[wagglebee]

I know that Spielberg is a liberal, but he usually leaves it out of his movies, and this looks like it will be fantastic.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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T'was US Freepers -vs- THEM...

at the 2003 OSCARS:


http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030324antiwar0324p7.asp
(AP Photo/Article)

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[Rummyfan]

However, the political minefield of the film’s subject matter — the tale of a secret Mossad hit squad ordered to assassinate the Palestinian terrorists who directly or even indirectly carried out the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich — will be the main issue at awards time. Specifically, it all comes down to how the movie portrays its principal characters: Will the Israelis be seen as too bloodthirsty? Will the Palestinians be seen as too stereotypical? Insiders say Spielberg and his screenwriter Tony Kushner worked hard to create multidimensional characters.

The Israelis tracked down and meted out justic eot a bunch of killers. Only for Hollywood could such an endeavor be a 'political minefield'.

[dfwgator]

He's pretty much flopped since Private Ryan.

[TX Bluebonnet]

“Viewing Israel’s response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy adds a human dimension to a horrific episode that we usually think about only in political or military terms. By experiencing how the implacable resolve of these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling doubts about what they were doing, I think we can learn something important about the tragic standoff we find ourselves in today.”

The Israelis had troubling doubts? What about the Palestinians. I guess they had no doubts and that's supposed to be okay?

So what's the message here? That we shouldn't retaliate against terrorists? That we should just sit by while they bomb us back to the stone age and make us all convert to their ways?

[VOA]

There will be no press junket, no premiere and, most importantly,
no Oscar marketing campaign beyond trailers and posters for
Steven Spielberg’s movie Munich

Sounds like Spielberg is more embarassed by "Munich" than he was by "1941".
(Even if Spielberg wrote off "1941" even before it was released,
I'll never forget seeing it with a full house audience that was busy
laughing its' collective butts off at the film. Even Spielberg couldn't
destroy the inherent humor of Slim Pickens.)

[irons_player]

Because it's a stinker.

[pawdoggie]

The Israeli hit teams were called off when one of them whacked an (apparently) innocent Pali expatriate in Sweden(?, IIRC). The entire team was rounded up and jailed. The resulting diplomatic flap helped to promote the "sympathy for the downtrodden Palis" movement in Europe. A PR nightmare. I'm sure the Spielberg movie will emphasize this as a sop to the Leftist Internationalists.

[Witch-king of Angmar]

You people propably missed this.

But, just in case, he has also assembled a team of pro advisers to confront the international protestations that are sure to occur. The trio consists of Dennis Ross, a well-known U.S. diplomat who played a leading role in shaping Middle East policy in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations and is now The Washington Institute’s counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow; Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s White House spokesman who is now a senior political strategist; and Allan Mayer, a crisis PR specialist with Los Angeles-based Sitrick And Company who has advised Spielberg for several years.

This plus Tony Kushner makes me very, very suspicious about this movie.

[TX Bluebonnet]

After reading this before bed, I saw an ad for Munich last night on TV.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I know that Spielberg is a liberal, but he usually leaves it out of his movies

The guy who digitally removed the guns and terrorist references from "ET" and who turned "Jurassic Park II" into an environmental screed leaves his politics out of movies?

The guy who turned a story about a man trapped in a French airport into a story of a man trapped in a US airporat by unfeeling homeland security agents leaves his politics out of his movies?

The guy who directed "the Color Purple" leaves his politics out of his movies?

Sure, up to about 1993 you were probably right, but over the last ten years he's just another agenda driven lefty. The fact he, like a lot of lefties, considers WWII "the good war," doesn't mean he left his politics out.

[Vinnie]

I recall reading in Time mag. that we did the same after the Beirut barracks bombing.
IIRC Mossad helped with that .

[Houmatt]

I saw an ad for this film on TV recently. Maybe it is me, but I find it hard to believe Mossad agents had second thoughts and doubts over snuffing terrorist scumbags when they chose to go to another country entirely and kill 11 completely innocent people. But that was the impression I got from the ad.

Disgusting.

[DoctorMichael]

"..........no Oscar marketing campaign beyond trailers and posters...........no traditional publicity for the film before and after it opens...............He will not even be giving press or broadcast interviews..........."

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................

TIME magazines' latest cover has Spielberg on it. Look to the RIGHT [the site would not let me link to the pik, unlike all the other piks on the page].

http://www.time.com/time/

Its always been my understanding that nothing happens in the MSM by coincidence.

"......You have to be Steven Spielberg to get away with that........

Dats fo shor!

[dr_who_2]

It will star Barbra Streisand, who will sing at the end of the movie "There's a place for us", causing all the Pallies, ragheads, and Israelites to be moved to tears and start hugging each other and apologizing for past wrongs, blah, blah, blah...