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View Full Version : Watched Runaway Jury again, 2003, verdict against guns = it was propaganda before 2004!




TwelveOhOne
01-19-2015, 01:26 PM
In 2004, the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was due to sunset. So, they enlisted John Cusack, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Beals, Jeremy Piven, and Rachel Weisz (whose character was named Marlee and acted a bit odd, like the Marlee character in Fight Club), among others, to make a thriller movie about suing gun manufacturers and winning.



It wasn't a direct assault (heh) on the sunset; they didn't mention that law at all. But they did use the term “assault” in reference to the handguns that were being used, and said “36-bullet clip” (which should be magazine), as well as delivering a $111 million verdict (I noticed a flaw, the radio at the end said “$110 million verdict” – that was the general damages, specific added another $1 million).



I like the ability to see through these things, which I gained from participating at the Daily Paul over the past few years. Moving forward it will hopefully not take me 12 years to see what they were intending. These days it's only taking a few days – the Charlie Hebdo office was owned by the Rothschilds, and even though people may have died, it was a theatrical production.



If I knew I worked for a business that the Rothschilds owned, I'd quit. Unfortunately, I believe their ownership is hidden in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike (a reference to the game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure) that Zork was based on).

NIU Students for Liberty
01-19-2015, 04:13 PM
Okaaaay...

timosman
03-23-2016, 11:44 PM
I think the more interesting aspect of the movie were jury consultants on both sides.

Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313542/quotes?item=qt0236061)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80vGyzA0LI

CPUd
03-24-2016, 01:00 AM
The original story was written around a decade before the film.


American Crime Story is a TV series, this season about the OJ trial, based on Jeffrey Toobin's book. So far, it has gone into quite a bit of detail about how the jury was dealt with. The episode that aired last night was about how both sides hired investigators to dig up dirt on certain jurors to get them dismissed. The alternates to replace were chosen by lottery. Both sides paid close attention to the jurors (in addition to what they learned through voir dire), so they knew which ones to target. It was actually very similar to what happened in Runaway Jury.