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'Little Obama' Movie Opens in Indonesia (provide your own barf bags)
Voice of America ^
| July 2, 2010
| Brian Padden
Posted on 07/03/2010 7:50:38 PM PDT by dynachrome
A new movie titled Little Obama (Obama Anak Mentang), chronicling the time President Barack Obama lived in Indonesia as a boy, has opened in Jakarta. The director says the film shows a young Barack Obama becoming the leader he is today.
At the premier of the movie Little Obama in Jakarta, children from the school President Obama attended when he lived in Indonesia as a child, sang and danced. Invited guests also had their pictures taken with a look-alike of the adult president.
But the main event was the screening of the film about the lessons a young Barry Obama, as he was then known, learned while living in Jakarta in the early 1970s. From his Indonesian stepfather young Barry learned to fight when he must. From his mother he learned to forgive. In the movie there is action and a touch of romance.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: barfaroni; indonesia; movie; obama
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Hurl-a-licious, I am sure.
To: dynachrome
The end sentence of the article:
“The movie, however, did present a few concerns. Before its release, a scene showing the young Barry Obama, who is a Christian, praying like a Muslim was dropped because producers deemed it too political.”
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posted on
07/03/2010 7:51:59 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
To: dynachrome
The movie, however, did present a few concerns. Before its release, a scene showing the young Barry Obama, who is a Christian, praying like a Muslim was dropped because producers deemed it too political.
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/03/2010 7:56:23 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: thecodont
It will receive a rave review from the NYT and Rolling Stoned.
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:00:16 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
To: thecodont
Shouldn’t the title be “Little Saetoro”? After all, that was his name when he lived in Indonesia...
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:00:44 PM PDT
by
Russ
(Repeal the 17th amendment)
To: dynachrome
Better.....
Better?
Better get a bucket, I think I'm going to puke!
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:05:10 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: dynachrome
Young Soetoro; possessed of such raw intellect and purpose.
He must have had problems in school; the world is never ready for a home-town messiah.
Especially false ones.
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:09:24 PM PDT
by
One Name
To: dynachrome
I will search for the bootleg dvd.
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:19:36 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: dynachrome
Watch the trailer. Barry is part Rocky the boxer, part suave dating guy, part misunderstood victim of racism, and he ends with "I just wanna be a soldier."
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:27:30 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: dynachrome
I’d rather sit thru “The Last Airbender” 1,000 times.
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:28:48 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: mylife
“But sir, it’s only woffer-thin”...
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:29:57 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: kromike
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:31:14 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: Sender
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:33:56 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:47:26 PM PDT
by
FrankR
( If we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants win, and we're enslaved.)
To: dynachrome
That moped-riding teacher looked......artistically inclined.
I suspect he enjoys browsing antique stores and wearing pastels.
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posted on
07/03/2010 8:59:13 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: expatguy; AmericanInTokyo; Fred Nerks; LucyT; STARWISE; little jeremiah; SunkenCiv; mo
*ping*
I thought this movie was supposed to debut during the Obamas' vacation in Indonesia -- which apparently is indefinitely postponed.
To: gaijin
For historical accuracy they should have featured mom “doing” the whole village, or maybe the little ‘un decapitating someone.
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posted on
07/03/2010 9:02:03 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: mylife
Mr. Creosote!!!
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posted on
07/03/2010 9:10:12 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: gaijin
That moped-riding teacher looked......artistically inclined. I suspect he enjoys browsing antique stores and wearing pastels.Hah! ... I saw what you meant...
I suppose the teacher taught little Obama all he knows ... (about interior decorating).
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posted on
07/03/2010 9:10:44 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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