Posted on 10/01/2004 12:43:46 PM PDT by KantianBurke
Acclaimed Italian director and actor Roberto Benigni is about to begin work on a comedy movie set against the backdrop of war-torn Iraq. The Oscar-winning star hopes La Tigre E La Neve will do for the war in Iraq what his Life Is Beautiful did for the Holocaust. In the film Benigni will take the lead role of a poet who gets caught up in events in Iraq in March 2003 when the US launched its attack on Saddam Hussein's regime.
He tells Italian radio. "War naturally is the background of the film and my character is directly involved in it after this poet ends up in Iraq by pure chance. What is extraordinary is his vision of the world. This is one person representing all the people in the world." Benigni also makes a veiled attack on the West's role in Iraq: "Westerners are running the show, all of those doing these things have studied in the West, it is not the Easterners. We know how many dreams the East gives, and how grateful we are to the East and love all its beautiful things."
Maybe beheadings as performance art?
The sky is falling.
An idoot who made a comedy of the Death camps can do anything...
What a twit!
Just curious Roberto, but who were the bad guys in "Life Is Beautiful"?
"We know how many dreams the East gives, and how grateful we are to the East and love all its beautiful things."
What planet is he inhabiting? Does he mean Japan and China? Indonesia? Malaysia?
Persia was a heck of a long time ago and the Arabs have contributed zilch in centuries.
I'm going to write a new book. Dreaming Jihad. Should work nicely into what I'm writing now.
It was, and is, a great film.
I don't think so... It outraged me...
But De Gustibus...
Perhaps he'll wander in Danteesqe fashion into one of Uday's torture chambers, or stop by to watch a beheading. He can render a soliloquy while he watches the Kurds being slaughtered with poison gas. Let us do homage to all those beautiful, eastern things that western aggression has robbed from us!
Benigni ping
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