# Seven Days At Entebbe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712 "2018-03-17T03:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/1 "2018-03-17T03:23:35Z")
Given it just opened today, I suspect it will take a couple days to get an answer. That said, several times the movie reverts to a very interesting dance scene. Anyone have any information/observations on this? BTW, its a great history lesson. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/2 "2018-03-17T04:54:58Z")
I remember back in the '70s, TWO (count 'em, TWO!) movies about the raid came out almost immediately after it happened. IIRC, one starred Richard Dreyfus as Jonathan, the other had an ensemble cast with Peter Finch and Elizabeth Taylor. The reviewer on TV said they were both bringing down the house in Israeli cinemas. I wonder how this film is going to stand up. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/3 "2018-03-17T08:33:21Z")
> [@SanDiegoTim](#): > > That said, several times the movie reverts to a very interesting dance scene. Anyone have any information/observations on this? My guess that it was supposed to be the [Batsheva Dance Company.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batsheva_Dance_Company) ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/4 "2018-03-18T05:01:39Z")
It’s not supposed to be, it was them. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/5 "2018-03-18T05:17:40Z")
The lead actor, Daniel Brühl, has been turning up everywhere lately. _The Alienist_, I just re-watched _Captain America: Civil War_, turned on _The Cloverfield Paradox_ the other day and there he was. I checked imdb and he’s been steadily working for a while. Anyone actually seen this yet? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/6 "2018-03-18T07:50:05Z")
Given the generally bad reviews, I’ll probably watch this one at home, eventually. I’d would like to see how Lior Ashkenzi (a very talented Israeli actor) does Yitzhak Rabin. ---
**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/7 "2018-03-18T14:16:02Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Given the generally bad reviews, I’ll probably watch this one at home, eventually. I’d would like to see how Lior Ashkenzi (a very talented Israeli actor) does Yitzhak Rabin. As a movie, it was not all that good. As a history lesson is was very good. Assuming it didn’t stray too far from reality, it was more a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/8 "2018-03-19T03:04:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Given the generally bad reviews, I’ll probably watch this one at home, eventually. I’d would like to see how Lior Ashkenzi (a very talented Israeli actor) does Yitzhak Rabin. I was a bit surprised by the way they portrayed his and Peres’ relationship. It implied Peres was the more militant. It actually has Rabin say to him, “If we refuse to negotiate with them[the PLO] this war will never end!” I found that a bit implausible. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/9 "2018-03-20T12:14:46Z")
this [movie review from the Jerusalem Post](http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/7-Days-in-Entebbe-545514) says that the movie distorts history , and is also a distortion of basic morality. > [@](#): > > This film is a disgrace, an affront to all Israelis and a transparent attempt to elevate the Palestinian cause high enough to pardon the hijacking of a commercial airliner. > > The movie went so far as to suggest that the Palestinian “freedom fighters”… claimed to be a nonviolent branch of the Palestinian resistance movement. > > It fosters the illusion that the experience of the Jewish hostages was not much different than that of the hijackers. This attempt to equalize the hostages and their captors is a brazen whitewashing of one of the most horrific crimes committed by the PLO, a terrorist organization. Based on that review, I won’t be watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/10 "2018-03-20T18:57:44Z")
This is the first I’ve ever heard of this. This is a film about the Raid on Entebbe, and there is a _Dance Scene?_ 😕 To paraphrase Tom Hanks: _“There’s no dancing in hostage situations!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/11 "2018-03-20T19:15:19Z")
I haven’t seen the movie, but will just share an amusing scene from the 1976 movie [Raid on Entebbe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Entebbe_(film)). James Woods plays one of the commandos picked for the raid. He gets the call to show up for his orders. He starts packing his suitcase with his clothes, Uzi, etc. Larry Gelman plays his father, who when he sees him packing asks him where he’s going, gets the response ‘Fishing.’ Dad, who obviously knows his elite commando son gets orders to all kinds of things he can’t talk about, after a slight, knowing, pregnant pause, says, “Don’t fall in.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/12 "2018-03-20T19:17:53Z")
I can’t spend seven days on a movie, you got anything that runs about ninety minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/13 "2018-03-20T19:28:51Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I can’t spend seven days on a movie,… I suggest you avoid the wedding scene in _The Deer Hunter_ then. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/14 "2018-03-20T19:54:43Z")
The review I read said the ending is horrible. I don’t know the ending, so I don’t know what the reviewer is referring to, but he seemed genuinely offended. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/15 "2018-03-20T21:17:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The review I read said the ending is horrible. I don’t know the ending, so I don’t know what the reviewer is referring to, but he seemed genuinely offended. In the actual raid, as I recall, the only casualty was Jonathan, the leader, who was sniped as the Israelis were getting away. What had been Operation THUNDERBOLT up to that point was renamed Operation JONATHAN. Also, the old woman who had been taken away to hospital (her name was Dora Bloch) was never seen again and presumably died a hideous death at the orders of Idi Amin. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/16 "2018-03-20T21:33:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In the actual raid, as I recall, > > the only casualty was Jonathan, the leader, who was sniped as the Israelis were getting away. What had been Operation THUNDERBOLT up to that point was renamed Operation JONATHAN. Also, the old woman who had been taken away to hospital (her name was Dora Bloch) was never seen again and presumably died a hideous death at the orders of Idi Amin. I’m talking about the end of the movie, not the end of the actual raid. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/17 "2018-03-20T22:09:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m talking about the end of the movie, not the end of the actual raid. They’re different? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/18 "2018-03-20T22:21:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They’re different? 😕 There’s a giant pie fight in the war room. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/19 "2018-03-20T23:03:37Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > I was a bit surprised by the way they portrayed his and Peres’ relationship. It implied Peres was the more militant. > > It actually has Rabin say to him, “If we refuse to negotiate with them[the PLO] this war will never end!” > > I found that a bit implausible. Remember, before Peres was a peacenik, he was the father of the Israeli nuclear program, not to mention one of the people behind the British-French-Israeli agreement that led to the Suez Crisis. While Rabin was the emotional, introspective career soldier, Peres was the clear-eyed idealist - which, of course, made him much more devious and merciless. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712/20 "2018-03-20T23:07:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In the actual raid, as I recall, And… Jonathan (Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu) was the older brother of current Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-days-at-entebbe/810712.md?page=2)