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.
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Hear, hear, bravo! I completely agree.
Thursday...it’s supposed to snow on Thursday...I think...What were we talking about?
It's not too bad, though it's badly flawed in some respects. The marble is still thickly encrusted, and the filmmakers had no inclination to indulge in flinty-eyed review of such topics as, "was a civil war really necessary? -- nobody else had one!" and "what was the real objective of the Civil War?"
The film's POV is that of a Lincoln-circle insider of the first or second ring -- say, Ward Lamon or Allan Pinkerton or Gideon Welles. But not the first ring. They would know the real reason Lincoln came to office determined to fight a war with the South and destroy it.
It’s not an inside joke exactly. The story is that MoDo compulsively searches media for any mention of her name. When she pulls up this thread she’ll get pictures of KZ-J who got between Michael Douglas and MoDo. It’s sort of a thumb in the eye for this leftist hag.
That's why I refuse to watch America's Sodom congratulate itself.
no need to publish actual MoDo pics.
Spare us your rich fantasy life.
Argo was incredible. Lincoln was ok. Zero Dark Thirty was good. Django was surprisingly funny. I recommend all 4 but Lincoln is least enjoyable. Although like others have mentioned, Daniel Day Lewis was great and the costumes were pretty good.
Reading his deranged Obama cheerleading last week solidified that impression. I made the comment before Lincoln came out that if one were interested in the history of Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter might be the more accurate historical choice.
You are entitled to your opinion, though I believe it to be the minority opinion in this case.
What part did Reagan play in the release of the Iranian hostages? My understanding was that he campaigned on a platform of even-handedness in the region and that the reason the hostages were released on the day they were was because the Iranian Muslims despised Jimmy Carter for harboring the Shah and wanted to stick it to him.
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