Too bad liberals can't confront evil

www.townhall.com ^ | 6/17/2002 | Don Feder

[fight_truth_decay]

Must be all that OXYDON "doctor perscribed"!!!

[Pal10523]

Correct me if I am mistaken, but Sum All Fear is based on a Clancy novel. We all know what Mr.Clancy's politics are.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yet neo-Nazis have become a Hollywood staple. The new movie "The Sum of All Fears" involves a billionaire Austrian industrialist who sets off a nuclear device in Baltimore to start a war between America and Russia, so European fascists can take over the world.

Interestingly enough, in the novel the villains with the bomb are Islamic fundamentalists. Clancy was an executive producer of the movie. He changed the villains for PC purposes, obviously. He has gone over to the Dark Side. There is no hope for him now. He has his $500,000,000.00. What else does he need?

[exmarine]

Liberals don't get it because they deny evil exists - all cultures are equal in their diversity-clouded eyes. They are a pathetically confused lot, but the worst part is, they don't realize it! They really believe in their proud utopian hearts that people are basically good! All I can do is shake my head and sigh.

[detsaoT]

He's actually very conservative. The movie has absolutely no relation with the book, other than (a) the title, and (b) there's a nuclear explosion. The hollyweird folks changed everything else.

:) ttt

[detsaoT]

Clancy had no part in the production of the movie. According to statements he's made in the past, when he sells the rights to one of his books, he absolves himself of any part in the production, or of any say in the way the movie is made. I don't recall the reasoning behind this exactly, but I think it had something to do with how busy he is writing (or managing) books.

:) ttt

[Klein-Bottle]

When Tom Clancy wrote Sum of All Fears, the bomb was built and detonated by Arabs. Hollywood changed it to Nazis for the movie version.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Clancy had no part in the production of the movie.

All I can tell you is, when the credits roll at the beginning of the movie, Clancy is credited as the Executive Producer. That means he bankrolled the production. I think the statements he made in the past are now in the past in more ways than one.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Tom Clancy credited as Executive Producer ("Crew and Credit" near bottom of page)

[tracer]

Such is understandable, considering that blood-sucking vampires are deathly afraid of mirrors.....

[Lyndal]

And wasn't it set off in the football field in Denver?

[mushroom]

Being Executive Producer on a film means nothing. The Producer gets the money, finds the talent, and puts the whole deal together. People who are listed as Executive Producer are generally just getting a vanity boost.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why would Clancy need a vanity boost? I don't buy the "hands off" thing. Sorry. I believe Clancy was an accomplice at sanitizing the movie.

[YankeeReb]

And wasn't it set off in the football field in Denver?

Yes in the book it was, I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I hear I may just wait till it comes on video , and then wait till my local library gets it. If you haven't already done so, read the book. I found it a little slow in the middle but it picks up at the end. Very close to what's going on today considering it came out in the early 90s.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Sum of All Fears was a great book. The villians were islamists and an American Indian Movement terrorist. Hardly PC.

The movie shares the title and a few plot points, but is very different.

[weegee]

Liberals don't get it because they deny evil exists.

Sure liberals see "evil". Ever hear them call Republicans "Nazis" on the congressional floor? Ever hear them talk about people "starving children" and "stealing money from old people"?

They don't see the North Koreans, Chi-Coms, or muslim dicatorships as a threat to their political survival.

[El Gato]

And wasn't it set off in the football field in Denver?

Actually in the parking lot. The bomb in the book is a fizzle, and only partly destroys the stadium. Many inside the stadium survive.

[archy]

Oh man...I wish he hadn't written that...I REALLY wish he hadn't written that! I can just see the next FBI/Hoelland Security Korps *terrorist warning alert* now:

[archy]

And wasn't it set off in the football field in Denver?

Yes in the book it was, I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I hear I may just wait till it comes on video , and then wait till my local library gets it. If you haven't already done so, read the book. I found it a little slow in the middle but it picks up at the end. Very close to what's going on today considering it came out in the early 90s.

It came out in the 1990s, yes- but *borrowed* rather heavily from one from way back in 1975. And in the aftermath of the Olympic Massacre at Munich in 1972, the terrorists' Quisling friends in Hollywood hadn't all gotten on their knees yet.