Brit anger at Ben’s Argo: UK diplomats deny movie ‘slur’ that they ‘turned away’ Iranian hostages as portrayed in Oscar winner
If it makes them feel any better, I’ve watched far more British television and movies than Hollywood’s garbage in the last year.
Well, count yourself fortunate. In Benghazi, President 0bama actually let the embassy personnel be slaughtered.
And the reason for Brit offense over Argo is pretty tenuous. Seems more like a matter of perspective than insult.
Hell I can remember J.K Rawlings commenting on how when the director was chosen for the first Harry Potter movie that he was *GASP* an American (like it was a bad thing) even though he was reputed to be an excellent director.
Hollywood slavishly follows Obama. And we all know how HE feels about Britain...
Guess Guy hasn't noticed. Hollywood is all about bashing western culture, western history, western religion, western accomplishment, not just the Brits per se. But it often does it in turns. In this movie, yes, it is the Brits. In the next four or five, it'll be the Americans with the Germans (Nazis) sure to get their share of Hollywood's old thumb in the eye somewhere in there too. Basically, Hollywood's target is the white race. The big hoot is that Hollywood itself is the perfect example of what it hates most: white, rich, stupid, evil, immoral, despicable.
Well, Ben could attack the British over Iran or he could attack Carter over Iran so he did what democrats do.
Uhh, you're British and you don't even understand your own terminology?
Braveheart was about the oppression of the Scots by the English. There were no British at the time, since British refers to inhabitants of the UK. It incorporates English + Scots + Welsh into a conglomerate.
Although I must admit the history in Braveheart was astonishingly inaccurate, even for a movie. Not sure why they do that, the real history is fascinating.
Who can forget Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic, that effectively presented D-Day as an exclusively American effort?
Well, that's kind of silly. Omaha Beach was American, and I suspect most American soldiers in Normandy mostly ran into other American soldiers, just as most Canadians or Brits mostly had to do with each other. At least at the grunt level.
Remember U-571 — the U-boat thriller set in World War II — which saw the Yanks, and not the British and the Poles, capture an Enigma coding machine and turn the course of the war?
They'd have a point there if their own Enigma movie didn't go out of its way to make a Pole the villain without any historical basis.
Or how about the abysmal piece of faux-history that was Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, which depicted the British as the rapacious, murderous oppressors of the noble and romantic Scots?
And they'd have a better case there if they cited The Patriot.
Just be grateful Affleck didn't make the Brits the villains -- though if he had it might have helped make more British actors rich.