Stephen Spielberg's "Balanced" View of Terror

Front Page Magazine ^ | June 28, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

[Vision Thing]

I was hoping Spielberg's movie was going to be pro-Israel/anti-terrorist, but it sounds as if he plans to take more of an Appease Now line. That is too bad, because I was looking forward to seeing it.

Don't place too much faith in the courage of spielberg. Like most people in hollywood, the spiel doesn't want to die for his art in the same way that Theo van Gogh did.

[sheik yerbouty]

He is one of those who will eulogize dead Jews while having almost no regard for live ones. He prefers to be a pc apparatchik; a useful idiot for leftists and jihadists.

[demnomo]

The Israelis are the good guys. Sometimes good guys make mistakes.

Can you imagine those hate-filled, violence-loving Palestinians giving compensation to an innocent Jewish victim's family, like Israel did to that Moroccan waiter's family? Of course not. All Jews are guilty and must die (or be enslaved) according to the Palestinian pig people. The Palis would just throw a party and then go on to kill more Jews.

The double standard that the liberals (and some extreme right-wingers) have against Israel is astonishing to behold. Steven Spielberg can suck eggs on this one...

[Borges]

He is one of those who will eulogize dead Jews while having almost no regard for live ones.

So much for his Shoah foundation then and all their work with survivors.

[brownsfan]

"If this movie...when it is made...is sympathetic to the Palestinian terrorists I'll eat my hat. Spielberg has been to Israel numerous times."

This is a no brainer. I would gladly pay to watch a movie about terrorists being killed. Most people I talk to have a similar perspective. To portray it as anything less than justice is to ask for the movie to tank.

If Speilberg wants to lose money, he'll portray the palestinians as sympathetic characters. But, I don't think Mr. Speilberg sets out to lose money very often, (we won't mention AI).

[sbelew]

"Snicker. The Indy Jones films show more Nazi flags than American flags."

Sooo, you're implying that the Raiders series is pro-Nazi?

Interesting theory. Insane,asinine,divorced from reality...but interesting.

I'll agree with a previous poster that the removal of guns from ET was a travesty, along the lines of Greedo shooting first.

And I have no illusions, about Spielberg's politics...he's a dyed in the wool liberal. Most "artistic" types are. Oh well, can't win 'em all. But the guy does (or at least did) make great movies.

Here's an idea: before we get all pissy about a film that no one has even SEEN yet,based on one column, let's all take a deep breath and wait for the damn thing to come out and read someone like Michael Medved's review.

[Vision Thing]

He is one of those who will eulogize dead Jews while having almost no regard for live ones. He prefers to be a pc apparatchik; a useful idiot for leftists and jihadists.

And if he follows through on spinning this movie into an anti-Isreali, pro-Palestinian film, we can also accuse him of picking only on dead terrorist regimes (Nazis) and appeasing living terrorist regimes.

[sheik yerbouty]

You got that right. Is Spielberg angling for 'kapo" status?

[Borges]

about a film that no one has even SEEN

I'll one up you. It's a film that doesn't exist yet.

[DoctorMichael]

Spielberg has previously demonstrated his priorities and allegiances: I wrote off Speilberg when he made the decision, after making his name and millions of dollars profiting from America's children with ET, Close Encounters, Jaws, etc., etc., etc., and then turning around and quitting his Board of Directors position on the BOY SCOUTS in support of the lobbyists for Homosexuals and Pedophiles.

Hypocrite.

[Vision Thing]

Nope, the films are more anti-Nazi than pro-American. I was just mocking the FReeper who was implying that the series was all-American all-the-time.

I apologize for leaving out the sarcasm tags in my post. :-)

[sheik yerbouty]

I was speaking of his view of the world today. The Shoah was in the past, so it is safe territory for him to aid the relatively few survivors of it. What is he doing to prevent the jihadists from attemting Shaoh II?(Chas v'shalom). The answer is his "balanced" view I guess.

[Borges]

My assertion was based on the character of Indiana Jones himself who's clearly in the mold of American adventurers. It's not a type you see in European films. :-)

[Borges]

Once again we're talking about movie that doesn't exist. Schlussel is throwing darts in the air.

[wideawake]

Why did Spielberg make the Nazis look bad, and even melt to their deaths, in "Raiders by the Lost Ark"?

It's OK because they were white.

[Borges]

It's OK because they were white.

Very disappointing to hear you, of all people, adopt this view which is the same complaint people have about that film on various white power sites. Is that really what you think?

[Vision Thing]

I like that explanation, Borges! It reflects reality: American heros are the only ones who have the balls to save the euro-Pansies from the Nazis. :-)

[Borges]

I should say it's a type the Europeans have abandoned. You used to see it in the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne. No more.

[Valin]

I wonder was he evil when he did "Saving Private Ryan, "Band Of Brothers"?

[sheik yerbouty]

I believe it is in what is called in the industry, pre production. Tune in..