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Most people mellow as they age, Redford just gets kookier and kookier...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews...er-underground

Film in the Works Glorifies Weather Underground

Written by Raven Clabough
Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:06

Robert Redford and Shia LeBeouf will be starring in a film that glorifies members of the Weather Underground, portraying those terrorists as true American heroes.

Entitled The Company You Keep, the film is based on the Neil Gordon novel of the same name, about the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. The film focuses on a 30-year-long FBI manhunt for a Weather Underground terrorist, played by Robert Redford, who has been forced to go into hiding after his identity was revealed by an overly ambitious reporter, played by Shia LeBeouf.

Publishers Weekly provides this synopsis of the novel:

The revolutionary politics of the 1960s haunt the complacent domesticity of the 1990s in this engrossing, if sometimes muddled, melodrama of ideas. When limousine-leftist lawyer and single dad Jim Grant is unmasked as Jason Sinai, an ex-Weather Underground militant wanted for a deadly bank robbery, he abandons his daughter and goes on the lam. As he evades a manhunt and seeks out old comrades, the author introduces a sprawling cast of drug dealers, bomb-planting radicals turned leftist academics, Vietnam vets, FBI agents and Republicans who collectively ponder the legacy of the '60s…. Some who lived through the 1960s may take offense at this caricature, but other boomer readers may find the mix of countercultural drama and familial schmaltz a gratifying validation of their life cycle. In either case, it will get them talking.

According to Voltage film producer Nicolas Chartier, who worked with Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises production company on the project, “This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.”

Chartier’s assertions are debatable, however. The Blaze observes:

The WU terrorist movement Redford and the movie will depict tried to "bring the war home" to America, and likely would have killed scores of Americans had it not been for their ineptitude in carrying out terrorist bombings.

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This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government. Sounds like a description of the Tea Party. I wonder if the sequel will cover their attempts to plunge the world into financial crisis through obstructionism and ill-informed beliefs about how the economy really works.

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Regis is still doing his weekly linkdump, I see...usually there are one or two worth looking at, but these posts are about as inane as Sean Hannity squawking about the debt debate...