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Just came across "Winter Kills" as a possibility. There's "JFK", "Seven Days in May", "The Manchurian Candidate", "The Parallax View". Any more?Interestingly, I just read today that Senator Fullbright warned McNamara about a revolt of the generals back in '61. This was after Gen. Edwin Walker was fired for indoctrinating his troops in Germany with John Birch propaganda. Fullbright also warned JFK not to go to Dallas in 63.
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and look for the JFK connection being acted out with multiple gunmen setup around a barn. The bad guy, Vincent D'Onofrio has four pigeons stuck in a big remote controlled black dune buggy and their wings are duct taped so they can't fly away. One pidgeon is dressed in pink dolls clothes and has red lipstick on its beak. She's Jackie O. JFK is sitting next to her in the back of the DB. Two pigeons are in the front--you guessed, the Connolys.He has not one, not two, but three guys stationed with rifles on top of the surrounding shacks and this road in front of the barn is marked off with string on each side. A fourth guy has a small movie camera and is Zagruder. On cue, he starts the DB out of the barn, following the marked 'road.' He then gives the signal about halfway through the course and the gunmen open fire on the poor pigeons blowing them to bits as VDO announces it like the reporters did that day.
The funniest scene I've seen in years.
Chris
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Loved it! Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan. One of the first to address this subject. Wealthy ultra-conservatives are disgusted with their percieved weakness of the sitting president and decide to do something about it. (1973)
somewhat, huh?Wasn't this done in collaboration with Mark Lane. I had completely forgotten it was around. I'll look for it, thanks.
edta,It's interesting how often the JFK assasination is referred to in film- probably because it's history is so well known to the American public.
These can even make fun of this pervasiveness:
"Annie Hall": Woody Allen obsesses over the the Warren Comm. report and his wife says, "You're using this to avoid sex with me." Allen" My God, she's right."
"The Salton Sea": the scene in which the meth addicts re-enact the assasination with pidgeons riding in a remote control car was a high point of the movie.
Otherwise, I think that the assasination (as well as Watergate)had an effect on mystery and action movies in that it became much easier to create plausible atmospheres of conspiracy. The conspirators could be government or big business, but the public could better accept "The Parallax View" or "Chain Reaction" partly from the real shock of November 22, 1963.
As well, who knows if some part of the tragedies of the assasinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 and the attempts on Ford and Reagan may have been influenced by the constant reference to JFK. Life imitating art imitating life in effect.
Cheers,
Bambi B
Funny how that pre assassination flic informs the JFK, RFK, and, somewhat, the MLK assassinations. Frankenheimer who directed Manchurian also directed "Winter Kills".According to the post which I read about Condon's book , the characters who have been theorized to have been in on the Kennedy assassination were signalled in the book, but not their real names, of course. According to this view, right wing, John Birch types who wanted a war with the USSR at all costs, were the perps.
edta,Interesting, I had never heard that theory. A paranoid's dream come true that there are secret signals in the media.
And The Manchurian Candidate" has it's connection to JFK; I seem to remember that "Manchurian Candidate" was withheld from release so as not upset the public further after 11/22. I wonder if that would happen today when movie deals are signed with the parents when the baby is still down the well?
As for the event, there must be as many theories as there are people. What do you think happened?
Cheers,
Bambi B
And a later coverup. Now what group is big enough to pull that off?
For years I subscribed to Probe magazine for the facts about the case not the spin. Did you ever read the Warren Report or parts of it? The headlines and conclusions are diametrically opposed to the facts in the text.With more government records being unsealed more facts are entering the public domain. There is a book out useful to anyone seeking the facts in this matter.
More in the new book by Probe analysts.
edta,Thanks for the links- new information and ideas on the subject are alway interesting- and it's interesting on it's own that it's pursued so assiduously still.
11/22/63: I think you're correct concerning a "professional hit". My thought was that 11/22/63 was the work of a very small cell of a few closely-knit, single-minded people and this is how it was kept under wraps so easily. I can not believe in a giant conspiracy of the CIA, FBI, highly strung Cubans, Naval Intelligence, LBJ, McNamara, the MOB, and etc- there would be too many people, too many conflicting motives, and someone would by now have a crisis of conscience, need the money from the definitive book, or be an indiscreet drunk. Oswald, such a mysterious figure, perhaps pushed his way into this group or was recruited as the goat, then silenced by Ruby when he had panicked, shot Tippett, and was caught and could become a bean spiller. And the Warren Commission was probably mostly well intentioned, but just out of their depth to make the investigation and had to say something comfortably final to calm the public.
All armchair analysis (ever notice that you can't spell "analysis" without the word "anal"?) open to suggestions and revision.
Never fails to fascinate. When I see Saint Peter, I will first thank him, and then immediately ask..
Cheers,
Bambi B
PS: Oh, I need to say the word "film" in this post or get thrown into the maelstrom "Outside".
Another conspiracy flic, but the wrong one.Winter Kills was by a relative newcomer, right? Anyone on here opine on it?
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