Midnight Express

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In the movie, Hayes is in Turkey with his girlfriend when he is arrested. But in real life, he was traveling alone. Billy Hayes. Στους τίτλους τέλους παρατήρησα ότι πρόκειται για την αληθινή ιστορία του Hayes και η ταινία βασίστηκε στο αυτοβιογραφικό βιβλίο του το οποίο για κάποιο λόγο δεν είχα διαβάσει μέχρι σήμερα 25 περίπου χρονιά αφού είδα την ταινία.

The real Billy Hayes regrets 'Midnight Express' cast all Turks in a bad light". Seattle Post Intelligencer. 2004-01-10. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05 . Retrieved 2010-05-20. There was a film, screenplay by the wonderful Oliver Stone, which brought the descriptions in the book to life and made the escape much more exciting, as films do. Countries, like people, generally like to show the world only their good side and people certainly sometimes feel shame and humiliation when their unknown, other, darker side is exposed. Turkey certainly felt that the book, and to a much greater extent the film, harmed its international reputation. I wonder if it affected the prison system of the country or they were just careful to have some new, modern, model prisons to show journalists, the UN and other concerned organisations when they come calling?I read Midnight Express years ago and I was quite taken by the graphic descriptions of his awful imprisonment and the terrible conditions existing in Turkey at that time for convicts. There are many tv shows, usually about South American or Asian countries prisons which are just as harsh as the ones in this book. It would be interesting to see statistics about the rate of recidivism from prisons with such grim conditions compared with those of the rather hard, tough ones of the US and also with the much easier ones of Europe and especially the Nordic countries. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.282. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

There is a fleeting reference to the popular restaurant The Pudding Shop, in the bazaar. It is actually on Divan Yolu, the main avenue through historic Old Istanbul. Hayes has now written the sequel books, "Midnight Return (Escaping Midnight Express)" and "The Midnight Express Letters--from a Turkish Prison, 1970-1975", a collection of the original letters written home to family and friends during his imprisonment" Quinn, Karl (March 24, 2015). "Billy Hayes: Convicted drug smuggler tells the true story behind Midnight Express". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved March 22, 2020. Festival de Cannes: Midnight Express". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-07 . Retrieved 2009-05-20. Aunque ya sepas como termina la historia (lo cuenta la sinopsis), la pregunta del ¿cómo? se mantiene durante todo el libro.Si bien yo me esperaba "más acción", por así decirle, creo que sucede todo muy rápido al final, pero eso no quiere decir que no me gustó. Theme from Midnight Express" is sampled on J Dilla's "Phantom of the Synths", which is prominently used on " Gazzillion Ear", produced by J Dilla and performed by MF Doom, released in 2005 and 2009 respectively. [40] [41] So how horrific was it? Was he beaten? What kind of penury and squalor did he encounter? Was the punishment fitting to the crime? This true story about bravado and courage of a 15 year old girl, should be a read aloud in every household! Written in simple narrative, the story is easy to understand for young readers. This is a great story to talk about character development and teach about personality traits. It also makes a great conversation starter for teaching children about all the other people who build their careers around saving lives. It really is a powerful story and another important difference....the real Billy takes responsibility for what he did and recognizes what he did was wrong....in sharp contrast to the Billy in the movie who is little more than a whiner who never really owns up to what he did or the fact that he broke the law. I sympathize with the real man much more than the one portrayed by Brad Davis.