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Interview: Screenwriter Robert Malkani (Day Zero)
23 January 2008
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- "I just hope the film finds an
audience among young people (in their twenties). It’s easy for a film like this
to get lost amid all the bigger films – or the festival winners – but I think that
if people find the film, they will be surprised at how it makes them feel – and
I think they will enjoy it".
- Producer and screenwriter Robert Malkani
The recent handful of Iraq-war themed films–such as In the Valley of Elah and Redacted have done poorly at the box-office. The same thing happened in the 70's while
filmmakers were releasing Vietnam movies such as Apocalypse Now.
Why do you think that audiences are shying away from war-themed films?I can’t
speak intelligently about what happened to those films in the 70’s, but today I
think it’s because people go to the movies primarily to be entertained – not
educated.
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