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Streaming here: https://vimeo.com/18781528 https://vimeo.com/18781528 Maybe it would be beneficial to flood both Donald and Ivanka Trump's Twitter feeds with

Streaming here: https://vimeo.com/18781528 https://vimeo.com/18781528 Maybe it would be beneficial to flood both Donald and Ivanka Trump's Twitter feeds with links to the film?

s_kilk 10y ago
For the impatient, the money-shot starts at about 45:30.
- icc97 10y ago
  It's actually remarkably tense waiting for the blast to happen.
  - s_kilk 10y ago
    Oh it is, and the tension built up through the whole first half is exquisite. I'd certainly recommend everyone watch through from the beginning for the full, sickening experience.
simplicio 10y ago
Supposedly the similar "The Day After" convinced the previously hawkish Reagan to advance arms control talks with the USSR, so that isn't the worst idea. Though Reagan loved movies, while I haven't heard that Trump is a movie buff, so we'll need something equivalent with more appeal to its target. Has anyone tried filming a post-nuclear holocaust reality show?
- roywiggins 10y ago
  Hello, good evening, and remain indoors. This is the Quiz Broadcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN0ixdOsrY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN0ixdOsrY0
- BrandonMarc 10y ago
  > President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war". The film was also screened for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of [the film's director Nicholas] Meyer's, told him "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there like they were turned to stone." Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing. Reagan supposedly later sent Meyer a telegram after the summit, saying, "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_policymakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...
synicalx 10y ago
So we're off the whole "Trump is a Russian spy" narrative now are we? It's hard to keep up sometimes
- deleted 10y ago
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Streaming here: https://vimeo.com/18781528 https://vimeo.com/18781528 Maybe it would be beneficial to flood both Donald and Ivanka Trump's Twitter feeds with links to the film?

s_kilk 10y ago

For the impatient, the money-shot starts at about 45:30.

icc97 10y ago
It's actually remarkably tense waiting for the blast to happen.
- s_kilk 10y ago
  Oh it is, and the tension built up through the whole first half is exquisite. I'd certainly recommend everyone watch through from the beginning for the full, sickening experience.

simplicio 10y ago

Supposedly the similar "The Day After" convinced the previously hawkish Reagan to advance arms control talks with the USSR, so that isn't the worst idea. Though Reagan loved movies, while I haven't heard that Trump is a movie buff, so we'll need something equivalent with more appeal to its target. Has anyone tried filming a post-nuclear holocaust reality show?

roywiggins 10y ago
Hello, good evening, and remain indoors. This is the Quiz Broadcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN0ixdOsrY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN0ixdOsrY0
BrandonMarc 10y ago
> President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war". The film was also screened for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of [the film's director Nicholas] Meyer's, told him "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there like they were turned to stone." Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing. Reagan supposedly later sent Meyer a telegram after the summit, saying, "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_policymakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...

synicalx 10y ago

So we're off the whole "Trump is a Russian spy" narrative now are we? It's hard to keep up sometimes

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