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Topic: Revealed: The actual screenplay drawings
behind ´Argo´ that helped American
hostages escape Iran in 1980 |
Revealed: The actual screenplay drawings
behind ´Argo´ that helped American
hostages escape Iran in 1980
Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 2/22/2013 6:46:30 AM
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| The ´Argo´ movie illustrations that the CIA used in 1980 to fool Iranian officials into freeing six American hostages have been made available for the first time in decades. The author of the concept illustrations, Jack Kirby, who co-created X-Men, died in 1994 but the man who hired him to draw them lives to tell the true story behind the original ´Argo.´ Barry Ira Geller was an aspiring producer in 1978 when he purchased the production rights to the science fiction novel ´Lord of Light´ by Roger Zelazny, a story set on a faraway planet that was published in
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Comments:
Amazing story.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/22/2013 7:02:53 AM (No. 9190213)
Great movie, saw it two nights ago.
True story. Great movie about great Americans, even have to give a thumbs up to Pres. Jimmy Carter on this one.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rabbit, 2/22/2013 7:59:01 AM (No. 9190291)
Great article if you have seen the movie. And if you have not...then this is one worth seeing.
I do get tired of some folks whining that ´the movie wasn´t true to fact´. Well, it is a movie. Even the best documentary doesn´t always cover everything, and this is a fictionalized account, not a documentary.
It captures the mood and the suspense of the times perfectly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 2/22/2013 8:36:10 AM (No. 9190366)
Posters who love to brag they haven´t seen a movie in 20-30 years miss so much I feel sorry for them. (Yet they post on every Hollywood or movie thread. Interesting.)
If you see just one, see Argo.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
envirodude, 2/22/2013 9:15:59 AM (No. 9190455)
Agree #3-this was a great flick. and when you boycott it and others like it, you end up with nothing of value on the big screen.
/have seen about a movie a week for the last 6 months
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 2/22/2013 9:30:02 AM (No. 9190498)
Just one more comment since this is a ´positive´ thread. This was a very good year for movies- Argo, Lincoln, Les Mis, Flight,and others. Still have to see Silver Linings.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
toddh, 2/22/2013 10:13:49 AM (No. 9190598)
"Lord of Light" is a great book. Could be done with CGI today, no need to built a theme park.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
broken01, 2/22/2013 2:03:41 PM (No. 9191145)
Thanks but no thanks. I´m waiting for "The Man of Steel" to come out this summer.
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