Posted on 08/03/2009 7:20:57 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
LOS ANGELES--The director of the new movie "G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra" thinks President Obama is "a Real American hero," but apparently wants Republicans to stay home.....
When it comes to selling "G.I. Joe" outside the U.S., the message is "this is not a George Bush movie -- it's an Obama world," director Stephen Sommers said. "Right from the writing stage we said to ourselves, this can't be about beefy guys on steroids who all met each other in the Vietnam War, but an elite organization that's made up of the best of the best from around the world."
Sommers, the director of such genre films as "the Mummy Returns" and "Van Helsing," is hoping that the film will appeal to international markets, where action films "often earn 60% or more of their ticket sales [but] rah-rah American sentiment doesn't play well,"....
As a result, overseas advertising is playing up scenes from other countries and downplaying anything that could be seen as American patriotism.
(Excerpt) Read more at federalreview.com ...
Well, remember that those things were usually aimed at kids, and a lot of people had no clue about the gay subtext of the Village People...hence the mainstream success.
Which means the bad guys are actually the good guys. Got it.
I’ve seen it, too. I’m not gay, but damn it, I still love disco.
Who plays President George Bush in the movie?
Disco and freestyle are THE music for a TRUE party! Thank the ghost of Neil Bogart for WKTU on Sundays for keeping the music alive (it has become a rather boring Pop-40 station during the week.
Thank you mr. sommers for exposing your bias.
Now I know another movie to avoid this year.
I greatly appreciate the warning.
Best disco song ever (at least one of my personal favorites)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph2363hNDPw&feature=channel_page
Good choice. My fave is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_hmfIZxHbc.
Freestyle, absolutely! The only reason I’d listen to KTU. Used to catch Judy Torres’ Freestyle Free for All whenever I was up by the City; reminds me of my yout’.
Destro had all the luck.
That’s a good one, too. I don’t know what it is, only Black artists can do disco justice. Whites simply... can’t. It’d be like them covering Motown. Just isn’t done.
Ironically, the president is played by Brit Jonathan Pryce.
LOL!
Why not? What difference does it make where you were born?
What’s an ocean between friends? At least he is a pretty good actor which should count for something in a movie.
It’s the new America where anyone can be President!
There’s probably some kid born in China today, who will run for office 45 years from now.
Apparently it was going to be a “un based” rather than “real american hero” themed. However they apparently focus grouped it and when GI Joe was not an american organization, the movie was DOA.
Apparently ONE 40% market is still important in contrast to 60% scattered over a myriad of little markets.
besides the real money is in DVDs.
at least until it hits the internet 15 minutes after the first viewing...
I agree. I guess drama is in the eye of the reader.
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