Comments on: How Real Does It Need To Be? http://www.seanrants.com/201003/how-real-does-it-need-to-be/ Where a man with a perfect 100 IQ discusses Goings On, Weather, The Biz, People He is Clearly Jealous Of, and Fast Food. Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:15:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth Christenfeld http://www.seanrants.com/201003/how-real-does-it-need-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Seth Christenfeld Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:28:53 +0000 http://www.seanrants.com/?p=4#comment-3 I do not doubt that there has probably been some embellishment in the film, but it's not pretending to be a documentary.<br /><br />That said, the screenwriter based it on his own time spent in Iraq, embedded with a bomb squad, so I'm pretty sure there's a fair amount of truth there.<br /><br />(NB: I haven't seen the film or read Mark Boal's original article; I don't know Boal, but his brother Chris is a friend of mine.) I do not doubt that there has probably been some embellishment in the film, but it's not pretending to be a documentary.

That said, the screenwriter based it on his own time spent in Iraq, embedded with a bomb squad, so I'm pretty sure there's a fair amount of truth there.

(NB: I haven't seen the film or read Mark Boal's original article; I don't know Boal, but his brother Chris is a friend of mine.)

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