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From: Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Driven kicks it up a notch
>If it's any consolation Hollywood screws everything up, not just racing
>movies.
Not always. One of my favorites is "The Heroes of Telemark" subtitled "Skis
against the atom" about the underground foiling of NAZI manufacture and
shipping of heavy water in Norway. Virtually all the stuff in the movie is
fact, and it's a great story.
I'd like to see Hollywood do a faithful film about my wife's great uncle.
He invented devices for saving submariners. They can get the rights from
Peter Maas, who wrote two books about him: "The Rescuer" and "The Terrible
Hours".
Your Postman story is the norm, though.
The same thing happened to a lesser extent with "Midnight in the garden of
good and evil". The movie is a good deal better than "The Postman", but not
nearly as good, IMHO, as a film more true to the book. Oddly enough, there
was a car stunt in the book and not in the movie. Danny Hansford used to
get air with his Camaro in one particular place all the time. There were
apparently witnesses to this. The bit with the stone bench in the graveyard
was hilarious, and that didn't make it to the screen either. They would
have had plenty of time to do these good bits from the book if they had not
wasted so much time on stuff they made up for the movie.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
Daughter Amanda has presented us with a second grandchild. Sirena Mae
Stremski
arrived on the first day of Spring 2001, weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces.
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