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          Maya's tough-minded, monomaniacal persona, Boal said, is "based on a real person, but she also represents the work of a lot of other women." In December Jane Mayer of The New Yorker wrote that "Maya" was modeled in part after....

          Everything Zero Dark Thirty Gets Wrong About The True Story

          Sony Pictures Releasing

          ByDuncan Carson

          It's almost impossible to imagine "Zero Dark Thirty" being made now.

          In the Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a.

        1. In the Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a.
        2. Once called the "Queen of Torture," CIA analyst Alfreda Scheuer has found a new career — and wants you to know she doesn't regret a thing.
        3. Maya's tough-minded, monomaniacal persona, Boal said, is "based on a real person, but she also represents the work of a lot of other women." In December Jane Mayer of The New Yorker wrote that "Maya" was modeled in part after.
        4. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (born ) is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who has headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit.
        5. In , red-haired CIA analyst Alfreda Scheuer, then known by her maiden name Bikowsky, traveled to a secret CIA prison to watch the torture of al-Qaida.

          6. Released in December 2012 and intentionally held until after that year's election (via the BBC), it's a strange time capsule of a movie: It tries to split the difference between journalism and cinema. It opens with actual footage and sound recordings from 9/11 in order to give real stakes and contextualize its story, which focuses on the decade-long manhunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden (played in the film by Ricky Sekhon).

          Mostly it's memorable for being one of star Jessica Chastain's biggest movies, as her role as fictional CIA analyst Maya Harris (a composite of many real people) dominates the film in terms of screen time and emotional depth.

          With a dispassionate demeanor that only occasionally shows the weight of the years that pass, she clings to an obscure lead that eventually cracks the case.

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