Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
Like 99% of the time when people say "thank god", it's just a figure of speech. They aren't literally making a religious statement. Just like when people say "Jeeez", "Oh my god!", and other similar phrases.
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I knew people were going to list off all sorts of movies like those above, but the fact is that those are both historically significant and multiple decades removed. There's also a much bigger story to tell there, this is 3 women locked up in a house for a decade, I fail to see the compelling narrative.
That was a pretty good read. It may give you an example of how the daughter might be feeling. It's a fictional book, but has a few ties to this situation.
If by Hollywood you mean a Lifetime made for TV movie, sure they are. I wouldn't expect to see some sort of major production about this though, we haven't seen anything about other similar cases. It doesn't strike me as something people would really want to sit through. Two hours of horrific experiences that are based in reality? No thanks.
I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put anything past Hollywood. The new movie Pain & Gain is the true story of a group of guys who kidnapped and tortured one man and murdered and chopped up a married couple and dumped their body parts into the Everglades. And that's being promoted as a comedy.
If by Hollywood you mean a Lifetime made for TV movie, sure they are. I wouldn't expect to see some sort of major production about this though, we haven't seen anything about other similar cases. It doesn't strike me as something people would really want to sit through. Two hours of horrific experiences that are based in reality? No thanks.
I don't necessarily disagree but tragedy (or any type of movie) based on an unknown individual(s) experiences are made all the time. "Based on a true story" can be a huge selling point in movies.
Alpha Dog (very similar in nature)
All Good Things
127 Hours
Into the Wild
Blow
Philadelphia
Pursuit of Happyness
I hope you're right, but I wouldn't put anything past Hollywood. The new movie Pain & Gain is the true story of a group of guys who kidnapped and tortured one man and murdered and chopped up a married couple and dumped their body parts into the Everglades. And that's being promoted as a comedy.
I didn't even know about that true story, and I imagine that's the case with the vast majority of people. That's certainly not the case here.
The fact remains that there have been very similar stories in the recent past, and we haven't seen anything beyond Lifetime movies based on those. I don't see how this story changes that.
I knew people were going to list off all sorts of movies like those above, but the fact is that those are both historically significant and multiple decades removed. There's also a much bigger story to tell there, this is 3 women locked up in a house for a decade, I fail to see the compelling narrative.
Easy, I was just poking the bear...
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That was a pretty good read. It may give you an example of how the daughter might be feeling. It's a fictional book, but has a few ties to this situation.
Room is one of those books that is both excellent and chillingly horrific. It is one of the few books I've read that continues to haunt me.
More backstory coming out against this guy from court docs. This part I found quite....interesting
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Castro, to frighten his wife, kept a mannequin wearing a dark wig propped up against a wall and sometimes drove around the neighbourhood with it, relatives said.
"He threatened me lots of times with it," said Angel Caraballo, Castro's nephew, who used to play with his cousins at the house where the kidnapped women were found. "He would say, `Act up again, you'll be in that back room with the mannequin."'
One day, Figueroa was returning home with her arms full of groceries when Castro jumped into the doorway with the mannequin, frightening her so badly that she fell backward and smashed her head on the pavement, Elida Caraballo said.
She had known her "daddy" as a "friendly, caring, doting man."
"I wonder this whole time, how he could be so good to us, but he (allegedly) took young women, little girls, someone else's babies, away from these families and over the years never felt enough guilt to just give up and let them free."
The contradiction though, is she was fully aware of her "friendly, caring, doting" father viciously and repeatedly beating her mother . . . .
The interview and also her description of her many visits to the house while the victims were there:
"Man If I would have known that, I would be facing triple life"
A radio station in Toronto had him on the other day and he said that he likes the attention he is getting but he had hoped there would be more phone calls from females offering oral sex parties.
It's kind of funny, but considering the case here, probably a little over the line.
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"A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can."
She had known her "daddy" as a "friendly, caring, doting man."
"I wonder this whole time, how he could be so good to us, but he (allegedly) took young women, little girls, someone else's babies, away from these families and over the years never felt enough guilt to just give up and let them free."
The contradiction though, is she was fully aware of her "friendly, caring, doting" father viciously and repeatedly beating her mother . . . .
The interview and also her description of her many visits to the house while the victims were there:
