One of the basic House of Dynamite messages, strategically speaking, is that this country’s “iron dome” defense system doesn’t work all that well, especially when the task is “htting a bullet with a bullet.” This has been disputed by Trump’s defense department, but nobody trusts a single word they might say, of course.
Fair question #1: “Yeah, okay, hitting a bullet with a bullet is a tough nut to crack but if you can’t lick this technological challenge, then what good are you, Jimmy Dick?”
Fair question #2: If you were screenwriter Noah Oppenheim and creating A House of Dynamite on your Macbook Pro, would your instinct be to show Chicago being melted to death and/or blown into little shards with a super-gigantic mushroom cloud reaching so many miles high that even Cary Grant‘s Roger Thornhill could see it from that Prairie Stop Highway 41 cornfield, which was….what, in southeastern Illinois or western Indiana?
Or would you figure “naaah, it’s more effective to hold back and prompt the audience to imagine the carnage instead?”
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