![]() ![]() This isn't exactly advice and consent, though. ![]() #Buy real war movie#Often, when you see a political movie - when I see a movie about Congress, there are little details that aren't right. FROST: Yeah - who wrote scripts for "West Wing" wrote the script for this. And the interesting thing to me was that the - Sorkin, the guy who wrote the script for "West… Charlie Wilson actually did this.ĬONAN: And before we get much further, how did you like the picture? Well, the answer is it did really happen. And I think if they had portrayed him as flamboyant as he really was, no one would have believed any of this.Įven without that, I think it's probably hard for some people who saw the movie to say that this really happened. Charlie was really very flamboyant - very smart and very flamboyant. I thought Tom Hanks was kind of restrained in the way he played him. And what I mentioned in my column was that they toned down the Charlie Wilson character. ![]() FROST: If anything - I mean, the story is true. FROST: I do a column for them and I appear on, from time to time, on Fox News as one of the Democrats that they have on. FROST: Well, actually, I wrote it for Fox News. You said: Hollywood didn't embellish the story. MARTIN FROST (Former Democratic Representative, Texas): Good to be here.ĬONAN: And you wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal. He represented the 24th Congressional District from 1979 to 2005, and joins us here today in Studio 3A. Martin Frost is another former Democratic congressman from Texas. E-mail: And you can check out what other listeners have to say on our blog at npr.org/blogofthenation. If you're wondering if Hollywood embellished the story or what was left out, our phone number is 80. It also raises questions about the connection between those events and the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaida. HANKS: (As Charlie Wilson) Well, tradition mostly.ĬONAN: A scene from "Charlie Wilson's War." The film goes on to show how Congressman Wilson funded the covert war in Afghanistan, help defeat the Soviet army and hasten the fall of the Soviet Union. ROBERTS: (As Joanne Herring) Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing? HANKS: (As Charlie Wilson) Why are you only asking me questions you already know the answers to? ROBERTS: (As Joanne Herring) Isn't that how you were able to double the CIA budget for black-ops in Afghanistan, just by saying so? TOM HANKS (Actor): (As Charlie Wilson) I also have seats at the Kennedy Center. JULIA ROBERTS (Actor): (As Joanne Herring) So unless I'm wrong - and that would be unusual for me - you sit at the intersection of the State Department, the Pentagon and the CIA, you meet in a sound-proof room underneath the Capitol, and you preside over a secret and unlimited budget for the three agencies you would need to conduct a covert war. (Soundbite of movie "Charlie Wilson's War") He takes up the cause of the Afghan Mujahideen after two important events: the brutal invasion of that country by the Soviet Union in late 1979 and his meeting with Joanne Herring, an enormously attractive anti-Communist crusader.Ĭharlie Wilson is played by Tom Hanks Joanne Herring by Julia Roberts. The movie tells the improbable story of a congressman from Texas best known for his fondness for women, whisky and maybe the occasional recreational drug. "Charlie Wilson's War" opened in theaters around the country this past weekend. ![]()
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