He meets Nizar, a member prepared to offer information in return for asylum in America. "a member" of what?
Hoffman, his superior in Washington, whom The New Yorker interpreted as "an American consumer of advanced technology and vast amounts of food", detached at home in Washington, D.C., and at the
CIA in Virginia, is more
machiavellian: he authorizes deceit, double-crossing and violence by telephone and without scruple. This sentence is over-long and convoluted. Break down and simplify.
''By contrast, the Americans use sophisticated communication (Hoffman and Ferris speak regularly on the phone) The phone sophisticated?
I see your point here, but when you think about it one is at home at dawn in America, and the other is in the middle of dusty gun-fights in the middle east, and they can speak clearly to each other instantaneously. In terms of history, this is quite advanced. The point is clearly made in the film and picked up on my reviewers. I'll try and re-word.--
Ktlynch (
talk)
16:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)reply
The shoot lasted sixty-five days, from September to December 2007, and was filmed in the United States and Morocco, in which scenes set in ten different countries were filmed. Clumsy, please rephrase.
He meets Nizar, a member prepared to offer information in return for asylum in America. "a member" of what?
Hoffman, his superior in Washington, whom The New Yorker interpreted as "an American consumer of advanced technology and vast amounts of food", detached at home in Washington, D.C., and at the
CIA in Virginia, is more
machiavellian: he authorizes deceit, double-crossing and violence by telephone and without scruple. This sentence is over-long and convoluted. Break down and simplify.
''By contrast, the Americans use sophisticated communication (Hoffman and Ferris speak regularly on the phone) The phone sophisticated?
I see your point here, but when you think about it one is at home at dawn in America, and the other is in the middle of dusty gun-fights in the middle east, and they can speak clearly to each other instantaneously. In terms of history, this is quite advanced. The point is clearly made in the film and picked up on my reviewers. I'll try and re-word.--
Ktlynch (
talk)
16:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC)reply
The shoot lasted sixty-five days, from September to December 2007, and was filmed in the United States and Morocco, in which scenes set in ten different countries were filmed. Clumsy, please rephrase.