"Director Kathryn Bigelow doesn't mind that the Pentagon is mad at her movie A House of Dynamite - it means the right people are watching. "In a perfect world, culture has the potential to drive policy," Bigelow told The Hollywood Reporter on October 29. "And if there's dialogue around the proliferation of nuclear weapons, that is music to my ears, certainly.""
"The Missile Defense Agency issued an October 16 internal memo that criticized A House of Dynamite for portraying its nuclear missile defenses as only 50 percent effective, which was then leaked to Bloomberg, per an October 25 report."
""The fictional interceptors in the movie miss their target and we understand this is intended to be a compelling part of the drama intended for the entertainment of the audience," the Pentagon claimed in the memo, saying that real-world tests "tell a vastly different story.""
""We believe all those experts who've told us that the system is more like a coin toss like we depict in the film," Oppenheim told THR."
""As we see it, it's not a debate between us as filmmakers and the Pentagon," Oppenheim said. "It's between the Pentagon and the wider community of experts in the space.""
A House of Dynamite depicts U.S. missile defenses as approximately 50 percent effective and shows Pentagon staff with under 30 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack headed for Chicago. The Missile Defense Agency issued an October 16 internal memo criticizing that portrayal and saying real-world tests tell a different story; the memo was later leaked to Bloomberg. The film reached 22.1 million Netflix views and became the platform's No. 1 film. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim relied on recent former government officials and experts who described the system as more like a coin toss. Oppenheim framed the dispute as between the Pentagon and the wider expert community.
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