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| The movies - where historical accuracy fears to tread. |
Hollywood is pondering how to cash
in on the success of this year’s Oscar nominees due to the lack of any obvious
sequels to the main contenders. Fortunately, the SAHIP blog’s film and media
creative arm has been working overtime on some new ideas, all of which have now been bought up by the major studios. Expect to see these big screen
follow-ups before the end of the year:
Argo Back For More
Feeling that their first escape
was a bit of a breeze, CIA operative Tony Mendez smuggles the six Canadians he liberated
from Iran back in to the country the following year to film a fake sequel to the
fake sci-fi movie Argo. It’s easy to bribe the witless Iranian officials with
free Argo mugs, posters and bobble-heads, because deep down they all want to
be Americans really. Things almost go disastrously wrong when the crew tries to
film an explicit lesbian sex scene at a mosque during Friday prayers, while the
team later makes its narrow escape as Mendez takes on the Ayatollah Khomeini in dramatic hand-to-knife combat on the under-carriage of their departing Swissair jet.
Based on a figment of reality.
Lincoln Rises Again
Written after the emergence of new (though currently
unavailable) historical evidence that John Wilkes Booth’s shooting of Abraham
Lincoln may not have been as successful as commonly thought, this movie charts
the political advances made by the unstoppably progressive Lincoln as he rises
from the dead three days after his ‘assassination’. Peeved by the country’s
reluctance to truly accept blacks as equals, he seizes back the presidency under the moniker of his newly founded Black Power party, and
institutes a minimum hourly wage of $15 for all freed slaves. While he’s at
it, he persuades both Congress and the Senate to pass bills legalising gay
marriage, legislating equal pay for
