Posted on 12/17/2014 5:18:34 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Sony Hack: Activists to Drop 'Interview' DVDs Over North Korea Via Balloon
by Paul Bond
12/16/2014 4:03pm PDT
This story also appears in the Jan. 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Whether or not North Korea is behind the Sony hack, Kim Jong Un better brace himself because The Interview is headed to his country. Human rights activists are planning to airlift DVDs of the Seth Rogen comedy into the country via hydrogen balloons.
Fighters for a Free North Korea, run by Park Sang Hak, a former government propagandist who escaped to South Korea, has for years used balloons to get transistor radios, DVDs and other items into North Korea — not to entertain the deprived masses, but to introduce them to the outside world.
Read more Sony Hack: First Lawsuit Filed Against Company by Ex-Employees
In the past two years, the Human Rights Foundation in New York, created by Thor Halvorssen, has been helping bankroll the balloon drops, with the next one set for January. The Interview likely won't be out on DVD then, but Halvorssen says he'll add copies as soon as possible. Halvorssen, whose group also finances the smuggling of DVD players into North Korea, says that the past dozen or so drops have included copies of movies and TV shows like Braveheart, Battlestar Galactica and Desperate Housewives. Anything with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone is also popular.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Do the North Koreans know what a DVD is? What format do they use in their (Likely Standard Definition) TVs? Since practically nobody in that country speaks English, I suppose that they will need to dub or subtitle the entire movie. Perhaps include a text supplement to explain the jokes.
talk about poor planning.
LOL. I would not want to be hit in the head with a falling dvd, but even less a dvd player.
Am I the only one who, while not agreeing with the tactics of the hackers, think it is very tacky to make a movie about assassinating a foreign leader BY HIS ACTUAL NAME. If you must, at least change the name. No matter how big the jerk, how do you not take it as a threat? I can’t see hollyweird making a movie about assassinating Obama without uproar. Neither can I see a foreign country making the movie without uproar. I mean, fictionalize it like, say, the TV program 24. Don’t use the real name.
Like, uh, what are they gonna play them on?.......................
I’d bet that most North Koreans don’t even know what a DVD is......................
Are they gonna drop players and power supplies for the players too? Or are the Norks just going to receive ugly little round mirrors with a hole in the middle, and pictures of two jackasses on the printed side?
“They better air drop DVD players as well. Keep in mind, this is a people who are starving to the point of eating tree bark. How many DVD players do you think they have? Hell, how much electricity do they have to play the DVD players?”
Might want to consider dropping generators with a full tank of gas over there also.
Put the movie on YouTube and give it he Norks the finger
Funnier than Mad Magazine was in the 1960s.
Please, somebody tell me this is satire.
They probably still have BetaMax there.
I believe they only have wind-up TVs due to the lack of electric power.
If its a stunt the execs at Sony are redefining the term ‘taking one for the team’.
Don’t be surprise if Chia Chub got copy too he probably asking damn I wasn’t being treated this harsh
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.