The Hugh Manatee Challenge

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

... in the same vein as the Starsky & Hutch revival and other such trifles....

FBI COINTELPRO victim, teacher Morris...STARSKY-
Listed in the 1975 book, 'COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom'
and the 1990 book, 'The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States.'

This counterpropaganda technique of marketing decoy associations is known as...keyword hijacking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Starsky

Iquote]In 1975 Starsky became one of the first US citizens to receive federal records under the newly created Freedom of Information Act. He received FBI files that revealed he was the subject of illegal wiretap and surveillance activities, and that the FBI attempted to facilitate his dismissal from ASU by sending an anonymous letter to university officials accusing Starsky of fomenting violence. He was one of the first people targeted by the FBI program known as COINTELPRO, and subsequent litigation later resulted in a significant award of damages paid to the Socialist Workers Party.[/quote]

[Nordic]

The show was already on the air in 1975, dumbass.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

The show was already on the air in 1975, dumbass.

The FBI's attacks on Morris Starsky were from 1968-1970.
Seymour Hersh outed spook programs against dissent in 1974.
COINTELPRO was outed from 1971 through the Pike and Church Committee Hearings of 1974-76.

And if you think that CIA didn't know about a book in production to be published in 1975....you are damn naive.
But thanks for trolling, as usual.

Hey, let's look at the first 1975 pilot show plot before the fall season-
http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-5330/episodes/487197

Two lovers are found dead, murdered execution style. When detectives find that the car of one of the victims is very similar to Detective Starsky's, they uncover that the intended targets were Detectives Starsky and Hutchinson. Starsky and Hutch are sent out to track down the murders and to figure out why they were targeted.

OMG! Starsky was...TARGETED! Wow. What a coincidence.

[Nordic]

But thanks for trolling, as usual.

No, thank YOU!

So, Huge, when are you going to actually respond to the OP of this thread?

You know, since you're so brilliant, it should be a piece of cake for you to predict the future based on the movies that are coming out, say, this summer.

What's up? Why aren't you willing to show off your skills for us?

You could REALLY impress a lot of us here if you were to take up this challenge.

[Sepka]

I really had hoped you'd give this a try, Hugh. If you're correct about the CIA using movies in this manner, then it really should be possible to predict events that will take place around the time an upcoming movie is released.

And Nordic, please don't be abusive. I'd like to see the experiment tried, and confrontation isn't likely to encourage that.

Thanks!

[harry ashburn]

Huh! I always thought it was a "huge" manatee!

[brekin]

This should be an easy one:

Safe House (2012)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1599348/

A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

[JackRiddler]

This should be an easy one:

Safe House (2012)

Just FYI to discuss, mentioned it back here:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33793&start=150#p443533

Trailers just started on this one:

This Means War

Release date is being given as: Presidents' Day Weekend

No, you can't make this shit up, which is why Hugh keeps making comebacks with us, for his choice of field if not his obsession in hypotheses.

But it gets better. Check out the billboard version, which I've seen around NYC:



Come on, grad students, it's easy to read. Warriors to the death shall fight for the prize - a fertile area indicated by the movie title right over Hotbabe's crotch. Helen of Sparta, the oil fields of Sudan, 'twas ever thus. Remember: poster, title, commercials, each are propaganda works unto their own. Doesn't matter what the movie's about, but if you want to play for the allegory-

Two top CIA operatives {who are best friends] wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

-There may not be any.

Talk about narrowing horizons! Up to the 1980s they would have at least come from antagonistic countries, with some Cold War background and international locations. Here it'll have to do that the swarthier of the two safely-white guys (a.k.a. "That Guy from Inception. No Not That Guy, the Other Guy") is Anglo, while Capt. Kirk is pure Iowa popcorn.

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[Plutonia]

Jack, they've been reading Girard:



http://books.google.ca/books?id=t_D2NaK ... e&q&f=true

[DrVolin]

That's really quite stunning.

[JackRiddler]

Jack, they've been reading Girard:

http://s13.postimage.org/b71mkxml1/girard_double.jpg

http://books.google.ca/books?id=t_D2NaK ... e&q&f=true

Image won't display but it does if you take the link into a new window.

Is it this? "The social order emerges from the self regulating mechanisms of violence. It emerges as a means of protection against violence."

"When emnity reaches the stage of reciprocal imitation, the subjects progressively lose sight of the object of their respective desire and focus on each other. They do not see the imitative aspect of the process, but they do focus on the aggressive and harmful attitude of their antagonist."

That last bit sounds like Internet forums, doesn't it?

So that'll be how it goes between the two stylish machos.

How else do you see this relating to this movie? "Reuniting rivals through a common enemy"? The woman?

[Plutonia]

Jack, they've been reading Girard:

http://s13.postimage.org/b71mkxml1/girard_double.jpg

http://books.google.ca/books?id=t_D2NaK ... e&q&f=true

Image won't display but it does if you take the link into a new window.

Is it this? "The social order emerges from the self regulating mechanisms of violence. It emerges as a means of protection against violence."

"When emnity reaches the stage of reciprocal imitation, the subjects progressively lose sight of the object of their respective desire and focus on each other. They do not see the imitative aspect of the process, but they do focus on the aggressive and harmful attitude of their antagonist."

That last bit sounds like Internet forums, doesn't it?

So that'll be how it goes between the two stylish machos.

How else do you see this relating to this movie? "Reuniting rivals through a common enemy"? The woman?

Yes, that's it, and no it can't be the woman - it's Reece Witherspoon, America's ditzy shopping sweetheart.

It'll have to be that the guys uncover a nation-threatening plot that put's their romantic rivalry back into perspective. And maybe Reece will turn out to be related to one of them. Then everybody can be happy at the end.

Edit: The happy ending is the one where the existing social order is maintained.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

I want to see responses on the timing of 'Starsky and Hutch' from

-professorpan
-barracuda
-Nordic
-compared2what
-orz
-ProjectWillow
-nomo
-Jeff Wells

I've posted umpteen examples like this since 2005.
So you all are coincidence theorists, ay?

[Plutonia]

Jack, I saw your now lost post and I have to say that it didn't occur to me until I had re-read what I'd written and it was a Doh! moment for me too. So obvious in hind sight.

I watched a trailer and there's a behind-the-scenes character, a feminist Cougar who, like a handler, talks reluctant Reese into dating both the hero-agents, so it seems likely that that woman is the enemy agent and the dating scheme the threat to national security.

Bleh.

[IanEye]

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