Does Navy SEAL Film 'Act of Valor' Divulge Trade Secrets?
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BY MARC STEIDLER
It has live ammunition, active duty Navy Seals and true-to-life naval procedures.
It's not a recruitment video, it's "Act of Valor," a Hollywood movie hitting theaters this weekend.
Appearing on MSNBC, an editor for Rolling Stone is surprised at how much access the Navy allowed.
"It used to be that the armed forces would only very reluctantly lend out the hardware for a movie like 'Top Gun,' that they thought was a favorable message. Now they're lending out the actual soldiers to shoot the film."
And a senior correspondent for CBS wonders if the movie gives away insider secrets by divulging naval TTPs, or tactics, techniques and procedures.
"There's a lot of TTPs in this movie that are dead on and the concern is, if an adversary screened this four times, they'd have a pretty good idea of who's coming at them."
But the movie's directors tell HLN — the Navy oversaw and approved every frame of the film.
"They had what was called a scrub on TTP (technique, tactics, and procedures) to make sure we didn't give away any classified information or any trade secrets. The last thing we wanted to do was send the playbook to the bad guys."
While the movie's realism had some critics questioning its methods and motives, a Fox News analyst says the entertainment value can't be denied.
"This movie is fantastic. You watch and not only am I thinking, 'Ok, it's live fire,' but it's very accurate because these are based on real operations they have run in the past and they're not actors."
But a writer for CNN thinks — while the movie's battle scenes are incredibly realistic, it's a far cry from the realism portrayed in the Oscar-nominated documentary "To Hell and Back."
"That kind of authenticity is simply too hardcore for this Mickey Mouse action movie, a recruitment commercial that ultimately does a disservice to the troops by pretending that war is just like a movie — and not a very good one at that."
If "Act of Valor'" debuts successfully, a military guest columnist for The Huffington Post thinks it could set the precedent for future, similar movies.
"Will otherwise security conscious government agencies be more inclined to approve scripts and filmmakers in their midst under the auspices of helping the movie industry to 'get it right' like they did for AOV?"
Transcript by Newsy.
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