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John WiswellLet's be real: none of us authors could even get away with naming a shady billionaire "Harlan Crow," much less him tampering with elections, building a Garden of Evil, and owning Hitler's teapot.
Didi Chanoch (they/them)@Wiswell Absolutely unrealistically moustache twirling.
@Didi Tom Clancey could NEVER
Janice in GA@Wiswell Truth lacks verisimilitude.
John Gordon@Wiswell @dynamicsymmetry The writers of our drama do more interesting drugs than we have on earth.
regphunt@Wiswell Sounds like an Austin Powers script.
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dietrich@dietrich @regphunt @Wiswell
In the film, the corporation had a smaller percentage of the water rights than in real-life Bolivia IIRC (good chance I don’t) it was just something that seemed cartoonishly evil and short-sighted to me when I saw the film and heard how closely it matched actual events
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/19/the_cochabamba_water_wars_marcella_olivera
In the film, the corporation had a smaller percentage of the water rights than in real-life Bolivia IIRC (good chance I don’t) it was just something that seemed cartoonishly evil and short-sighted to me when I saw the film and heard how closely it matched actual events
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/19/the_cochabamba_water_wars_marcella_olivera
The Cochabamba Water Wars: Marcela Olivera Reflects on the Tenth Anniversary of the Popular Uprising Against Bechtel and the Privatization of the City’s Water Supply
Ten years ago this month, the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the city’s most vital natural resources: its own water. The Water Wars occurred just months after the Battle of Seattle. The uprising against Bechtel on the streets of Cochabamba was seen as the embodiment of the international struggle against corporate globalization. Over the past week, water activists from around the world gathered in Cochabamba to mark the tenth anniversary of the Water Wars. [includes rush transcript]
Nick Xylas@c0dec0dec0de @regphunt @Wiswell And I remember the DVD commentary on Enemy Of The State saying that the filmmakers had to tone down the capabilities of the surveillance tech available because they feared that nobody would believe it. This was in 1998!
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Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)And that's why reality surpasses fiction.
Todd Mxyzptlk
Ç'thûłhů👾Rants! 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦@Wiswell
Fiction has to be believable, Reality does not.
Fiction has to be believable, Reality does not.
Robert Thau@Wiswell Thomas Pynchon could and repeatedly has gotten away with the likes of this and worse. In case you're wondering who to blame for the obviously fictionalized stuff being presented to us as "news".
Shadow@Wiswell if he was the outline for a comicbook villain it would be rejected for being too silly & unbelievable.
Pseudo Nym@Wiswell recall the mercenary group called "Blackwater"?
Steve's Place@Wiswell Allow me to introduce you to D.C. comics.
Darrel Plant@Wiswell
Secondary antagonists in the series “Justified” (based on Elmore Leonard’s work and set in Harlan County, Kentucky) were from the “Crowe” family (though they were decidedly not billionaires). The primary antagonist was a white supremacist gangster named Boyd CROWder.
Secondary antagonists in the series “Justified” (based on Elmore Leonard’s work and set in Harlan County, Kentucky) were from the “Crowe” family (though they were decidedly not billionaires). The primary antagonist was a white supremacist gangster named Boyd CROWder.
Jonathan HendryTea? Somebody warn Clarence!
Agora@jonhendry @Wiswell or don't 🤷🏾♀️
Andy Famiglietti@Wiswell Elmore Leonard would like a word
Iván Cavero Belaunde@Wiswell I think the Simulation Production company is trying to cope with a writers’ strike.
Richard@Wiswell He's like a 60s Bond movie villain. He just needs a fluffy, white cat.
Matthew Nadler@Wiswell He sounds like a Bond villain. "More tea, Mr. Bond?"
@Wiswell Yeah! It's too far-fetched.
Ravensrod 🫖 🍰@Wiswell
That's cos fiction has to make some sort of sense. Any old crap, no matter how ludicrous will do for reality.
That's cos fiction has to make some sort of sense. Any old crap, no matter how ludicrous will do for reality.
sewstarsHowever the ending of the plot would have bad guy “Harlan Crow” beheaded by Hitler’s WW2 sword, falling over the table, breaking the teapot and catching the linen on fire, as the hero escapes the flames through the burning Garden of Evil to the sunny front yard and limps away to the sound of oncoming sirens.
In the real world he is holding up his hand in front of his face saying in an deeply evil voice “you can’t see me”, and we can’t do anything about it.
Geoff Winkless@Wiswell mmm. I think you've never seen any of the conspiracy stuff NBC puts out. The villains in The Blacklist, once that jumped the shark in s5 or so, for example.
biknmusicmama@Wiswell oh I don’t know… Carl Hiaasen could.