While Promoting Anti-war Movie, Brian De Palma Claimed Rapes by Military 'Reality' in Iraq

NewsBusters ^ | September 1, 2007 | Lynn Davidson

[Norman Bates]

This from a man who claims to be a follower of Hitchcock. Hitchcock was a very patriotic American and I doubt would have never dreamed of using his art against his adopted country.

[wardaddy]

This from a man who claims to be a follower copier of Hitchcock

[mimaw]

I think America would be a better place if Mr. De Palma and his ilk wrapped himself around a tree. Please no sermons I’m so tired of these traitors.

[weegee]

It seems to me that the biggest fans of Scarface are coke heads. At least that has been my personal experience with loose acquaintences in bars, etc.

I finally saw this movie when it was screened at a museum retrospective. I don’t find anything to champion in the film to give it such an honor.

[LibLieSlayer]

I righteously hate them!

LLS

[Brad from Tennessee]

Even the cocaine portion of the film was absurd. In one of the final scenes Al Pacino is shown with this big tube snorting a mound of white powder. When a cocaine habit is that intense the mucus membranes have become so damaged the addict injects it in a solution or inhales the gasified form via “free base.”

The movie may have been distinguished by the museum for being so trashy and stupid.

[Smokin' Joe]

“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.

So it is basically a remake of an earlier P.O.S. movie that stunk (Yeah, I saw Casualties of war--and it reeked.)

No number of remakes can polish that toid.

[Smokin' Joe]

...anyone willing to put their life on the line for their country is a hero and deserves to be treated as such.

Bears repeating, imo. Well said.

[kcvl]

De Palma, has a radical irreverence that borders on the sadistic. De Palma was hyper-conscious of the Vietnam War, in the background, but always connected to the war are the age of assassinations, the rise of SDS, the rise of Black Power, the post-68 hardening of Nixon on the consciousness of the Left, and in conjunction, the advent of the home movie, the rise of the “silent majority,” the early beginnings of truly independent cinema in the form of exploitation/porn that was a huge business in the 60s and 70s in NY

"I am sure before the movie comes out people will say, 'De Palma lost his mind, doing a $5m video project'. That's how I want to tell this story, under the Hollywood radar.

"People will be arguing over this film... that is what I hope will happen, depending on how successful it is," he said.

"It is un-American to criticise the government... Personally, I am not scared. I am the man they love to hate. I am sure they will say; 'It's another De Palma misogynist saga'.

"But this film is about Americans at war and what we do and we need to stomach it."

[kcvl]

DePalma told reporters after the movie screened that he hoped the film would help bring an end to our country's occupation of Iraq

"The pictures are what will stop the war," said De Palma.

"All the images we (currently) have of our war are completely constructed -- whitewashed, redacted," said De Palma, "One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to get their congressmen to vote against the war," he added.

He explained that legal obstacles in dealing with real people and events meant he was "forced to fictionalise things" to get the movie made.

"Redacted" will initially be distributed nationwide by Magnolia Pictures and its producer Jason Kliot says. "If the response is strong one hopes the distribution will grow the film in a big way."

[kcvl]

August 31, 2007

Movies De Palma Should Have Made

Redacted: The true story of U.N. “peacekeepers” who rape and murder the people they’re supposed to protect.

Redacted: The true story of how Stalin engineered the Ukrainian famine and how the New York Times lied about it.

Redacted: How the U.N. dragged its feet while American soldiers were dying in Mogadishu.

Redacted: How the Boston area Hobo disappearances are tied to the Boston area Valu-Rite Vodka shortage.

Overnight Fun With Brian De Palma [Vinnie]

We morons are more than perfectly capable of coming up with the sequel to Brian De Palma’s insult Redacted.

After all, you did a magnificent job of re-working the original.

My suggestions for sequels:

Redacted II: An in depth look at Islamic honor killings.

Redacted II: 21 South Korean hostages taken, 19 freed.

Redacted II: The true story of Christians in Saudi Arabia.

Redacted II: Che Guevara, not so cool after all.

Redacted II: Prominent blogger flees to France after Boston police figure out dead hobo - Valu-Rite Vodka connection.

http://minx.cc/?post=239076

[kcvl]

August 31, 2007
Brian De Palma Throws Anti-American Propaganda Into Overdrive

Hollyweird has-been Brian De Palma has ratcheted up the propaganda in an admitted attempt to help bring about an American defeat in Iraq.

His outrage Redacted has managed to reduce European audiences to tears by graphically exploiting the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by criminal elements in the US military.

As even De Palma surely knows, the terrorists he would have us surrender to commit comparable crimes on a daily basis as part of a deliberate policy. But you won’t see any movies about al-Qaeda torture houses, because those wouldn’t advance De Palma’s stated goal of causing us to lose the war.

http://tinyurl.com/ypvotx

[kcvl]

Creepy, exploitative has-been De Palma lends critical propaganda support to al-Qaeda.

[kcvl]

So who bankrolled and is distributing this thing?"

Billionaire Mark Cuban has decided to put all of his weight behind a campaign to smear US troops in Iraq as “monsters’. Cuban has decided that De Palma’s film “Redacted” must be seen as the cornerstone of his and De Palma’s self-declared anti-victory campaign against America and her troops fighing in Iraq. Cuban’s company Magnolia Pictures will be bringing this propganda campaign to a theater near you this winter. According to a source close to Cuban, the decision for Magnolia to develop, finance and distribute the film was personally made by Çuban.

[kcvl]

Mark Cuban is also planning to distribute a version of the 9/11 conspiracy theory video “Loose Change.

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the info!

...the decision for Magnolia to develop, finance and distribute the film was personally made by Çuban...

Interesting way to put it. Makes me wonder if the money was Cuban's alone, or if he had an angel?

[Norman Bates]

Thankfully I wouldn’t know. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of his movies. But obviously I am a major Hitchcock fan.

[wardaddy]

ever see Scarface....the Al Pacino version

once again DePalma steals material....interesting flick though

[vaudine]

Just read on Drudge that this abomination is bankrolled by billionnaire Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks among other things.

About boycotting. I am boycotting all of H'wood unless I know about the film, studio and actors. 95% or more of actors and films today are trash and much of it and them are traitorous.

vaudine

[BurbankKarl]

Mark Cuban bankrolled that movie.