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Treasure Map | Gold
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Favorite Action Team | 2000 | George
Peace | 2000
Screenplay | 2000 | David O.
Top Ten Films | 1999
Best Sound Editing Effects Foley | 2000 | John
Best DVD Commentary | 2001
Best Cinematography | 2000 | Newton Thomas
Best Editing | 2000 | Robert K.
Best Foreign Film | 2001
Best Picture | 2000
Best Original Screenplay | 2000 | John
Best Director | 2000 | David O.
Best Breakthrough Performance Male | 2000 | Spike
Best Sound Effects Editing | 2000 | John
Best Screenplay Original | 2000 | David O.
Best Director | 2000 | David O.
Best Contemporary Makeup Feature | 2000 | Donald
Best Cinematography | 2000 | Newton Thomas
Theatrical Best Supporting Actor | 2000 | Ice
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 2000 | David O.
Best Picture | 2000
Budget 75,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 108,000,000 USD
Sayed Moustafa Al-Qazwini, who plays an Iraqi defector, who sells Major Gates cars stolen from Kuwait, was, in real life, tortured and kicked in the eye by Saddam Hussein's security forces, blinding him in that eye. Like many advisors and extras in the film, he is an actual refugee from Iraq.
One scene tracks a hypothetical bullet entering Mark Wahlberg, which came about from David O. Russell asking a doctor friend about what a bullet does to the body. "I said, 'What's the weirdest wound?' and he described that particular wound (used in the movie). You can get a wound that doesn't kill you. A bullet goes through your lung and you can walk around, but the air is leaking out of your lung every time you breathe, so your own breathing can kill you, because your own breathing will crush your organs. It will turn into a balloon in there, and they have to puncture it to let the air out. So he told me those two things, and I said, 'God, that's never been in a movie. I'd like to do that.'"
The movie was filmed in the deserts of Casa Grande, Arizona, California, and Mexico, with many of the extras played by actual Iraqi refugees. According to David O. Russell, two of the cast members had "personally defaced three hundred murals of Saddam." After one of the military advisers to the film died during production, Russell said the death was "perhaps due to chemicals he was exposed to in the Gulf."
In the celebratory scene in the tent back at base camp, several soldiers drink what appears to be mouthwash. During the Gulf War, soldiers followed General Order number 1, which prohibits consumption of alcohol (and currently affects soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan). In this case, they asked loved ones to send them vodka, with blue food coloring, in mouthwash bottles. The same trick was used by the students in Toy Soldiers (1991).
The film was banned in Iraq.
"Archie Gates: You're scared, right? Conrad Vig: Maybe. Archie Gates: The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it. Conrad Vig: That's a dumbass way to work. It should be the other way around. Archie Gates: I know. That's the way it works."
"Archie Gates: What's the most important thing in life? Troy Barlow: Respect. Archie Gates: Too dependent on other people. Conrad Vig: What, love? Archie Gates: A little Disneyland, isn't it? Chief Elgin: God's will. Archie Gates: Close. Troy Barlow: What is it then? Archie Gates: Necessity. Troy Barlow: As in? Archie Gates: As in people do what is most necessary to them at any given moment."
