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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 23:35:59 GMT
The theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston - the single largest property theft in the history of the world - is just fascinating and so, so chilling. There are countless conspiracy theories revolving around the heist, but here are the facts: In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as police officers entered the Gardner Museum and stole 13 works of art by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas. The works, including Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape) and Vermeer’s The Concert, are worth more than $500 million. A vehicle pulled up near the side entrance of the Museum. Two men in police uniforms pushed the Museum buzzer, stated they were responding to a disturbance, and requested to be let in. The guard on duty broke protocol and allowed them through the employee entrance. At the fake officers’ request he stepped away from the watch desk. He and a second security guard were handcuffed and tied up in the basement of the Museum. The thieves departed with 13 of the Gardner’s works of art 81 minutes later. The Museum was equipped with motion detectors, so the thieves’ movements were recorded. The best known works of art were taken from the Dutch Room. They sliced Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black from their frames; removed Vermeer’s The Concert and Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk from their frames; pulled an ancient Chinese bronze Gu, or beaker, from a table; and took a small self-portrait etching by Rembrandt from the side of a chest. In the Short Gallery, on the same floor as the Dutch Room, five Degas drawings and a bronze eagle finial were stolen. Manet’s Chez Tortoni was taken from the Blue Room. The thieves departed at 2:45 am, after making two separate trips to their car with the artwork. The guards remained handcuffed until police arrived at 8:15 a.m. The FBI is still actively investigating the case, and is offering complete immunity to anyone who can come forward with news of the stolen works of art. The museum itself has offered a $10 million reward to anyone who can produce the artworks in good condition. The spaces where the paintings hung are still bare, in the hope that they will be returned home some day. The Gardner House of Boston, designed to resemble a Venetian palazzo: Some of the stolen works of art: How the security guard was found the next morning: Composite sketches of the thieves: Okay, your turn!
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Post by stephen on Aug 21, 2018 0:23:33 GMT
A proper, no-bullshit biopic on John Wesley Hardin.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 21, 2018 0:32:46 GMT
This event is also covered in the Fugazi song "Smallpox Champion".........a great tainting on our national history (though disputed by some), would make a devastating movie I think. Indians were given "poison blankets as gifts" Biological warfare during the Siege of Fort PittDuring the French and Indian War, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Britain's commander in chief in North America authorized the use of smallpox to wipe out their Native American enemy in . In his writings to Colonel Henry Bouquet about the situation in western Pennsylvania, Amherst suggested that the spread of disease would be beneficial in achieving their aims. Colonel Bouquet confirmed his intentions to do so. This event is well known for the documented instances of biological warfare. British officers, including the top British commanding generals, ordered, sanctioned, paid for and conducted the use of smallpox against the Native Americans. As described by one historian, "there is no doubt that British military authorities approved of attempts to spread smallpox among the enemy", and "it was deliberate British policy to infect the indians with smallpox". "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." — Jeffery Amherst
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Aug 21, 2018 0:48:37 GMT
Not exactly what you mentioned, but I was really excited when I heard Steve McQueen was making a Paul Robeson movie. Few people I can think of deserve a biopic, and I still hope they can make it someday.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 21, 2018 0:57:45 GMT
It would involve a lot of hypotheticals and filling in the blanks by the author, but a mini-series about the Atomic Spies would be kick ass.
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Post by quetee on Aug 21, 2018 1:06:14 GMT
Has there ever been a movie about what happened to Anne Frank once family was found?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2018 1:51:12 GMT
A proper, no-bullshit biopic on John Wesley Hardin. I'm not into biopics most of the time but this could be genuinely great if put in the right hands.
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Post by no on Aug 21, 2018 4:10:52 GMT
Iranian revolution
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Post by cherry68 on Aug 21, 2018 6:44:39 GMT
The naval battle of Lepanto, October 5, 1571. That changed the history of Europe.
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Post by Pavan on Aug 21, 2018 7:48:34 GMT
Kalinga War (262 BCE) and the aftermath prompting King Ashoka to adopt Buddhism.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 21, 2018 9:07:09 GMT
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Post by cherry68 on Aug 21, 2018 10:02:51 GMT
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Many movies have been made on it already, the last one was Sarajevo, released in 2014.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 21, 2018 11:11:15 GMT
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Many movies have been made on it already, the last one was Sarajevo, released in 2014. I'm talking about high-profile projects, not some Austrian TV film.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 26, 2018 12:43:33 GMT
The Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac's founder) "Munich LSD Incident" - not just a sad, cruel story but one that encapsulates (and for Green culminates) the social movements and eras too - both literally and symbolically. The death of the 60s, the corruption of idealism, fractured political directions, the attraction and usage of celebrity, and finally the cult of religion, the complete loss of identity and then into an abyss of political radicalization into terrorism (Baader Meinhof).
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Post by countjohn on Aug 26, 2018 21:05:04 GMT
Not exactly what you mentioned, but I was really excited when I heard Steve McQueen was making a Paul Robeson movie. Few people I can think of deserve a biopic, and I still hope they can make it someday. How wonderful for a great action star like Steve McQueen had a dream to make a movie about a great black artist! When I see people talking about Steve McQueen my first instinct is still to think of 70's Steve McQueen and sometimes it's really confusing for a moment.
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Post by jimmalone on Aug 28, 2018 8:01:38 GMT
How wonderful for a great action star like Steve McQueen had a dream to make a movie about a great black artist! When I see people talking about Steve McQueen my first instinct is still to think of 70's Steve McQueen and sometimes it's really confusing for a moment. Same goes for me.
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 3, 2018 15:11:19 GMT
A movie about the Bastille day and the French Revolution in general.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 24, 2018 12:07:52 GMT
This is a suggestion from my friend who told me the story of Barbara Newhall Follett last evening which I kind of knew but not in detail. @tyler - I thought you'd be interested in this and its many intertwined themes of Literature/Art in the Jazz Age, father figures, suppression of youth and gender, madness, (possible) murder and tragedy and an amazing role for say some soon to be discovered teen acting prodigy. Barbara Newhall Follett (March 4, 1914 – disappeared December 7, 1939) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.
In December 1939, aged 25, she reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_Follett
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Post by speeders on Dec 25, 2018 13:14:41 GMT
This is a suggestion from my friend who told me the story of Barbara Newhall Follett last evening which I kind of knew but not in detail. @tyler - I thought you'd be interested in this and its many intertwined themes of Literature/Art in the Jazz Age, father figures, suppression of youth and gender, madness, (possible) murder and tragedy and an amazing role for say some soon to be discovered teen acting prodigy. Barbara Newhall Follett (March 4, 1914 – disappeared December 7, 1939) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.
In December 1939, aged 25, she reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_FollettFascinating. Thomasin McKenzie is also a dead ringer for her. I think this would work really well in this day and age.
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 25, 2018 15:17:19 GMT
This is a suggestion from my friend who told me the story of Barbara Newhall Follett last evening which I kind of knew but not in detail. @tyler - I thought you'd be interested in this and its many intertwined themes of Literature/Art in the Jazz Age, father figures, suppression of youth and gender, madness, (possible) murder and tragedy and an amazing role for say some soon to be discovered teen acting prodigy. Barbara Newhall Follett (March 4, 1914 – disappeared December 7, 1939) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.
In December 1939, aged 25, she reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_FollettThe husband is usually the murderer in cases like this. His extremely late report to the police is really suspicious.
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Post by levpoldkahnt on Dec 25, 2018 17:13:28 GMT
A good movie about the Stonewall riots. Especially considering that next year is the 50 year anniversary of the riots. They should take a page from Pose and celebrate diversity. So basically the exact opposite of Roland Emmerich's whitewashed pile of garbage.
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Post by ibbi on Dec 25, 2018 18:15:01 GMT
Tim McVeigh. It's amazing (not surprising, just amazing) that it's not been done. I guess 9/11 happened so soon after and stole all his thunder. None of his story fits in with tidy narrative myths people want to establish. Someone needs to do it.
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Post by themoviesinner on Dec 25, 2018 18:38:21 GMT
The trial of Socrates.
The battle on the ice (1242).
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Post by ptacoenlover on Dec 25, 2018 19:34:42 GMT
The backstory to this video.
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Post by bob-coppola on Dec 25, 2018 20:02:49 GMT
I think the Holocaust. Has there ever been a movie about it? I bet someone like Spielberg could even win an Oscar for it.
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