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Interview with John Madden, Director of "Operation Mincemeat"

World's Greatest Con

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The Story of Unsung Heroes

In a funny kind of way, what i liked about the story, and which makes it kind of modern to me in a way, is that once they've done this sort of heroic act of creating this a extraordinary thing, theyre plunged into a world where they're suddenly detached from it. I'm not saying it was necessary, true, you know, but i bet i would agree. There's no sense that their being, or able to look upon themselves as heroes, at least in our version of the story,. even though they saved some other lives, they feel kind of hollowed out by it.

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