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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Skyjacked-where he played a airline pilot who’s plane was hijacked by a young man played by James Brolin!


22 posted on 04/05/2013 7:51:45 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: dsutah

There were some very interesting ironies in the movie Skyjacked. First of all, the hijacker was a Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD, “which had made him psychotic”, but technically, it is recognizable as schizophrenia on top of his PTSD, which has to be an awful combination.

Amusingly, a combination that made him attracted to communism. The attraction that was not mutual, as the Soviet military demonstrated at the end of the movie, a lot.

One other thing, the hijacking actually punched through the professionalism of the plane captain, Heston, and the toothsome head stewardess, Yvette Mimieux, so that they realized they were in love with each other.

And her name was “Thatcher”. Not Margaret, but Angela, but amusing none the less.


26 posted on 04/06/2013 6:48:19 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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