Director Rod Lurie writes about how his real-life loss informed his movie, 'The Outpost': ''This was going to be a war film, not an action film'
The helmer, who lost his son Hunter two years ago, insisted on not glamorizing battle in the Afghanistan-set drama based on a real life story:"This was going to be a war film, not an action film."at exactly the second that I had the creative epiphany of my my life. A few minutes earlier, after his mother and I decided to disconnect the myriad machines keeping him alive, one to every organ in his body, we stood there, all of us, and waited for the last movement of his chest.
When his heart did finally stop, names and images of soldiers began tumbling in my head. Scusa, Hardt, Kirk, Thomson, Martin, Mace, Griffin, Gallegos. I use their last names because that’s how soldiers refer to one another. These eight men all perished on Oct. 3, 2009, in the Nuristan Valley in Afghanistan. It was the bloodiest battle of the war, the most heroic, the most decorated. Two men were awarded the Medal of Honor.
Maybe now would be a good time to mention that I myself am a vet. I graduated from West Point in 1984. It was peacetime back then and I never served in combat. So, if I could not fight next to my brothers then the least I could do was honor them. That is why I had grasped hard at the notion of telling the story of Combat Outpost Keating in the first place.This was a base placed right smack at the bottom of three mountains. Tactically, it was the worst place to put soldiers.
These 54 troops? They weren’t SEALs, they weren’t Special Forces, they weren’t Rangers. They were not the elite units that seem to be the basis of every movie made about this war:
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