Hollywood fights back against anti-Israeli sentiment

[Liberty Star]

HW freakshow seems to be still in 90s mindset:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cause19-2009sep19,0,863617.story



Such America firster mindset explains why they never showed videos like this in a single film made in hw so far:

YouTube - Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0)

[BlackTerrel]

So you agree with Jane Fonda that films coming out of Israel should be boycotted? Why? What does that have to do with "America first"?

Are Iranian films boycotted? Chinese films? Palestinian films?


Such America firster mindset explains why they never showed videos like this in a single film made in hw so far:

Of course the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" from the POV of a suicide bomber won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar a couple years ago. When's the last Israeli propaganda movie that did the same?

[YumYum]

So you agree with Jane Fonda that films coming out of Israel should be boycotted? Why? What does that have to do with "America first"?

Are Iranian films boycotted? Chinese films? Palestinian films?



Of course the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" from the POV of a suicide bomber won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar a couple years ago. When's the last Israeli propaganda movie that did the same?

"Scheindler's List"?

[Liberty Star]

Fonda has back tracked, many Israeli movie makers are liberal and not shy to be critical of Israeli occupation, same can't said of HW. Fonda has backtracked, but my view of HW is based on the second part:


It's hard to believe that even Fonda's well-practiced backpedaling is going to temper the outrage in activist Hollywood, where attacks on Israel in almost any form are a non-starter.


PN was a good movie but HW overall is responsible for shaping ignorant attitudes among the masses by overly broad stereotyping of arabs, germans and whoever it deems can be subject of collectivist projections.

[LibForestPaul]

Intense. Not at all the picture being painted by the media outlets in the United States.

[Liberty Star]

Europe's industry seems to be on a different track:


The criticisms of Israel, especially among European entertainers, has intensified since the Gaza war. However, they argue that they are not against the Jews, as Saban suggests, but merely concerned about the innocent victims caught in the crossfire.

In January, singer Annie Lennox and comedian Alexei Sayle called for an end to the "slaughter and systematic murder" of Arabs in Gaza.

The pair was joined by a panel of public figures, which included Ken Livingstone, Bianca Jagger and George Galloway, in a news conference demanding that Israel stop its "siege."

In posts on her blog and in the Huffington Post, Fonda -- who said she initially signed the Toronto letter because she too was concerned about the loss of innocent lives -- sought to clarify her position. She admitted that she had not read the full text of the complaint before putting her name on it.

[Dr.3D]

Hollywood film makers showed video much like that in Vietnam war movies. Heck they even had scenes of soldiers shooting civilians standing in a mass grave.

War is hell and a lot of things happen that shouldn't. Those who practice war should not be surprised when things like this happen. It's a part of what war is.

[Liberty Star]

Criticism of American policies is not a new thing at all to Hollywood activists; they draw a line but it's not at critique of America.

[BlackTerrel]

PN was a good movie but HW overall is responsible for shaping ignorant attitudes among the masses by overly broad stereotyping of arabs, germans and whoever it deems can be subject of collectivist projections.

Hollywood has actually bent over backwards to avoid offending Muslims since 9/11. They even changed the villians in the Tom Clancy movie from Muslims to Nazi's (in the book they were Muslims) which doesn't really make sense considering the Nazi's were defeated about 60 years ago.

[Dreamofunity]

I remember a while back they were talking about making Chuck Palahniuk's (he wrote Fight Club and Choke which have both been made into movies) book Survivor into a movie, but then 9/11 happened and since the story involves hijacking a plane they decided not to.

Lame.