What on earth happened on this thread while I was away?
The problem with this board is that there are nasty-minded twits who think it's clever to REPORT any opinion they don't like or disagree with -- AND there are people whose messages are regularly deleted, no matter how harmless and
accurate they are, "by an administrator". (Where are they finding these people? Don't they give them ANY training??)
It's time for Americans to admit that the truth is they have no "freedom of speech" at all. They're only allowed to say something that the powers-that-be will agree with. Otherwise, it's gone. That's fascism, pure and simple.
But I believe that the first comment in reply to your message was that it was just typical of Hollowood ignorance and ARROGANCE that they would assume that a Canadian movie being made by Canadians would be controlled by Los Angeles, rather than Vancouver or Toronto. That was just insulting and offensive. But of course, if you say so, they try to stifle you.....
And of course, when the filmmakers added that fictional bit of b.s. to a script that was already full of it, they weren't smart enough to realize that, if an official was supposed to phone the U.S. for "corroboration", their cover would have been blown completely! î The stupidity was just breath-taking.
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ABBAcat
7 years ago
Ok, thanks for explaining and recalling that comment. Sorry this discussion got hijacked by snitches who report. (I am with you in spirit but IMDb can do what they want here. First Amendment only covers what the govt is allowed to do to restrict speech. IMDb owns this domain, can set their own rules and enforce them arbitrarily.)
Yeah, the phone call to the US was a huge, arrogant goof.
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chrisjohnson-2
7 years ago
Sorry to add to all the drama here and apologies if it's already been mentioned (so many comments deleted) but why can't a Canadian film company have offices in Los Angeles? Plenty of American-owned film companies have offices in Canada. I see no problem with giving the guard an American phone number.
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LuciferHeavens
7 years ago
why can't a Canadian film company have offices in Los Angeles?
Nowadays, they do, but it wasn't that common in 1978. Lion's Gate was originally a Vancouver company that recently moved to L.A.
I see no problem with giving the guard an American phone number.
Except that when they were trying to pretend that it was a Canadian film being made by Canadians, and that the six Americans were really Canadian, they should have distanced themselves as much as possible from the U.S.
Making it look like the movie was being controlled by L.A. would have raised suspicions all over.
I saw it as just part of Hollywood's ignorance and arrogance that they'd assume they'd be controlling everything. Even back then, Canada had it's OWN film industry, which would have been controlled by Vancouver or Toronto.
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chrisjohnson-2
7 years ago
Except that when they were trying to pretend that it was a Canadian film being made by Canadians, and that the six Americans were really Canadian, they should have distanced themselves as much as possible from the U.S.
Making it look like the movie was being controlled by L.A. would have raised suspicions all over.
I saw it as just part of Hollywood's ignorance and arrogance that they'd assume they'd be controlling everything. Even back then, Canada had it's OWN film industry, which would have been controlled by Vancouver or Toronto.
True, you make some good points here. The CIA agent should have recruited a director and producer in Vancouver or Toronto, and had the script reading and launch party in one of those cities too. Well, I guess some people are so enamored by Hollywood it gets in the way of being practical. This movie probably wouldn't have been made either.
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