Restarting the Iran ping. On or off ping list.
Posted on 07/02/2007 10:16:13 AM PDT by freedom44
His thirst for the limelight has driven him to launch a multilingual blog and issue a string of headline-grabbing statements.
But Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was surprisingly camera-shy when his extrovert persona drew the attention of Hollywood, turning down a request by Oliver Stone, the director of JFK, Nixon and Platoon, to make a documentary film about him. He dismissed the American film-maker as "part of the Great Satan", the Iranian regime's standard term of abuse for the US.
Mr Ahmadinejad's aides said Stone had requested special access to the president after contacting his office through intermediaries in the Iranian film business.
The 60-year-old director has made two documentaries about Cuba's Communist president, Fidel Castro, whom he considers a friend, and another about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
However, Mr Ahmadinejad, who has often criticised Hollywood as a bastion of pro-Zionist interests, was unimpressed by Stone's radical credentials after viewing the films.
"While it is true that Oliver Stone is considered to be among the opposition in the US, the opposition is still part of the Great Satan," the president's media adviser, Mahdi Kalhor, told the semi-official Fars news agency.
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Right.
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Oliver Stone is going to be heartbroken to learn that despite his alligiance to an Iranian antisemite, he’s still considered a kufir and an agent of The Great Satan.
Oliver Stone must have been doing a sequel to “Natural Born Killers”
He’s saving himself for a remake of “Gilligan’s Island”.
Stone is thinking: "What other indignities and insults can I heap upon the US to get Ahmadinejad on my side? Why can't he just tell me what I need to do!"
I wonder if Stone plans on including details of Ahmanutjob’s involvement as one of the Hostage takers in ‘79.
Something makes me think he’ll leave that out.
LOL, way to fail, Mahmoud.
Talk about throwing away a golden opportunity to win the PR war. Stone might be a hippy, but he knows how to package ideas, even if they’re bad ones. (Some might say ESPECIALLY when they’re bad ones.)
Oliver Stone, Great Satan [John Podhoretz]
Oliver Stone wanted to make a documentary about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. After a year's consideration, Ahmadinejad has rejected Stone's request. "It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan," said Mehdi Kalhor, media adviser to the president. This is a sad day for everyone who is a moron.
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