Question: I'm really confused by the fact that Syriana was nominated in the Original Screenplay category — am I crazy, or wasn't it based on a book by someone who used to be in the CIA?
I recently noticed that Gladiator was nominated for best original screenplay, when in fact it was virtually a scene-by-scene remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Stephen Boyd and Christopher Plummer. Why did it qualify as an original script? — Sami
Answer: The on-screen credit for writer-director Stephen Gaghan's Syriana screenplay says that it was "suggested by the book See No Evil by Robert Baer." Baer was a high-level, Middle East-based CIA officer, and his 2002 nonfiction book generated a lot of controversy by ta
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Question: When I was a kid, I saw a movie where some scientists are reduced to miniature size and injected into a person's bloodstream. While inside, one guy was attacked by a white blood cell and they ended up washing out through the person's eyeball. It wasn't Innerspace. If you could help it with the title I'd really appreciate it. Answer: That was no guy — that was Raquel Welch being attacked by corpuscles! The movie is Fantastic Voyage (1966), and it's the clear inspiration for Innerspace (1987), except that Innerspace plays the idea of a miniature person trapped inside someone's body for laughs, while Fantastic Voyage is dead serious. The quintessentially '60s cast includes
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