From Charles Pierce, a remark

[malignd at aol.com]

Politics aside, ZDT has a lot of bad writing; stagey, obvious scenes; and bad acting -- or, to be fairer perhaps, actors forced to play out stagey, obvious scenes in a hammy way.



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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 9:38 am
Subject: Re: From Charles Pierce, a remark


I found that movie in a word, boring. it had all the depth of a high
school championship football game. I getit, Hollywood has to enliven
things and make composite characters, that one person driven to find
the truth. But as Steve Coll rightly pointed out in the NYRB recently
don't calim you are working in a journaliostic mode, these are the
facts, open your movie with panciked calls from the WTC on 9/11, well
you're not even 5 minutes in and you've set people up. I suppose she
and the writer guy didnt think that one day people will watch this
with a cursory knowledge of the goings on and get the impression well,
torture isn;t nice but I can see where it helped which according to
most in the critical press say to the contrary. I find it a disservice
and a joke.

anyone see Argo? another CIA friendly movie. rightly shows US
involvement in the pre-shah days, giving context to some of why Iran
turned into a theocracy. but the movie goes on to put the US in a good
light. it's a weird movie, yes we acknowledge past US culpability but
we're still basically good.

folks dont hate america they hate Hollywood and strangely enough we
seem to follow that narrative, to go along with it. it's sad

rich

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Director of ZERO DARK THIRTY, Kathryn Bigelow, said on The Colbert Show 
that "perhaps"
> the CIA did help shape her narrative.....
>
> Charles said (response to Greg Mitchell), you get ANY info from the CIA and 
you are being played..
>
> Sent from my iPad

 
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