Posted on 06/24/2005 10:18:23 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
According to a reader over at Libertas, David Koepp, the writer of the film, had this to say in an interview with Rue Morgue Magazine, [not available online]:
“And now, as we see American adventure abroad’ he (David Koepp} continues ‘in my mind it’s certainly back to it’s original meaning, which is that the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading the Iraqis, and the futility of the occupation of a faraway land is again the subtext”
Koepp also told Newsweek:
"I think the whole war [in the movie] is about water," he says. "I figure their planet ran out. Wars tend to be fought over very elemental things: water, land, oil."
Now, this guy wrote the film. Wouldn't he know? We also have Spielberg refusing to allow any reviews until the day the film's released. Could this be a way to avoid the bad press that hurt Kingdom of Heaven and probably had something to with Sith losing pace to hit the $400 million mark, after those films were discovered to be loaded with lame partisan (poorly written) attacks?
Spielberg's being slyly "nuanced" about the whole thing:
I tried to make it as open for interpretation as possible, without having any body coming out with a huge political polemic in the second act of the movie. I think there are politics certainly underneath some of the scares and some of the adventure and some of the fear, but I really wanted to make it suggested and not that everybody could have their own opinion.
I smell a rat, and intend to take the screenwriter at his word that the evil imperialistic murderers of millions in the film represent "American military forces."
I hope this one dies an ignomineous death. If the story about one reviewer being able to see this movie is an indication, Spielberg might have a real turkey on his hands here.
There was a preview for War of the Worlds before Cindarella Man.
In one part Tom Cruise grabs his teenage sons arm and says, "I know you feel like you have to fight, but you don't!" while the kid yells something like, "I have to do something!"
That coupled with things like this made me decide to wait for the cable release to see this one.
Two factors - the Tom Cruise / Scientology factor and the Batman factor - are going to sink this turkey. Think Godzilla.
If its a good movie, its a good movie. But people in Hollywood are just a bunch of idiotic hippylibs.
I see a flying winged cyclops chicken demon.
Must....seek.....professional...help
;)
Not...one...DIME.
Lame stretch. Sith is making more than the last Star Wars and will end up being the #2 moneymaker in the series. Its falloff after the first week was because it made so much damned money in the opening week it could only go south. And I wish MY income were "losing pace" the way this one has.
WOTW is from Spielberg, so it should be no surprise to anyone it has a liberal point of view. So what? This boycotting due to political beliefs of people in a non-political context is silly. I want to see a movie, doesn't mean it's going to make me ever vote Democrat again. If you don't want to watch the products of liberals, throw out your TV and DVD player.
You said it. Just because Anakin Skywalker says "You are either with me...or you're my enemy." who says that's supposed to have some real world analog we should all be familiar with? Some people look too deeply.
I guess I'm a sucker.. Tom Cruise or not, I've been a WOTW fan since I heard the original broadcast by Orson Wells. I still have a copy of it.
I'll go sit in the theater and watch it and then form my own opinion as to whether it was a boondoggle or not. :)
Movies by liberals provide excellent incite into their faulty thinking. They think they are exposing conservatives faults in their films, they just don't realise they are exposing their own faults. The problem is that the way they see things and interpret them is so backwards that conservatives don't see it the way they do.
Case in point with Cruise telling the son he doesn't have to fight. It should go without saying, conservatives always teach that fighting is a possible first response but let's make sure its what we need to do first. If facts reveal that a fight is necessary, do it right, get it done. The liberals may think they have exposed conservatives as fight first, think later because of the scene in the movie - conservatives see a father asking a son to think first, get a better weapon and then kick b*tt.
Who cares what some liberal claims it means, that is his opinion and doesn't necessarily even portray that thought.
Givrn, however, that Spielberg was the "point man" for John and TerAYza Kerry's Hollywood fundraising efforts; and given his current bitterness over the results of the 2004 elections... I think I'm going to wait for the early reports from my fellow FReepers on this one, nonetheless.
Heck... it's not as if I wouldn't just go back and see Batman Begins a second time, anyway... :)
"Heck... it's not as if I wouldn't just AS SOON go back and see Batman Begins a second time, anyway... :)"
Movie attendance is at its lowest in almost 20 years. Here's more reason to find something else to do on Friday or Saturday night.
Mr. "Chill Wind" Robbins is in this movie as well. No Tim Robbins movies for me, ever again.
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