Posted on 06/19/2007 5:12:48 AM PDT by FremontLives
LOS ANGELES, June 18 — “The Kingdom,” a coming film about the F.B.I.’s pursuit of Islamic bad guys in a not particularly hospitable Saudi Arabia, appears on the surface to tread on treacherous and polarized political ground. But after a test screening before a deliberately diversified audience in the London borough of Wandsworth earlier this year, the director Peter Berg began to suspect that his terror thriller might survive its birth into a contentious world, after all.
Asked who would rate the film “excellent,” eight Muslim men and women in traditional dress — presumably some of the picture’s toughest customers — were among those who raised their hands, Mr. Berg said over breakfast here last week.
Asked why, another young Muslim woman responded with an unexpectedly salty term for high-powered action.
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Just saw the reailer for this in front of Die Hard. It’s a Michael Mann movie so it should eb awesome. Looks amazing, I wonder if it will be PC.
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