Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is why people should view movies as entertainment only. Don't try to decipher any message from seemingly factual material. Factual material in movies, even documentaries, is basically non existent. Movies, like journalism, simply expounds the agenda that the writer wishes to force upon viewers/readers. Don't watch movies or read journalistic forays for content. Consume them for their entertainment factor only. Jim At 02:54 PM 7/27/2002 -0700, Adam Bridge wrote: >Errors of fact can really get in the way of any film. I had a real problem >with K-19 because of the ludicrous way in which the reactor accident was >portrayed. Just having a loss of coolant accident wasn't enough - nope, a >nuclear explosion would have to happen. Sigh. Of course such a thing isn't >possible but that didn't stop the writers from taking a disaster and >hyping it up into something it wasn't. > >There were heros aplenty on that boat without the garbage. > >Adam > >On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 02:07 PM, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > >>P.S. The Sting had one technical mistake that jumped off the screen at me >>when I first saw it: remember how each segment of the film was introduced by >>a Saturday Evening Post magazine cover? The one that preceded the poker game >>on the 20th Century Limited was a drawing of the first streamlined "Century" >>pulled by a New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive. That rendition of >>the train was designed by a well-known industrial designer, Henry Dreyfuss >>and first went into service in 1938. But the film opens with a man climbing >>a set of exterior stairs with superimposed titles setting place and time as - >>I recollect - Cicero Illinois, September 1934. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html