29-08-2013, 07:23 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Thanks, Charles, I missed both of your responses because they were delayed, and I don't think to go back and look at older pages in the thread.
I respect your analysis, even though I disagree with it. I think it would make a fine film noir, or a great novel like Libra. But I've studied a lot of historical plots (the Hitler bomb plot in 1944, the Benigno Aquino assassination, the Archduke in 1914 and others), and in real life they are messy, haphazard things. Stuff goes wrong, there are unforeseen complications and unexpected changes of plan. Attempted cover-ups sometimes fail (Aquino's killing was like RFK's, but too many people in the Filipino government wouldn't cooperate in hiding the truth). They are, after all, run by human beings, not movie supervillains, so they are not infallible and have no magical abilities.
The more complicated a plot becomes, the more likely someone will screw it up. A lot of things went wrong with the JFK assassination (Oswald being captured alive, Kennedy not being killed by one bullet fired from the rear, etc.)
Maybe it's just because of my own experiences, all the companies I've worked at where I see just how dysfunctional and badly-run organizations are. The people at the top have more money and power, but they still aren't any smarter than the rest of us. Just more ruthless.
We'll happily agree to disagree. And by the way, you're not the first person to suggest to me that I may be giving too much credit to the Facilitators.
Vis a vis your comment regarding "dysfunctional and badly-run organizations," I would note only that the Facilitators who conceived and were responsible for "running the plot" were not exactly average rank-and-file types of guys and gals. They were the best in the world at what they did.
So perhaps we're both right. Perhaps Abraham Zapruder was the classic lemon from which some among the highest level of Facilitators decided to make lemonade.
Or ... Wittingly or otherwise, he was positioned on the pedestal to make certain that a pre-determined film doppelganger gambit could be pulled off.
Charles Drago
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene