How much is fact and how much is Hollywood fiction? It’s hard to trust any movie coming out of Hollywood that claims to be based on real events. They usually include stuff that never happened, or leave out pertinent info, just to make the movie a box-office success.
I imagine a bunch of it is bs. I know individual(s) who were underground, who’d never go public with their stories... nor will I.
Q. Why would the State Dept. cooperate with this propaganda production?
The significant parts that parallel with the incompetent handling of Benghazi are probably true. Did the ambassador in Teheran really tell his security people not to shoot bullets, just tear gas? I don’t know, but it seems like that’s not one the director would make up. Did the same ambassador decide to go out to the crowd and “reason with them”? Probably. Scriptwriters would think that was too dumb to put in the script. Is it possible that Affleck overdid the degree of naivete and bad management on the part of the State Department? Well, why would he?
Also, there was a lot of period footage of regular people being interviewed, expressing their frustration with the hostage crisis, saying they’d had enough. That mirrors a lot of what the public feels about our foreign policy. I think the message will be implicit that a vote for Obama is a vote for Carter era helpless frustration.
I don’t think Affleck set out to do an anti-Obama movie at all I think it will have that effect anyway. In it, the President (Carter) has just the same mix of political motives and bad judgment and detachment. And Carter thanks himself at the end of the movie, like he’s a hero for ending the hostage crisis peacefully, after 444 days. By the time Carter does this, the viewers will have already seen what torture the 51 hostages endured, because the movie includes scenes of torture such as a fake firing squad and a lot of the senseless violence that the revolutionaries were doing. You couldn’t see that and think, oh well, they all came home at the end, so it’s happy. You would more likely think “What kind of a @#$$# would let his own employees endure that hell for more than a year, and then congratulate himself?”
“How much is fact and how much is Hollywood fiction? It’s hard to trust any movie coming out of Hollywood that claims to be based on real events. They usually include stuff that never happened, or leave out pertinent info, just to make the movie a box-office success.”
I’m over 50, so I’ll give a high level summary:
Iranians held our people hostage for a long time.
Carter could not get them released. That is, Carter, Potus of the USA, could not get them released.
Reagan was elected, and the Iranians released the hostages on inauguration day.
Peace through strength, in case that needs explanation.
Obama is like Carter; inept, naive, weak, indecisive, etc.
The timing of the movie is likely coincidence.
Played skillfully by Romney/Ryan it could have positive impact.
“How much is fact and how much is Hollywood fiction? It’s hard to trust any movie coming out of Hollywood that claims to be based on real events. They usually include stuff that never happened, or leave out pertinent info, just to make the movie a box-office success.”
I’m over 50, so I’ll give a high level summary:
Iranians held our people hostage for a long time.
Carter could not get them released. That is, Carter, Potus of the USA, could not get them released.
Reagan was elected, and the Iranians released the hostages on inauguration day.
Peace through strength, in case that needs explanation.
Obama is like Carter; inept, naive, weak, indecisive, etc.
The timing of the movie is likely coincidence.
Played skillfully by Romney/Ryan it could have positive impact.