"Calvin":
> > 9 In which 1985 Sydney Pollack film (which won seven Oscars )
> > does most of the action take place almost precisely on the
> > equator?
Mark Brader:
> "Rescue at Entebbe"?
In case you were curious about that answer, I'll explain where it
came from.
The first thing I thought of was "Captain Phillips", but that
obviously wasn't made decades ago -- in fact it was a 2013 movie.
But it is close to the correct latitude, as the action takes place
at around 4°N.
The second thing I thought of was also another dramatization of a
real-life incident where hostage-takers were defeated, this one
at Entebbe Airport, and one that was released some decades ago.
I thought that might've been at about the equator, so I went with
it, even though I didn't remember it winning a bunch of Oscars.
I couldn't remember whether it was "Dawn at Entebbe" or "Rescue at
Entebbe", but I went with the latter. On checking, it turns out
that I was wrong, but I still don't know which title I meant,
because the story was dramatized more than once. I was probably
thinking of "Victory at Entebbe", but it might have been "Raid on
Entebbe"; I was never interested in watching either version.
In this case I was right about the latitude -- the terminal at
Entebbe Airport is about 3 miles (5 km) north of the equator.
But neither of those was an Oscar-winning movie -- in fact, they
couldn't even have been eligible for Oscars, because they were
both TV-movies. And both of them came out in 1976, not 1985,
and Sydney Pollack had no connection with either.
But hey, at least they were equatorial.
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