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“Official Secrets” Movie Quotes 2019
Official Secrets, a British drama film that premieres in 2019, is about Katharine Gun. Gun was a whistleblower who revealed a memo detailing an illegal spying operation by the United States and British intelligence services. This memo was used to gauge sentiment and possibly blackmail United Nations diplomats assigned to vote on a resolution relating to the 2003 invasion. Gavin Hood directed the film, while Keira Knightley plays gun. Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, and Matt Smith star in the movie.
This is the true story of a British whistleblower who revealed information about an illegal NSA spy operation to pressure the UN Security Council to sanction the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Summary of Official Secrets Plot
Katharine Gun, the GCHQ analyst, receives a memo from the United States detailing a joint operation by the United States and Britain to spy on diplomats of several member states’ non-permanent United Nations Security Council countries Cameroon (Chile, Bulgaria, Bulgaria, and Guinea. This was done to “dig dirt” and influence the Security Council to approve a resolution supporting an invasion. Katharine, furious that the United Kingdom is being led to war under pretenses, leaks the memo from Katharine to a friend in the anti-war movement. She then passes it on to Yvonne Ridley (The Observer journalist Martin Bright).
Official Secrets Movie actors
Rhys Ifans, Adam Bakri, Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode,Ralph Fiennes, Conleth Hill, Indira Varma, Jeremy Northam, John Heffernan, Monica Dolan, Tamsin Greig, Niccy Lin, Jack Farthing, Gabrielle Downey, Fiona Skinner, MyAnna Buring, Lindy Whiteford, Ray Panthaki, Janie Dee, Hattie Morahan, Will Barton, Katherine Kelly, Raad Rawi, Clive Francis, Martin Bright, Vanessa Thorpe, Hanako Footman, Shaun Dooley, Sophie Duval, Stuart Ramsay, Peter Guinness, Chris Reilly, Jodie McNee, David Maybrick, Simon Rogers, Raquel Cassidy, Corinna Wilson, Brett Allen, Chris Larkin, Patrick Moy, Vinta Morgan, Jessica Fostekew, Michael James, Kenneth Cranham, Angus Wright, Manoj Anand, Rodrig Andrisan, Raj Awasti, Antony Barlow, Paul Blackwell, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Lee Byford, Shafi Choudhury, Rene Costa, Grant Crookes, Darrell D’Silva, Adam Darlington, Gary Davies, Mark Anthony Dawson, Ari Fleischer, Anthony G Hamer, Jane Hamer, Tony Holness, Daniel Hopkins, Mark Hugh-Williams, Joanne James, Jess Kaur, Craig Thomas Lambert, Lora Moss, Colin Murtagh, Colin Powell, Mark Preston, Paul Redfern, Jatinder Rehal, Nig Richards, John Alan Roberts, Bianca Rudman, Frank Saul, Mansoor Shah, Atul Sharma, Dave Simon, Nicola Simonds, Kieran Thomas, Tim Walker, Martin Webbe, Jo Wheatley, Tim Wildman, John James Woodward,Anneliese Orr, T. Mark Owens, Tina Louise Owens, Shayast Panezai, Mark Phillips
“Official Secrets” Movie Quotes
“Governments change. I work for the British people. I gather intelligence so that the government can protect the British people. I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people.”
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY – Katharine Gun
“I have also always believed that censorship when called for should be based on security issues alone not on whether a news report might embarrass a government.”
CLIVE FRANCIS – Rear-Admiral Nick Wilkinson
“Following orders is not a defense to a war crime.”
RALPH FIENNES – Ben Emmerson
“- Tony Blair: [on TV] What we know, is that Saddam has this material.
– Katharine Gun: You don’t know that. I mean, he just keeps repeating the lie. Just because you’re the Prime Minister, it doesn’t mean you get to make up your own facts.”
TONY BLAIR – Himself
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY – Katharine Gun
“- Ben Emmerson: Why did you keep her in a state of distress for a year before you brought charges?
– Ken Macdonald: The services wanted to make an example of her. If we’d dropped the case any earlier, what kind of messages would that have sent?
– Ben Emmerson: Do me a favour, Ken. Go and fish somewhere else.”
RALPH FIENNES – Ben Emmerson
JEREMY NORTHAM – Ken Macdonald
