Posted on 08/31/2007 6:45:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf
I will NEVER go see another Brian DePalma film EVER.
You bastard, WAR is SUPPOSED to be HELL. Freaking bleeding liberal IDIOT! Its no DETERRENT if it ISN’T!
Burn in your own private hell DePalma.
Who financed this piece of crap anyway??? I will boycott them as well.
Oh thats right, silly me, Al Qaeda and Iran. D’uh
A fictionalized account of a single bad incident involving US troops is worth a Hollywood epic, but routine daily acts of murder by al-Qaeda thugs in Iraq elicit nothing, except for the occasional snide comment that it’s our fault they’re doing it. Treasonous bastards, all.
For De Palma’s statement to be true, that would have to mean the horrific events he describes in his film are pervasive and typical of American operations in the area. That is the meaning of his quote ‘the reality of what is happening.’ If De Palma’s film is not only not entirely accurate, but equally, not pervasive and typical, then De Palma may be telling us (more or less) about an event that happened in Iraq, but he is not telling us ‘the reality of what is happening’ in Iraq.
In other words, De Palma is not a storyteller; he is a propagandist (in plain English, a damned liar). He ought to be awarded a Goebbels. His film is the very personification of one of the basic techniques (two actually) of The Art of Propaganda:
Select the few facts that support your case; discard the others, or simply indulge in a brazen reversal of their contents. Distort the facts that don’t quite fit without some creative reshaping. From that base add inference and conjecture. And, follow the techniques of the BIG LIE to drive the point home.
De Palma’s film is a exquisite example of how to lie by telling ‘the truth’ (more or less), and it is a repetition of how we were feed the lies that brought us down in Vietnam.
Maybe De Palma and Craig can hook up and do to each other in an Airport bathroom what De Palma is trying to do to the American Troops in Iraq.
elpadre wrote:
His wife, from a village in western Russia, told of how her family, knowing full well what kind of discrimination they endured, cried. weeped and wailed when they heard she was going to the US. They just knew she would be raped and murdered here. Why? Because all they knew of the US were Hollywood movies and only the most violent were allowed to be shown in Russia
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In 1998 opened a surgery clinic in a large South American city.
It seemed like every weekend my wife and I were invited to a fiesta at someone’s house.
I met a Chief Civil Judge and his wife from another large city at one of these gatherings.
After introductions, we began to discuss life in the United States as compared to his country.
His wife’s first question to me was “how do Americans treat dark skinned people”.
I asked her why and she said, “I watched the movie Mississippi Burning and it left a bitter taste for the American way of life”.
This woman’s daughter met and married an American working for an oil company.
He was transferred back to Houston in 2001.
I went to the going away party and it was as you stated.
Nothing but tears as the family was terrified for the daughter’s safety.
We Americans, when we went to discount movie night on Tuesday at the local theater, understood that there is very little truth to most movies but the locals did not see it that way.
It was irritating for me having to defend my country because of the crap that spews out of Hollywood.
Most of the news streamed to many countries by CNN International and others is anti-American 24/7.
The coverage of 9/11 by CNN International was atrocious.
So many of us in the American Chamber of Commerce went to the cable provider and had them drop CNNI and change to Fox News.
cultural jihad bump
what you experienced and the story told to me, I believe, describes well the problem we have of image throughout the world. And GW did not do it!!!
I guess the hack ran out of Hitchcock films to ripoff.
Osama thanks you for your efforts, Brian. And he promises to behead you last.
Where is the film about the atrocity in Cheshire Ct?
Two felons on parole follow home the wife of a doctor ,case the housethen do a home invasion . They order the wife to go with them to the bank and withdraw all of thier money.
The teller at the bank is tipped somehow and calls the police. Before the police can do anything the felons go back to the house beat the Husband to a pulp in the basement and leave him for dead. They then tie the wife and two daughters to their beds ,rape them and while still alive splash them with gasoline and set them and the house on fire .
Anything in Iraq is comparable,so what is the point?
As usual Left wing commies trying to go after The president again
Cuban also produced “The War Within”, a sympathetic portrayal of suicide bombers. And he’s involved in the big screen production of “Loose Change”.
He throws some of his billions at the families of fallen American soldiers for good press, but this guy is squarely on the side of the jihadists. He’s an anti-American leftist piece of garbage.
Oh, really...
I wasn’t aware of his involvement with “The War Within” & “Loose Change”...
just like the other Muzzie apologist, Alan Colmes, Cuban is a sorry excuse for a Jew...some folks have more dollars than sense.
Another shining example of Democrats who stand behind our troops.
Not coming to a theatre near you...An American Hero!
No, that was his buddy yasser.
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