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How NS Contributed To The Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson /Ron Goldman

posted 8 years ago by night_ski
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Its a stretch but bear with me. Due to the success of this film a made for tv movie which would potentially become a series was pitched to NBC and then given the greenlight in 1994. It was titled Frogmen, basically a rip-off of Navy Seals. One of the actors cast for this project was OJ Simpson. To prepare for this role OJ trained with real life Navy Seals. This training heavily involved knife fighting tactics. According to a newspaper article printed after the murders in which one of his Seal trainers was interviewed, OJ was a quick learner, handling a knife like a real pro. During a break in filming, Todd Allen, another actor working on the project, accompanied OJ to a cutlery store where Simpson purchased a knife. The Los Angeles Police Department believed that that knife was the murder weapon which was never discovered.

[–] lexp2005 8 years ago

Top post night_ski! That Rsole OJ was guilty as sin!!!

[–] dubyahsrobotminion 8 years ago

I have problems with this:

1. To start there is no link between the Frogmen tv show and the Navy SEALs movie. No one from the studio to anywhere in the creative process had anything to do with both productions.

2. Navy SEALs was not a success. Critically it took a thrashing across the board when it was made, and at present the temperature critically is the same. Financially it barely broke even. Navy SEALs was one of the last films Orion would make out of the red. It is arguably the straw that broke Orion. The Navy was eager to do several other planned projects with Orion and others but the panning of Navy SEALs pretty much ended that endeavor, along with another a similar failure in Flight of the Intruder.

3. The TV show giving OJ the skills to commit the murders is something that no one can substantiate. Its conjecture and totally the reason why DA Garcetti prohibited its inclusion at any point. Can we say that without his participation in the show that he would not have murdered her anyway? The trainers on 'Frogmen' surely didn't teach OJ to use a folding blade stiletto. If he really took a lot away from the training he got on the show, sensibly he would have bought a fixed blade combat type knife. The coroner suspected that the knife was 6 inched long and single edged. But 6 inches is a fairly common length for knife blades. LAPD detectives suspected a buck type blade. OJ had purchased knives in the past before working on Frogmen.

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[–] Hendry_William_French 8 years ago

Navy SEALs was not a success. Critically it took a thrashing across the board when it was made, and at present the temperature critically is the same. Financially it barely broke even. Navy SEALs was one of the last films Orion would make out of the red. It is arguably the straw that broke Orion. The Navy was eager to do several other planned projects with Orion and others but the panning of Navy SEALs pretty much ended that endeavor, along with another a similar failure in Flight of the Intruder.

Which is a damn shame because their failures put an end to these types of movies and the film companies that supported them, you know, these kinds of 80s/early 90s adventure movies with their own unique style which had big budgets but also took some chances. That's all gone now, and in its place is crappy propaganda pieces like Act of Valor.

Every movie made with military cooperation sucked after this. I can only assume they demanded more involvement with the script and interfered more etc. Navy Seals is a product of a different time. No way could this make this now.

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