The infamous outed CIA agent, Valerie Plame, has been fictionally transformed into a bigger-than-life dramatic action star hero played by Naomi Wattsin in "Fair Game".
Is this film political? You can betcha all your Penn-ies it is.
The movie, directed by Doug Liman, and also starring Sean Penn as Valerie's husband will hit your local theater tomorrow; however, if you care to see it at all, expect it to be available on DVD promptly. Like all movies with a heavy political message, this is not entertainment but a rehash of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, supposedly outed to hide the Bush administration's nefarious attempts to stretch the truth from the American public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The "truth is" we've all been there and done that and formed our opinions. This movie won't change one opinion one iota.
Either one believes that Valerie Plame was an action-hero CIA agent, continuously risking her life and limbs to protect American interests, who was outed as the sacrificial lamb for Bush's war goals -or you believe she was a liberal office worker, who had never done anything considered dangerous secret agent work, mostly spending her time behind a desk dreaming up ways to further her hubby's career.
The sound of radical bells start ringing the minute Sean Penn's name is mentioned. Regardless of how much of a ho-hum one knows something might be - for curious minds, the trailer is available on the side-bar and the transcript of the trailer, as transcribed by Devonia Smith, Political Transcription Examiner, follows:
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I've gotta be at the airport in forty-five minutes.
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: Have a good trip.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I love you.
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: I promise, I'll behave.
Plame's daughter: I'll behave.
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: See, everyone is on their best behavior.
Official to Valerie Plame: I want you to head up operations. This is top priority.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: You are in business with a terrorist organization.
Man: Who are you?
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: If you get out of this car, I can't protect you. You have no idea what we can and cannot do.
Narrator: On a mission to find the facts.
Unknown official: The Vice President has received a report concerning the purchase of materials to build nuclear weapons.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: We need to get in close.
Narrator: They turned to her husband for answers.
Sean Penn as Plame's husband: It is my opinion a sale that size could not have happened.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I have teams in the field. They all say the same thing.
Narrator: But when the truth was made public
Unidentified man: What do you think the White House wants to hear, huh/ There was no nuclear programs
Man behind a desk: We need to change the story.
Announcer: They made her pay the price.
Valerie Plame's sister on the phone: Valerie, your name is in the paper. It says you're a CIA agent.
Plame reading paper aloud: So he never worked for the CIA but his wife...
Man: As an agency operative
Valerie's sister: You killed the people?
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I can't tell you anything.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I have a critical operation in Bagdad. My contacts packed and ready to go. I've got to get a message to him.
Unidentified man: I don't know what you're talking about.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: I gave my word!
Unidentified man: Valerie, it's over.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: My name is everywhere. My real name!
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: Those in the highest office sought to destroy the career of a career agent - to punish me for telling the truth.
Woman: You're wife is a traitor
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: How dare you talk about my wife? You don't know her!
Lady on phone: We know where you live.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: People threatened to kill my husband, to hurt my children.
Sean Penn as Valerie Plame's husband: We've gotta strike back. They'll bury us if we don't.
Naomi Watt as Valerie Plame: They push you until they find the point at which you break. They can't break me, I don't have a breaking point.
Comments
I'll pass on this movie. The "scintilliting"(sarc) dialogue
would likely LOWER my blood pressure to the point of
my dying from boredom.
correction/scintillAting
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