What’s the big deal about a few cigars? The real Barry actually lost his job after being arrested for smuggling tons of plastic explosives to a group opposed to Fidel Castro. Barry Was Fired for Smuggling Much Worse Than CigarsĪt the film’s start, Barry’s bored of his airline job and smuggles some cigars for a quick buck. Morty Schafer never existed in real life and was created purely as a plot convenience. His role in the movie is as convenient catalyst to give an otherwise unwieldy story shape. At every plot beat, Schafer is there to bail Barry out of jail, to move him across the country, to give him more resources and a new job. Schafer takes advantage of Barry, compelling him to increasingly dangerous activities before abanding him altogether. In American Made, Cruise’s Barry plays victim to Agent Monty Schafer’s (Domhnall Gleeson) machinations. Universal Pictures Agent Monty Schafer Never Existed Monty Schafer never existed in real life. Here are four major differences between the real-life Barry Seal and the final version of American Made: It’s so far from the truth that in October 2015, one of Barry Seal’s daughters filed a lawsuit against Universal Pictures specifically because the original script was riddled with factually incorrect details. The final product does flies quite far from actual history. We get a good guy compelled to do bad things for money instead of the truth: Barry Seal was selfish criminal that helped fuel one of the greatest drug empires the world has ever seen. The charming nature of Cruise’s acting lends itself towards making this total criminal out to be a “good guy,” misleading the viewer from the truth: The real-life Barry Seal did a lot of really bad things that the movie ignores for the sake of remaining fun and lighthearted.Īmerican Made hits all the right plot beats to become the first bonafide “Tom Cruise movie” we’ve gotten in a long time, but it neglects to include any deeds that make Barry seem more villainous. Tom Cruise and planes is always a good fit.
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Pascal and VDM readers, feel the irony: Jeff Duntemann hanging back from a RAD environment because he'd hoped to have a more broadbly applicable (read here: portable) book. (There's a Mac port, but I've heard it's less complete and much less robust than the others.) It's possible to create ordinary console apps in FreePascal using Lazarus as the IDE, but I hesitated to use Lazarus as the example IDE in the book because it's only available for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. The idea was to create an open-source alternative to Delphi, by writing a GUI front end for FreePascal. I've been following the Lazarus project since it had been the Megido project, back in 1998. One wonders why the damned thing is still there. Try to set the text display resolution to anything at all (25 X 80, 43 X 80, whatever) and it crashes. I installed the new 2.4.0 release of FreePascal yesterday, and the IDE hasn't changed a bit. I had hoped that there was an easy fix, but apparently not. But there was another problem: The text-mode IDE included with FreePascal is erratic in the extreme, and crashed constantly on me, especially under Windows. I set the project aside in part because I needed to get my assembly book updated and back into print-something that took most of a year and all of the personal energy I could summon. About two years ago I started piecing together a book on FreePascal based on my 1992 Bantam book, Borland Pascal 7 From Square One. |
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