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...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Casualties Of War Part II
DePalma has other Hollywood product. NONE of it worthy of financial support.
Do you buy pre-Communist Jane Fonda products on DVD?
Yep.
It's the standard M.O. of liberals to find the most emotional, provocative single example they can find and inexplicably imply that it describes the whole group. It's the very definition of fallacy, and it's extremely dishonest.
Lord Haw Haw would have been proud of this guy.
It didn’t say ‘boycottdepalma’. I was referring to this film in particular. DePalma had a series of massive flops in the 90s and hs been working with European financing since then. And I don’t allow the political beliefs of an artist to color my appreciation of the art. And I highly doubt Fonda gets any roylaties from her 1960s films. So enjoy ‘Cat Ballou’ with peace of mind.
To clarify this particular project is tasteless exploitation and I have no intention of seeing it.
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071012/SPORTS05/110120110/1005/SPORTS
Even Cuban was grossed out. See: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071012/SPORTS05/110120110/1005/SPORTS
So does Sen. Webb of VA.
I have a huge DVD collection, including films from all over the world. And I don’t own a single Brian de Palma film. And proud of it!
Amen to that!
Except to say there're more than a few Army vets --like myself-- who'd relish, pay for a piece of the miserable cowardly quisling-SOB, also.
The creep must literally glow.
...*yellow*.
Yes, it appears that this point is always overlooked. These artists aren’t being censored. They are getting paid to produce a movie that the funder’s of the movie can make money on. DePalma can go fund, insure and distribute his own movie with his own money any time he wants to. When he asks for other people’s money, they get a say on what gets edited. Welcome to life douche-bag. How long will it take to figure this stuff out? Perhaps he has and he is just looking for (more) controversy.
“Hollywood is the kind of place that denies the power of its images if it is pushing gratuitous sex and carnage on the young but accepts the power of its images if it is pushing a political statement on the public.”
-—Great writing by Mr. Knott.
Thanks for the link!
If YOU don't own the production and distribution services, Mr. DePalma, you're NEVER in control.
I think this movie was financed by Mark Cuban who owns the Dallas Mavericks. I can’t support the team anymore.
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