Posted on 02/18/2006 2:10:08 PM PST by Atlantic Bridge
It is rabidly anti-American, and it is the biggest draw in town.
With a budget of $10m (£5.7m), Valley of the Wolves Iraq is the most expensive film ever made in Turkey - and it is pulling record crowds.
At one of Istanbul's biggest multiplex cinemas the blockbuster is showing on five separate screens and nearly all the seats are sold out. It's the same story across the country.
"I'm back to see it for the second time already," says one student, waiting impatiently outside Screen 10.
"It is anti-American, but we already know what they've done in Iraq. That's the reality. Now we can see it on screen."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This is perfectly suitable to push up a real wave of anti-Americanism in Turkey where the feelings towards the US are deeply troubled since the beginning of the war in Iraq.
2 Hollwood actors sold out America to appear in this smear film.
anti us film?
hmm arent they all?
Who?
It's just a stupid movie, and it'll be gone before long. Nothing to get too worked up about.
"The film is due for release in Europe soon. Then it is off to the US."
The Michael Moore film festival?
Billy Zane and Gary Busey play the "bad Americans"
Billy Zane, best remembered for his brief appearance in Zoolander ("Put a cork in it, Zane!") and Gary Busey, nest known for being insane. Not exactly A-list material, but I've actually heard of them before.
Billy Zane and Gary Busey.
Unfortunately too many people believe what they see on the screen as gospel.
Why isn't the ACLU protesting this film?
(crickets chirping)
This is English?
ML/NJ
This is definitly wrong. Those people start to hate America and it is not just a local effect. Turkey is a strategic extremely important and the only moderate muslim country that counts. They are even member of NATO.
This is so sad - for many years Turkey and US were good NATO partners.
Attaturk would not be proud of his people today. He worked to bring them out of the dark ages, abolished the turban and the veil, implemented many Western ideas - and now the younger generation is falling into the trap of radical Islam.
They should be ashamed of themselves. He would be.
So how long before the rest of the world is figuratively driving a Hummer and has a pet Rotweiller?
The BBC covering up anti-Semitism, yet again. From the article:
"Even the doctor - played by Gary Busey - is evil, removing human organs from Iraqi prisoners to send to patients in the US, Israel and Britain."
What the BBC neglects to mention is that the doctor is overtly Jewish. From FrontPage magazine:
'The whacked out former star of failed, dumb reality show "I'm with Busey" repeats the age-old anti-Semitic blood libel, that Jews steal others' organs, blood, etc. for some ill purpose--in this case by playing an evil Jewish doctor"
Thanks, Gary. And congrats. You're now an official member of the Anti-Semite club. In the grand tradition of Hitler, the authors of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, etc., etc., etc. So Hollywood, so "enlightened." '
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21154
A Turkish movie featuring American actor Gary Busey as a Jewish U.S. army doctor who cuts out the organs of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and sells them to wealthy foreign clients is breaking all box office records in Turkey.
The Busey character, listed only as The Doctor, is far removed from the Jewish stereotype in both appearance and manner, but hardly a credit to his heritage. At one point, he scolds American soldiers for shooting up the wedding guests "because it ruins their organs." In another scene, a group of apparent organ buyers includes a man clearly dressed as an Orthodox Jew.
Even worse is the depiction of Zane's character, Sam William Marshall, as a psychopathic Christian fundamentalist, who can be kind to an Iraqi one moment and then kill him instantly.
An op-ed in the New York Sun characterized the storyline as "Rambo as written by Jane Fonda and Michael Moore."
I think that most people know that movies are only entertainment. What "Valley of Wolves" is is a popular Turkish reaction to their opposition for the Iraq war and their growing fear that the Kurds might have a permanent homeland in northern Iraq. Yeah, they're stung by the fact that we bagged one of their special forces groups quicker than you can say "Jack Robinson", but their real anxiety, which is made manifest in the movie, is that they're losing control of their southern border.
Our eventual withdrawal and the establishment of good relations with the new Iraqi government should take care of the anti-Americanism quite nicely. Getting too excited about it will only exacerbate the problem.
"a psychopathic Christian fundamentalist, who can be kind to an Iraqi one moment and then kill him instantly."
Liberals are going to eat this garbage up.
People understand that movies are just entertainment, and long after the Iraq war and "Valley of Wolves" are just dusty history, the US and Turkey will still be allies.
It'll be interesting to see if being the stars of a hate film is a good career move.
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