Jarhead Movie
A cinema marquee at night with Jarhead on the letters, wet pavement reflecting the sign, a few adults visible at the box office below

Section 05

Credits

4 pieces

The cast, the crew, the release record and the awards history, attributed and dated.

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Gyllenhaal, Foxx, Sarsgaard: How the Principal Cast Was Assembled

The casting process for the three leads — Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford, Jamie Foxx as Staff Sergeant Sykes, Peter Sarsgaard as Troy — including documented production notes on preparation and the physical demands of the shoot.

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9 November 2005: The Release Record, the Gross, and the Award Nominations

Jarhead's theatrical release date, its $97 million worldwide gross (per Box Office Mojo), its BAFTA and AFI nominations by category and year, and the critical reception on opening weekend — all attributed and dated within the copy..

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Where Jarhead Sits in Thirty Years of Deakins

Roger Deakins's filmography from The Shawshank Redemption through No Country for Old Men to 1917 — and where Jarhead falls in that arc, what it shares with his other desert work (The English Patient notwithstanding), and his documented Academy Award nominations record..

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Newman's Silence: A Composer Who Knows When Not to Play

Thomas Newman's scoring approach across American Beauty, Road to Perdition and Jarhead — the three Mendes films he scored — and the specific argument his Jarhead score makes by treating long silences and ambient desert sound as musical material..

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