The 2008 movie The Hurt Locker followed a bomb disposal unit in the Iraq War, which meant lots of violence and explosions, but the film was ultimately about how war changed the men in it. Kathryn Bigelow became the fist woman to win an Oscar for Best Director for the movie, beating her ex-husband's film Avatar. Let's learn some of the details behind The Hurt Locker.
10. The film was shot on location in Jordan.
Kathryn Bigelow wanted to shoot part of the scenes on a Kuwait military base but she was denied.
9. The director claimed that no scenes were left out of the final cut.
It would seem that everything that was filmed was put into the movie, which is kind of hard to believe but kind of intriguing as well.
Here's more to learn about The Hurt Locker in a trivia list at TVOM.