Valley of the Wolves Iraq, premiere at the Muslim Film Festival, Fremont, CA

Zombietime.com ^ | 7./29/06 | Zombie

[World_Events]

The controversial Turkish film Valley of the Wolves Iraq had its North American premiere at the Naz 8 Cinemas in Fremont, California, as part of the 2nd Muslim Film Festival on July 29, 2006. I attended out of curiosity to see just exactly what this film was like, and how it would be received by an American audience.

Many of the news stories about the film described it as an anti-American, anti-Semitic extravaganza that had Turkish audiences leaping from their seats in ecstatic outrage at America, then lining up to watch it all over again. It was both the most expensive Turkish film ever made, and also the most popular, breaking all box office records in Turkey and among the large Turkish immigrant population in Germany. What kind of impact would it have in America?

The small screening room at the Naz 8 theater was full to capacity with about three hundred people, mostly middle-class, middle-aged Muslims from Fremont's large Afghan and Indo-Pakistani communities. Which, as it turns out, is not really the intended audience for a film like this...even if, as I was soon to discover, the American version was edited to remove part of one of the most offensive scenes.

[detsaoT]

That Zombietime guy really has a set of brass ones. He doesn't seem to be afraid to go to ANY of the loony events in California... Yeesh.

[Enchante]

Sounds like cheap porn for jihad-lovers (I'll think I'll take a pass on ever seeing this piece of camel dung, thanks anyway):

"It's as if the filmmakers made a list of unrelated scenes that they knew would infuriate Turkish and Muslim sensibilities, and then concocted a flimsy storyline to connect them all together. Americans putting hoods on Turkish soldiers? Check. Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse? Check. American soldiers shooting up a Muslim wedding? Check. And on it goes: children being used as human shields, Americans insulting a Muslim woman, rogue CIA agents backstabbing everyone within reach, traitorous Kurds helping the Americans, Christians imagining that they are superior, Jews stealing organs, etc. Mostly, the film exists as a Muslim revenge fantasy -- revenge for the humiliation and shame brought upon them by the Americans and their allies. The Turkish secret agent is the everyman figure, meting out justice to the Christian and Jewish evildoers."

[martin_fierro]

Imagine someone randomly editing together all the discarded scenes left on the cutting room floor from a second-rate Chuck Norris action movie

The discarded scenes left on the cutting room floor from a second-rate Chuck Norris action movie could kick the a$$e$ of any five full-length flicks.

[Publius6961]

Kids and the clueless can't tell the difference between propaganda and reality.

[ClaireSolt]

Now putting hoods over people's heads is the basis of international outrage. Aren't we getting touchy!

[Kirkwood]

http://www.break.com/index/what_really_happens_pallywood.html

Watch the whole thing. Very interesting documentary on arab fake videos.

[grey_whiskers]

Thank you for posting that photo, Martin.

When I saw it, something *clicked*.

I now understand Iran.

thinks that he is actually

Cheers!

[piasa]

Considering that Erdogan approves of it - and Erdogan is one of those pushing the Alliance of Civilizations with its blasphemy laws and restrictions on free speech - this might have been intended to intended to make Americans take an interest in banning speech that might incite...