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Hurt Locker Samborn vs William James In this case the binary opposition is East vs west in the sense that both characters take a different approach in their work.James is more interested in disarming the bomb regardless of the consequences he sways more to the reckless side of the job.For example taking of his suit during missions and removing his radio stopping communication which is his preferred manor of working in. However Samborn is the complete he values his teammates and the help they supply he likes to work in a unit.He cares for the mission but will prefer if his whole team comes out alive out of it.Considering this Samborn does haveb

  Born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California, Kathryn Bigelow is a popular filmmaker known for her incredible visuals and heart-pounding action sequences. In 1979, Bigelow moved from short to feature-length films. In 1981, she created The Loveless. She attracted more notice for her next effort, Near Dark. Her next project was 1991's Point Break. After that, she tried her hand at television, directing the miniseries Wild Palms. She co-created the movie The Hurt Locker (2008), for which won an Academy Award for best director—becoming the first woman to receive this honor—and directed Zero Dark Thirty in 2012. A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Off-track Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be critiqued by people like Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan

Hurt Locker is not in the classic wartorn movie with a element of a love story, with troop memebers which all have a family to go home to. It actually connotes a group soliders who have one of the most risky jobs which involves putting your own life on the line  defusing bombs in the eye of the war against terrorism. Hurt Locker was filmed in Jordan, which is just  a few miles away from the Iraq border which gets the audience the closest that can be to the real situation this illustrates the reality of American military on the war against terroism in 2004. After Sergeant Thompson is replaced with Sergeant James the team starts to go into a decline teamwork wise, James who fails to disarm a bomb strapped to a civillian's body, Sergeant Sanborn becomes a emotional wreck and begins to confess to James in a tearful manor about how he wants to go home safe and can no longer cope serving in Iraq. This therefore connotes that they are just ordinary men who have fears, doubts and the desi