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The day of the jackal
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No it is NOT!.
The Frederick Forsyth novel is based on his research into the supposedly true hiring by the OAS (the extreme group of French army officers who wanted De Gaulle dead because of his 'treachery' in giving Algeria independence) in 1962-1963 of a professional hitman (believed to be English) to kill De Gaulle, after several OAS attempts had failed...
The Carlos the Jackal connection only comes from the name 'The Jackal' that the British press gave him in 1975 after he fled Paris after brutally killing French police who had come to arrest him. Supposedly because he had a copy of the novel in his French flat. Which wasnt true.
Carlos the terrorist is named after the character in the book. And wasnt until well after both novel and film had been released!. Four years and two years to be exact!.
Carlos the Jackal did not start his terrorism until 1973 when he committed the attempted killing of Joseph Sieff, the Jewish pro-Israeli chairman of M&S, in his own home (Sieff survived). Carlos was a weird one: a Marxist South American who committed terrorism in support of Arab/Palestinian terror groups opposed to Israel.
The 1971 novel and the subsequent 1973 film have nothing to with Carlos The Jackal or Ilich Ramirez Sanchez as he was still known at that point...
And the dreadful 1997 remake has nothing to do with Sanchez/Carlos either.
The Frederick Forsyth novel is based on his research into the supposedly true hiring by the OAS (the extreme group of French army officers who wanted De Gaulle dead because of his 'treachery' in giving Algeria independence) in 1962-1963 of a professional hitman (believed to be English) to kill De Gaulle, after several OAS attempts had failed...
The Carlos the Jackal connection only comes from the name 'The Jackal' that the British press gave him in 1975 after he fled Paris after brutally killing French police who had come to arrest him. Supposedly because he had a copy of the novel in his French flat. Which wasnt true.
Carlos the terrorist is named after the character in the book. And wasnt until well after both novel and film had been released!. Four years and two years to be exact!.
Carlos the Jackal did not start his terrorism until 1973 when he committed the attempted killing of Joseph Sieff, the Jewish pro-Israeli chairman of M&S, in his own home (Sieff survived). Carlos was a weird one: a Marxist South American who committed terrorism in support of Arab/Palestinian terror groups opposed to Israel.
The 1971 novel and the subsequent 1973 film have nothing to with Carlos The Jackal or Ilich Ramirez Sanchez as he was still known at that point...
And the dreadful 1997 remake has nothing to do with Sanchez/Carlos either.
Khristine B
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Interesting post there, ayrshireman. Has an actual movie ever been made about Carlos? I for one would be interested in seeing it.
Sort of.
A 1997 film called The Assignment with Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley, about how the CIA trained an agent to impersonate and 'take out' Carlos the Jackal.
Complete fiction, and actually quite annoying if you know the Jackal story, as the film seems so insistent on stating the film as real. Another US rewriting of history I'm afraid. French agents of course in real life tracked down and arrested Carlos in 1994.
Still , its a good film, just watch it as a bit of fiction.
A 1997 film called The Assignment with Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley, about how the CIA trained an agent to impersonate and 'take out' Carlos the Jackal.
Complete fiction, and actually quite annoying if you know the Jackal story, as the film seems so insistent on stating the film as real. Another US rewriting of history I'm afraid. French agents of course in real life tracked down and arrested Carlos in 1994.
Still , its a good film, just watch it as a bit of fiction.
ShowxNoxFear
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Ok cheers Bud.
Ok cheers Bud.