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Hollywood Quickly Bringing the Iraq War Home (Hollywood Hates America Alert)
NYTimes (via Drudge) ^ | 7/25/2007 | Michael Cieply

Posted on 07/25/2007 10:43:02 PM PDT by mojito

On a night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a Hooters restaurant and a topless bar near Fort Benning, Ga.

Before the night was over, one of them, Specialist Richard R. Davis, was dead of at least 33 stab wounds, his body doused with lighter fluid and burned. Two of the group would eventually be convicted of the murder, another pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and the last confessed to concealing the crime.

Now some in Hollywood want moviegoers to decide if the killing is emblematic of a war gone bad, part of a new and perhaps risky willingness in the entertainment business to push even the touchiest debates about post-9/11 security, Iraq and the troops’ status from the confines of documentaries into the realm of mainstream political drama.

On Sept. 14, Warner Independent Pictures expects to release “In the Valley of Elah,” a drama inspired by the Davis murder, written and directed by Paul Haggis, whose “Crash” won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones as a retired veteran who defies Army bureaucrats and local officials in a search for his son’s killers. In one of the movie’s defining images, the American flag is flown upside down in the heartland, the signal of extreme distress.

Other coming films also use the damaged Iraq veteran to raise questions about a continuing war. In “Grace Is Gone,” directed by James C. Strouse and due in October from the Weinstein Company, John Cusack and two daughters struggle with the loss of a wife and mother who is killed on duty. Kimberly Peirce’s “Stop-Loss,” set for release in March by Paramount, meanwhile, casts Ryan Phillippe as a veteran who defies an order that would send him back to Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywoodleft; liberals; lies; nyslimes; valleyofelah
These people hate America, and everything America stands for, except for the right to make a buck peddling repulsive nonsense.
1 posted on 07/25/2007 10:43:05 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

Wow. This is REALLY unique. Like THIS has never happened before.

Scum. They are ALL scum. We cannot allow the honor and good name of our military to be impugned as they were during Vietnam.

We MUST not allow it.


2 posted on 07/25/2007 10:46:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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We MUST not allow it.

There's no need for action here. Prediction: every one of these UNPATRIOTIC liberal films will open to huge accolades and small box-office receipts.

3 posted on 07/25/2007 10:57:21 PM PDT by kromike
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To: rlmorel

Those of us who grew up in the ‘70s well remember when the “deranged Vietnam veteran” was the villain in about half the crime dramas. Dispicable.


4 posted on 07/25/2007 10:59:57 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: mojito

Let them spend $100’s of millions of dollars, and then watch them scratch their heads when they only make 1% of their investment back! Bunch of dumbasses!


5 posted on 07/25/2007 11:18:32 PM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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I was watching So You Think You Can Dance on Fox tonight, and one of the choreographer’s made all the contestants dance this anti-war dance to express their frustrations about the war in Iraq. They needed to do this to stay in the competition. I wonder what would have happened if one of them refused. Needless to say I wont be watching that show anymore.

Either way, the pro American said is losing the public relations war to the enemy within. And best believe, there is an active enemy within. These people are relentless and will use any occassion to shove their point of view down others throats. Not surprised the propoganda films are on their way. And people wonder why we cant win wars anymore. If we dont stand up and say enough is enough, than it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out how this will end. I fear the outcome my friends.


6 posted on 07/26/2007 12:12:24 AM PDT by acsuc99
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Needless to say I wont be watching that show anymore.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Why watch it anyway? In the race to find something, anything, to fill time slots, the industry is creating ever more boring shows which would be an embarrassment to a first grader. The only new show I have seen which is even slightly interesting is “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader” and it gets to be too much after a few weeks. Jeff Foxworthy and the kids are what keep it going.


7 posted on 07/26/2007 3:09:28 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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To: rlmorel

It is Iraqsploitation.

This defines Hollywood.


8 posted on 07/26/2007 3:15:15 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Not all Liberals are Communists, but all Communists are Liberals.)
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To: mojito
That's why I don't watch Hollywood. Patriotism and a respect for our troops isn't in the vocabulary.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

9 posted on 07/26/2007 3:16:35 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I wonder if they are going to play that crap at the base ran theaters overseas. I for one would never watch any of that crap, it’s bad enough AFN likes to jam MSNBC down our throats for what seems like 70% of the day. Forgive me if I seem like I’m venting, FR and other sites like it is where I get all my entertainment these days.


10 posted on 07/26/2007 3:42:48 AM PDT by thewitz
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I can’t wait for the time that Hollywood and other such putrid smelling scum will do themselves in.


11 posted on 07/26/2007 3:45:49 AM PDT by freekitty
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Remember, Tommy Lee JOnes was Al Gore’s roommate at Harvard and supported him vigorously during his 2000 presidential run.


12 posted on 07/26/2007 3:49:25 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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All of these movies will lose money and sell about like “sicko’.

LLS


13 posted on 07/26/2007 4:33:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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Hollywood picks the anomaly for military movies, but it doesn’t work anymore. We know there are a few goof balls and criminals in every profession, even the US military....but they don’t represent the whole.

If they did, we would see a slew of movies about teachers featuring the nut case teacher brought back facing possible charges in the Jon Benet murder case or playing up that profession’s string of child abusers....or

Hollywood would never again put forth an honorable journalist, but instead, inundate us with films about the liars and cheats who published false stories....or

Well, you get the idea.

14 posted on 07/26/2007 6:34:45 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: mojito

When some reprobate inner city scum rapes and murders an innocent teenager is that a symbol of Liberalism gone bad? Spare me.


15 posted on 07/26/2007 6:45:14 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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They keep churning this garbage out despite the fact it doesn’t sell. A couple years ago when all the movies nominated for best picture were liberal crap (Brokeback, Capote, etc.) the penguin movie nominated for best documentary made more money that all the best picture nominees combined.


16 posted on 07/26/2007 6:48:13 AM PDT by joebuck
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To: mojito

I think Senator Joseph McCarthy might have been on to something.


17 posted on 07/26/2007 6:52:48 AM PDT by windsorknot
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SING-ALONG ON YOUTUBE — THEY SUCK IN HOLLYWOOD — http://youtube.com/watch?v=qdC2hiQHcPE


18 posted on 07/26/2007 8:31:28 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: rlmorel

I know right?!

Earth to Michael, “quickly”?

1. It’s been 4+ years sparky, they’re a little late if just starting now.

2. They’ve been making movies crtical of the Iraq war since at least March 2003 (F911).

3. This is not the first of its kind to disrespectfully portray the troops propensity for “killing [] emblematic of a war gone bad” See Jarhead (years old already).

The NYSlimes has the worst “reporters” in modern media history. They are a joke. Research is an unfamiliar term and hyperbole their trademark. In my view, they’ve become one step above the National Inquirer.


19 posted on 07/26/2007 9:03:09 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (Get the troops out of the Iraqi civil war and send them to the Sudan civil war. Biden '08 /sarcasm)
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Nothing new. There was some of the same happings during WW2, according to my dad. There are always animals waiting to jump GI’s.


20 posted on 07/27/2007 4:18:26 AM PDT by G-Man 1
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