Ben Affleck: ‘One of the regrets I have is that I’ve never served in the military'
At first glance, Netflix's latest original picture show Triple Frontier may sound like your typical 80s manlike-action-thriller flick: A group of former elite Special Forces soldiers keep an Expendables-like heist in Southward America to kill a drug cartel kingpin and steal his millions.
Only with Oscar-nominated director JC Chandor (best known for 2011's Margin Telephone call and 2014's A Most Violent Yr) at the captain; an A-list cast including Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, and Charlie Hunnam; and a script by announcer-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty fame, the motion picture ends upward being so much more than.
Triple Borderland is an action flick with underlying moral commentary about masculine pride, the mistreatment of the war machine and our money-hungry culture – only information technology's also a film that unabashedly sports a social agenda, highlighting issues of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and economic insecurity for defended soldiers who take taken more than one bullet for their country.
If the film is steeped in emotional realism, it is because real life special forces members were on the pic advisory team and on set to assist the actors perform their very best.
Oscar-winner and former Batman Affleck told CNA Lifestyle in Singapore that he found "the emphasis on teamwork on cooperation, purpose and the absence of ego actually quite inspiring".
"You lot know, I expected that these guys would be, for sure, very bureaucracy focused or sort of the prototypical drill sergeant kind of thing and it couldn't accept been further from the truth," he said about his military experience making the film.
"They were extremely warm compassionate, thoughtful, strong, extremely smart men who understood the work – and that you couldn't get annihilation accomplished unless y'all work together as a unit. And I remember that's a good lesson for you know all kinds of things in life."
Then with all the training they received to get into military machine shape, practise any of the Triple Frontier stars think they've learned plenty to survive real-life military service similar our Singapore boys accept to complete?
"I don't know, that seems like a tall order!" Affleck replied with laugh. "Only I practise have to say state that one of the vague regrets that I take is that I never served in the military."
"I think you would pick upwards a lot, and information technology would probably be very expert for you," he explained. "And, yes, it'southward not something that most eighteen-year-old boys necessarily cull on their ain. But to have information technology chosen for you and [if] everyone else is doing information technology and you're not missing out on annihilation... Sociologically, information technology'due south probably a worthwhile thing. Y'all know, national service in general, I think is quite laudable."
Affleck's co-star Hunnam weighed in on the upside of this particular "rite of passage".
"What I practice observe in America, and in a lot of Western places, is that at that place are no rites of passage that usher boys into men, and there's a tendency to have to get out and seek the line. And to push button oneself into very dangerous and silly activities in society to examination a sense of adulthood or sense of threshold of danger how far you can push," said Hunnam.
"And I think that may exist that tendency would be mitigated if you actually had some sort of, you lot know, ritual that y'all know was sort of an official way to conductor you from boyhood into manhood."
Triple Frontier premieres Mar 13 on Netflix.
Source: https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/netflix-triple-frontier-ben-affleck-charlie-hunnam-in-singapore-250896
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