Three Days of the Condor ... Hopefully the networks will show it !

[EVDebs]

Since the plot of the movie hinges on potential of a plan to seize Middle Eastern oilfields when the world starts running low ...hey, that sounds very familiar.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=49657

DUers, we should be DEMANDING that the networks play this flick !

Are you with me ? To the barricades !

[ewagner]

1. That movie freaks me out

everytime I see it.

It's a plot within a plot within a plot and finally you wonder

What if? What if all this is true?

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[asjr]

2. The original with Robert Redford?

That was excellent.

[Ilsa]

3. I have that movie on videotape.

The romance between RR and Faye Dunaway freaked me out, though. Loved the movie. And the CIA guy at the end talks about how no one will care how we get the oil, just as long as we have it. I hope i have better principles than that. Too bad some of the technology in that flick is obsolete. It might be hard for young'uns to follow some of that! ;)

[EVDebs]

4. Didn't mean to blow the plotline but it's all about OIL in the end...

And it matches up with Nixon's plans to seize Saudi oilfields:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=49657

"British spy chiefs warned after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war that they believed the United States might invade Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi to seize their oil fields, according to records released Thursday."

[AtLiberty]

5. "It will happen this way...

...You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift."

[Steely_Dan]

9. What a Great Movie

Your quote is pretty damned accurate...it gives me chills to remember that part of the film. The way he looks at Redford when he says it...wonderful writing.

-Paige

[EVDebs]

17. The Poisson artwork in the CIA guy's house was a nice touch also !

Shepherds of Arcadia I think it was...

[RetroLounge]

6. My parents took me to see that movie when I was a kid

Have always loved it...

RL

[dmr]

7. I rented it a few months ago so

my teenage son could see it.

[...of J.Temperance]

8. Another film they should show is

John Frankenheimer's 'Seven Days In May':

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058576/

However, the spineless media probably are banned from showing such films these days :(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Both have been on cable within the last two years

:shrug:

[...of J.Temperance]

14. Heck

That's mighty brave of them. Although I wasn't aware both had been shown, I'm across the Pond as they say.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi ...of J.Temperance!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[...of J.Temperance]

15. Merci

:toast:

I hope I won't be carted off to Gitmo in the middle of the night, considering I decided to use one of those Freedom words.

[guruoo]

13. And then there's "The Dead Zone"

http://www.buzzflash.com/theangryliberal/04/06/tal04007.html

'Martin Sheen played an explosive and zealous people's candidate who, if Christopher Walken had not attempted to assassinate him, would have gone on to eventually win the presidency and then instigate nuclear war.'

!!! http://www.walken2008.com !!!

[...of J.Temperance]

16. That's getting TOO close to todays happenings

:scared:

I haven't seen 'The Dead Zone', which is shocking, I'll put it on my list. I did watch 'Fail Safe' again the other week:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/

I MUST stop intentionally scaring myself in this way!

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. No, they want to show Schwarzenegger films!

Somewhat tangentially, Google is as bent as a 9 bob watch.

I keyed in "Veterans for Kerry" and got a page full of sites on veterans against Kerry. Oh, I tell a lie. The second site was an application form for "Veterans for Kerry".

That's a bit like asking for sites on the role played by Rooselvelt in WWII, and getting a page full of sites on Hitler. Why not Marylin Monroe? It wouldn't have been quite so antithetical to what I had asked for.

Nor is it by any means the first such evidence I've encountered on Google of pronounced neocon bias.

Is there no comparable search engine yet. I'd had high hopes of the Chinese one at first.

What a brilliant metaphor of the difference between John Kennedy and Dubya:

Under JK: "One small step for man; one giant step for mankind".
Under Dubya: "One small step for man; one giant step for DIY".

The last line was a witticism by Andy McNab of Bravo 2 Zero, I read on the recent shuttle problems.

[Gormy Cuss]

19. The Manchurian Candidate (original with Frank Sinatra)

is another one that scared the daylights out of me. "Three Days of the Condor" is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen.
:scared:

[...of J.Temperance]

20. Gosh yes

'The Manchurian Candidate', another John Frankenheimer film. I never saw the remake, because I'm a bit against remakes of already previously excellant films.

Another scary film is 'The Parallex View' with Warren Beatty, it's very freaky:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970

If you haven't seen it, then I highly recommend it.