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Copper Sturgeon 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇵🇭 🏴‍☠️🎨💾🗿🫚🦜 @tantzu.bsky.social · 8h

I remembered the events.. in real life, then the movie.. Imagine though, now they no longer care about reporting the facts and the truth.. the MAGA effect I guess. A lot of lessons in this movie.

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MOLLOY @sionxxii.bsky.social · 9h

The Magus.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've watched Shattered Glass about a dozen times because it is so satisfying seeing Adam Penenberg (Steve Zahn) breaking the story. "One thing is correct. There is a state called Nevada."

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Nevada Jones @nevadajones.bsky.social · 13h

That's a story! And he was such an encyclopedia of all kinds of magic/illusionist history.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 13h

Ricky Jay was a wonderful guy who I met years ago at The Magic Castle. He's a great magician, too.

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Derek St. John @derek117.bsky.social · 12h

Very clever plot. Wonderful performance by Rebecca & Campbell.

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michael2054.bsky.social @michael2054.bsky.social · 12h

I like this movie a lot...all the twists and turns you expect from a Mamet script.

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Kimberly A. Horning @everydaydeath12.bsky.social · 11h

I love this movie 🍿

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Lazyeye @lazeeye.bsky.social · 13h

“We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money"

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Nevada Jones @nevadajones.bsky.social · 13h

Ricky Jay was a treasure. I saw his show, On The Stem, and loved it so much I went twice.

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Decaffeinated Horror @decafhorror.bsky.social · 13h

Just saw this for the first time last year. Really really good movie. Great suspense and dialogue.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 13h

The characters in The Spanish Prisoner are all given motives, romance, greed, pride, friendship, curiosity, and these motives are inventions and misdirection; the magician cuts the deck, and the joker wins. We like to be fooled. It’s like being tickled. We say “Stop!” and don’t mean it.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 13h

The Spanish Prisoner is delightful in the way a great card manipulator is delightful. It shows it has no hidden cards and then produces them out of thin air. Our attention is misdirected and we forget to watch closely to see where they are going and how they are being handled.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 13h

But at this point the plot summary of The Spanish Prisoner must end, before the surprises begin. I can only say that anything as valuable as the Process would be a target for industrial espionage, and that when enough millions of dollars are involved, few people are above temptation.

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The Spanish Prisoner’s hero is Joe Ross (Campbell Scott), who has invented a Process that will make so much money for his company that when he writes the figure on a blackboard, we don’t even see the figure, only the shining eyes of executives looking at it.

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Writer David Mamet is easy to recognize in The Spanish Prisoner. His characters speak as if they’re wary of the world, afraid of being misquoted, reluctant to say what’s on their minds: As a protective shield, they fall into precise legalisms, invoking old sayings as if they’re magic charms.

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The Spanish Prisoner (1997) does not take place in Spain, and it has no prisoners. The title refers to a classic con game. Everything takes place in full view, on sunny beaches and in brightly lit rooms, with attractive people smilingly pulling the rug out from under the hero.

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Today's movie (Friday 10-2-26) is The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

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Today's movie (Friday 10-2-26) is The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

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House Harker @househarker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That poster is intense, the way they circled Adam Penenberg's face is perfect, it's like he's the only one who matters. The New Republic angle is pretty accurate, that's where Ben Yagoda's article originally ran. The guy who played him, Martin Freeman, is way too short to be A...

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Youthful Porpoise @ayouthfulporpoise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you've seen it five times that's good enough reason for me to check this one out!

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've watched Shattered Glass about a dozen times because it is so satisfying seeing Adam Penenberg (Steve Zahn) breaking the story. "One thing is correct. There is a state called Nevada."

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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good movie; Sarsgaard is outstanding.

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Youthful Porpoise @ayouthfulporpoise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven't checked this one out yet...I'll look around for it if it's something you'd recommend

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shattered Glass relates the rise and fall of Stephen Glass at the New Republic, which is written by and for intelligent people and, crucially, doesn’t even use photographs. (“Photos would have saved us,” one staffer notes, “because there wouldn’t have been any.” Glass wrote 17 fictional stories.

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Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Stephen Glass plays the role of a whiz kid with bashful narcissism in Shattered Glass. There is an agonizing sequence during which Lane tries to pin down the slippery details of a Glass story. With mounting dread, it becomes obvious to Lane that the story is false.

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Adam calls TNR, his query lands on the desk of Charles Lane (Peter Sarsgaard), the magazine’s new editor. Lane has enough to worry about: He has recently replaced the beloved Michael Kelly, he lacks Kelly’s charisma, and the staff instinctively side with Glass against the cool, distant Lane.

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The first puncture of Stephen’s balloon comes from Adam Penenberg (Steve Zahn), a writer for the Web-based Forbes Digital Tool. Adam tries to follow up on that rich hacker with his own agent, he can’t find him, or his agent, or the company that hired him, or his Web site. Fake Shattered Glass.

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Problem is, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) made them all up. Magazines employ fact-checkers to backstop their writers, and they’re a noble crowd, but sometimes they check the trees and not the forest; so, it doesn’t occur to them that a piece might be a total fraud in Shattered Glass.

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Another made up story in Shattered Glass is the gathering of Young Republicans at a Washington hotel, partying all night like a drunken fraternity. The convention of the political novelties industry, with display tables of racist, homophobic, bumper stickers and books. Never happened.

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Glass did a piece for New Republic about a young computer hacker who terrified corporations with raids on their computers and then sold them his expertise to shoot down other hackers. In the film Shattered Glass he was so successful, he had his own agent. Guess what? It was fiction.

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“Are you mad at me?” Stephen Glass asks in the movie Shattered Glass (2003). He’s like a puppy who’s made a mess on the carpet but knows he’s cute and all of the kids are crazy about him. The kids in this case are his fellow staffers at the New Republic magazine.

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Today's movie (Thursday 10-1-26) is Shattered Glass 2003

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Today's movie (Thursday 10-1-26) is Shattered Glass 2003

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110dbA @110dba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Make that “You’re next!” (Damn you, Siri!)😠 😁

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