Posted on 10/19/2007 9:34:08 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
NEW YORK - Hollywood director Brian De Palma has lashed out at what he calls the censorship of his new film about Iraq and the chilling effect of corporate America on the war. De Palma's film, "Redacted," is based on the true story of a group of U.S. soldiers who raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered members of her family. It has stunned audiences for its shocking images and rattled American conservative commentators before its U.S. opening next month.
But De Palma says he is upset that the documentary-style drama has been censored.
The film's distributor, Magnolia Pictures, ordered the faces of dead Iraqis shown in a montage of photographs at the end of the film be blacked out...
De Palma has loudly argued the issue in public, including sparring with Eamonn Bowles, the president of Magnolia...Bowles countered that possible future lawsuits by the families of the dead Iraqis meant the photos had to be edited...
"We were always open about letting him make the sort of film he wanted to make," Bowles said, adding not many distribution companies would have supported the film at all.
De Palma, who has criticized Hollywood for not being willing to finance such independent films, said he was shocked at his own lack of editorial control.
"I can't even get the photographs out there, that was all surprising to me," he said...Bowles admitted Magnolia could not insure the film if it ran the unedited photos, which were too graphic to run in mainstream newspapers or television reports.
De Palma, who looked at the atrocities of conflict in the 1989 film "Casualties of War," which also centers on the rape of a young girl by U.S. soldiers...
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No Mr. De Palma, what is surpring is that a young stout U.S. Marine hasn't kicked your ass!
He is a sick, violence-worshipping bastard who makes the kind of movies I would never watch, even if paid to do so. I suspect he is also a physical coward.
I think the headline was complete at just “Director De Palma disturbed.”
This perv has been obsessed with psychosexual violence for decades, witness the recurring themes in his movies from the 70’s to date. It might be revealing to hear from ex-wife Nancy Allen what he was like behind closed doors. We already know what he’s like, through his cinematic obsessions, outside the confines of privacy.
He ought to remain within the realm of his sickness without trying to infect domestic politics with the same disease. There’s plenty of that as it is in D.C.
BS. They couldn't insure the film if it ran photos of these people without CLEARANCE from the families.
It isn't the "graphic" nature of the photos that causes this "problem".
Time-Lies only ran the photo of the dead US soldier being dragged through the streets of Somalia AFTER they airbrushed out his exposed genitalia. THAT was too much for Time-Lies.
DePalma is beneath contempt.
He knows all about sadism and has profited nicely from it.
First of all, only the Government can “censure” something. Otherwise it is a market decision by the owners of flick.
But Brian De Palma seems to have a thing for child-rape.
He is not fit to shine Hitchcock’s shoes.
If this movie is the truth about every soilder, then every director/producer in Hollywood is Roman Polanski. Lock them all up for sexual abuse of children.
It breaks my heart that these brave soldiers that he is depicting as murdering rapists are the very ones that are fighting and dying so that this POS has the freedom to make and say these vile things.
“The only way Brian De Palma can depict American soldiers is as child-raping murderers.”
Yup, forget about the countless good deeds being done by our soldiers over there...let’s focus on the rare exception.
Re: “We’re marketing ‘Redacted’ not as an Iraq film necessarily but as a film that is going to provide an experience that is going to be rich for moviegoers,” said Jeff Reichert, Magnolia senior vp publicity and marketing
“Rich” to movie-goers?
Yes, if those movie-goers are islamic jihadists!
Has creative genius Brian ever considered financing his own projects? Didn't think so.
“First of all, only the Government can “censure” something. Otherwise it is a market decision by the owners of flick.”
Michael Moore whined about the same thing when he was shopping his piece of crap F911 around.
“I’m being censored.” No, Michael, they’re making a business decision. Don’t like it? Pay to distribute it yourself.
That's an excellent point. The liberal perception is that this movie isn't a "slice of life" -- rather, it's an indictment against the entire system. There's no grounds for that at all.
It p***es the living f*** outta me that of all the incredibly heroic stuff our men and women are doing over there, my fellow filmmakers choose this kind of s**t to put on film.
Sorry to resort to DU-style modes of expre**ion... but I am mad.
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