![]() Screenwriter Mark Boal himself has acknowledged that “ all of the characters in the film are based on real people.” Some of these real people, like the agent who inspired Maya, still work under secret identities, and Boal says that he and director Kathryn Bigelow “went to great lengths” not to blow their cover, including, e.g., not casting people who look like them. Were so many of the manhunt’s heroes really women? Is there really a Muslim guy who works for the CIA? What about the dog? Was there really a dog? While critics and political pundits have been writing about the film’s depiction of torture for weeks, audiences may still emerge with a few questions about the film’s inspirations. ![]() Zero Dark Thirty, after earning five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, finally went wide this past weekend and immediately shot to No.
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