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we saw the same movie; you're just not acknowledging its pure celebration of hollywood's godlike power

Posted by Jazz Inmate on January 9, 2013 at 09:57:47:
The white house, state dept and Affleck's superior (played by Bryan Cranston) and others at the CIA who you clearly forgot about all told Affleck to not proceed with the Hollywood cover--that another cover was preferred. Briefly Affleck bullied Cranston and a few others to go along with his hollywood plan, but after the plug was pulled he DEFIED THEM ALL. And gee it's such a great thing he did because if not for the Hollywood angle, those hostages would surely have died. No other cover would have ever worked, right? If one had, would there be a movie about it? Of course not. Plenty of declassified CIA missions have been successful, amazing stories that saved lives, but Hollywood is making a movie about this one for self-serving reasons.

Affleck is the human embodiment of the public's love of Hollywood. And he had to to play the CIA guy who pushed the Hollywood cover, because we don't want any audience to see this character in any negative way, Now let's look at who played the characters in positions of authority. Yuck. Except for Cranston, who came around and did Affleck's bidding. It was annoyingly unsympathetic to the authorities in DC and Arlington, whereas the Hollywood good ol boys played by Goodman and Arkin were the witty intellectuals of the film who ultimately saved the day. After all, it was the storyboards, production company office and their ability to pick up the phone that saved all those lives.

Hurray for Hollywood! savior of all that's evil in the world.