Posted on 02/17/2013 8:57:24 PM PST by seanmerc
I SAW “Argo” with Jerry Rafshoon, who was a top aide to President Carter during the Iranian hostage crisis, when six Americans escaped and were given sanctuary for three months by courageous Canadian diplomats.
We were watching a scene where a C.I.A. guy can’t get through to Hamilton Jordan, Carter’s chief of staff, to sign off on plane tickets for the escaping hostages, so he pretends to be calling from the school where Jordan’s kids go.
“Hamilton wasn’t married then and didn’t have any kids,” Jerry whispered, inflaming my pet peeve about filmmakers who make up facts in stories about real people to add “drama,” rather than just writing the real facts better. It makes viewers think that realism is just another style in art, so that no movie, no matter how realistic it looks, is believable.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
oh Maureen—get over yourself... everyone else has... Argo is a good movie... on the edge of my seat the entire time... i know enough to know that artists/writers take liberties...
I actually think it’s a good article. I saw ZDT, and thought it was good. Won’t watch Lincoln though.
The Oscar for Best Fabrication still goes to the current (mis-)Administration.
“Zero Dark Thirty,” “based on firsthand accounts of actual events,” has been faulted for leaving the impression that torture was instrumental in the capture of Osama. It celebrates Jessica Chastain’s loner character, “Maya,” when it could have more accurately and theatrically highlighted “The Sisterhood,” a team of female C.I.A. analysts who were part of the long effort.
They've got to do everything they can to discredit Zero's Dark Thirty.
You know what? I’m tired of this inside joke. Even though the article in the NYT is by dingbat Mo Dowd it has a decent point. And that is what our comments should be about.
The article would actually be meaningful if Dowd applied it to the revisionist history that the left has been pushing on us for the last 50 years. Maybe Dowd could come clean and tell the world via her column that it was actually Democrats who fought against Civil Rights while it was Republicans who defended them. The fact that Dowd limits her indignation for select Hollywood movies shows that she is not to be taken seriously, no matter how valid her select point is in this case. When she writes a column about how Obama’s so-called ‘stimulus’ bill actually caused more harm than good, maybe then we can discuss the merits of her points rather than fall for her selective BS.
But it was. Just listen to the intel operators and analysts who were involved. But the left once again, has to lie.
But it was. Just listen to the intel operators and analysts who were involved. But the left once again, has to lie.
Open letter to:
Mo,
Nice try, but this film is not revisionist history.
“Argo” is based on a true story as it so states. We know that the chase scene might not be true and whether someone was married or not could be a fabrication. We know that Jimmy Carter, the Inept, did not play into the rescue and that, under his watch, 444 days of captivity were suffered by all involved, even us, who had much more regard for embassy staffs in those days (even Carter did, doesn’t now) than they do now under the tuteledge of people like you, in the media, RINOs the GOPe and BO.
“Argo” is a story of decent people behaving in orderly fashion and succeeding with dignity under circumstances so dire that heroism was the only acceptable orderly fashion.
Ben Affleck starts the film by placing blame on the American govt past. He ignores Reagan completely and exalts Jimmy Carter as much as possible and that is all acceptable though annoying, as I can have a disagreement with Mr. Affleck and still admire and enthusiastically admire him for putting this story down for the record and doing it with such decency that audiences love it.
I saw it last night. It’s been out for six weeks. The theater was standing room only. What other films command that attention?
It was a liberal crowd in an artsy theater. BO’s portrait is in the lobby - don’t know why, he’s not campaigning.
The crowd was silent. Laughing only slightly at the amusing parts.
It’s the decency that gets you, Mo. It shows.
Try being honest. Try going after Dan Brown and his revisionist history. It’s more egregious than a jeep on the tarmac in the wrong place and it doesn’t even place itself in the fiction category, save the small print on the publisher’s page.
You’d have more credibility, at least SOME.
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Now what did MOdo have to say again?
Won’t see ZDT seems vengeful. Hated “Lincoln”. “Argo” is a great film in my opinion.
Yeah, like the 220 pp. SI swimsuit edition—great articles! All four of ‘em ...
An Inconvenient Truth was in line for that Oscar first. Al Gore was cheated AGAIN.
This woman could be entirely responsible for launching WW3, completely ending life as we know and still be found “NOT GUILTY!!!!
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