Movie family ties '' plame''

[Jan Klimkowski]

Filmmaker Liman reveals the character tension and central plot of his new movie:

"When she (Valerie Plame) signed up for the CIA, she signed up for a life of anonymity, like never being able to take credit for what she may have accomplished," explains Liman on the phone from New York a few days before the start of Cannes. "She married a man who is pretty widely known as a loudmouth.... This is real life. Add to that what happens when the loudmouth gets the undercover exposed. How does the marriage deal with that?" Wilson wanted to fight the Bush administration publicly, while Plame's first instinct was to retreat farther into the shadows. "In order for him to get what he wanted, she would have to lose and viceversa. This is a perfect set up for a drama."

Of course this has nothing to do with real history.

And everything to do with Hollywood's narrative playbook.

In such a way Hollywood fiction becomes widely accepted history.

For another example, see the myth-making in All The President's Men here:

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