Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen 181
Hugh Pickens writes "First Facebook and now Wikileaks as the Guardian reports that studio executives have picked up the screen rights to the forthcoming Julian Assange biography 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange's life from his childhood on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia, all the way through to his founding of the whistleblower website in 2006 to publish classified material. Producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm, who have optioned The Most Dangerous Man in the World, say they are planning a 'suspenseful drama' in the vein of All the President's Men and with the thrill of a Tom Clancy novel. 'As soon as I met Andrew and read a few chapters of his profound book, I knew that – with his incredibly extensive depth of knowledge – it would enable us to bring a thought-provoking thriller to the screen,' says Krumm."
I hope the script gets leaked (Score:5, Interesting)
The contracts get leaked.
An audio recording of one of the actors being a little bitch gets leaked.
And the icing on the cake would be the film being leaked.
Yet I still think WikiLeaks rules!!!
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In other words, it will be available from torrents before the movie premiere. And how is that different from the way it usually is?
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Interesting.
I'm sure that this movie will have just about as much to do with real life as any "made for TV movie [snpp.com]" ever has.
Of course, after the way Wikileaks shifted from simply releasing data, to massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video), they basically have no credibility left anyways.
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massively editorializing and chopping things up to suit their own slant (especially that horribly butchered video)
Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
Sheeple.
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Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
Let me guess.... "collateral murder" [weeklystandard.com]?
The "civilians" were armed insurgents, apparently associated with running firefights and rocket attacks through the night. They were also probably in violation of curfew [washingtonpost.com], which would once again make them targets. (You noticed how empty the streets were, right?)
The children should have been left behind by the i
Insightful? (Score:3)
That's neocon propaganda. That's not insightful.
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Butchered? Civilians, children and reporters butchered with hollow point bullets, you're fine with that. Showing the world it's happening, you call that butchery.
Let me guess.... "collateral murder" [weeklystandard.com]?
The "civilians" were armed insurgents, apparently associated with running firefights and rocket attacks through the night. They were also probably in violation of curfew [washingtonpost.com], which would once again make them targets. (You noticed how empty the streets were, right?)
The children should have been left behind by the insurgents attempting to rescue their comrades.
No: Innocent bystanders and journalists. You don't get to just label anyone "insurgent" to justify shooting them.
That car was there because he was bringing the children home from school, he saw people who were injured and stopped to help them, and he and the children were shot. By cowards hiding faraway, shooting armor-piercing explosive shells [wikimedia.org].
Yeah, those are forbidden to use against people, making this a clear war crime.
Dambed (Score:2)
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.
Wikileaks can't win. If they release unedited source materials they get attacked, if they work with the major newspapers to edit the releases they get attacked. Not even honest attacks, the big ones lately have been easy to disprove but they continued to be promoted. The whole point of the military plot to undermine Wikileaks was to remove their credibility and likability; which they are doing whether or not their hands are directly involved in the things going on.
Wiki
Re:I hope the script gets leaked (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, that butchered video they released at the exact same time as they released the full, unedited, uncut video really ruined their reputation by making them suddenly world famous instead of an obscure site that only nerds like us knew anything about. Get a grip.
Re:I hope the script gets leaked (Score:4, Funny)
The real question is: Who's going to play Julian Assange's hair?!
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Wouldn't see the harm from that, or the benefit really.
I've read scripts before. They're generally dreadfully boring to read and in no way a replacement for watching the movie, with a few exceptions. In the exceptional cases they're interesting but only after watching the movie.
For the contracts and audio recording, who gives a damn? And the film will definitely get torrented one way or another.
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Did Wikileaks leak that?
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1984
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_Mac_Computer_invented
.... and then again in 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/steve-jobs-dead-how-the-m_n_155639.html [huffingtonpost.com] http://www.spooftimes.com/NewsDetail.aspx?articleId=7836cb01-1471-4590-aab4-7c562261bc2e&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 [spooftimes.com]
and then again yesterday.
When he comes...all Hell breaks loose (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably it's a 're-imagining' of this:
http://www.astrodispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10/9725f_warlock-the-armageddon-205x300.jpg [astrodispatch.com]
astounding ! (Score:4, Insightful)
And you guys thought Julian had a big ego before - honestly, the only way I'd ever waste a dime on this movie would be if Jim Carey played the lead role, and they did it as a comedy
so ? (Score:3, Insightful)
or, you though that all the prominent historical figures that have provided anything of value to the society took after mother theresa
are you sure that, its not someone else's ego, but your own, getting irritated with someone else's ?
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Yeah, but celebrate their breakthroughs and changes, not the person. They should make a movie on the leaks themselves, not some inspirational film about J's life.
Re:so ? (Score:4, Insightful)
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revolutionary - A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavour.
So not only is Assange a revolutionary person, he allowed other revolutionary people (who possibly wouldn't have been courageous enough to do it without him) when he started wikileaks...which is also revolutionary.
he isnt is it. (Score:2)
Except for the fact that Assange isn't some great revolutionary.
at their time, a lot of the revolutionaries were being dubbed with adjectives which wouldnt even compare to this 'ego' business. not to mention that, a minority of them were considered revolutionaries until a few centuries later, when history was written.
moreover, the 'real revolutionaries' are the ones which leaked those videos, right. then answer me, why there were no such real revolutionaries, up till wikileaks, until someone provided those revolutionaries with the means to be a revolutionary ?
In the "land of heroes" some miss the point (Score:2)
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth (Score:2, Interesting)
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act
George Orwell
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That's like saying, it wasn't Lenin that was the great revolutionary, it was all the little Bolshevik soldiers and members who rose up and struck down Kerensky's provisional government.
Yes, those people who did the actual leaks are significant figures, but you need someone to start it. That's what Assange did - he created a medium to release leaks, encouraged more and more whistleblowers and released in the information in a way to gain maximum publicity and exposure. There's a level of leadership involved i
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I'm glad you see this. Sadly the U.S. government doesn't, or do but not admit it. They would rather use him as a scapegoat.
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Thanks for making a totalitarian rule that much easier, wikileaks?
no, thank to you, the fool, for making totalitarian rule real behind a 'free' storefront, with your 'let the sleeping lords lie' mindset. thinking that if there wasnt wikileaks, the sources which are trying to censor and repress were not going to do it. they started it in 2002, the acta proceedings. they brought the 2006 anti-net neutrality attack, they brought coica long ago.
yet, morons like you still trying to blame wikileaks for censorship. boy. its easy when you pay zero attention to what's happening
yes (Score:2)
ah also
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1910704&cid=34556662 [slashdot.org]
maybe this is the reason ?
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Unlike The WL, that site isn't in the entertainment biz.
so (Score:2)
Assange'e ego (Score:5, Insightful)
I have heard a lot of people say that Assange has a big ego, is a narcissist etc. But when I actually listen to him speak he strikes me as a level headed guy.
Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
Re:Assange'e ego (Score:5, Insightful)
Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
That's the press talking. If he doesn't grant an interview, they get all pissed off and start making shit up to try to make him come out and deny, or whatever. Old trick.
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He won't play their game. Not playing the game is bad, mkay.
Re:Assange'e ego (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't listen to what he says (or how he says it). Watch what he does (and doesn't do). Note the number of former associates/co-workers who've shared his stated purpose but found themselves highly annoyed by his condescending behavior towards them. Note his comments about how the papers he's giving the stolen documents to have to release them according to his plans, because "he owns them." He's all about him.
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But when I actually listen to him speak he strikes me as a level headed guy. Don't listen to what he says (or how he says it). Watch what he does (and doesn't do). Note the number of former associates/co-workers who've shared his stated purpose but found themselves highly annoyed by his condescending behavior towards them. Note his comments about how the papers he's giving the stolen documents to have to release them according to his plans, because "he owns them." He's all about him.
[citations needed]
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein
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I have heard a lot of people say that Assange has a big ego, is a narcissist etc. But when I actually listen to him speak he strikes me as a level headed guy.
Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
From the picture that emerges in the media, Assange is generally good before a camera (not always [dailymail.co.uk]), and can charm people. However, people who know him, even his friends, generally recognize that he can be dismissive, abrasive, and is encumbered with an ego at least equal to his substantial programming talen
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Yes, he's very level headed.
"Killing people is fun." -Julian Assange
"You see where we are? On the floor, in our own urine." - Timothy Dalton
My quote is about as in-context as yours.
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He actually didn't until they came up with some false charges in order to take the attention off of what is really going on in the world government.
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What's his ego got to do with the movie? One's huge ego doesn't automatically result in a movie getting made, you know.
If it does, I'm still waiting for mine!
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This is not his book. Notice the lack of 'auto' in front of biography? This is by some Aussie hack, Assange has nothing to do with either the book or movie apart from being the subject.
Wow... (Score:2, Interesting)
If his ego gets any bigger, his head will burst out of any cell they try to put him in.
Stainless Steel Head Cage (Score:2)
If his ego gets any bigger, his head will burst out of any cell they try to put him in.
He wears one of THESE [handcuffwarehouse.com] to prevent his head from separating from his body and floating away... But seriously, I hope the rape allegation finds a quick conclusion so we can regain some focus on the leaks rather than the leaker...
Let's try this a different way (Score:2)
Now do you get how utterly stupid and pointless that argument is?
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If his ego gets any bigger
A producer made a deal with a writer, you parse that as "the subject the author chose has a big ego".
Damn, people suck.
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We already knew that fact. This is just more proof for the giant pile.
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We already knew that fact. This is just more proof for the giant pile.
This isn't proof of anything you dumb sheep! HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, you idiot.
The Onion (Score:2)
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Now that's a movie I would watch !
Cash-in movies... (Score:2)
Watching cash-in movies always makes you feel like a dirty whore.
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Watching cash-in movies always makes you feel like a dirty whore.
That's the closest most slashdotters will ever come to feeling like they've had sex.
Are Wikileaks actually making anything? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Reminds me of Spaceballs... (Score:2)
I'm surprised at how quickly movies about people's lives and current events make it to the big screen. Biographies out when a person is only 25...soon they will start releasing movies before they're even done...reminds me of Spaceballs.
[Watching "Spaceballs: The Movie". They reach "now" in the movie.]
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colone
License to Leak (Score:5, Funny)
'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' ?
"My name is Assange. Julian Assange. I have a license to leak."
In the film he gets not one, but two Bond, oh, I mean two Assange girls. But then they accuse him of rape, and the film's plot goes downhill from there.
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Wasn't "leaking" part of the problem with said Assange girls ?
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Wasn't "leaking" part of the problem with said Assange girls ?
Wish I had to points to mod this funny. It's still ludicrous that consensual sex without a condom is considered rape in some countries. The rest of the world considers rape to be non-consensual sex (statutory rape is due to the believe that some people are incapable of consenting)
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Except the title is already used for a documentary on The Pentagon Papers [mostdangerousman.org].
It's a very dry documentary* but very interesting. Very scary how it parallels what is happening now. Except it happened in a time when the papers stood up to the federal government.
*Compared to other stuff like: Food Inc, The Union, Super Size Me, Beer Wars, The Smartest Guys in the Room, etc
This is the movie we should have had last year... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Well, do you really want to be in a list with Hitler, Stalin, Nixon, Kissinger, Khomeini, Bush and Putin?
There are certain "honors" I can well do without.
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Well, do you really want to be in a list with Hitler, Stalin, Nixon, Kissinger, Khomeini, Bush and Putin?
There are other figures on the list who are also Nobel Peace Prize Recipients - Gandhi, MLK, Carter, and Lech Wasa, to name a few.
There are certain "honors" I can well do without.
Well, regardless, you have already been selected [wikipedia.org].
That said, the award is supposed to be for the most influential person of the year, good or bad. However I cannot think of anything of merit that facebook boy has influenced. For pretty well each individual person on the list, good or bad, I can think of at least one important event that happened directly as a result of a ch
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Of course, Kissinger is also a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, so the GP might not want to be in that group, either.
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the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year" in spite of the fact that Julian Assange had 10 times the number of votes.
Meh, *I* was person of the year before that.
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the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year" in spite of the fact that Julian Assange had 10 times the number of votes.
Meh, *I* was person of the year before that.
Really? You're Ben Bernanke? [wikipedia.org] Because I know I won it back in 2006 [wikipedia.org] - but I'm generous enough to share it...
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I still can't believe they made that movie. When I saw previews for it, I was 100% positive it was a joke, one of those "generic dramatic trailer" parodies about a mundane and unexciting subject. When I saw comments along the lines of "I can't wait to see this movie!", I laughed at them for not getting the joke.
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Instead of a movie about a wealthy kid making absurd amounts of money by selling snake oil. I love that the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year"
The "person of the year" is simply the one judged to have had the most influence on the world in that year; it doesn't mean the influence has to be positive.
Which only further supports the assertion that facebook boy was the wrong choice for person of the year. The person of the year should be someone who influenced some important event - there are several things of significance that have happened as a result of wikileaks and Julian Assange. Yet not a single event of any importance came out of facebook boy and his product that would not have occurred anyways.
Ugh. (Score:2)
I really hope this film is fact-based and honest, but I have a feeling its just going to be Hollywood climbing onto his dick for 2 hours.
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Offtopic:
That jew suckerberg... ALL MY HATE... Him and his little "Facebook" script can suck my cock.
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You have to understand, giving away valuable things away for free is communism, while selling junk for good money is capitalism.
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Well Played!
bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
Whatever happened to waiting until the story is over to tell the tale? History used to be written by the winners, not by the ones vested in getting their opinion turned into the "correct" one.
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Whatever happened to waiting until the story is over to tell the tale? History used to be written by the winners, not by the ones vested in getting their opinion turned into the "correct" one.
I already posted so I cant mod this up, but this is a excellent point. Its pretty clear that the filmmakers already know which side of the issue they're going to present, regardless of what happens in the long term. Hopefully at some point a filmmaker will really get embarrassed by reality and they will take a more cautious approach in the future.
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Whatever happened to waiting until the story is over to tell the tale?
When exactly is it "over"? This is a story that will live much longer than Julian Assange. The movie, however, is about him.
History used to be written by the winners...
Who said anything about writing history? It's just a movie.
Movies can be about many things. This one is about the life of Assange up to the creation of WikiLeaks. You can bet there will be others later on.
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My bad, next time when I write something sarcastic (but nonetheless true), I'll do it with my hand raised like Ellen Degeneres taught. The point being, nearly everything you read about in your history books is written with bias to it. If the Germans had won world war 2, I'm sure you would be prattling on about the evil British and American corporatist schemers and how they were enslaving the world. The difference here is, who is the winner? We're only just begun with the good stuff and there's that insuranc
Colin Mochrie as Julian Assange! (Score:2)
Eerie physical similarities...
The script ... (Score:5, Funny)
"forthcoming Julian Assange biography" (Score:2)
Bom chiga bow wa chiga bom wow!
But Assange isn't in it for the money (Score:2)
trust him.
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Why do you think that he's condemning the movie? Seems to me that Mr. Transparency wouldn't have a problem with a movie being made about him, even if he wasn't getting any $$$ from it.
child leaker (Score:2)
"The book details Assange's life from his childhood on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia,"
Hey class-mates here's a copy of tomorrow's test!
Tobermory Effect (Score:3)
If they do not feature the tech behind it (Score:2)
They should also feature this guy http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-most-dangerous-man-in-cyberspace-20100818 [rollingstone.com] in it; otherwise without the tech, it's only half the story.
If you ever read one article this year, this should be it. (Apologies to /.)
Pussy magnet (Score:2)
If you thought he got a lot of pussy now, just wait until he's on the silver screen, running from the Department of Defense like Harrison Ford in Patriot Games; chasing leads and evading trained killers like Liam Neeson in Taken; his loose hair moving around his face like Johnny Depp!
Typical factual inaccuracy : (Score:2)
The site was set up to publish confidential and/ or suppressed material. Most people equate "classified" with "government or military secret". While I'm sure there was an expectation that such material would become available, the target was (and is) much broader than just governments and military.
Remember the first big news concerning Wikileaks? The attempt by a Swiss bank to bring it down for publicising the bank's illegal and/ or immora
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Exactly like the facebook movie....
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you mean the one that is a sure fire certainty to get more than a few Oscars?
Yeah Right.
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Yep, that's the piece of garbage I'm referring to.
Re:Julian Assange (Score:5, Funny)
Can't wait for the sex-scene!
Screenplay writing software? (Score:2)
Can't wait for the sex-scene!
Does the screenplay software [theonion.com] help or hurt those?
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You're like the diametric opposite of those people who read Playboy for the articles.
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I imagine it'll be a real surprise.
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It's Hollywood we're talking about. Who wants to bet that they'll BOTH be portrayed as the villains?
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openness and transparency and truth, are GOOD things (tm). so far, these were only brought to us by wikileaks.
all else does not matter. he can be someone who likes to wipe his ass with golden toilet paper, i dont care. what i need is, openness, transparency, and truth, DESPITE and IN LIEU OF the corporate propaganda machine that is trying to suppress them.
kapisch ? kapischero ? kapischomento ?
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But the mainstream American media, hiding behind its mantle of "neutrality", was much more informative about the US justification for the war in Iraq, as well as our continued presence in Afghanistan.
One word (Score:2)
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Oh that's right, they WANT us to think they are incompetent because they secretly want their funding to be cut.
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Is what beer he prefers, when he does drink beer.
Voiceover: He's Julian Asange, the most dangerous man in the world.
[Pull in to frame up Assange sitting in a dimly lit booth between two beautiful, yet angry women.]
[Half a box of expired condoms is slightly out of focus in the foreground]
Assange: I don't always drink beer; Hovever, when I do, I drink Arrogant Bastard Ale. [beeradvocate.com]
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This is completley different to the rap/news thing. This movie and book is not the one Assange is going to write but an unauthorised biography from some bloke in Australia. Your regrets are misplaced.