Benghazi — The Motion Picture
This evening, after I write this piece, I will be voting in the Oscars, for the first time online. (I have been an Academy member since 1985 and we have always voted during that period on written forms mailed directly to Price Waterhouse.) The Academy discourages us from revealing our votes – so I won’t. (At least not here. Watch the next Poliwood and you might get some idea.)
But I will tell you one film I will not be voting for — Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s version of the hunt for Bin Laden. It’s not that the filmmakers are untalented. As I mentioned a few years ago on Poliwood, I quite admired their 2008 opus The Hurt Locker. But Zero Dark Thirty felt rushed and disorganized. Even a news junkie like me often didn’t know what was happening or why.
Perhaps the killing of Bin Laden defies telling in a feature film. The material is too vast and a mini-series would have been better, especially since it is fraught with irony and Bin Laden’s assassination may have been, in the end, irrelevant. (“Obama, Obama, we are all Osama.”) In any case, two hours plus is just not enough.
One story, however, cries out for cinematic dramatization — Benghazi.
It is concise and highly dramatic. And mysteries abound – just where was the president of the United States that night our ambassador and others were under terror attack in North Africa? Why wasn’t Obama directly involved? Why did the secretary of State pay so little attention? Just what was our ambassador to Libya doing in Benghazi that night anyway? Why were the perpetrators allowed to escape? Why did the president lie for weeks about what transpired, trying to make a hopeless video nobody saw seem the cause of the event? And why were his lies covered up by CNN’s Candy Crowley? Why was no attempt made to save our people in the first place? (I could go on, but you get the drift.)
Though I could guess (and the Daily Mail has some theories), I don’t know the definitive answer to any of these questions, but I do know one thing: If I did… if anybody did… know the truth, Benghazi would be one helluva movie. And a commercial one.
But would anybody make it?
That’s the question.
“They would never risk embarrassing a
sittingDemocrat president.”
Fixed that. Funny thing Roger, I don’t remember the chuckleheads on the left holding back their contempt for GW Bush when he was in office. It was on full display at every opportunity no matter how thin the material was.
The left has waged all out war on anyone seen as center-right in this country. The least we can do is oblige them – let em know we can throw stones too. The right has been too G-D’ed polite in this little war. Its time to take off the gloves.
Dept. of Justice turns a blind eye for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and against the First Amendment
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2013/02/14/dept-of-justice-turns-a-blind-eye-for-u-s-attorney-patrick-fitzgerald-and-on-the/
Correction; The left has waged all out war on anyone seen as right of leftism in this country.
No, you sure can’t.
Essentially, the film on the Benghazi fiasco would be a re-make of ”The Manchurian Candidate” – just change the name to ”The Muslim Brotherhood Candidate” ……….
Remember the Alamo.
Fish school and swim in concert but rarely do so up stream,salmon do so only to die!The Hollywood bait ball swims in a protective circle of fear,knowing what’s safe,knowing that ticket sales are paramount!Making movies to please the moronic left is easy,is effortless and who can take serious issue with easy money!
They only mirror us,the public, we mostly do the same thing.But of course to act that way,to go along to get along with our current leadership has proven to be driving over a cliff! So i forgive them and their Thelma and Louise story line.
No, because none of the “heroes” in Hollywood would want to end up in similar place to where the original “his video caused it all” guy ended up. And don’t tell me that’s not possible anymore, not in Obama’s Amerika. This junta full of thugs is only limited in their behavior by what they think they can get away with, not by the law of the land or by common decency.
As I asked a few monthes ago, has anyone seen Rules of Engagement (2000) by William Fridekin, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel Lee Jackson and Ben Kingsley ? It’s based on a story by Jim Webb (Dem), and it’s worth seeing in the light of Benghazi. I wish it had been broadcasted before election day.
I would invest/donate a couple of hundred dollars, and my time and skills as an actor, extra, spear carrier, bomb thrower, or laborer. But that shouldn’t be necessary. A movie about Ben Ghazi, and the malfeasance of Obama and Clinton should just happen, or the economic forces of supply and demand are bogus.
More fitting would be a film about Obama that is an analogue to the hit-piece HBO did on Palin.
Show the truth. Show Obama sitting in church while listening to anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Semitic sermons. Show Rev. Wright giving Trinity’s highest award to famous Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan.
Show Obama’s 2007 Hampton U anti-white racist hate speech that tries to drudge up resentment and blame against whites. Juxtapose it to MLK or even Nuremberg if you must.
Show the self-contradictory comments Obama made before and after his Presidency, show drone strikes on weddings while Obama carps about waterboarding.
Show flashbacks of Axlerod, Obama and Jarret being mentored by card-carrying communists. Show Obama asking us to open our hearts to noted racist Derrick Bell. Have narration from Obama’s race-obsessed books. Let his own words speak.
Show Obama’s Cairo speech, with historians laughing at its inaccuracies. Show speeches by Al-Qaradawi and Morsi and passages about America from noted moron Sayd Qutb while Obama speaks.
As for “Zero Dark Thirty,” I really liked that film. I never felt confused about what was going on, except as far as the filmmakers themselves were perhaps trying to convey the confusion about that type of needle in a haystack. Never felt there was an agenda either.
While I like the framing of your proposed movie I’m afraid irony and hypocrisy would fly over the heads of 51% of the voting public.
You are right.
That’s why I think the film should be a tragi-comedy, perhaps directed by Mike Judge of “Beavis and Butthead,” “Office Space,” and “Idiocracy” fame.
It is unintentional, but the Obama regime provides nothing but nonstop hilarity for those who are willing to appreciate a good laugh as the country’s downward spiral picks up momentum.
The film should be political. It should mock the absurdity of Obama’s projection of “smart power” throughout the middle east, much in the same way that “Duck Soup” ridiculed the Nazis and Fascists.
The death of the three security officers is not funny. But the cowardly nonresponse to the attack, and the administration’s rationale for its indolence are about as tragic and laughable as life gets. The administration should be ridiculed with laughter at its pretense and incompetence.
A cartoon might also be appropriate since the government of the United States is nothing better than a cartoon of effective governance, administration, and leadership.
Violence, killing, mayhem. Complements of Hollywood.
From Death Wish to Dirty Harry; throw in First Blood and Saving Private Ryan, even Natural Born Killers gets a tip of the hat as it makes Obama’s top ten list of violent movies.
Which gives you a sense of the killer’s mental state when he orders his 25th Drone strike that results in limited collateral damage; the utter destruction of a 16 year old boy’s body scattered the length of two football fields. I advise you to avoid watching the videos of the event.
Apparently, somebody thought they were hired to play the part of Abe Zapruder.
As is apparent, the difference with the Obama killing spree was that it not only lives on in the present tense, but it was about real life and death, not an idea some Hollywood writer had cooked up.
No ketchup in Obama’s kills. Unless you think a found finger might taste good on a toasted hot dog bun.
The blood is real.
Only the facts are changed to protect Obama.
ObamaInvestigations don’t investigate Obama’s actions during, for example, the Benghazi kills. The reason should be obvious to all Americans.
The facts might make Obama look like he cared more about the sausage pizza he ordered as a late snack before bedtime more than he cared for the Americans hold up in Benghazi fighting for their lives.
Regardless of all the real life endings that Obama’s responsible for, Obama’s more of a Jack Bauer aficionado. Drones, executive orders, moles that need killing.
Watch “24″ reruns and you’ll be amazed at the similarities with the Obama Administration. With enough corruption in both venues to sink a battleship, though Obama’s weapon of choice to sink Naval ships are budget cuts.
Then, (forgive me for digressing), although it wasn’t part of Roger Simon’s piece, there are the cop killings in California by crazy Chris Dorner.
Obama kept it quiet but he was one of the ones quietly cheering on Dorner to escape.
Seems ever since Obama and Bill Ayers had their,”I hate cops more than you do” dinner session with terrorist Khaladi (You remember. Don you? The tape of the Jew hating dinner that the LA Times won’t release because it’s afraid the American people would then release Obama to the wolves of northern California.)
You know, just between you and me, it’s becoming easier and easier to connect the Obama dots that should result in a slew of formal conspiracy to commit manslaughter charges.
Incidentally, murder changes are harder to get to stick, especially when you remember we have an attorney general who won’t move on the black Panthers when they put out a bounty on an untried, probably guiltless hispanic American named George Zimmerman. In truth, Holder should be the one behind bars.
Dorner, Bauer, Obama, Harry Callahan, Paul Kersey; there’s a lot of firepower there. Only Adam Lanza did all his killing with a pistol contrary to what the L.A. Times will tell you.
However, it is true that Obama and the Hollywood killers prefer, powerful, highly sophisticated weapons, from Harry Callahan’s 44 Magnum to Obama’s Drones, to Dorner’s $5,000 military rifle with “ball” ammo.
In Benghazi, weapons sophistication was the name of the deadly game.
Obama let the hostiles waste the Americans with assorted high powered weapons, grenades and RPG’s some of which came right out of the Operation Fast and Furious cache.
So, really, there’s no telling how many killings and concomitant crimes Holder and Obama are responsible for committing.
Another tidbit of information.
Obama ordered the SEAL to take out Osama with a CM 901 killing machine capable of driving home rounds with the finely tuned feel that some special forces guys compare to driving a Lamborghini.
Unlike a lot of guys that do a lot of killing of Americans for their country, Obama doesn’t do a lot of talking about them. Maybe Obama was quietest about Benghazi.
He promised an investigation and gave the American public what amounts to a press release. The families of the deceased say that because of Obama’s dereliction of duty that night, Obama in effect murdered their sons.
I agree.
In fact, if enough Americans were aware of the fact that Obama didn’t lift a trigger finger to find out if the battling bastards of Behghazi (how some of Obama’s people like to laughingly refer to them) could be rescued during the prolonged 8 hour fire fight, they might suddenly come to their senses (like the Italians did on April 28, 1945 with Benito Mussolini) and rightfully blame Obama for the unnecessary slaughter.
It makes sense that Obama never wants the facts to come out.
A rescue attempt would have conflicted with the concocted story that served as the excuse for the attack. And served Obama well for weeks and weeks while Obama’s slave media was pushing the same points. “It wasn’t Obama’s fault.”
In fact, when Obama, weeks after the deaths at Benghazi spoke smack in front of the UN, Obama was still sticking to the ridiculous story blaming everything on a youtube video.
Maybe it’s me, but Obama doesn’t act or seem like I think a President should comport themselves.
To tell you the unvarnished truth, and speaking as someone who grew up in Chicago, I hate to say it, but Obama reminds me not of a President, but of a bum from the neighborhood.
But who wants to see a movie about another bum from the neighborhood.
The unvarnished Benghazi story could be box office.
Had we known then what we know now, we would be ruminating about ex-President Barack Obama and his lurch to Socialism and commending the return to sanity under our new Commander-in-Chief, Mitt Romney. Dear Leader was reelected despite his and Secretary of State Hillary’s shocking MIA-AWOL behavior during the massacres of our Libyan Benghazi Embassy and its American personnel. Ambassador Stevens was sodomized and dragged through the streets as he was being murdered. Three other Americans fought back, but after eight hours and our government in a leadership coma, these brave citizens of the most powerful country in the world were slaughtered as well. Not only has Obama never told what happened that night, he sent UN Ambassador Susan Rice to lie and cover up about his malfeasance.
Recent testimony of retiring DOD Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff head General Martin Dempsey revealed that after a planned WH meeting @ 5:00 PM 9/11/12 where President Obama was briefed on the beginning of the Benghazi Embassy attacks, there was no other communication from the White House or State Department. Panetta and General Martin were left without any direction as to how to handle the situation. The cowardice of Obama and Clinton are only surpassed by their greedy election ambitions at the cost of any and everything else. One can only speculate that they concluded if they made no decisions they couldn’t be tied with any potential mistakes that could hang them politically.
No American can be safe with these people in charge. No ally can have confidence in the Obama’s Administration’s guarantees of help. All enemies, from Iran to N. Korea are emboldened. Even tepid friends observing the behaviors of Obama have learned the barn door is wide open and the cows are ready to be milked and/or slaughtered. The wolves of Russia, China and thousands of blood thirsting Jihadist Terrorists and the millions who sympathize with them, (many in the Democratic Party) are licking their chops at the opportunity our leadership vacuum has placed before them.
What happened to that commercial put out by Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democrat primaries where it posed her as the person who was most likely to answer that 3:00 AM call? We all thought because of Bill’s dalliances she would be the one for that, but she was asleep at the wheel, just like our Commander-in-Chief.
They even tried blaming Bush and the Republicans for not funding enough for embassy security. That notion was debased when Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb was asked before a Congressional Committee, “Was the refusal to provide more security (for the Benghazi Embassy) caused by budget cuts to embassy security?” Her answer? “No, sir.”
If you’re waiting for the MSM to enter the fray, don’t hold your breath. In fact, to avoid indigestion and nausea, take them for what they are: Obama Toadies! Then move on. Hope is that under Swift Boat Fraud, Captain John F. Kerry, who has replaced Hillary as Secretary of State, things will get better.
Maybe so- It was learned that Secretary of State John F. Kerry emerged from his limo from his dangerous foray into the wilds of Arlington Virginia to attend a meeting at the Diplomatic Security Headquarters with more security than Ambassador Chris Stevens, Ty Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith had on their last night alive on earth in Benghazi.
Praise the L0RD-Secretary Kerry made it back from that 20 minute drive to the burbs of DC without even a broken finger nail. I may joke, but this cannot be tolerated. As Obama calls for justice so should we. Mark Levin was right. Every Obama overreach must be challenged and all scandals like the above must be revealed. As we no longer have a working press, we citizens must become it. The American people and the world deserve no less.
You’re too kind to the moochers, takers, ideologues, and fakers who make up Obama’s coalition, DaveWeinbaum. Too kind. Even in they had
knownnot kept their eyes shut, they would still have voted for Obama.America’s weakness today is not that too few voters know the facts but that too many voters have bad morals.
I avoid all Hollywood movies that touch on the political because they’re invariably left wing propaganda, blatantly anti-conservative and – even when they claim not to be – semi-fictional. I did see The Ghost Writer, a stab in Tony Blair’s back, just because it was Polanski’s. Unfortunately, the director notwithstanding, it stank.
I don’t see why a fictional version of the Benghazi 9/11 attack can’t be done. I mean “fictional” with a wink and a nod.
I thought it was just me! I can barely watch tv anymore,an obvious fantasy and fiction with all the racial groups appearing in perfect ratios.And oh so balanced with all the correct sentences being said and the on screen fake parties.Don’t they know that a idyllic picture of harmony and perfection is so,so revolting to those of us from the real world!
Same here.
You’re joking or tongue in cheek
There must be people in the film /TV propaganda media already hard at work and fighting one another to make just such a film. Purveyors of fiction, they know any story they tell will do nicely. And how they can tweak, twist, lie about the realities of this subject to make heroes of the craven, and dismiss the heroes as 1. AMERICAN military those most evil people on the planet, 2. patriots, 3. right-wing nutcases, i.e. the guns and religion US military who were killed by the “freedom loving natives of Libya”.
It may well be true the soldiers are not so much patriots but ordinary Americans “working” boo-hiss for their livings” and doing the necessary for just that. Still they do, they did put their lives on the line in their jobs. Which is more than can be said for the know-it-all freedom fighters in their offices in propaganda and entertainment, and of course the teachers of the stories in what is laughingly still called educational media.
Call their story.film/TV , narrative, METAPHOR. What facts if we ever can really know what they are, given so many descriptions of what “actually happened” from reports filtered via notorious tellers of tales to enhance their goals as the “ethical Media”. And or the stories from the “servants of the people” as e.g. POTUS with chosen lackey Secretary of State, and claque in Congress/Court.
As finale to the story, the proofs of “what really happened/the facts” are to be Sealed with Executive Order to “protect the public” and assure that only the tale told by the useful idiots is heard. Anything with the right drumbeating and trumpet blowing “does the trick”.
As coup make the film for distribution in the summer of 2016 when the “Heroine”/Hillary their “White” Knight, proceeds as hereditary heir to claim the crown.
Meryl Streep OF COURSE the Queen of Hollywood to play the heroine. Hollywood/TV professional make-up artists and photographers can fix any appearance of maturity or dare we say it age. If she’s not up to remembering her lines there is always the teleprompter and the ear piece. George Clooney to play the present holder of the crown? A DREAM scenario. Perfect for those ignoramuses who make up the viewing, hearing and voting populace of that evil USA. Go to it boys and girls. It’ll sell even be Oscar material.
They call it not only democracy but liberal democracy. In the Constitutional REPUBLIC of the United States of America and easily dismissibal reality.
Clooney has been angling for some non-fiction for awhile now,i suspect a string of Carters and Chelsey Clinton types to hold on to the power for quite some time.With ownership of Hollywood and the media Conservatives will be finding it near impossible to find their way with all of that sand kicked up in their faces.
It should be made and I think it will, maybe not by the big Leftist production companies but someone will do it. Act of Valor may not win awards but it did very well. The truth will get out, it is only a matter of time.
If you oversee this idea on
Kickstarter…
people would contribute….
Thanks
Yes, Kickstarter. FrackNation got made – I think Benghazi would get funded, too.
From the title I expected this film to be satire. Nobody likes movies where the every single good guy gets sodomized and murdered and the bad guys get re elected.
So if the movie happened it would have to show the president parachuting in in the dead of the night. Evil ambassador grinding up Libyan children to use as lubricant for his tank treads/ drilling rigs.
Desparate fire fight. noble al queda savages rescue president, altho most of them die from zombite cia agent bites.
Finally noble president walks out of the front door. embassy in flames. holding hands with rescued Libyan orphan.
A skinny Terminator complete with a flag pin and a little child under each arm,no cigar though,he’s very afraid of Michelle!
I am glad to hear that Mr. Simon is working on an anti-progressive blockbuster.
Thank you.
A Benghazi film definitely needs to be made. Independent film makers, please, and hurry? Time’s running out.
Roger, stop talking; start writing!
…..that film definitely needs to be made, but I don’t think we’ll ever see the accurate story on a movie screen. There are simply too many vested interests involved in suppressing damaging details from too many angles……just review Roger Simon’s list of questions:
…pasted…”It is concise and highly dramatic. And mysteries abound – just where was the president of the United States that night our ambassador and others were under terror attack in North Africa? Why wasn’t Obama directly involved? Why did the secretary of State pay so little attention? Just what was our ambassador to Libya doing in Benghazi that night anyway? Why were the perpetrators allowed to escape? Why did the president lie for weeks about what transpired, trying to make a hopeless video nobody saw seem the cause of the event? And why were his lies covered up by CNN’s Candy Crowley? Why was no attempt made to save our people in the first place? (I could go on, but you get the drift.)….” end paste.
Good luck trying to get each question of that tangled morass resolved truthfully AND past each of the censoring bureaucracies involved criss-crossing White House/Defense Dept/State Dept/C.I.A. et al.
But…..oh my goodness…..the money it’d make!!!!!!!
Bette Davis as Hillary. O.J. Simpson as Obama. Orson Wells as Secy of Defense, Charles Laughton as C.I.A. Director, and Leslie Howard as the hapless Ambassador.
Roger, your rhetorical question aside, we could ask a dozen more.
1)Would such a movie ever get state departments secrets given to it, if it was critical of small c communists?
2)Would the New York Times front page a hit piece calling every element of truth in it, a lie?
3)Would CNN anchors say that the movie caused global warming?
4)Forget whether a movie will ever be made, will an investigation ever be made where anyone is actually held to telling the truth about it?
5)Would a young Roger Simon or David Mamet look at the facts of this clear and evident coverup and be willing to take on “their side” and expose the abuses?
I ask this latter question, because the older, wiser Roger and David…along with the older and wiser Ron Radosh and David Horowitz, have a job to do.
Would a committed leftist ever allow such naked propaganda and Constitutional abuses to stand without ferocios opposition? If conservatives owned the mediafia as do the leftists…and committed the abuses, the serial gang rape of our information stream, the steady stream of lies (of omission, commission…and now, editing out evidence, photoshopping false pictures, staging false events, forging documents, kidnapping and holding material evidence hostage, wholesale slander, false attributions, creating false history, burying key evidence)…would ANY committed leftist let that stand?
Depending upon our information stream to self-govern this land of ours is the seminal point of freedom and independence from a rogue and brutal rule over our lives.
Allowing the mediafia to outright lie to us, allowing Hollywood to become an arm of that lie and academia to become a farm team manager of those lies…is to allow ALL the things that leftists have said they stand against. They are liars.
They do NOT stand for a free press willing to tell the truth. They do NOT stand for speaking truth to power in Hollywood or on Broadway. They do NOT stand for tolerance and fair presentation of multiple points of view.
They stand for tyranny.
Would a young Roger Simon, David Mamet, Ron Radosh and David Horowitz stand for that same tyranny, if they were young today? Or would they oppose tyranny wherever they found it…take their REAL “victims” wherever they found them and stand for truth, honor, integrity, loyalty…as the REAL virtues of the “classic liberal”?
I ask this, not to demean those men…or you. But, to beg them. And you.
To steal a bit from Michael Ledeen. Louder, please.
The only way it could get done is if Amb. Stevens had some Hollywood action in his past and that person/persons recast Stephens as some sort of gay martyr against Islamic intolerance.
What’s wrong with Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson? Regardless of anything else they both make great movies and could probably finance it as well- though I don’t see any shortage of financiers. I can’t wait to see it unless it’s a lib cover up.
I was thinking that same thing … In the credits:
Produced by …….. Clint Eastwood
If that happened, I could see:
Empty Chair… … … …as himself
…in the credit roll.
Roger, would it be reasonable for a person–say, someone like you–to start a campaign to raise money from the public–say, someone like me–to make the Benghazi movie? I’m not even American but I’d donate as generously as I could–and so would millions of others–if there were a chance to bell this traitorous cat.
I’m champing at the bit to see this impostor unmasked–and be made to take some of his own poisonous medicine. That he seems to be getting away with his “gangster government” is quite beyond belief.
Yes- Director Clint Eastwood- ‘The Benghazigate’- Clint Eastwood has made excellent movies based in facts. The movie would portray the abandonment of one’s countrymen- assassinated- blaming an innocent victim for all mayhem- refusing to make up one’s minds in the line of fire- prevaricating to one’s nation and UN- while whipping support from unscrupulous tv- personalities to suppress the tru facts in oerder to win an election- then facts starting to drip out-Senators asking questions- WH lying on lies. The movie would be a blockbuster. Cast to be determined later. Roger Simon- start your script.
I have often wondered why well-made documentaries are not more successful? Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016″ was very well made and very entertaining as well. I don’t see why something like that couldn’t be made about Benghazi. And the good news is, documentaries are also A LOT cheaper to produce than regular movies. They may also get more exposure on cable news channels or outlets like the History Channel (maybe even the National Geographic Channel). I wouldn’t downplay what a good documentary can do. Certainly even lowlifes like Michael Moore and Al Gore have made a fortune off of documentaries, so imagine what an honest and exciting documentary on Benghazi could do? As in everything, the final presentation matters. If a slick documentary is produced that LOOKS like a feature movie, then it will be a success. And since we don’t have any mainstream media news outlets (especially The Washington Post of Watergate fame) taking any interest in this important topic, maybe the only solution we have left is to MAKE a documentary on Benghazi? I think it’s worth a try.
I’d go for a dcoumentary over any type of movie. No matter how much it tries to stick to the facts, a movie will take dramatic license and change one aspect or another of the actual event.
Even so, how can a true documentary be made anytime in the next fifty years? No matter how many people come forward, there will be a certain amount of guessing about the sequence of events. We won’t have access to the information of those days – the communications between the WH and Defense and State. How long will the records of Obama’s presidency be sealed, like most of his life history? Sunlight is the best disinfectant but there will be no sunshine to reveal the truth about ‘the most transparent administration in American history’.
Roger, the State Department already wrote a draft of the action portion of the potential film in their Oct. 9 background briefing. See http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm. It is chilling in its honest tick tock description of the attack, the firefight, the escape, and the unfortunate abandonment of Ambassador Stevens. State admits there was no protest. The movie script about what POTUS and others did/not do will have to be creative because no one will admit to the incompetence and cowardice shown.
I didn’t lose focus watching Zero Dark Thirty, didn’t feel lost or that the film was disjointed.
In both of Bigelow’s films, I was drawn into scenarios in a way unlike any war movie I’ve ever seen, the sweat, the fly on the nose, the gear, the tension.
I think it’s a shame that (reportedly anyway) the Academy is dissing a very talented director as a function of Hollywood politics.
Maybe she’ll do a film on Benghazi, Although if any truth leaks through, the spinmeisters in the nation’s capital will be all over it.
Yes, mysteries abound over Benghazi. But the Obamamedia will never pursue it. Marco Rubio taking sip of water during his SOTU rebuttal is much more compelling to these scumsuckers.
I degree with you about Zero Dark Thirty; regardless of its compressions and mild fictionalizations it’s a very good film and I would vote for it if I could. Any real life event can’t be render into a commercially viable feature film because movies—despite what some people believe—don’t (as in can’t) properly imitate reality, and who wants them to anyway?
“Blackhawk Down” did pretty well at the box office, didn’t it? It didn’t change the national discourse of such a terrible failure by a sitting [Dem] Prez, or even put the responsibility of the situation on him, but it made $$, and that’s all Hollywood really cares about. Why not try a conservative-based “Benghazi Down” and see which side of the bread hits the ground?
If Zero Dark is out of competition over its “waterboarding worked” allusion, this is truly pathetic and indicative of the prevailing absurd dogma out there on the left coast.
A tenet to which you’re obligated to subscribe, apparently. From politics to warmism to feminism, it’s ignorant, lockstep dogma all the way.
It’s equally ridiculous to think that Hollywood types give a genuine rats ass that the slaughterer of Daniel Pearl, the guy who bragged about being the brains behind 911, and 2 of his cronies were subjected to a phony drowning procedure.
It has recently become clear that after his 5 p.m. EST meeting with Panetta (& Brennan?), the first 15 min. or so of a 30 min. mtg. spent on what was going on in Benghazi as they were speaking, Barack Obama wasn’t in the room, on the phone, or anywhere to be found the rest of the whole damn night.
It’s a shocker, even for this self-absorbed guy who left either the next afternoon or the day after that for his scheduled campaign gig in Las Vegas.
Put that in the movie.
he was dancing for joy, of course
put that in the movie
So there was an empty chair in the room.
Put that in the movie.
Yep, a film on Benghazi would have the potential of being a block-buster. It’s a great idea — I hope it comes to fruition!
I agree the Banghazi movie would be an compelling thriller, yet for pure oldfashion kick their A** action The Battle for Fallujah awaits a great director. Why no Iraq-Afghanistan war movies beside fiction? How about the life of Chris Kyle a true warrior and heroe.
HOW ABOUT RELIEVING ANYONE WHO TALKED RESCUE. GENERAL HAM AND THE ADMIRAL ON THE AIR CRAFT CARRIER STENNIS. WHERE DID THE DRONES COME FROM?WHAT YOU COULD NOT WATCH ONE HOUR WITH ME?
http://WWW.SPIRITOFAMERICAPARTYRADIOSHOW.COM
911 WE FORGET NUTTIN
If Obama had a diplomat he wouldn’t look like Ambassador Stevens. White privilege didn’t build that. White oppression did. So it goes in Obamaland where unresolved conflicts bloom like mushrooms in the night.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BriefHistoryofWorld?feature=guide
Roger, I hope you read this post. If you haven’t already checked out the web series I’m making called “Extraction” (on You Tube). With the right script I would love to make a movie out of the Benghazi story. The animation techniques involved make my production pipeline an excellent choice to test the viability of a story in front of an audience with what amounts to a very dramatic storyboard or “test movie”. It could also be used as a sales tool to raise money for a full budget live-action feature.
While a film about Ben Benghazi would be a valuable presentation, I have a question.
At present there has been virtually no accurate or concise reporting on what happened on 9/11 in Benghazi or in Washington. There have been no interviews with the survivors, the staff at the state department or the defense department that was watching was happening. There is no accurate timeline of events.
PJMedia and other news agencies like Fox, Daily Caller, or the Big websites should do original reporting on this. You need to find and get interview, leaks, and report what happened.
I don’t know how to do this myself. I need someone to do the leg work so I can know what happened.
Do a feature film, but please, someone, anyone, do actual reporting on this.
I am still angry about this. I am also angry at all of the reporters and news media that are not doing their job.
BENGHAZI & WATERBOARDING
Spontaneous Jihad attacks are on fellow-citizens, usually Dhimmi. Jihad on foreigners takes organization and can leak.
Neither the Administration nor the Congressional questioners nor the Media mentioned September 11, the catastrophe resonating through the centuries. On that day in 1683, Prince Peter III Sobieski, King of Poland, erupted from the impenetrable Vienna Woods with the Polish cavalry to destroy the Sultan’s camp, rout the Ottoman Army, break the Siege of Vienna, and end the Muslim Jihad against Europe for a while.
Each September 11th currently is the glowing payback opportunity. If hearing rumors when approaching the day, the minimal precaution would be AC-130s loitering on high.
All sides apparently miss 9/11/1683 and the nature of the Jihads.
Also, anyone notice that Generals Patton and Marshall were waterboarded? They were in the same VMI fraternity, which used it as freshman hazing.
BENGHAZI
Spontaneous Jihad attacks are on fellow-citizens, usually Dhimmi. Jihad on foreigners takes organization and can leak.
Neither the Administration nor the Congressional questioners nor the Media mentioned September 11, the catastrophe resonating through the centuries. On that day in 1683, Prince Peter III Sobieski, King of Poland, erupted from the impenetrable Vienna Woods with the Polish cavalry to destroy the Sultan’s camp, rout the Ottoman Army, break the Siege of Vienna, and end the Muslim Jihad against Europe for a while.
Each September 11th currently is the glowing payback opportunity. If hearing rumors when approaching the day, the minimal precaution would be AC-130s loitering on high.
9/11/1683 remains to be discovered by the Non-Muslim world.
Correction: Hollywood never misses an opportunity to embarrass a sitting REPUBLICAN president.
Best of luck on your new project, Roger. It sounds fascinating and I’ll be watching for it.
“If I did… if anybody did… know the truth, Benghazi would be one helluva movie. And a commercial one. But would anybody make it?”
Truth? Truth? We don’t need no stinking truth! Just do what Oliver Stone did in “JFK” and make it up. On the other hand, even reasonable conjecture about the events in Benghazi will probably come closer to the truth than anything out of the White House.
to make that movie
and it’ll do no good
unless it’s made now
while our president
what’s-his-name
is still in office
I’d pay to see it. I’d even pay to see the aftershock from the White House and its army of apologists.
not based on executive response or congressional testimony .
At what risk? At what cost? To be jailed like firm maker blamed for Benghazi To be found dead in the morning in your bathtub? I mean seriously, we are dealing with some tough players. Two gunmakers dead in two days (dc clothesline blog) Breitbart gone and case blamed on cardiac condition, but coroner dead within 24 hours. I mean, we are all putting out necks on the line! There is the “State Media” and then there is US
Russian funding and director? Tell me it’s about the Imperial Russian Baltic Sea Fleet’s voyage to Tsushima
If you can make all the Navy Seals gay I can get the money from Geffen.
Rock the Vote, Roger! First Hollywood, then the Beltway.
I think a movie featuring the media’s complicity in covering for Obama during Benghazi would be a great idea, and possibly more affordable that a huge, special effect laden recreation of the event. Done right, it could be devastating.
“Benghazi would be one helluva movie. And a commercial one.
But would anybody make it?” Paging Andrew Breitbart. Paging Jason Mattera.
I don’t know what kind of a narrative a movie about Benghazi would have. Four Americans, including the American ambassador, get killed, top government officials obfuscate all responsibility for not trying to save them, and there are no consequences for anyone but the victims? Who do you have as the protagonist? The only people who get a happy ending are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Where are the survivors [over 20], the two SEALs rescued over 20 people after Obama wrote them off every hour for 8 hours but they just wouldn’t die. They have now disappeared or have joined with the Ambassador, dead men tell no tales its said. Where and who were they, if we had a Senate with real leader, those ‘survivors’ would be testifying right now but unfortunately we have poseurs.
Good luck Roger. I wish you success….if people like you do not step up an tell the truth…who will?