Part of the opsec(operational security) would be 100% radio silence.
-
mcgill-646-33556 — 11 years ago(April 13, 2014 04:29 AM)
"bosley from charlie's angels has a secret life running a newspaper, and is a bit of a prick"
I think he had just the right amount of cynicism for a reporter/television newsroom guy. You gotta keep your reporter/television guys on a tight leash.
Oh, somebody give me a number. If you're a reporter (of any kind) you need to be able to quote old movie references. -
ProudTraitor — 14 years ago(February 12, 2012 05:03 AM)
"22. An escaped astronaut who is being hunted by killers will have an operator call his home instead of the police or the media"
If you were the police or New York Times, would you believe an anonymous voice on the phone telling you he is a dead astronaut and the government faked the Mars landings?
"19. When uncovering a conspiracy, don't bother to take pictures of the scene. Just take something from the site that may or may not have any significance."
Yeah, especially since he had a mini digital camera in his pocket in 1977 -
avortac — 14 years ago(February 14, 2012 12:37 PM)
"Yeah, especially since he had a mini digital camera in his pocket in 1977 "
Because reporters don't ever have cameras or any contact with people with cameras in 1977 whatsoever, so he would HAVE to have his own "mini DIGITAL camera" (don't you mean "digital mini-camera"?) to be able to take any pictures of anything, ever. It always has to be mini, and it always has to be digital. -
cormac_zoso — 12 years ago(July 08, 2013 08:14 AM)
*** "Yeah, especially since he had a mini digital camera in his pocket in 1977 "
Because reporters don't ever have cameras or any contact with people with cameras in 1977 whatsoever, so he would HAVE to have his own "mini DIGITAL camera" (don't you mean "digital mini-camera"?) to be able to take any pictures of anything, ever. It always has to be mini, and it always has to be digital. ***
Exactly, good point avortac i worked in newspapers as a reporter for 15 years thru the 80s and 90s and even then you didn't have contact with the photgraphers really at all unless you sent down a request for some type of particular photo (such as a gov't building or perhaps a more 'formal' sitting photo of a person for a profile, etc) but it was only on paper if you wanted to see the photos you had to go to the backshop where they laid out the physical newspaper pages (before computers) tho you would more than likely be there (in the case of a morning newspaper) late at night since the layout and printing was done for the daily paper sections after normal office hours (but with a midnight deadline or whatever, you might be there writing the story anyway)
sorry that got a little long and involved lol
but one more point is that a newspaper reporter COULDN'T take a photo to be used in the newspaper because he wasn't in the photographers guild, he would have been in the reporters guild (a union) especially back in the mid-70s it was a violation of union rules so there was absolutely no reason to carry a camera, any kind of camera, because any photos a reporter took would never be used in the published paper and if I'm not mistaken, a reporter couldn't even belong to the photo guild; it was one or the other (this all certainly has changed as evidenced in the Chicago Sun Times recent "release" of their entire photography staff)
and one final point, you'd have to get the film developed if you could do that yourself, you'd still have to get to a darkroom to do it (and if you had a darkroom in your home you couldn't go there with bad guys chasing you) it's not like you could show it to people in the LCD screen and if you can't develop photos, which is more likely esp at this time, you'd have to find someone else do it which is going to involve finding someone you can trust and a good amount of time and again, a TV reporter certainly wouldn't bother having a photo camera; he'd get a camera crew for anything like that -
mikekrit62 — 10 years ago(May 16, 2015 01:09 PM)
and one final point, you'd have to get the film developed if you could do that yourself, you'd still have to get to a darkroom to do it (and if you had a darkroom in your home you couldn't go there with bad guys chasing you) it's not like you could show it to people in the LCD screen
Inexpensive, instant-film Polaroid cameras were widely available and owned by millions of Americans since the 1960's.
And if you were a lone-wolf reporter trying to gather evidence of a massive conspiracy, would you deliberately NOT take along a camera because you're concerned about union rules?
Just saying -
avortac — 14 years ago(February 14, 2012 12:52 PM)
=== The same people who can easily..
- arrange a 70's car to work perfectly at first, and then suddenly, after some driving is done with it, stop ignition from working, stop gears from working, stop breaks and handbreak from working and accelerate constantly (and accomplish this in just a few minutes)
- afterwards fake a police report about the car (or fix the car underwater before anyone from the police sees it)
- make a man in a crowded bar disappear in 10 seconds, in such a way that it doesn't arouse ANY suspicion, without ANYONE seeing him (or what happened to him)- (IMMEDIATELY after he has spilled his guts about his suspicions) while also 'erasing' him from all records, putting some actor-woman into his apartment with different furniture, a LARGE bunch of magazines with her name and address on each and every one, and with no one ever wondering at his workplace or friend circles, "what happened to him?", or no neighbourgs ever wondering "who the heck is that woman, and where is the man who used to live here"
=== ..cannot arrange any kind of security around the three most valuable key people in the multi-billion dollar scam, except an easy-to-take-off-its-hinges type door and slightly low fuel amount in a jet airplane, that's conveniently located right outside where the key people are held prisoner, or hire a competent hitman to kill a nosy reporter, let alone being able to make the reporter disappear even when he's alone
(sorry for making it a tad long, but I haven't learned yet how to write something in a conscise manner - I also didn't use numbers, because I don't like numbering things - it's too limiting, it's more fun to let things be free - and also, I wouldn't have an clue on how to number my post properly)
-
subcarrier — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 06:54 AM)
If you are going to kidnap 3 astronauts and hold them captive for several months DO NOT bring them a change of clothes but rather make them wear their astronaut clothes the entire time.
If you are one of the captive astronauts and decide to blow the whole thing wide open on live TV make sure you discuss it with your fellow captive astronauts in a television studio with open microphones.
And you wanna know the worst part? You're from outta state! -
leo_c — 11 years ago(April 12, 2014 08:31 PM)
- It takes 4 months to go to Mars
- If you're going to Mars don't contact Mission Control except during television transmissions
- Once you land on Mars don't make any scientific experiment, just have a walk outside for a few minutes, plant your flag then head back to Earth
- If you're trying to get out of the desert, climb the steep hill in front of you rather than walking around it
-
mcgill-646-33556 — 11 years ago(April 13, 2014 04:23 AM)
Oh, yeah. This is a terrific movie. I'm watching my disc right now. Why no wide screen? Brenda is sensational as the grieving wife.
but anyway, maybe I missed this one
58. Every emergency/first aid kit on an aircraft has a loaded revolver. This is some sort of 2nd Amendment requirement.
59 Reporters have some sort of photographic memory and can recite word for word what someone has just said to them even if it is seconds before. "you haven't found what you're looking for you're embarrassed about bothering me again, however there are one or two questions more you'd like to ask me. It's something personal and I won't bother you anymore." And the reporter has the moxie to give it back word for word. love that scene)
and yes, to a previous poster; it is hard to figure out if these types of posts are cynical or not. My take on this one is that it isn't. There is one on the Gravity site. It didn't get up. Too cynical, methinks. -
merqabah — 11 years ago(July 21, 2014 02:42 AM)
when finding a goverment conspiracy, you should assume the missing astronauts are not dead and buried somewhere, but in actual searching distance from that abandoned warehouse, go hire a cropduster, youll find one in no time.
-
MamaPapaXP — 10 years ago(June 03, 2015 06:34 PM)
Let's keep this one alive, eh? Such a great film, nearly FORTY years on!
Number ? - If you're evil enough, you can talk freely with your co-conspirators about cutting off the video feed between Brubaker and his wife while she's sat next to you.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned it on another thread, but the soundtrack to this film, considering it's from the seventies, feels quite a few years ahead of its time. Brilliant. -
-
hornacek — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 07:01 AM)
I assumed the phone call Gould received at the bar was by the conspirators to distract him while they grabbed the tech.
There were a couple of scenes where they showed Brolin's hands were dripping blood as he was holding onto the crop duster. But yeah, he probably should have fallen off after the first loop-de-loop. -
little-man-in-your-head — 9 years ago(November 27, 2016 10:31 PM)
Telly Savalas invented the wearing a baseball cap backwards thing back in the 70's.
If you're riding in a cropduster, you should always keep your head down.
There are guys whose job it is, is to give enemas to elephants.