Posted on 09/02/2007 6:14:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Brian De Palma wants to stop the war, and he thinks his new movie about an Iraqi girl's rape can help, regardless of the consequences or the rights and privacy of Iraqis. In a Friday August 31 Reuters article, De Palma asserted “The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people. Sky News online picked up the thread that he hoped his film "Redacted" will alert people about “these horrible things things that are happening, this horrible war that I am financing as an American citizen.”
De Palma's comments were made Friday, at the Venice Film Festival, after showing the movie that is supposedly based on the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl from Mahmudiya who was then killed and her house set on fire. You know, every day stuff in the military.
“Redacted” is a do-over for De Palma, who made the same movie back in 1989 when it was called “Casualties of War” and starred Michael J. Fox. This is De Palma's second try at the “American military rapes indigenous girl and everyone laughs, but the sensitive guy feels sorry and tells; someone has nightmares, and the military is still bad” storyline. At least it wasn't “The Bonfire of the Vanities 2.”
Reuters noted De Palma's belief that if only people could see the real war photos and hear the real stories that aren't censored by the “corporate establishment,” people would simply turn against the war, thus ending it. No thought to Al Qaeda in Iraq and the insurgents or even Iran—apparently it will all just “stop” (emphasis mine throughout):
The pictures are what will stop the war, and if we can get these pictures in front of a mass audience, and get these stories in front of a mass audience, maybe we'll have some effect.
Reuters laid out a series of statements that showed how stupid and ill-informed he thinks Americans who support the war are by claiming they don't know the “truth” and just need his help to understand:
“It's all out there on the Internet, you can find it if you look for it, but it's not in the major media. The media is now really part of the corporate establishment," he said.
Right, everything on the Internet is true, in fact, there's a Nigerian prince who needs my help right now.
De Palma claimed that the mainstream media are not telling the whole story by withholding graphic images and in the process divulged his storyline isn't as “real” as he claimed:
"When I went out to find the pictures, I said (to the media) give me the pictures you can't publish," he said, adding that because of legal dangers he too had to "edit" the material.
"Everything that is in the movie is based on something I found that actually happened. But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can't use that because it's real and we may get sued," De Palma said.
"So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real."
The media ignored this telling statement that he “fictionalized” the “things that were actually real” in a movie that is supposed to be the “reality” of what's going on in Iraq What does that leave?
Also, lawyers tend to worry more about being sued for libel and slander than factual events. They worry about Hollywood movies making claims that are not true. The truth is a defense against lawsuits, but random Internet rantings and the Jesse MacBeths and the Scott Beauchamps of the world make lawyers sweat.
Now De Palma showed that he is an Ugly American who doesn't care about the rights and privacy of people in a foreign country and the law:
The film, shot in Jordan with a little known cast, ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians killed and their faces blacked out for legal reasons.
"I think that's terrible because now we have not even given the dignity of faces to this suffering people," De Palma said.
Because nothing says dignity like a Brian De Palma movie.
“It’s all out there on the Internet, you can find it if you look for it, but it’s not in the major media. The media is now really part of the corporate establishment,” he said.
Right, everything on the Internet is true, in fact, there’s a Nigerian prince who needs my help right now.
This guy is an ass hat and should be charged a crime for making enemy propoganda.
Look up FR keywords like fakephotos, fauxtography, and waronError.
I just skimmed the surface in exposing the media’s deliberate lies.
Brian De Palma is an ass (or as Ray Bradbury said about Michael Moore, a perfect a&&h***). He has chosen to be not only an enemy of the state but a FRIEND to Al Qaeda by pushing their propaganda.
(and I ain't talking about combustion, his lies are increasing the danger for all U.S. military and many civilians needlessly.)
Criminal behavior has been punished as this MSNBC excerpt documents, "A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 100 years in prison Thursday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family. . . ." The others have been brought to justice, too.
Is the traitor trying to be another John Kerry?
But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can't use that because it's real and we may get sued," De Palma said.
"So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real. [I fictionalize, it's is what I do. Hee, hee.]"
Show us the note from "a lawyer" about U.S. forces' criminal behavior. That's the end of that tune.
I do not want to in any way downplay the tragic loss of innocent life in Iraq (and Afghanistan or elsewhere); but those of us old enough to remember the last war won by Washington never flinched because of civilian casualties -- and this time thousands of the civilian casualties are here with many more on the way. Why should we surrender? Go figure. The man's sick.
Treason and sedition used to be punished in this country. Where the hell is the DOJ to prosecute these traitors in Hollywierd and the MSM.
Ping! You are so correct!
Also:
“Where the Hell are the CONSERVATIVE Millionaires helping out the Conservative cause??!!”
(1)CONSERVATIVE Millionaires WORK for a living.
(2)IF they inherited, the parents taught them the value of what they have...
(3)and that our system allows ANY HARD WORKER to do the same
LIBERAL Millionaires do none of the above ;^(
You didn't see it printed properly California Representative Gary Condit (D), or California Democrat Gary Condit...etc.
Mark Cuban.
Exactly.
Conservatives are busy working, raising families and paying the taxes that keep the liberal’s social engineering projects and welfare programs afloat... while the ‘rich’ liberals and welfare recipients are busy bad mouthing the US, our troops, and are an all around general drain (lead weight) in our society.
Brian De Palma and Nick Broomfield are joined at the hip, they’re both POS’.
Brian De Palma is known for producing B Movies—crap that would mostly play at drive-ins if we still had a lot of them. “Scarface†is a prime example. It uses sex, drugs and mostly violence to try and distract the audience from realizing how talentless is its director.
It is an artistic atrocity that this perverted goof be allowed to direct a film based on an actual event. Unless maybe he did a movie on the murder of Lobster Boy.
Weegee, great post—although I might have to send my blood pressure meds bill to you as a result. ;)
Seriously, this is just infuriating.
"So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real."
And to think this jerk stood up and gave a speech about how evil the U.S. of A. is in a foreign country, based on fictionalized events that were actually real. Just boggles the mind.
Just a personal note here--anyone who PAYS to see this movie is helping the enemy--both internal and foreign.
Don't be so sure. They had a lot of supporters and "best allies" in New York City, too. Nobody ever said they were smart, just ruthless.
You might be right, but if we're going to survive, that's going to have to change. Conservatives had better start putting their money where their values are, or they'll be lost.
In World War Two Frank Capra made “Why We Fight”. Cuban and DePalma have made “Why Our Boys Are Subhuman And Why We Must Lose”
I wonder when we can expect his film on how the Taliban raped the Korean hostages? Oh, wait. He supports the Taliban.
I agree. A day of reckoning is coming.
You can bet lonely ,sexually, frustrated communist/liberal old maids will pay to see this movie. No doubt they will all be angry when they come out. Lust usually leads to anger.
Im knew DePalma casually a bit in the 80s
a boorish ehomaniac
Cuban and Weinstein should get a room....birds of a feather
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