Even when it couldn't be more obvious he was caught, he persisted in his games, such as:
"These are all real people," Glass said desperately.
"Look me in the eye," Lane replied sternly, "and say that again."
"These are all real people," he repeated feebly.
If you read some of the old articles and the names are just crazy. He should have been caught way before the hackers article.
shareYour saying that through hindsight. Its easy to say you would not have been fooled.
Glass was a con-artist. He used every trick in the book. Whether it was being charming, flirting, flattering, friendly etc. Look at the way his co-workers were portrayed in the film. His co-workers obviously really liked him and truly believed he was a swell guy. One of them even thought about quitting her job after Glass was suspended. These were the same people who was publishing his articles. So its safe to say that Glass had them eating at the palm of his hands.
Like the old saying goes. People will do anything for a pretty face.
One of the editors had a wife that stopped reading Glass' articles. I can't remember if it was the first guy, or the one that caught him. She said they were unbelievable. He probably pulled in sales, and they wanted these stories to be true. I believe some of the stories had to be true, but then he found out adding some things made the story better, then he would add more, then just makeup stories. Some of his stories are up on line. The earlier ones were a little believable.
shareIt was the wife of the owner of the magazine Marty Peretz who said that. Marty was the old guy who slammed the door in the movie.
I don't think it was because of sales. The movie gave a strong reason for how he got away with it. Remember the part where he was explaining how an article is fact checked. He brought up a big hole in the system. The hole was that there are some articles that can't be fact checked against other sources. The only source they can match it too was Glass's notes. Most of Glass's articles came from heresay. So the factcheckers at the magazine couldn't really check it that well.
Thats why it took "Hack Heaven" to catch him. Because Glass obviously didn't know too much about computers. So he didn't realize that the article he wrote can be checked using computers.
Great point.
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