In Reply to: It was the CIA guys idea. And that was the real idea. nt posted by sjb on January 7, 2013 at 12:13:09:
The film showed the brass recommending other covers, agricultural, educational, etc. Had those approaches been chosen and resulted in a successful operation, do you really think this movie would have been made? It was clearly a Hollywood movie about how great Hollywood is so that Hollywood producers could pat themselves on the back.
Where would the CIA be without hollywood. yeesh.
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- It wasn't the officers' ideas, which were cast as idiotic - Jazz Inmate 12:40:12 01/07/13 (6)
- It showed State Department guys having those ideas - sjb 20:33:06 01/07/13 (5)
- It was the low-level CIA agent who came up with the idea - Jazz Inmate 20:29:21 01/08/13 (4)
- No. The film was made because it was a film about a fictitious film. A very interesting idea, given all the - tinear 08:13:38 01/09/13 (1)
- Not a fictitious film; real hollywood types, production company, storyboards... - Jazz Inmate 09:59:13 01/09/13 (0)
- We must have seen different movies then - sjb 22:37:58 01/08/13 (1)
- we saw the same movie; you're just not acknowledging its pure celebration of hollywood's godlike power - Jazz Inmate 09:57:47 01/09/13 (0)