Posted on 12/19/2005 1:17:51 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
And ignorant bigots at that, since the majority of Jews under 30 voted for Bush and we aren't ALL a bunch a commies.
Again, I'd like to know specifically what criticisms the Wiesenthal center has made about fundamentalist Protestants, not just that some people have accused them of doing so. I think there's a tendancy to group them with the ADL and they are not the same.
I believe Don Feder did so explicitly, though with regard to the Gibson movie. Other than this I can only apologize.
I would like to hear the Wiesenthal Center more active in defending Israel from moslems and Arabs like the Iranian president, as well.
I think this movie may, like Michael Moore's fraud, actually have a net effect just the opposite of what the Director wanted.
I would imagine that a majority of the audience will be liberals who already oppose the war on terror;i.e. preachin to the choir.
The remaining people may watch and listen to Spielberg's sympathetic portrayal of terrorists and reject his thesis.
What will help is the fact that a vast majority of the narratives we have experienced in books, TV and Cinema, follow the path of crime by villain, hunt and retribution by good guy, villain gets what he deserves in end.
I understand your point, but I'm talking about something else. If you choose to tell a story about the holocaust, you can pick your story. Spielberg did not have to pick Schindler's list. As inspiring a story as it is, it is atypical in terms of the moral dimensions of what the holocaust was.
He could have chosen from many other books to create a film on the subject.
Good example of a story about ism that does not muddle the "good vs. evil" thing.
Another good film-now available via DVD-on the response to the Munich Massacre is "Sword[s} of Gideon." It was orginally made for HBO and stars Stephen Bauer and Michael York.
Several people have recommended that. I'll have to check it out.
I agree 100%!!! You are exactly right!!!
I think Spielberg wanted to do the film but also felt that being jewish and dealing with a political issue like this he had to go overboard to balance it out lest he be accused of being biased for israel just because he's jewish. he didn't want people saying "oh, what a shock, the jew spielberg made a pro israel movie". so he went out of his way to guard against that by including pro plo stuff.
I think the chance to take a dig at us policy post 9/11 also played a role. but spielberg's 2 films Schindlers list and ryan were both good. ryan is probably one of the most pro military, pro us films in recent memory, certainly compared to the wrath of anti-us films post-nam. his next film is about iwo jima. it'll be interesting to see how he handles that one.
to be fair, there really isn't a jewish actor out there that can play the tough-guy mossad agent role. I mean, what jewish actor would you have cast? adam sandler? ben stiller? jewish actors are mostly comedians, not action stars.
it's worth it just to see Manny from Scarface as a Mossad agent. It's a shame they had to get a 3rd rate star like Eric Bana for this. No one knows who the guy is.
Perhaps some Jewish actors were considered but they turned it down because they were disgusted. Interestingly, the original screenplay was written by Eric Roth who wrote the script for "Forrest Gump" but Spielberg rejected it and went to Tony Kushner.
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