Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Chippshots (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... war movie I saw as a kid, as well as recent Iraq-wars books like Anthony Swofford's Jarhead or Evan Wright's Generation Kill? From boot camp on, these young men are hyped-up to "get some" - whether the "some" have been krauts, or nips, or gooks, or charlie, or hajjis; they're the "enemy." And (though not a combat veteran myself) I can imagine that much...
TrueBloodNet.com - True Blood News (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Based on the prizewinning book of the same name by Evan Wright, a contributing editor at Rolling Stones, and adapted for the television by Wright, David Simon and Ed Burns (both creators of HBO’s Baltimore based The Wire), Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO miniseries. Spanning seven episodes, the series premiered on July 13, 2008 in the US. In the UK, the series had its digital premier...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... and events. The series was adapted from the book of the same name by Rolling Stone correspondent Evan Wright, who was embedded in Iraq with the U.S. First Recon Marine platoon, shortly before the war began in 2003. All the dialogue and scenarios are taken from Wright's tour of duty with the Recon unit, most of whom work the F-word several times into a single sentence. Two of...
The Vault (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
... of Marines. It’s a true story as collected by the reporter who embedded with them for a month, Evan Wright. As to how visceral it is, I would say it’s actually very infrequent and quick with the gory and painful moments. The vast majority of it is the story of how this group of First Recon Marines traveled in open-top humvees from Kuwait to Baghdad, getting into the occasional firefight...
Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
... – who worked on Generation Kill. Essentially the story of the month Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright spent embedded with First Recon Marine at "the tip of the spear" of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it is densely populated with vivid characters and technical vocabulary, all spread across eight hours. White had done extended storytelling before, most notably on adaptations...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
... – who worked on Generation Kill. Essentially the story of the month Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright spent embedded with First Recon Marine at "the tip of the spear" of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it is densely populated with vivid characters and technical vocabulary, all spread across eight hours. White had done extended storytelling before, most notably on adaptations...
The Vault (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Such a pledge of loyalty, even a lighthearted one, is testament to how far White won the trust and admiration of all the personnel – marines and actors alike – who worked on Generation Kill. Essentially the story of the month Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright spent embedded with First Recon Marine at “the tip of the spear” of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it is densely populated with vivid...
The Vault (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
UK? That’s a really tough posting, being sent over here! Yeah. That’s the real deal! So he was in the UK, and I couldn’t get hold of him. I was able to get his email address, but at that point we were already two weeks into shooting it, and I’d already created my version of Brad Colbert after talking to the guys who knew him, and also talking to Evan Wright, who spent five weeks in a...
