Posted on 04/30/2002 7:09:08 PM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
Has anyone caught the previews for the movie, "The Sum of All Fears"? In it, they specifically tell the audience that the evil terrorists are European neo-nazis. I refer you to Yahoo! Movies for a brief description to this effect.
The only problem with this is that in the book, the terrorists responsible for blowing up the Super Bowl are Islamic Fundamentalists working out of Lebanon.
So, did Clancy sell out, or sell the film rights without keeping a degree of creative control?
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Clancy transcript from O'Reilly Factor:
Clancy: I think so. The political left, they deal in symbols rather than reality. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. And conservatives are indeed conservative because if the bridge falls down then people die, whereas the liberals figure, we can always build a nice memorial and make people forget it ever happened and was our fault. They're very good at making people forget it was their fault. Allright? The CIA was gutted by people on the political left who don't like Intelligence operations... and as a result of that, as an indirect result of that, we lost 5,000 citizens last week.
Safe to say, he's a conservative.
Rather than pathetic, I'd call the movie version of CaPD despicable. This movie -- shrill anti-American propaganda from a dozen different angles -- made me re-consider my whole opinion of Clancy.
I can understand selling out for money. I probably would if I ever had a skill anybody was interested in buying...
But I can't understand selling out to the enemy for money or for anything else. Clancy postures as a patriot. His books sell to people who think of themselves as conservatives. But Clancy didn't just sell out, he turned his popular novels over to radicals to exploit the works conservative standing buy mis-representing almost everything American as bad and in-human and everything third world as decent and human and good...
I like special effects, and I like to see them used in contemporary settings. But I won't being going to see The Sum of All Fears.
Heck, I'll probably go see Jason X again -- the very deep and well developed science fiction background in the movie, behind the silly slasher content, makes for a very interesting -- and to my mind, thought-provoking -- juxtaposition...
Mark W.
That's why, as you say, you should not read the screenplay.
What counts is the number of zeros on the check.
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