Phuket, Thailand. Nice touch.
Edit: Oh never mind it is pronounced like pucket.
Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad
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#12Is this for real?
feels like reading a script for an upcoming action based spy-movie. But I guess truth is stranger than fiction
The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.
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#13The page makes my browser crash.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
feels like reading a script for an upcoming action based spy-movie. But I guess truth is stranger than fiction
The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.
Somebody coming from the documentary side of things - Alex Gibney would be my pick - in order to 'nail' the grime and feel without resorting to lazy 70% f-bomb script dialogue and using pastiche from other, better directors, which is essentially Tarantino's calling card. Caveat: I think Michael Mann could pull it off though.
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#15This is the best journalism I have read in a long time, and not just because of how interesting the content is. Well done.
Probably because it's more of a screenplay/novel than conventional journalism (strictly style wise, it's a great story!). Entertaining, but very drawn out for the amount of useful information provided.
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#16Glad to see this keep getting attention by way of this site. I saw Vice News also has a long-form piece, and even interviewed and referenced the author and the Atavist piece! This looks like the definitive write-up and account. I hope the potential film rights are lucrative. However, if Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant's screenwriting bible is any indication, the Hollywood system will most definitely find a way to monkey with the formula and deliver some kind of mutated...thing...for us. Many compliments on the fine journalism!
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#17> All of the teams’ email communications, with their macho posturing and detailed ops plans, were being simultaneously collected by the DEA’s Special Operations Division.
Would that be the same division here that was pooh-poohed for parallel construction?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...
Re: Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad
#18This is the best journalism I have read in a long time, and not just because of how interesting the content is. Well done.
Probably because it's more of a screenplay/novel than conventional journalism (strictly style wise, it's a great story!). Entertaining, but very drawn out for the amount of useful information provided.
I like how it makes no affronts to being 'objective' and is quite clear that the author doesn't expect to be believed outright due to the content and story, but will go ahead and fill in the holes in time. That's some great serial structuring. It's written very well, which, let's be honest, a lot of journalists are not equipped to do. By nature, reporting wants prose to service it, not the other way around (save for HST and "Gonzo" influence). It is a very captivating subject indeed!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
feels like reading a script for an upcoming action based spy-movie. But I guess truth is stranger than fiction
The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.
Why Tarantino? I'd expect him to pay homage to some obscure filmmaker more than I'd expect him to bend a fairytale back towards reality.
I'd go with a showrunner from "Justified" and yell at them not to make up too much of the mayhem. The "bad guys" on that show ring true to me, they are self serving, nihilistic and make poor decisions.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.
Somebody coming from the documentary side of things - Alex Gibney would be my pick - in order to 'nail' the grime and feel without resorting to lazy 70% f-bomb script dialogue and using pastiche from other, better directors, which is essentially Tarantino's calling card. Caveat: I think Michael Mann could pull it off though.
Michael Mann is the ONLY director that could pull this off. Add in the twist in the end that Le Roux turned state's evidence and you've got a decent film.