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« on: 04/20/01 at 08:07 AM » |
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Don't think this has been done before in this fashion.
What guides fiction or non-fiction shall you use to improve your role as Dictator of Tropico?
One of my personal favorites is "Moon Over Parador". See it, you gotta.
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« Reply #1 on: 04/20/01 at 08:13 AM » |
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isn't that the movie with raoul julia ( spl?) and that guy from jaws/close encounters ( can never remember his name )
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« Reply #2 on: 04/20/01 at 08:17 AM » |
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Richard Dreyfuss. Aye, thats the one.
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« Reply #3 on: 04/20/01 at 08:36 AM » |
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I want to be that type of dictator
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« Reply #4 on: 04/20/01 at 08:53 AM » |
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One of our very old threads thought of a few good places/books to check out in http://www.cafetropico.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=tropico&action=display&num=90
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« Reply #5 on: 04/20/01 at 09:50 AM » |
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Thanks. I just ordered Coup D'etat. Looks like its going to be interesting to add to my library.
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« Reply #6 on: 04/20/01 at 01:10 PM » |
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Let me give you and anyone else interested in the book Coup D'etat a teaser. This is what was posted, as reported previously at Tropico Paradise, by one person who bought the book at Amazon. Do you ever feel the urge to take over a small country and do horrible things to its downtrodden inhabitants? If so then this could be the book for you. Coup d'etat excells as a step by step guide through the intricacies of recruiting conspirators, neutralising security forces and keeping loyal members of the military at arms length. You have identified a suitable target country, recruited some cronies and overthrown the government. What now? Never fear! there is even an appendix discussing the 'economics of repression' to help determine the optimum balance between propaganda and hypertaxation. Simply brilliant |
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« Reply #7 on: 04/21/01 at 08:36 PM » |
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look at cuba's history. that will give u plenty of information.
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« Reply #8 on: 04/22/01 at 06:59 AM » |
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Moon Over Parador is a great movie! One I also recommend if you haven't seen it! Another movie you may want to consider (you may have a hard time finding it) is the movie Water. I don't remember the cast but I'm certain that Brenda Vacarro is in it. It's all about an uprising on a small Caribbean Island and I found it very interesting, although I saw it many years ago! 
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« Reply #9 on: 04/22/01 at 07:57 AM » |
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search for info about the dictators on a search engine. i recommend www.altavista.com |
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« Reply #10 on: 04/22/01 at 08:21 AM » |
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Thirteen Days by Robert Kennedy.
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« Reply #11 on: 04/22/01 at 10:01 AM » |
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As a central american freak I recommend the following pictures: "Salvador" (anyone suprised?  ). Ok portrait of El Salvador in the years 1979-81 with James Woods and James Belushi in the cast. Tells the story of how the war begun. Not much background, but still a good film. "Hija del Puma" ("the Puma's daugther"). A film about the Guatemalan internal war. Actually made by a Swedish director. No, not Ingmar Bergman.  The film was shot in Mexico with mostly guatemalans in the cast. My two cents... |
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« Reply #12 on: 04/22/01 at 11:22 AM » |
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Cuba hmm maybe ... but the country that knows most about setting up dictatorships is the USA. So i stick with us-american history ... domestic and forgein  |
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« Reply #13 on: 04/22/01 at 01:15 PM » |
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Cuba hmm maybe ... but the country that knows most about setting up dictatorships is the USA. So i stick with us-american history ... domestic and forgein Yep, I can't wait to play as Billy Boy Clinton. |
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« Reply #14 on: 04/22/01 at 01:24 PM » |
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Thirteen Days is now a movie
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« Reply #15 on: 04/22/01 at 02:35 PM » |
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yea, i saw it. the one with the crisis....
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« Reply #16 on: 04/22/01 at 02:38 PM » |
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is it good
it looks good
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« Reply #17 on: 04/22/01 at 02:46 PM » |
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I saw it; I thought it was wonderful although I can't believe that after all these years Kevin Costner still considers himself an actor. As someone who grew up in the end of the Cold War it really provoked a lot of "what if" scenarios in my head and made me think that we really are blessed the way things have turned out the last few decades.
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« Reply #18 on: 04/23/01 at 01:16 PM » |
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There was another film, made in the 1980's I think, with Gene Hackman as a reporter who scoops the latest civil wars.
He initially starts off in Africa, but soon into the film flies over to Nicaragua, to report on the revolution of 1979, when the Somoza's were ousted by the Sandanista's.
Quite what the film was called escapes me for the moment. <Tut!>, but maybe someone else can recall it....
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