{"id":22609,"date":"2011-03-17T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:43:00","slug":"soldier-disappointed-with-his-portrayal-by-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22609","title":{"rendered":"Soldier disappointed with his portrayal by Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Soldier sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2011\/03\/16\/veteran-files-suit-says-hurt-locker-subjected-him-to-ridicule\/\">a link about Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver<\/a>, the soldier who was supposed to be the model for the main character in the movie &#8220;Hurt Locker&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Days before the 2010 Academy Awards, Sarver sued the makers of \u201cThe Hurt Locker,\u201d including director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal.<\/p>\n<p>Boal profiled Sarver in a story for Playboy magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Sarver\u2019s filing states some of the film\u2019s scenes contradict proper actions, and fellow service members have questioned his abilities since the movie\u2019s release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me see, here. You lent yourself to a movie, got paid, did interviews with Hollywood assholes. And now you&#8217;re unhappy with the way your fellow soldiers treat you. What, you didn&#8217;t see that SCUD coming? <\/p>\n<p>Who knew that Hollywood would take liberties for the story and make a soldier look incompetent? At least Sarver got paid, not like the generations of soldiers who were maligned over the decades with no recompense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Soldier sends us a link about Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver, the soldier who was supposed to &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier disappointed with his portrayal by Hollywood\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22609\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier disappointed with his portrayal by Hollywood<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}