Re: Sum Of All Fears travesty.
Movies based on books have no intention of being accurate with respect to the book. It works like this: Someone makes a bunch of stuff up and writes it down. Publisher reads it, decides it will sell, buys it, and markets it heavily. Author appears everywhere, illiciting comments like "you can really live this book with your mind's eye" and "reading it engages all your senses". Due to the mass marketing, best seller lists, etc., 20 million people by the book. They hang out in coffee houses and crowd the floors at bookstores babbling esoteric novel speak. They pay off Harpo Productions for a spot on the book club. Every bored salesman at the airport has a copy. Pubishing company makes their money back 20 fold. Movie company notices sales of book. They decide that, if for no other reason than to just enagage in discussions comparing it to the book, they can get most of the same people the publishing company hooked with some skillful movie marketing of their own. They do, and they make a bunch of money as well. They all walk down the street, arm in arm, calling each other "artists" and patting each other on the backs as they walk into the bank to deposit the billions of dollars they glean off of the general public every year...
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