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30/08/2014 05:37 par tellurikwaves

Valérie Plame & Naomie Watts...et vice versa

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An excellent movie. The story lines up with the facts
10/10
Author: timandm from United States
7 April 2013

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Let's get the basics out of the way: The story is true. The acting is excellent. The movie is technically outstanding... This movie tells the true story of how The Bush Administration intentionally released the identification of a CIA agent whose husband (who happened to be an ambassador) told the truth about the Bush administration lying about weapons of mass destruction.

By exposing a covert CIA operative, the Bush administration sent a clear message to anyone else who might be brave enough to reveal the truth. I remember hearing the news about these events when they were actually happening. Even then it was obvious what was happening. This movie spells it out clearly. I applaud it and recommend it completely.

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Awesome movie that represents the truth
10/10
Author: tarun-rajput-engineer from India
2 August 2013

The movie is based on the true story of two genuine people Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (Husband and Wife) who were part of CIA's investigation about Iraq's nuclear weapon strength before the George W Bush declared war against Iraq in 2003. The movie shows the whole story of CIA's investigation and why they Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson went against the decision of war. Certainly, these people's courage is commendable.

Naomi Watts and Sean Penn have done an awesome job in the movie while playing the character. The whole screenplay and all the sequences of various scenes will take you back to 2002-2004. All together they will keep attached with the movie. On my behalf a big thanks to director, producer, all the actors and everyone who is part of this movie! Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are really great people. If anyone like to watch movie for inspiration from real life of people then you will like this movie. 10/10.

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30/08/2014 05:27 par tellurikwaves

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30/08/2014 05:27 par tellurikwaves

Pulsating Drama, Appropriate Time
10/10
Author: gradyharp from United States
1 April 2011

FAIR GAME serves several purposes; it is a thriller of a suspense movie that entertains, it addresses one of the most controversial aspects of American military action in years, and it dares to open the secret doors of the Bush Administration. Based on the book 'The Politics of Truth' by Joseph Wilson the film has been summarized as follows:

'Joseph Charles Wilson IV (born November 6, 1949) is a former United States diplomat best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York Times op ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Niger"; and the subsequent "outing" of his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.' and the book "Fair Game' by Valerie Plame. The books have been transformed into a bitingly vital screenplay by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth and the film is searingly directed by Doug Liman.

Why the film didn't enjoy a better success in the theaters is likely due to the still festering difference of opinion as to the pre-emptive war on Iraq, a war declared because of the 'evidence' that Iraq had Weapons of Mass destruction that is now approaching 10 years in activity despite the embarrassingly early declaration by that the war had been 'won' soon after declaration. What FAIR GAME offers is Wilson's defense of his wife Valerie Plame's role in the CIA and how the government dealt with the cover-up and smoke screen and other shenanigans by Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and other White House officials who revealed Plame's status as a CIA agent and were allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The actors are consistently superb throughout the large cast - Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame, Sean Penn as Joe Wilson, Bruce McGill as Jim Pavitt, Adam LeFevre as Karl Rove, David Andrews as Scooter Libby - and the many film clips of President Bush's televised speeches and statements from VP Dick Cheney et al add credence to the atmosphere. It is a film about the value of truth and as such it makes us all think more carefully about our current further involvement in the many battles currently being fought in the countries of the Middle East. There is a speech Joe Wilson gives to his class at the end of the film that challenges his students to always defend democracy - the legacy of our Founding Fathers - and it is this speech that is the most compelling writing in the film. A fine cast delivers a compelling film and it is a film all Americans should see.

Grady Harp

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A Gripping Spy Movie That Needs To Be Told
10/10
Author: Intern2014 from United States
26 September 2012

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Fair Game is a biographical drama directed that features Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.It is based on Valerie Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House and Joseph C. Wilson's memoir "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir".The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman teams with screenwriters Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth to streamline Joseph Wilson's and Valerie Plame's books detailing the explosive outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame into a tense film.

At the time her cover was blown by the George W. Bush administration, Valerie Plame was combing Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction as part of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division. Her husband, American diplomat Joe Wilson was attempting to verify a claim that the Iraqis had recently purchased enriched uranium from Niger when the White House began calling for war against Iraq before any solid evidence had been gathered.

When Joe penned an editorial in The New York Times decrying the hasty call to war, a prolific Washington, D.C. journalist took the opportunity to reveal her identity as a CIA operative, an act that not only put her career in jeopardy, but also left her various contacts overseas in a precarious position. Years later, she was jobless and publicly disgraced as she wages a vicious fight to clear her name, set the record straight, and keep her family from falling apart.

Crackling with sharp dialogue, gripping intrigue and heart-pounding suspense, Fair Game is the adventure that's so unbelievable, it can only be real.Despite the fact that it It struggles with the balance between fact-based biopic and taut political thriller, it brims with righteous anger due to the brutal and personal testimony to the consequences of dirty politics that it often feels too ugly to be true.Also,it benefits from superb performances by its lead stars - Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Overall,it is a gripping spy movie wherein the account of the double- dealing of the Bush White House in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq feels necessary.

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Fantastic.
10/10
Author: alexbsb-2 from United States
15 April 2011

Such an incredible movie. It's Alias meets The West Wing meets The Kingdom all rolled into one spectacular performance by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. I'm surprised the movie didn't get more recognition.

Watching it, I could feel the anger boiling up inside of me. Seeing as I knew the story, having it told right in front of me with such evidence of corruption and misleading information that drove us to the lengths of war was almost more than I could handle. The film is spellbinding, keeping me entranced for the entire production.

I would recommend this film (and already have) to everyone. With all the drivel that is being made into film these days, this one stands out among the rest as very well executed and played. Watch it for yourself to find out.

Š-DR-FAIR GAME de Doug Liman (2010) p9

29/08/2014 16:44 par tellurikwaves

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Magouilles à la maison blanche

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Getting The Truth Out...At A Great Personal Cost
10/10
Author: virek213 from San Gabriel, Ca., USA
22 April 2011

Much of the rationale given by the Bush Administration for America going to war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein at the end of the winter of 2003 centered around claims made by British intelligence officials that Hussein's regime sought out mass quantities of yellow cake uranium from the country of Niger in western Africa. Those claims had been put into the State of the Union speech that Bush had given in January of that year. As it turned out, though, those claims, when thoroughly investigated, turned out to be untrue.

Subsequently, a high-level couple, ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, were outed by cronies inside the Bush White House and placed in the middle of a firestorm in which anyone attempting to discredit the Bush Administration in any small way was censured in the press. It is their fight that was depicted in the 2010 film FAIR GAME.

Watts and Penn portray the real-life couple at the center of this firestorm. Penn, as ambassador Wilson, investigates the claims about yellow cake uranium and aluminum tubing supposedly being used to make nuclear weapons being exported between Niger and Iraq back in the late 1990s, as it appears that America is on the brink of ousting Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Meanwhile, Watts, as Valerie Plame, makes it her business to get reliable sources of Iraq's intelligence out of there to give the CIA the proper information.

Penn asserts that such a trade of uranium not only could not have occurred, but that the aluminum tubing in question is not of the kind that would be suitable for doing what the Bush Administration says Hussein intends it for—to create a nuclear bomb. Thus, the rationale for going to war in Iraq has just been rendered fraudulent, but a little too late for those Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers caught in the middle. Even so, however, Watts' name and status are both exposed in the media from within the bowels of the administration, rendering her damaged goods, and infuriating Penn.

The other significant thing the whole imbroglio causes is a huge schism between the couple, since Watts is initially unwilling to fight back while Penn makes the rounds on the networks to tell the truth of the matter. The allegations against both of them mount in the press, which keeps hounding them for their alleged lack of patriotism; and finally, both of them come out of the shadows to tell their side of the story.

Incisively directed by Liman, who was responsible for the 2002 Robert Ludlum adaptation THE BOURNE IDENTITY, FAIR GAME is a powerful expose of the Iraq war as seen through the eyes and experiences of its most noted diplomatic figures, every bit as powerful a political film as any, documentary or otherwise, made since 9/11, and, indeed, every bit as thorough as films like ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THIRTEEN DAYS.

While there are political considerations to be considered in this film, especially give that Penn was one of the most ferocious and outspoken critics anywhere of the Bush Administration from the beginning, this is equally a hard-hitting character study as well; and Penn and Watts do an excellent job of portraying the beleaguered Wilsons, while a whole host of good character actors are superb in their roles of the dark underlings that work for Team Bush.

Liman, who also does the cinematography, shoots FAIR GAME in a very documentary-like style, and in the same bleached-color visuals that were a trademark of Spielberg's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, MINORITY REPORT, and MUNICH. Both Valerie Plane and Joe Wilson risked everything they had to get the truth out there about the Bush Administration's dissembling with regards to a non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11; and FAIR GAME is an excellent film depicting that struggle, clearly one of the best films of 2010.

Š-DR- FAIR GAME de Doug Liman (2010) p8

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29/08/2014 16:37 par tellurikwaves

Each person in the US should watch this
10/10
Author: steelpen500 from United States
22 October 2011

Every American should watch "Fair Game" It is incredible what happened when our own CIA Valerie Plame decided to be honest during the Bush administration. The fact that Cheney and Bush acted as two regular thugs and got away with it is a lesson to be learned. The acting is superb and the movie itself is a thriller. The fact that this happened just a few years ago is surreal. But there it is.

This is our country. Lets wake up. I almost wish that Sean Penn was not in it. Not because he is not great and believable but some idiots will complain about the movie because of his views. Now I see what Occupy Wall street is needed. We are always talking about corruption of other countries. How can these two criminals be in the street and face parents of young adults killed in Iraq?

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First Oscar-worthy film so far in 2010
10/10
Author: ligonlaw from San Francisco, California
20 November 2010

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Excellent acting by Sean Penn, as Ambassador Joe Wilson, and Naomi Watts, as Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who ran secret operations in the Middle East to locate Weapons of Mass Destruction. Directed by Doug Limon of the Bourne trilogy, this film is a spy thriller which is based on the unprecedented case of Ms. Plame whose identity was revealed to the world by the White House. When her identity was disclosed in right wing news columns, a dozen clandestine operations were jeopardized, and a number of assets, including Iraqi weapons scientists, were killed. This story is unique, because no White House in the history of the United States has divulged the identity of our spies for any purpose.

The villain at the center of the scandal is Karl Rove, who Joe Wilson wanted "frogged marched down Pennsylvania Avenue," for committing treason and putting our field agents and their assets in jeopardy. The score of this film is excellent and should garner an Oscar nomination. The acting may also be at the winner's circle, and the picture itself will probably nominated as one of 2010's best. If the story were not true, it would probably sound too far-fetched. Criminal conduct by White House officials is not unprecedented. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Clinton impeachment are some recent examples of high drama in the Oval Office.

Fair Game is unique in that the crimes against the nation were an exercise of pure power against the truth - to cover the trail of lies which led the United States into a long expensive war for reasons which were never disclosed publicly. The State of the Union address which took the nation to war was a lie. The burden of the American and Iraqi dead rest upon these lies. The United States and Iraq are bleeding our young and our treasuries nearly ten years after the lies got us there. The movie is a great story, well-told, and, hopefully, a civics lesson for those who are capable of learning from the past

Š-DR-FAIR GAME de Doug Liman (2010) p7

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War and Spin ... then the result?
10/10
Author: sukram60
11 April 2011

War. Media. Spin. Economics.

We must be reminded that the media is a scathing dog, a venomous snarler that can be fighting for you or against you. The witnesses to this battle of info-rage get brainwashed, we get brainwashed, and become the court of public opinion.

While the movie does not address the reasons the war was started, it brilliantly displays how official bullshit can be thrown over us like a comforting shroud, and that shroud can stimulate our anger as well as justify our anger.

Brilliantly performed by Sean Penn and the beautiful Naomi Watts. I am humbled by their talent and dedication. I am humored by the desperate IMDb rants of those whom still think the war was a 'good' thing - I say to you ranters, wake up for your own good :)

Governments lie, don't forget it.

Š-DR-FAIR GAME de Doug Liman (2010) p5

29/08/2014 06:23 par tellurikwaves

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Riveting from start to finish - a must see
10/10
Author: phd_travel from United States
25 January 2011

This is an amazingly well put together movie. The screenplay is totally understandable. One of the best films about the process of going in to the Iraq War and the use of information at the time. I was superficially familiar with Plame's story but did not realize how vital her and her husband's work was in relation to the Iraq war.

Naomi Watts does a very good job. She doesn't overact but you can see her vulnerability and passion. She blends into the role so well that unlike Nicole Kidman you don't think of a movie star acting but you focus on the story. Virginia Madsen looks more like Valerie Plame but unfortunately is now too old. Sean Penn is a bit too unattractive for the role but his acting ability makes up for it. The production is top notch with an authentic on location feel to it.

Valerie Plame's story has to be told in this movie form so everyone can learn about what happened to her. It is a great story about the life of a CIA operative and it's toll on family life. It also is a great story about how the most patriotic acts can be so difficult to carry out in the face of unjust opposition. The movie really deserves some big award nominations.

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Fiche technique
Titre : Fair game
Réalisation : Doug Liman
Scénario : Jez Butterworth ,
John-Henry Butterworth et Joseph Wilson
Histoire : Joseph Wilson et Valerie Plame Wilson
Co-producteurs : Kim H. Winther et David Sigal
Producteurs : Jez Butterworth, Akiva Goldsman,
Doug Liman, Janet Zucker et Jerry Zucker
Producteurs associés : Gerry Robert Byrne et Sean Gesell
Producteurs exécutifs : Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, David Bartis,
Kerry Foster, Bill Pohlad et Mari-Jo Winkler
Directeur de production : Anadil Hossain, Wesam Seif Elislam (Égypte) et
Bruce Wayne Gillies (photographie additionelle)
Musique : John Powell
Photographie : Doug Liman
Montage : Christopher Tellefsen
Casting : Joseph Middleton
Concepteurs des décors : Jess Gonchor
Directeur artistique : Kevin Bird
Décors : Ibrahim Khorma, Sara Parks et
Mohammad-Karim Shehabi
Costumes : Cindy Evans
Budget : 22.000.000 $
Recettes : 24.188.922 $
Société de production : River Road Entertainment -
Participant Media - Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ - Zucker Productions
Société de distribution : U.G.C.
Pays d'origine : États-Unis Modèle:Émirats arabe unis
Langue : Anglais, Arabe et français
Formats : 2.35 : 1 | Couleur DeLuxe | Redcode RAW (4K)
(source format) Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Son : Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS
Genre : Thriller
Durée : 105 mn
Date de sortie :États-Unis 5 novembre 2010
France3 novembre 2010