US EditionThe Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza interview: “As a team, you can accomplish anything”
- Directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland created the film Warfare, depicting a military mission in Ramadi, Iraq, around 2006.
- The film draws upon director Ray Mendoza's real-life experiences as an Iraq War veteran and accounts from fellow survivors.
- During the depicted ambush, an improvised explosive device trapped the platoon inside a civilian home, resulting in two wounded and one death.
- The 96-minute film attempts to "replay a trauma" for Ray Mendoza, who states the event still haunts him.
- Mendoza indicated he made the film primarily for his platoon members to help reconstruct fragmented memories of the incident.
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Alex Garland Is Directing The Future
Merle Cooper If you stare long enough at Alex Garland’s filmography, you might convince yourself you’re glimpsing the future. His art has a pesky habit of precognizing life. Soul-destroying fascinations with A.I., plagues thrusting first-world countries into societal collapse, resource-mining in space, civil war erupting in not-so-distant dystopias – some of Garland’s best work paints him as a thinking man’s fortune teller stationed behind a mon…
The Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza interview: “As a team, you can accomplish anything”
For the first half hour or so of Warfare, a new film based on the real-life experiences of American Navy SEALs who were ambushed during the Iraq War, the characters act like most soldiers we see on the big screen: methodical, in control, following protocol. Then Iraqi fighters open fire, and an EID (Improvised Explosion Device) traps the platoon inside a civilian home as the unseen enemy closes in. Control gives way to chaos. Soldiers scream in …
‘Warfare’ Defies Clichés Of Typical Combat Movies - The Daily Mississippian
A scene from “Warfare.” Photo courtesy: A24 “Why?” An innocent bystander uttered this line repeatedly while watching horrible events unfold during the final act of “Warfare,” the latest film distributed by A24. It is also a question critics have asked approaching the film’s release, challenging whether the story should be told through a cinematic production. “Warfare,” directed by former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and author Alex Garland, follows…
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