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Syrian 'hero boy' video faked by Norwegian director
BBC ^ | 14 November 2014 | BBC Trending

Posted on 11/14/2014 6:42:17 PM PST by DarkSavant

Millions of YouTube viewers have been captivated by the 'Syrian hero boy' who manages to rescue a little girl while under gunfire. Now a group of Norwegian filmmakers have told BBC Trending they are behind it. They say it was filmed on location in Malta this summer with the intention of being presented as real.

Lars Klevberg, a 34-year-old film director based in Oslo, wrote a script after watching news coverage of the conflict in Syria. He says he deliberately presented the film as reality in order to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; Politics/Elections; Syria
KEYWORDS: director; fake; faked; hero; heroboy; israel; larsklevberg; malta; norway; norwegian; syria; syrian; video; waronterror
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And people wonder why I am so cynical.
1 posted on 11/14/2014 6:42:17 PM PST by DarkSavant
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To: DarkSavant

Yeah I had a feeling.

It was fake or it was the world’s worst sniper.


2 posted on 11/14/2014 6:45:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: DarkSavant

"I wish I had thought of that!"

3 posted on 11/14/2014 6:45:27 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: cripplecreek

Im surprised the didnt hire the iraqi Bomb Magnet women as an extra


4 posted on 11/14/2014 6:49:46 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: DarkSavant
He says he deliberately presented the film as reality in order to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones.

Instead it causes more people to question whether what they're seeing is real or staged as they so often are in the mideast.
5 posted on 11/14/2014 6:52:53 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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He says he deliberately presented the film as reality in order to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones.

I want to generate a discussion about hobbits trapped in Modor. There's this real documentary film that you can download from Netflix....

6 posted on 11/14/2014 6:54:11 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: DarkSavant

“He says he deliberately presented the film as reality in order to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones.”

It’s not very nice and it scares children and it is sad when they die. End of discussion.

I wonder whether he really means by “generate a discussion” is blames the West (in particular the USA and Israel) for everything!


7 posted on 11/14/2014 7:10:56 PM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: DarkSavant

Called it!


8 posted on 11/14/2014 7:17:19 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DarkSavant

The dead giveaway was the amount of dust coming off the little boy and his running to the little girl, seemingly uninjured, then running with her, without any signs of impairment after being shot, around the chest area.


9 posted on 11/14/2014 7:30:02 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DarkSavant

Didn’t think anyone could fire that many shots and miss every time.


10 posted on 11/14/2014 7:36:56 PM PST by Will88
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To: melsec

It was a “social experiment”


11 posted on 11/14/2014 8:00:39 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Stupid People, Stupid, Stupid People - Sii Ann Survivor All-Stars)
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To: DarkSavant

Green Helmet guy as director.


12 posted on 11/14/2014 8:02:27 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Will88

Satire....it helps calm the pop. down....best way to damper a shared communal fear response.

imo


13 posted on 11/14/2014 8:02:50 PM PST by therapsida (t)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Hmmm yes..exactly as I said then!


14 posted on 11/14/2014 8:56:54 PM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: DarkSavant

HA! And this is why I trust NOTHING from muslims.


15 posted on 11/14/2014 11:13:54 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: DarkSavant

Suckers. So when people show a bunch of Russian tanks or Russian trucks supposedly going into Ukraine to ‘invade’ them, should I believe it?

My general rule is unless I see clear, convincing, evidence (such as a “Kiev or Bustki” bumper sticker on them), I will assume it is fake, as those pictures were now shown to be.


16 posted on 11/15/2014 5:48:21 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

additional:
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17 posted on 11/15/2014 8:15:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: DarkSavant

Lars Klevberg is another liberal elite ‘Gruber’. Lars thinks he’s the first person to discover lying is faster than telling the truth. And much easier to film.

When a teenager, Lars said stealing money out of ‘Mom’s purse’ was easier than getting a job.

That cheating on school tests takes less time than studying.

One more liberal elite jerk who thinks his personal ‘ends’ justify his means. Guess he so much ‘smarter’ than all the photo journalists out there doing honest work..

One more Gruber...


18 posted on 11/15/2014 8:53:45 AM PST by GOPJ (The New York Times is one big fat collection of Jonathan Gruber s...)
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To: melsec

How do you say Gruber in Norwegian?


19 posted on 11/15/2014 8:55:56 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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How do you say Gruber in Norwegian?... I have it on good authority it is ‘ herdy-gerty Gruberski-herdy Bork, Bork Bork!’ but I don’t know fer sure.


20 posted on 11/15/2014 9:01:33 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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