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On 6 Mar 2002 at 0:17, thew wrote:
Why do people hear absolutes, when none are uttered?
Reread the above - it does not say war films ONLY do well when the
right is in power.
I don't know ... you tell me. I didn't write that *SPR* was the only film -- war or
otherwise
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From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, you tell us: Why are you reading (I don't recite emails, by the way)
absolutes
when one single sole lone example is provided? I read over the exchanges
by
REVCOAL and others about what was popular when and decided to stay out of
that
one
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From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
War films always do well when the right is in power.
Welcome to the zeitgeist.
Like *Saving Pvt Ryan*?
Why do people hear absolutes, when none are uttered?
Reread the above - it does not say war films ONLY do well when the right is
in power.
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From: RevCOAL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right, but a lot of films which are in the can and might not have made
it
to screen get retooled if an opportunity arises which might make them
more
profitable, such as a war.
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on 3/5/02 12:51 AM, RevCOAL at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I doubt that there were gobs of war-themed scripts just sitting around,
but even if their were, then one has to ask WHY scriptwriters suddenly
decided to start writing scripts using a theme that at the time would not
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On 5 Mar 2002 at 11:11, thew wrote:
War films always do well when the right is in power.
Welcome to the zeitgeist.
Like *Saving Pvt Ryan*?
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From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Boycott Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers
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On 5 Mar 2002 at 11:11, thew wrote:
War films always do well when the right
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From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
War films always do well when the right is in power.
Actually the facts don't bear that out...
The first real boom (no pun intended) of war films was, naturally enough,
while WWII was occuring; prior to the war one rarely finds a war film being
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From: Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right, but a lot of films which are in the can and might not have made it
to screen get retooled if an opportunity arises which might make them more
profitable, such as a war.
The thing is, none of these films were sitting around 'in the
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War films always do well when the right is in power.
Welcome to the zeitgeist.
Like *Saving Pvt Ryan*?
Why do people hear absolutes, when none are uttered?
Reread the above - it does not say war films ONLY do well when the right is
in power.
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Why did they do this? Randall (Pearl Harbor) Wallace--producer, director
and screen writer--could have easily ended the movie as he began it. The
movie began with a short segment of a deadly ambush on a French column in
the same
valley ten years earlier; it should have ended with
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From: RevCOAL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Boycott Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers
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Why did they do this? Randall (Pearl Harbor) Wallace--producer, director
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From: Nurev Ind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One wonders how/why Hollywood decided back in 1997/98 that 'patriotic'
movies would suddenly become money-makers starting in late 2001...
It sure seems that way. But they have always done this. It may take a year
to write a script, but they have
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