Zone is the manner in which it interweaves fact and fiction into an engaging whole."[23] A.O. Scott writing for The New York Times praised director Paul Greengrass's direction, writing in his review that "There is plenty of fighting in Green Zone, most of it executed with the hurtling hand-held camerawork and staccato editing that are hallmarks of Mr. Greengrass's style. From Bloody Sunday through the second and third Bourne movies (which turned Mr. Damon into a minimalist movie star), this director has honed his skill at balancing chaos with clarity. [24] A.P. Says this movie was just as quoted "One long episode of South Park, with no real clarity at any corner".

Political controversy

The film has received political criticism. Some have called it "anti-American" or "anti-war" such as movie reviewer Kyle Smith who went so far as to label the film "slander" and "appallingly anti-American." [25][26] According to an article on Fox News.com, it states "Given this set-up, audiences are encouraged to root for Miller's rogue activities and against the government, represented in the film by a corrupt Pentagon chief played by Greg Kinnear." [25] However, director Paul Greengrass came to defense of the film. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Greengrass said that "The problem, I think, for me is that something about that event strained all the bonds and sinews that connect us all together. For me it’s to do with the fact that they said they had the intelligence, and then it emerged later that they did not." [25] Matt Damon also defended the film telling MTV News "I don't think that's a particularly incendiary thing to say. I think that's a journey that we all went on and a fundamental question we all asked and it's not partisan." [27] On March 13, Michael Moore posted to his Twitter page: "I can't believe this film got made. It's been stupidly marketed as action film. It is the most HONEST film about Iraq War made by Hollywood."[28]

Box office

According to Box Office Mojo, the film opened at #2 in the United States with $14,309,295 in 3,003 theaters, averaging $4,765 per theater.[1] Given its budget of roughly $130 million, in addition to its $100 million in marketing, Green Zone has been referred to as a flop for its production company Universal Studios.[29]

References

^ a b "Green Zone (2010) - Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=greenzone.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
^ a b c Green Zone review by Todd McCarthy, Variety, Mar. 4, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
^ a b c "Green Zone". Working Title Films. http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/filmCastCrew.php?filmID=118. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
^ a b c d e f g Michael Fleming (2008-01-09). "Amy Ryan set for Greengrass thriller". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978765.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
^ Michael Fleming (2007-08-10). "Rush to judgment". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970086.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
^ "Amy Ryan". imdb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752407/bio. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
^ (2008-03-12)"Brendan Gleeson Enters Green Zone". Variety. 2008-03-12. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982240.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
^ Yigal goes to Hollywood
^ Adam Dawtrey (2008-03-11). "Gleeson takes final lead in 'Zone'". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981756.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
^ Martin McDougall
^ Arifa Akbar (2008-01-16). "My acts of defiance". The Independent.
^ Tommy Campbell
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^ Hollywood supports troops, if not the war – POLITICO.com Print View
^ Sean Huze
^ a b Adam Dawtrey (2007-01-21). "Greengrass lines up Iraq movie". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957772.html?categoryid=19&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
^ Richard Brooks (2007-08-12). "The Bourne Ultimatum – Biteback". The Sunday Times.
^ a b Ali Jaafar (2007-12-04). "Paul Greengrass". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=features&id=eoodirectors08&articleid=VR1117977018. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
^ Diane Garrett (2007-06-06). "Damon, Greengrass re-teaming". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966380.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
^ a b "Green Zone Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. http://au.rottentomatoes.com/m/1202804-green_zone/. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ "Green Zone (2010): Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/greenzone. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ Roger Ebert (2010-03-10). "Green Zone". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100310/REVIEWS/100319990. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ Berardinelli, James (2010-03-10). "Green Zone". ReelViews.net. http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2034. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ (2010-03-12)"Movie Review - Green Zone - A Search for That Casualty, Truth". New York Times. 2010-03-12. http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/movies/12green.html?ref=movies. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ a b c Piazzo, Jo (2010-03-11). "Critics Decry Matt Damon Movie 'The Green Zone,' Calling It 'Anti-American'". FOXNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/11/new-matt-damon-movie-green-zone-called-appallingly-anti-american/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fentertainment+%2528Text+-+Entertainment%2529. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
^ Smith, Kyle. ""New Matt Damon movie slanders America". http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/new_damon_flick_slanders_america_FGv1evpniBqZyEfmFpP4yO. Retrieved 2010-03-12. ""Green Zone" isn't cinema. It's slander. It will go down in history as one of the most egregiously anti-American movies ever released by a major studio.""
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External links

Official website
Green Zone at the Internet Movie Database
Green Zone at Allmovie
Green Zone at Box Office Mojo
Green Zone at Rotten Tomatoes
Green Zone at Metacritic
Matt Damon Interview on Green Zone


Directed by Paul Greengrass
Produced by Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Lloyd Levin
Paul Greengrass
Written by Brian Helgeland
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Book)
Starring Matt Damon
Greg Kinnear
Brendan Gleeson
Amy Ryan
Khalid Abdalla
Jason Isaacs
Yigal Naor
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Barry Ackroyd
Editing by Christopher Rouse
Studio StudioCanal
Relativity Media
Working Title Films
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date(s) March 12, 2010 (2010-03-12)
Running time 115 minutes
Country United States
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $100 million[1]
Gross revenue $28,439,030