Behind the Scenes
Director
Kathryn BigelowWell, if screenwriter Mark Boal was kind of a newbie when he worked on The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow balanced things out with her crazy impressive experience.Bigelow's in...
Screenwriter
Mark BoalWhen Mark Boal wrote The Hurt Locker, he was super new to the game. In fact, he only had a writing credit for one other movie, In the Valley of Elah (source). So, The Hurt Locker is where...
Production Studio
Voltage PicturesVoltage Pictures is billed first in the list of The Hurt Locker's producers, so that's the one we really want to focus on.You might not know a whole lot about the Voltage roster of...
Production Design
Documentary-Like Drama in the DesertThe LookThere's a lot of emphasis on the heat and dryness of the film's setting in Iraq, and the cinematography really ramps that up with lots of bright yellows...
Music (Score)
Marco Beltrami and Buck SandersMarco Beltrami and Buck Sanders are the dudes responsible for The Hurt Locker's soundtrack, which manages to be sometimes haunting, sometimes jarring...and mostly inv...
Fandoms
We're not suggesting that this movie has a YA-book-becomes-a-movie-level fandom, but there are some devoted shippers who have set up shop on the internet. Take, for example, a Fanpop site devoted t...