Actually Isaiah 5:20..
That’s a creepy note at the bottom from Mao...
Moral relativism, eh?
Hollywood is the town that glorified Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries. Why is anyone surprised at this?
If Hollywood fell into the sea, it would only be an improvement.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m with you on the “new depths” theory. Some of these folks would be smarter after being hit in the head with a ball bat!!
This should be picketed and boycotted. So should all this creep’s other movies.
Read the book “Mao, the Untold Story.” I hate it when the left makes heroes out of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Che or other murderers.
“We’ll need thousands of extras. Just leave em dangling from lamposts and trees around the country.Cheaper that way!”
Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated.
Elia Kazan, I hope in private you wore Hollywood’s scorn as a badge of honor (to quote Dan Quayle).
Good opportunity for us to educate young Americans about this Chinese “Hitler,” and his useful idiot followers in the rat party.
The brainless Hollywood liberals are always stepping in cr*p. No reason we can’t shovel more manure on top.
"I need an army," says Steven North ("Vukovar"), who is producing "Challenging Heaven," a birth-of-a-nation picture focused on the rise of former Chinese premier Mao Zedong. Mixing Asian and American leads, pic is being put together with a $40 million-$60 million budget.
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Pic interweaves the stories of poet-cum-revolutionary Mao, who between 1911 and 1949 achieved supreme power, and Sidney Rittenberg, a soldier who was twice incarcerated by him. Screenplay by John Goldsmith is an adaptation of two books: "Mao," by BBC journo Philip Short and Rittenberg's "The Man Who Stayed Behind."
"Heaven" is being set-up as an assisted co-production and North is negotiating with Chinese authorities concerning use of extras needed for military shorts.
"This is a very positive portrayal of Mao, and we are hoping that one the script clears the approval process, China will come up with services and support," North said.
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This is a grab for production dollars, pure and simple. In the movie business, at any level, producers push what can get funded as the first criteria.
This project does not have any visible studio backing and, in my semi-insider's opinion, may not get the help it needs from Beijing. The movie money pool there is looking to co-produce films that highlight any positive US-China relationships. They might not be as anxious to revisit the Great Walk as this guy thinks. I'm betting that this project will either not get made or if it does will never get theatrical distribution.
The comparison's to the various Che projects are not valid, imo. Mao was a pudgy, greasy little creep. Che, factually or not, is a 'romantic' figure.
Well at the rate the antisemitic are taking over the media...it won’t be long before we see a “positive portrayal” of Hitler.
Springtime for Mao and China
China is happy, and gay....
I wrote a paper in college in my ‘Politics in China’. The professor was a liberal that loved Mao. I titled my paper ‘The Butcher of Beijing’. I documented 100 million deaths during Mao’s reign. Both from killing and starvation policies. She hated the topic and gave me a C minus.
It’s odd when college phd professors hold Mao or Stalin with such great regard as folk heros. They each killed twice as many people as Hitler, yet somehow think Mao and Stalin were wonderful people. Stalin even gets the nickname Uncle Joe. Mao, Stalin and Hitler were socialist dicators and whether some political spectrum determines they are on the right or left makes no difference.