MOSCOW TV TONITE: The Stone Cold Case For Fast Eddie
Snowden/Сноуден (FRA, GER, USA, 2016)(Ch. 1, 22:30)
--> Everybody has their take on Moscow’s Most Famous Expat, and here’s Oliver Stone’s. Curiously enough, despite the fact that the unpredictable (and often enough unbalanced) Ollie has gotten big play in Big Onion media over the last few years – coming to Moscow to consult with Our Guy Ed on this effort 3 times, when nobody else could find the guy – Russians have taken to ...
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--> Everybody has their take on Moscow’s Most Famous Expat, and here’s Oliver Stone’s. Curiously enough, despite the fact that the unpredictable (and often enough unbalanced) Ollie has gotten big play in Big Onion media over the last few years – coming to Moscow to consult with Our Guy Ed on this effort 3 times, when nobody else could find the guy – Russians have taken to ...
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http://www.newyorker.com/…/r…/oliver-stones-snowden-reviewed
MOSCOW TV TONITE: The Stone Cold Case For Fast Eddie
Snowden/Сноуден (FRA, GER, USA, 2016)(Ch. 1, 22:30)
--> Everybody has their take on Moscow’s Most Famous Expat, and here’s Oliver Stone’s. Curiously enough, despite the fact that the unpredictable (and often enough unbalanced) Ollie has gotten big play in Big Onion media over the last few years – coming to Moscow to consult with Our Guy Ed on this effort 3 times, when nobody else could find the guy – Russians have taken to the resulting “Snowden” rather less than Americans (or at least English-speakers): the film scores a creditable 7.3 on IMDb, but a more modest 6.9 on the Russian-language KinoPoisk. It hasn’t made the $ to cover its $40 mln budget, in any case, and the int’l viewing public's voting w/ its feet may push the next OS conspiracy project a bit further down the road.
Snowden/Сноуден (FRA, GER, USA, 2016)(Ch. 1, 22:30)
--> Everybody has their take on Moscow’s Most Famous Expat, and here’s Oliver Stone’s. Curiously enough, despite the fact that the unpredictable (and often enough unbalanced) Ollie has gotten big play in Big Onion media over the last few years – coming to Moscow to consult with Our Guy Ed on this effort 3 times, when nobody else could find the guy – Russians have taken to the resulting “Snowden” rather less than Americans (or at least English-speakers): the film scores a creditable 7.3 on IMDb, but a more modest 6.9 on the Russian-language KinoPoisk. It hasn’t made the $ to cover its $40 mln budget, in any case, and the int’l viewing public's voting w/ its feet may push the next OS conspiracy project a bit further down the road.
Nobody did, but y’axe me, Fast Eddie's situation is reminiscent of that of popular music in the late ‘70s: disco really *had* to go, but the method used to drive it out, punk rock, was almost unlistenable – far better as an idea than as actual music. So yeah, Ed was right to object to, indeed resist, illegal government surveillance – but betraying the confidences of colleagues, breaking a bunch of laws (many there for good and logical reasons) and ultimately declining to make his case in court in favor of jumping into the arms of a thug regime that violates human rights at home and abroad as a matter of course – Ed, your hopeful balloon deflated on me bigtime, buddy. Even if you’re not in the same category as your slimy Trump-pumping confederate Assange, c’mon – do you really think anybody can *root* for you now?
Anyway, tune in (or watch online below) and decide for yourself whether Stone makes a credible, creditable and/or conscionable case for Snowden in “Snowden.” Just don’t email me your conclusions, OK?
http://www.newyorker.com/…/r…/oliver-stones-snowden-reviewed
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