True as it is that such military simulations were created with the explicit hope of seducing Hollywood to film on them and/or model its war movies on Atropia's vision of reality, Gates only pokes ...

“The military was not so keen on the version of the doc that I wanted to make, so we decided to be satire.” “Atropia” follows an aspiring actress at a military role-playing facility who ...

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the military-entertainment complex, the mutually beneficial relationship between the film industry and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Set in 2006, Atropia takes place at the titular U.S. military training ground in the California desert, where actors role-play as villagers in countries where the government plans to invade.

While few Hollywood war movies have so directly confronted the flaws in the U.S.’ “Forever Wars,” the observations on racism and the military in “Atropia” are seldom explored beyond the ...

It’s a hellish war zone, and it’s entirely fake. This is Atropia, the fictional town named after a very real military training camp in the Nevada desert. It’s the subject of Hailey Gates ...

True as it is that such military simulations were created with the explicit hope of seducing Hollywood to film on them and/or model its war movies on Atropia’s vision of reality, Gates only ...

The mock towns were constructed by the military and widely used during the ... He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing ...

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the military-entertainment complex, the mutually beneficial relationship between the film industry and the U.S. Department of Defense.