Posted on 10/13/2013 7:51:29 AM PDT by Nachum
It’s made for Hollywood: the story of an average American family man, captain of a cargo ship in dangerous waters, his vessel overtaken by armed Somali pirates demanding ransom, saving his crew by allowing himself to be removed from the boat and taken hostage.
All of this is the basis for “Captain Phillips,” starring Tom Hanks as the titular, real-life hero. The only problem, say some members of the real Capt. Phillips’ crew, is none of it is true.
Capt. Richard Phillips, they say, is no hero, and the film is one big lie.
“Phillips wasn’t the big leader like he is in the movie,” says one crew member, who, for legal reasons, spoke with The Post anonymously. He worked very closely with Phillips on the Maersk Alabama and was alarmed by his behavior from the beginning. Phillips, he says, had a bad reputation for at least 12 years prior, known as a sullen and self-righteous captain.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
...known as a sullen and self-righteous captain.
Sure sounds like Tom Hanks.
Saving Private Ryan will be known as his last great film.
Given that he made so much money off WW2 - Private Ryan - it was the least he could do.....
And what about the $30,000 that Stevens gave to the pirates? No mention of that in the movie. Allegedly, that money was NOT thrown overboard!
Liberal skunk.
New movies coming out will demonstrate that our founding fathers were all slave holding selfish racist rich people who were terrorist malcontents. They will show that the United States was built by slaves and Native Americans who waited hand on foot on lazy racist white do-nothing pioneers... That Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and even Einstein were racists who stole all of their ideas from black people and a few Hispanics... These movies will show that it was actually a black gang member from Chicago who shot down the Red Baron with a well placed shot from a gold plated .45 while standing on the upper wing of his pimped out biplane... That Eisenhower's aid, Kay Summersby was not really English at all, but a black Marxist revolutionary woman from Mississippi and that she was the actual strategist behind the Normandy invasion.p>
So get ready for this new wave of Hollywood Movies based on actual events...
Next thing you know they’ll be saying that The Butler was one big fabrication.
How does your post reconcile with #14?
:)
Were the drills required to be done monthly or were you conducting them more frequently based on your own judgment? Captains of the Navy ships that I served on had their own preferences to conduct some drills more frequently than other captains did. While I’m quite sure that they all met the minimum standards, most , if not all of them, would exceed the minimum requirements.
Ping
And this will be the ‘truth’ for all the morons who watch it. Too bad.
“Saving Private Ryan will be known as his last great film.”
I have always thought that Bachelor Party was better than the Hangover, and stands the test of time as the greatest bachelor party movie ever. That was his last great film.
>>Never understood why the US government can drone Al-Qaeda members who can hide in Yemen but not Somalian pirates on a wide open ocean.<<
When you drone Al-Qaeda members who can hide in Yemen there’s evidence remaining that speaks loudly about joining the Al-Qaeda. When you drone a boat out in the ocean there’s no words of warning left for all to see.
Thanks Nachum.
Is little tommy hanks making a movie about the Third Reich?
With his pimp moustache he looks eerily like Der Fuhrer.
http://celebslam.celebuzz.com/2013/05/paparazzi-tom-hanks-pimp-musta.php
In real life, his family fled war in Somalia and came to the U.S. when he was very young.
It was a very good movie, and if it is Hollywood revisionist BS just watch it with the mindset that it's fiction. But it was very well done and suspenseful .... and I generally dislike most of what Hollywood puts out.
I’ve never met a single person who thought a film drama or novel inspired by historical events was a historical document. Have you?
True enough. One does not go to the movies for truth. :)
I have certainly met people who thought the details of a drama matched those of fact. Too many people in this country do not read, or are not really interested in the truth. It’s the same as trying to make them understand the media is biased. They don’t want to bother, or are unable, to think critically.
No dramatization has ever been faithful to the historical record of anything. It’s not the way drama works. Whenever there is a film inspired by actual events there are always articles about the ‘lies’. It never fails. If you want the truth watch a documentary.
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