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David Letterman wasted no time last night asking Zero Dark Thirty actress Jessica Chastain about the controversy surrounding the film during her appearance on The Late Show. “I’m getting ready to be called in front of a Senate committee after the show,” Chastain joked in reference to Senator Diane Feinstein’s investigation of the making of Zero Dark Thirty and what the CIA shared with filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal about how Osama bin Laden was found. “I think it is important to know that the film is not a documentary,” Chastain also noted. Watch a portion of the interview below:
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A documentary would have been much, much better.
I agree — the film is really being lauded for nothing.
Talk about a film with zero character. I felt like I was watching something made for the History Channel.
I’m not a hater. I wanted to love it. Really. But the title makes the film a lot cooler than it actually is.
“Promised Land” “Green Zone” “Ides Of March” would have been better as documentaries also, instead they become huge film flops.
Face it, liberals got to release the films they wanted. They flopped, so the rest of the country gets it’s turn. “Zero” is not going to flop at the box office. It could easily make over 100 million dollars domestic alone.
With such grosses, expect a lot more “Zero”-like projects. Face it, that era of “liberal only” based films is ending. We’re going to back to “wide appeal” film-making.
Documentary would DEFINITELY have been better.
A rushed movie, that doesn’t really depict what happened reeks of propaganda.
And who decided that this girl was going to be a movie star. Probably the most unattractive “leading lady” I’ve seen come out of Hollywood in quite some time.
She’s an actor not a movie star. The day of the “movie star” in Hollywood doesn’t exist anymore. As for your view of “unattractive,” I’d say you come down on the minority in that opinion.
This is getting sad, liberals, When Oliver Stone mocked everyone in Bush’s cabinet with “W.” No one cared. Not to mention the countless Anti-Bush films since.
While criticizing a film’s “obvious” political leaning is fine, threatening Senate investigations and hearings is way over the line.—
IT’S A MOVIE, and they can make the film however they see fit.
You don’t see Bush’s cabinet trying to sue all the films on them that were junk. It’s time to stop with the threats over what amounts to be a fictionalized action movie.
Problem is they want to have it both ways. Have their cake and eat it too. Say it’s all true according to their CIA sources and their extensive research but when called out about some errors claim “it’s not a documentary”. And they now say they had no access to unclassified documents. If you think the government CIA people speaking on the record are lying how are YOUR secret CIA agents anymore trustworthy? They all lie to defend their agendas. Journalist and movie people get lied to all the time to get someone’s own spin out.
In reality ‘based on a true story’ means LOOSELY based on fact with embellishment and artistic license to change things around to make it more entertaining. Trying to pass this off as a completely true story leaves room for people to rightly call you out on lies and non-factual things in the movie.
I’d love it if Kathryn Bigelow were to follow up with a documentary about the hunt for Bin Laden.
I’m not a Letterman fan. But, that was a good interview by Letterman.
The ONLY reason people are upset with this movie is that it does not pass judgment on its characters, particularly the CIA. It tells a story from their and the military’s point of view. That is all it does. I think the liberal establishment on both coasts were expecting some sort of finger wagging, which the film does not do.