I was telling a young person about 3 Days of the Condor

[serryjw]

One of my favorite movies.28 years later and we are still living it. IF you have never seen it, please rent it.
quote......
As the Cliff Robertson character says at the film's conclusion: "When the people are cold and their engines stop running, they're not going to ask us why; they'll just want us to go get it."

Realizing that he is an embarrassment to the C.I.A. (the inevitable role of any whistleblower, even a reluctant one), at the film's end Redford gives the entire story to the New York Times. The Robertson character, a C.I.A. station chief who was caught off-guard by the hidden conspiracy, says, "But will they print it?" Redford is taken aback at the implication--that the government could pressure the media to suppress the story--and then he avers, less confidently, "They'll print it."

This is the core of democracy: that a free press keeps a government answerable to its people. Without a free and skeptical press, all the elections in the world mean nothing.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305511055?v=glance

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. I just obtained the DVD about a week ago

and realized I haven't opened and watched it yet. I may do that this evening!

Great movie. WAY ahead of its time.

[serryjw]

2. You bet yah

I have the tape and watched it hundreds of times. It has a very contemporary message.

[zonkers]

3. That film stays with you. Period.

[Kingshakabobo]

4. What a great movie. I watched a couple weeks ago on cable.....

Love Max von Sydow's character.

Just watched "V for Vendetta" last night -wow!

[serryjw]

5. Vendetta

is a friends new favorite movie. Still have not seen it.

[KoKo]

6. That is one movie that stays with you...cliff hanger...and really speaks

to the times we are living in now. "Will they Print it?" RINGS IN MY HEAD...given what I now know about the NYT's that I didn't when I first saw that movie.

I've rented it recently...chilling.....:scared:

[serryjw]

8. "They'll print it."

I can still see Redford's face when he said it. He KNEW he was out in the cold. The truth is most American do support 'getting' the resources by any mean s as long as they can have THEIR way of life.

[greenman3610]

7. Condor

was so acute, so dramaticaly powerful, and so true,
that it is still vivid in my mind, decades later.

Redford has never been better.

[welshTerrier2]

9. here's a link to the script:

http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/ThreeDaysoftheCondor.pdf

shadow governments, secret spy agencies inside the US government, controlled media, oil, assassins, the Middle East ... it's all in there ...

great movie ...

[serryjw]

11. I love the movie but

the last few minutes are the best..Thanks for the script

[FrenchieCat]

10. One of my faves too!

Always did love intrigue and Robert Redford!

Yes, we are still living it!

[blogslut]

12. Stephen King

...does a bit about that at the end of "Firestarter". The father wants to take his story to the press. At first he considers the NYT but then decides it's too corporate. Then he smiles and heads for Rolling Stone Magazine...

They took that part out of the movie, the bastards. :(

[pitohui]

13. i liked that too!

ah the old stephen king was so much fun!

[Monk06]

14. Historical note: Hank Garret played the mailman. The gun he used

to wipeout Condor's cell was an Uzi with a silencer.
The existence of the Uzi had just been declassified
and Condor was the first public representation of it.
The movie was only the second to posit a treasonous
coup within American politics. The first was the
Manchurian Candidate.

Regarding the final warning "Will they print it?"

Well if Condor went to the NYT today he would end up
in a torture cell in Syria or Romania or Egypt or.....

[serryjw]

15. Nahhhhhhhhhh, He wouldn't

live long enough for the torture cell. NO ONE from the NSA would have brought him in from the 'cold' ...he knew too much

[Monk06]

16. Well the NYT would have protected him. What better shield than that?