"The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Printable Version +- Deep Politics Forum (https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora) +-- Forum: Deep Politics Forum (https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/forum-1.html) +--- Forum: JFK Assassination (https://deeppoliticsforum.com/fora/forum-3.html) +--- Thread: "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date (/thread-7289.html) |
"The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Jan Klimkowski - 11-06-2013 Magda - excellent points. Magda Hassan Wrote:Two things to note. Indeed. That's a level of sophistication and coherence rarely seen in movies. Magda Hassan Wrote:Secondly, when ever I see Tommy Lee Jones in a movie I am always reminded that his cousin is Charles Braden whose day job used to be the CIA liason to Hollywood. His current mission seems to be to push Roswell as a real extraterrestial event. Quite interesting given his cousin's prominent role as Men in Black's Agent 'K'....I quite like TLJ as an actor and he seems an interesting person in his own right. Mum a police officer, college room mate of Al Gore, serious polo player with Argentinian stables, promoter of fracking. Did his college thesis on 'Catholic mechanics' within the literary works of Flannery O'Connor. I suspect the spooks were happy that The Package did not recover its budget at the box office.... "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Seamus Coogan - 11-06-2013 I enjoyed that movie was fun. I liked the ending of it all, I also liked the elimination of the patsy. Hackman was also superb as usual, I am surprised I have not seen it before. My favorite is still the "Parrallax View." simply because of the sinister underpinnings of it all. "Z" is also pretty bloody good. However, "The Package" is good because it conveys some very complex intelligence ideas, in a way the average punter can understand. Like I said the ending was also well realized. I can see how CD would have enjoyed it... and it is a useful tool. "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Magda Hassan - 12-06-2013 Seamus Coogan Wrote:I enjoyed that movie was fun. I liked the ending of it all... LOL! Typical Hollywood ending. The bad guys were caught the good guys prevailed and they all lived happily ever after. "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Seamus Coogan - 12-06-2013 Magda Hassan Wrote:oSeamus Coogan Wrote:I enjoyed that movie was fun. I liked the ending of it all... Yes, it was generally pretty feel good. Hey interesting about old Tommy Lee Jones family. Good digging Mags! "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Magda Hassan - 12-06-2013 Seamus Coogan Wrote:Hey interesting about old Tommy Lee Jones family. Good digging Mags!Yeah, would love to be a fly on the wall at the family get togethers.... "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Seamus Coogan - 12-06-2013 Magda Hassan Wrote:Seamus Coogan Wrote:Hey interesting about old Tommy Lee Jones family. Good digging Mags!Yeah, would love to be a fly on the wall at the family get togethers.... Shit yes. His performance of Shaw was brilliant in JFK, I dunno if they'd have liked that. I saw an interview with Lee Jones stating he believed the WC was full of shit. So yeah, really interesting. "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Magda Hassan - 12-06-2013 Seamus Coogan Wrote:Shit yes. His performance of Shaw was brilliant in JFK, I dunno if they'd have liked that. I saw an interview with Lee Jones stating he believed the WC was full of shit. So yeah, really interesting.Clay Shaw/Bertrand was a great role. He's done some good work. Just wonder how it is chosen. And presented. "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - David Lifton - 24-06-2013 Charles Drago Wrote:And its superficial plot has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Kennedy assassination. FWIW: Its my understanding (from speaking with certain screenwriters and producers supposedly "in the know,") that The Package was originally much more explicitly connected to the JFK assassination. But then changes were requested, and there were rewrites to change certain particulars to fuzz it up. But the essential linkage is still there, and rather obvious--especially to students of the JFK case. DSL 6/23/13; 6 PM PDT Los Angeles, California "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Sandy Sherbrook - 24-06-2013 I saw the film in Australia on pay-TV recently and naturally noticed the resemblance to the JFK assassination It also called to mind The Parallax View (1974) I'd never heard of the movie before to be quite frank I imagine that it was originally a commercial flop or received limited release The ending seemed to be pointing towards a sequel that didn't eventuate Actors were good - great to see John Heard in something meaty I recall c.1980 he was being pushed as a leading man "The Package" -- The Most Important JFK Assassination-Related Film to Date - Charles Drago - 24-06-2013 David Lifton Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:And its superficial plot has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Kennedy assassination. To reiterate for the sake of emphasis: The most important element of The Package is its depiction of the conspiracy's high-ranking Facilitators: military and intelligence offices whose masters are above Cold-War differences. Interesting info, David. One wonders if an original treatment and/or first draft script is available -- perhaps in a collection of Bishop's papers. Bishop ... Ahhh, Loki never sleeps. |