30 Days of the Condor playing on TCM now . . .

[defendandprotect]

I guess this is close to 30 years old or older.... ?

If you're late watching it, Redford works at a CIA office where he reads books ---
he goes to pick up lunch for them all and when he gets back they're all dead ---




THE PLOT BELOW . . .






if you've never seen it before . . don't read this part . . .

OIL - IRAQ -- and CIA --

Robert Redford --

Setting out our nightmare that many years ago ---

[Jade Fox]

1. Last time I saw that movie......

it was only 3 Days of the Condor!! ;)

Seriously: great flick.

[kentuck]

2. Just what I was thinking...

:-)

[defendandprotect]

4. Think you're right --- 3 days? --- However, I think the book is 60 Days of the Condor--!!

Though I never read it --- but I'd like to ---

That's Stuyvesant Town in NYC --- we used to live there ---

[libnnc]

3. watching now

it's the only Redford movie I haven't seen

[libnnc]

5. fantastic movie

outstanding!

[WinkyDink]

6. From "Six Days of the Condor" book. Key lines:

"Three Days of the Condor is above-average for a Dino de Laurentiis production. Sydney Pollack's direction of a story based on James Grady's novel (Six Days of the Condor) made this a masterful suspense yarn that still strings you along as a spy story, even after 25 years and the fall of the Soviet Union -- on which a lot of spy stories relied. The whole film played the conspiracy and paranoia cards with cool believability and even some philosophy. Take this totally believable, realpolitik exchange, for example:"

TURNER
Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?

HIGGINS
We have games, that's all. We play games. "What if...?" "How many
men...?" "What would it take...?" "Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a
regime?" That's what we're paid to do.

http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/reviews/condor.htm

[defendandprotect]

7. Did you read the book? Is it a lot different from the movie?

I remember when I first saw the movie, I got the "logic" of the dangers of the CIA probably actually
doing this ---

But I didn't fully understand at the time --- though the pieces of the puzzle were buried there in our history in not nationalizing oil and the role of the oil industry in JFK's assassination --- the real evil and greed behind this. I took it at face value.

Global Warming was only a faint whisper -- and ExxonMobil propaganda widespread.

Why wouldn't we have had electric cars of they could be made --- ?

Questions not asked . . .

[hyphenate]

9. If you get the chance, read

some of Noam Chomsky's books--he lays out a lot of incredible stunts the CIA has done in the name of "democracy." It's hard to believe sometimes, but I wouldn't put anything past them.

[defendandprotect]

10. I've read a lot of Chomsky ---

it seems to me his criticism of the CIA is scattered thru most of his work ---

but, at the moment I'm a bit cool to him ---

I could accept that he had more to do than to get involved in the JFK coup ---
and certainly he wasn't going to get involved in any investigations of it himself ---

but his defense of the 9/11 myth really knocked me over ---

It seems as obvious to me as the reality that there was no need to attack Iraq --- !!!
Except to try to create another perpetual war to replace VN ---

[defendandprotect]

8. I've looked for the book -- "6 Days of the Condor" ....

Did you read it? Any different from movie--?


I remember when I first saw the movie, I got the "logic" of the dangers of the CIA probably actually
doing this ---

But I didn't fully understand at the time --- though the pieces of the puzzle were buried there in our history in not nationalizing oil and the role of the oil industry in JFK's assassination --- the real evil and greed behind this. I took it at face value.

Global Warming was only a faint whisper -- and ExxonMobil propaganda widespread.

Why wouldn't we have had electric cars of they could be made --- ?

Questions not asked . . .

This was also just post-Bush as Director-CIA -- the oil industry and elites controlling a good part of CIA ---

Then GHW Bush moved into the White House with Ford?
Rumsfeld?

[AlCzervik]

11. Shit i thought this post was new and i was looking forward to seeing that again!

no fair!!!!!!!