Boy, Debbie sure outed Spielberg for the anti-Semite he really is. /sarcasm.
"Keep this in mind when you shell out $9 to see "War of the Worlds". Personally, I boycotted Spielberg long ago..."
I think that I will wait until it reaches the 59-cent rack at the video store. Of course, you could always procure a bootleg copy...
Tip O The Hat---Ron Dog
Spielberg thriller leaves Israeli spies in the cold
Reuters ^
Posted on 06/26/2005 10:42:53 AM CDT by TheOtherOne
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430986/posts
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg, famed for Hollywood blockbusters, is keeping mum about his latest project, a dramatisation of tit-for-tat killings that followed the 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian guerrillas.
Such is the secrecy that even the Israeli spymasters who commanded the reprisals after the Munich Games have been left out in the cold.
Five retired Mossad agents, all of whom served in key intelligence posts during the hunt for Palestinian guerrilla chiefs in Europe and the Middle East to avenge the slaying of Israel's 11 sportsmen, voiced surprise at hearing of the film.
"I know nothing at all about this project," a former Mossad director who declined to be named told Reuters.
Entertainment reports say the film, provisionally titled "Vengeance" and due to reach cinemas in December, is based on a book of the same name whose account of one of the most painful chapters in Jewish history has been widely discredited.
Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy said the project had been comprehensively researched.
"This film has been built from many, many sources. One thing I can say is we expect this to be a balanced film," he said.
Best known in Israel for "Schindler's List", a Holocaust epic that ends with a pro-Zionist message, Spielberg was quoted as saying in a USA Today interview last week that the new film was a chance to explore his Jewish faith and fear of terrorism.
In the preface to "Vengeance", author George Jonas declares himself a supporter of Israel. But according to at least one member of Spielberg's cast, Daniel Craig, the screenplay is a less-than-flattering portrayal of Israeli tactics.
"It's about how vengeance doesn't ... work -- blood breeds blood," Craig told entertainment magazine Empire.
THIRTY YEARS OF SILENCE
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office, which oversees Mossad and its archives, said it had received no request for assistance from any film production on Munich or its aftermath.
It was not clear if help would have been forthcoming.
Israel has never formally claimed responsibility for the shootings, explosive booby-traps and cross-border commando raids that killed 10 Palestinians linked to Black September, the group that carried out the deadly attack in Munich's Olympic Village.
The campaign included the 1973 slaying in Norway of a Moroccan waiter mistaken for Black September's leader. Six members of the Israeli hit team were prosecuted for murder. Israel eventually paid compensation to the victim's family.
"That whole period is too sensitive, even 30 years on," said an ex-deputy Mossad chief. "No one really wants to discuss it."
But Zvi Zamir, who headed Mossad in the 1970s, broke his silence after "Vengeance", purporting to be an expose based on the confessions of a Mossad ex-assassin, was first published.
According to the book, Israel largely abandoned its agents mid-mission in Europe, where several were hunted down and killed by Palestinian counter-espionage teams -- an account not borne out by news reports nor the protocols of the Norwegian trial.
Zamir told the New York Times in 1984 that the version of events in "Vengeance" was "not true" but did not elaborate. While standing by his source, Jonas admitted that "certain details of the story were incapable of being verified".
Jonas's agent Linda McKnight told the Wall Street Journal last year that Universal Pictures, which is co-producing the film with Spielberg's Dreamworks, had exercised an option to make a movie based on the book.
I wrote off Speilberg when he felt he needed to remove guns from the hands of the military in his ET revision.
Because the Nazis were at war with there Hero, Stalin, as well as the US, UK, and France. WWII was a just war to the libs because socialism needed to survive.
Thanks for post. And Hollywood film makers can't seem to figure out why their revenue is dropping. Crap like this from Spielberg is not the only reason, but is certainly a factor. Most Americans know that it's militant muslims doing the barbaric acts all over the world and when a Hollywood bigwig caters to these killers, it dampens one's enthusiasm for paying 8-9 bucks a head.
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Same here. So many really good low budget films come out every year that I spend my time and cash looking for small jewels not big budget flops. For instance, years back Dracula II, Ascension just knocked my socks off. July 12th, part 3, Dracula III, Legacy will hit the store shelves. For movie lovers, I'd bet either of these films would pack greater punch than any Spielberg big budget Tom Cruise "epic." I'll stick with small stuff. |
I've seen ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and I have to say it is anything but pro-Palestinian.
"accidentally killing a Moroccan waiter"
Mistakenly killing, not accidentally. They meant for him to die, but they thought he was someone else.
Will not be seeing WOTW.
Had planeed not to already.
Stephen Spielberg: continuing to demonstrate to the world that some of us Jews are really, really stupid.
Let's see, hunting down terrorists and killing them. And that is bad, because.......?
Hypocrite.
It's OK because they were white.
I wonder was he evil when he did "Saving Private Ryan, "Band Of Brothers"?
Destined to be a liberal cult classic.
"One Day in September" is VERY anti the terrorists. It's a good movie. It's main point seems to be the utter incompetence of the vaunted German police/security forces. You must have some strange colored goggles on to miss the sympathy for the victims this movie demonstrates clearly and unmistakably.
When Elia Kazan received a standing ovation for his Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in 1999, there were some who remained seated and wouldn't applaud, such as Ed Harris, Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss, and some who didn't have the balls to take a stand, so they remained seated but applauded, such as steven spielberg.