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To: stromsfriend
Lets see, the book was written over ten years ago; The "bad guys" were changed from Arabs to "neo-nazi's"; and the movie had been planned for several years. What's the problem?

I wont see it simply because I have read the book and changing it made me really mad.

3 posted on 05/29/2002 9:12:15 AM PDT by FreeTally
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To: FreeTally
I agree that the changing the book is not my favorite thing that Hollywood does - but their move accidentally made the movie a little more "close to home." I mean it wasa wrtten and filmed well before 9/11.

Benn Affleck on Good morning america:

SAWYER: And yet a lot of people are saying, 'Is there such a thing' — nuclear weapons, somebody desperately trying to get people to heed what's going on here. Is there such a thing as too real, too scary, too close to the bone?

AFFLECK: Yeah, I know. It's and I don't know what the answer is to that question, really. I mean, I know that, you know, we shot the movie and wanted to make a kind of smart, adult, political thriller and we made it last year. And, you know, at the time, it was just that, an escapist, political thriller. And then the whole, sort of, world changed, and the movie now has turned into a drama, you know, in a weird way without us having changed anything.


4 posted on 05/29/2002 9:40:30 AM PDT by stromsfriend
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To: FreeTally
Ditto. I liked the book but won't see this PC version of a movie. A PC movie of a great Clancey book. What a waste.
7 posted on 05/29/2002 9:30:56 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955
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