Posted on 01/26/2006 7:29:12 PM PST by Cornpone
US director Steven Spielberg discusses his controversial new film "Munich," which deals with the aftermath of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL he talks about the moral aspects of dealing with terrorism and responds to critics who claim he's betrayed the Jewish people.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Spielberg, can you remember the hours of the Olympic massacre? Do you know where you were when you heard the terrible news?
Spielberg: Yes, I do. I was watching a "Wide World of Sports" live broadcast from Munich when the news suddenly flashed in, and the well-known sports commentator Jim McKay became a man for the hard facts of world politics. I was glued to the TV for the next few hours. I think it was then that I heard the words "terrorist" and "terrorism" for the first time - they hadn't been part of my vocabulary up to then.
SPIEGEL: Later, you were frequently approached with ideas for a "Munich" film. For a long time you couldn't warm to the material, and kept putting it off. Why?
Spielberg: I declined for several years because I didn't like the scripts and because I considered it too complex a problem. I discussed this film with all kinds of people who mean a lot to me, in the hope that they would talk me out of it, even my parents and my rabbi. But no-one would do me that favor. So my scriptwriter Tony Kushner and myself took on the project as seriously and politically unbiased, and as uncompromisingly as possible.
SPIEGEL: And do you regret it?
Spielberg: Not at all. I am now extremely happy that I had the courage to make "Munich".
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
Actually, I believed Kate Capshaw converted for him.
Good for him, although I doubt the Muslim extremists would be impressed either way.
This is true much to my surprise Years ago I read Spielberg had seven children with Capshaw with about half adopted. This says something very positive about Spielberg and Kate Capshaw
But ..... Here we are today with Iran threatening to destroy Israel and Hamas setting up a terror state adjacent to Israel. I say Spielberg is out to lunch with politically correct /Tony Kushner/ movies like "Munich". He is oblivious to what threatens Israel all the time. Today Israel is closer to destruction than ever before and "Munich" is the best Spielberg can do? If he's really Jewish why did he waste his damn time on this vanity movie?
I have no use for him. Spielberg-Munich is a cautionary tale
Fine post
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she converted and the kids have been mitzvahed.
Despite that he still makes vanity (frivolous) movies "Munich". Steve Spielberg wasted his time
(The film has already sparked off discussion in the USA about the Middle East and about the methods used today in the "war on terrorism" declared by George W. Bush ...)
The war was not declared by George W. Bush. It has been on for many years now, through many acts of terror culminating with 9/11. What George W. did was to finally join the fight. The fact that liberals can't see this is a detriment to our struggle.
Yep, on the one hand, hardline lunatic setting official Iran policy, and Hamas winning in the Palestine Authority.
On the other hand, serious changes from the French re:the terrorist threat, new leaders in Germany and Canada a lot more in line with the US way of looking at the world.Two steps back, two steps forward: back to the status quo and BALANCE!
Bubba "would die in a trench for Israel"????
This is the same Bubba who recently claimed
that at age 9 he and his progressive little
friends in Little Rock, would go and sit in the back of the bus on purpose to show solidarity with Rosa Parks.
Bubba is just the gift that keeps on giving.
I don't think a phonier individual with a more thoroughly transparently false and contrived "biography" has ever existed on planet Earth. He is ONE OF A KIND!
Post a picture of yourself. My curiosity is getting the best of me.
American, liberal, left-wing Democrat Jews, Gays, Lesbians, Blacks do not seem to realize that we are engaged in a religious/cultural war with these Muslim, fanatic, terrorists. Islam has no use whatsoever for any Jew, Gay, Lesbian or Black person. Heck, they will kill us all. These liberal, left-wing Democrat people are not good students of history. In most religious, cultural wars the goal of the conquering forces is to totally eliminate the enemy by slaughter. For goodness sakes, even Joshua, Gideon, etc. did the same in the name of the Jewish faith to protect Judaism. Whether you like or not, agree with it or not, that's the ticket. Any idiot Jew like Spielberg, Larry David, Barbra Streisnad, George Soros, etc. is playing with themselves if they think any different. How any Jew, Gay or black could ever support the Democrat "Traitor/Treason Party is beyond me. They are only voting to get themselves slaughtered!!! Go figure!!!
well...if he "would die for Israel", then why won't he make a less ambiguous movie about their history?
The idiot outed himself as yet another Hollyweird Bush-hater and Pali lover in the Der Speigel interview.
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