SPIEGEL: You are celebrated enthusiastically by the critics, and you have also been slammed. But rarely has a director been attacked and vilified so personally for a film as you have now. You have been called a blind pacifist, even a traitor to the cause of Israel.
==>>Steven Spielberg: "Fortunately, the people who write that kind of thing are a small but very loud minority. It saddens me to see how narrow-minded and dogmatic some of the right-wing fundamentalists here in the USA are. I thank God that people who are important to me see "Munich" quite differently. Liberal American Jews, for example, but also some families of the victims from that time in Israel. They have embraced the message of the film.
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DISCUSSION ABOUT: SPIEGEL Interview with Director Steven Spielberg about his film, "MUNICH"
In this interview, Spielberg states that he regards "some of the right-wing fundamentalists here in the USA" as being responsible for "vilifing" his film, and says he "thank(s) God that people who are important to (him) -- those he refers to as "Liberal American Jews" -- "see this film differently" (and "embrace" it).
The screenwriter he used for this film has said he "hates America" in other media (Tony Kuschner, a homosexual activist (through his work), also wrote "Angels In America").
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Then Stevie is without a doubt,one of the most patriotic of his generation..
"I Would Die For Israel"
He's about to get his chance.
We're waiting.
With more 'patriots' like Spielberg,, there will be no Israel... or America
Nazis & MuslamoFascist terrorists who murder your children by 'suiciding' their own...are the moral equivilant of Jews who would fight back against such terror...
By this same logic...Nazis and their victims in the death camps are morally equivilant
imo
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...The gay civil rights movement, for one thing. The theater has always been home to a disproportionate share of gay artists because the environment was tolerant and, perhaps, because their lives already involved illusion, role playing and disguise. Many artists have come out of the closet in life and insist on doing so in their work.
Says Destiny's Kramer: "Ten years ago, we would have been fashioning heterosexual material. Now people just won't lie."
AIDS has given gay male playwrights a clarity and tenacity of vision that comes from facing mortality. "Gay writers have life and death to write about," says Kramer, who chronicled his early activism in The Normal Heart and confronted having the AIDS virus in Destiny.
Above all, as Congress and the states debate gay civil rights and President Clinton prepares to certify the role of gays in the military, many gay writers see their milieu as inherently dramatic. Like Jews, blacks and women in prior decades, gays have promoted their struggle for equality into the spotlight. Says Angels author Tony Kushner: "We're at a historic juncture. In a pluralist democracy, there's a moment when a minority obtains legitimacy and its rights are taken seriously by the other minorities that together make up the majority. That's happening now for gays and lesbians. We're winning, and that gives things a certain electricity."
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No one wants you to die for Israel, you useless cinematic schnook, you celuloid shlumiel, you picture-hall putz!
But none of us would mind if you began to show some sign you might live for Israel.
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Put up or shut up, Steven. Go over there now. They need you.