On the anniversary of 9/11…
Q: But Osama bin Laden is the one that – you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –
PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.
Problem solved. Done and done. Make up a lie, declare victory and move on. Just another day in the most deplorable, most corrupt, most cynical, most shameless, most hateful administration in US history. How anyone could possibly vote Republican after this is utterly beyond me.
Two related questions
pirateman asks —
"How do you think that the movie industry, based upon the last 8 years of movies, have reacted to the Bush Administration and everything that’s come along with it? I only ask because I feel like there were a bunch of movies in Bush’s first term (3 Kings comes readily to mind) which really talked about or dwelt upon the fact that the country’s leadership was a bit fucked. Do you think that the last 8 years have had an influence? And if so, what?"
destroyerzooey asks —
Show business has an effect on politics and politics has an effect on show business and here are two examples:
Screenwriting 101: adaptations
samedietc asks:
"Do you have a theory/working principle about adaptations?"
Funny you should ask; I’ve recently reversed myself somewhat on the subject of adaptations. I used to feel that producers were willfully obtuse, that they labor diligently to purchase the rights to popular works and then, for no good reason, fundamentally change the nature of the piece out of sheer ego or sheer perversity. I felt that, if you’re going to go to the trouble of purchasing the rights to a book or play or comic or video game or bumper sticker or whatever you’ve spent your hard-earned money on, you might as well stay as true as possible to the source material — I felt that there had to be a reason why the original is popular, and the movie had to address that or else it would fail.