Will Hollwood Make Movie About This 18-Year-Old Criminal?
lurking crow
Kohler told a reporter, noting her son's lack of training. "But put in
there that I want him to wear a parachute next time."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-bandit-colton-harris-moore-called-modern-day/story?id=8653404&page=1
Martin B
> "I hope to hell he stole those airplanes _ I would be so proud," Pam
> Kohler told a reporter, noting her son's lack of training. "But put in
> there that I want him to wear a parachute next time."
Remember MY NAME IS DONNIE BRASCO? The book was much better.
In the book it tells how the undercover agent who went on to infiltrate
the mafia first infiltrated a gang that stole only heavy earth-moving
machinery and airplanes. (They would bribe the drivers and pilots to
leave them parked with the keys in. As soon as they stole them, they'd
ship them clear across the country and sell them.)
--
Martin B
Schlockhack
our lovable but dumb criminal get into this week?
lurking crow
> I see it more as a weekly reality tv show -- What whacky hijink will
> our lovable but dumb criminal get into this week?
Foolish, yes. Dumb, no. Anyone who can steal an airplane and fly it
without training is certainly some kind of fool, but a stupid person
wouldn't be able to do that, along with managing to elude the police
for so many years. He also scored super high in an IQ test. He is no
trailer park boy. Trailer Park Boys meets MacGyver , maybe :)
Schlockhack
for so many years.
This is reminiscent of Catch Me If You Can. After I saw that movie, I
poked around on the internet to see how much of it was true and how
much wasn't. Amazingly enough, the movie did stick rather closely to
actual events. But it veered from reality in one way that did not
matter to the plot, but was an outrageous lie.
In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio's father, played by Christopher
Walken, is a shady character who wavers between quasi-legal and
downright fraudulent acts. But people who knew the family say the
father was honest, and in fact the financial worries shown in the
movie were caused in real life, in no small part, by the son's
shenanigans. Obviously the screenwriter did this in order to make
Leonardo's character more sympathetic -- we can't blame him for being
a charlatan, because that's the way he was brought up.
It makes me mad the way movies sometimes slander people who are no
longer around to speak up for themselves.
For another example. I suggested to a C*n*a*d*a* screenwriter on MWSm
that he write a screenplay about the horrible explosion in Halifax
harbor during WW II. He emailed me back that it was already made into
a tv movie for C*n*a*d*a* tv, and that there was a lot of outrage from
descendants of some of the people who died. The hack writers felt the
need to have some bad guys, so they had, for example, the harbormaster
desert his post and flee, whereas in real life the harbormaster died a
hero.
lurking crow
> >>> along with managing to elude the police
>
> for so many years.
>
> poked around on the internet to see how much of it was true and how
> actual events. �ｿｽBut it veered from reality in one way that did not
> matter to the plot, but was an outrageous lie.
>
> In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio's father, played by Christopher
> Walken, is a shady character who wavers between quasi-legal and
> father was honest, and in fact the financial worries shown in the
> movie were caused in real life, in no small part, by the son's
> Leonardo's character more sympathetic -- we can't blame him for being
> a charlatan, because that's the way he was brought up.
>
> It makes me mad the way movies sometimes slander people who are no
> longer around to speak up for themselves.
>
> that he write a screenplay about the horrible explosion in Halifax
> a tv movie for C*n*a*d*a* tv, and that there was a lot of outrage from
> need to have some bad guys, so they had, for example, the harbormaster
> desert his post and flee, whereas in real life the harbormaster died a
> hero.
That's too bad about the C*n*d**n film. I think that a good writer
should be able to spin a yarn of dramatic tension, character arcs etc.
without resorting to such gimmicks.
When it comes to "Catch Me if You Can," I read the book before it
became a movie. Frank Abagnale came across as likable enough. There
were issues in his parents' marriage that could have a damaging
psychological impact on a child, I guess. The creative liberties they
took with his father were probably unnecessary, and seem to have been
written for Christopher Walken (but hey it was a successful move so
what do I know?). Anyway, like you said, his father seems to have
been a really decent guy, judging from accounts on him, eg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
Ovum
>
>
> For another example. �I suggested to a C*n*a*d*a* screenwriter on MWSm
> that he write a screenplay about the horrible explosion in Halifax
> harbor during WW II. �He emailed me back that it was already made into
> a tv movie for C*n*a*d*a* tv, and that there was a lot of outrage from
Side note: the MWSM way to write C*n*d* is with the asterisk replacing
each letter "a."
As you know, C*n*di*ns say "ay?" enough as it is, without supplying
them with more ammunition.
:-)
Alan Brooks
Not to mention H*lif*x.
Alan Brooks
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