Civil War Director Alex Garland On Making An Honest War Movie That Doesn't Sensationalize Violence

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Civil War Director Alex Garland On Making An Honest War Movie That Doesn't Sensationalize Violence
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Kirsten Dunst stars in the A24 epic.

Summary Civil War is set shortly after a second Civil War has plunged America into a nationwide conflict. The country is split into different factions as the American government contends with the Western Forces, driven by an alliance between Texas and California, the Florida Alliance, and the New People's Army.

Civil War's Team Was Conscious Not To "Accidentally Make A Pro-War Film" Civil War is a decidedly anti-war movie. Many war movies, often unintentionally, can sensationalize the violence in part through the cinematic approach to showing war.

Garland worked with former Navy SEAL Raymond Dose and used his go-to method of "football play" action plotting to make the combat scenes feel authentic. Near the end of the movie, a siege plays out on screen, and part of planning that sequence was allowing Dose the freedom to bring in other veterans and run through the action as they would in an actual combat situation, then build the scene around them.

What I said to Ray in the sequence that you are referring to was, "How would a group of SEALs move from this position to that position? How would they get there?" They've got people shooting at them trying to stop them. That was the only input I had into that. He brought in some colleagues he served with, and they did their thing. And then what we did was function. I said, "Don't worry about the camera, don't even think about the camera.

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