Slowly the CIA track him through the souks and the picturesque countryside until they find a curious-looking compound…īut they can’t tell who’s in there. The spies get overtime looking for him, but he’s a sneaky bugger always driving round in his highly conspicuous white 4×4. Bingo! He’s in Peshawar, Pakistan (cue shot of red marker pen circling Peshawar on a map). Maya has a brainwave: Abu Ahmed might not be dead! Maybe his brother died, and he’s still alive! After all, these guys all have beards-how can anyone tell them apart?ĭan bribes a Kuwaiti prince of some description with a Lamborghini (former CIA director, Jose Rodriguez denies the accuracy of this scene) and they get lucky – Abu Ahmed is a good boy and when not helping run the world’s premier terrorist organisation he keeps in touch with his dear old mum. They’ve spent millions, taken casualties, and got nowhere. A CIA suit flies in to put a rocket up their butts. All the torture has got them nowhere, they’ve spent five years barking up the wrong tree, some of them are getting a little jaded. No one is glad to hear this news, particularly as it comes hot on the heels of Jessica falling for an al-Qaeda sting and getting blown up (this scene is based on the 2009 death of CIA agent Jennifer Matthews, and six colleagues in a suicide bombing at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan). Much ‘enhanced interrogation’ later, bombs are still going off (7/7 London attack, Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing). And then a prisoner claims Abu Ahmed died in 2001. This works and the hunt is on for a man called Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who is bin Laden’s courier and might lead to the man himself. It isn’t working, but Maya realises isolation and severe sleep deprivation means that she might be able to trick the prisoner into thinking he has cooperated and give up further information. It’s 2003, Maya arrives in Afghanistan where Dan is torturing a prisoner into giving up the names of al-Qaeda operatives. OK, so I’m guessing you already know what this one is about and how it ends, but what the hell, in case you’ve been living in a cave in Afghanistan for the last few years – they kill bin Laden at the end. (For more on loglines, see The Killogator Logline Formula) Zero Dark Thirty: Plot Summary
WHY ZERO DARK THIRTY MEANING HOW TO
(For more on titles, see How to Choose a Title For Your Novel) Zero Dark Thirty: LoglineĪfter 9/11, a CIA analyst spends years tracking Osama bin Laden down and must negotiate terrorist bombs, moral dilemmas and sceptical superiors to find the terrorist leader’s hiding place and persuade the government to attack it. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is a military term for 30 minutes after midnight. Kathryn Bigelow directed the film from a script by Mark Boal. Cameo appearance by Osama bin Laden’s body double. It features hundreds of interchangeable suits as Maya’s CIA bosses, an army of ‘army-guys’, and a seemingly endless number of terrorist suspects in crates. Supporting performances from Jason Clark as ‘Dan’, the CIA’s go-to torturer, and Jennifer Ehle as ‘Jessica’, a CIA operative with a competing theory on how to beat al-Qaeda. Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain as ‘Maya’.
0 kommentar(er)
