Captain Phillips And The Terrible Excitement Of Real Action
Chris Klimek
Ridley Scott's 2001 Black Hawk Down is inescapably an action movie.
Captain Phillips, the seemingly little-embellished new thriller based on a 2009 hijacking at sea, got me thinking about what sort of responsibilities filmmakers have -- and we as audiences have -- when approaching a compressed a dramatized account of true events. You can read that piece over at Monkey See today.