Forums · bad timing for these movies?
I just learned last night that Showtime is going to be showing a movie on Fidel Castro (I forgot the date). In theatres right now is Black Hawk Down - the movie about the US (marine?) helicopter that was shot down in Somolia years ago.
While I'm interested in both movies and will surely watch them, I think it's kinda bad timing for films like this to be coming out. Since 9/11, we've seen so much of the world showing their anti-American sentiment and such places are in an increasingly volitile state of mind. American made films - from the American point of view - about people like Castro, the events in Somolia or any other touchy subject like this, I think, are more than likely to make things worse. For instance, Somolia - a possible next target in the war - showed a bootleg copy of Black Hawk Down and the crowds were cheering when the helicopter went down or when an American soldier was killed.
What might the cubans think when the Castro film is shown? I think it just incites people to 'riot' - which we certainly don't need right now in the middle of a war and need as much global cooperation as possible. What's Castro to think and do when on the one hand we ask for his cooperation in this war against terror, then we show a film that shows how nasty he has been in the past? I understand it's the truth, but - this might be compared to calling someone as a**hole while you're shaking their hand!
Am I making any sense? Maybe it's too early... :crazy:
What do you think?
Kell
While I'm interested in both movies and will surely watch them, I think it's kinda bad timing for films like this to be coming out. Since 9/11, we've seen so much of the world showing their anti-American sentiment and such places are in an increasingly volitile state of mind. American made films - from the American point of view - about people like Castro, the events in Somolia or any other touchy subject like this, I think, are more than likely to make things worse. For instance, Somolia - a possible next target in the war - showed a bootleg copy of Black Hawk Down and the crowds were cheering when the helicopter went down or when an American soldier was killed.
What might the cubans think when the Castro film is shown? I think it just incites people to 'riot' - which we certainly don't need right now in the middle of a war and need as much global cooperation as possible. What's Castro to think and do when on the one hand we ask for his cooperation in this war against terror, then we show a film that shows how nasty he has been in the past? I understand it's the truth, but - this might be compared to calling someone as a**hole while you're shaking their hand!
Am I making any sense? Maybe it's too early... :crazy:
What do you think?
Kell
It's another one of those freedoms that we have here though - Free Enterprize. The big movie business is going to capitalize on the current patriotic resurgence - they may delay the opening of certain movies to capitalize on the free press but they won't let the possibility of making big bucks pass them by.
I wonder too, when a movie is black marketed - they have to use subtitles and or dub in their language - who's to say they put in the true dialog - just about any army/explosion movie could be used by the opposition as propaganda as those viewing will likely never see the real movie.
I wonder too, when a movie is black marketed - they have to use subtitles and or dub in their language - who's to say they put in the true dialog - just about any army/explosion movie could be used by the opposition as propaganda as those viewing will likely never see the real movie.
That's a scary thought about the dubbing over!
Yep, I know - free country and all that. I'm all for it. It's just you'd think that Hollywood would at least *sometimes* think about the possible reprecussions and reconsider things. =\ Afterall, they could still make money on fictional patriotic stuff!
Kell
Yep, I know - free country and all that. I'm all for it. It's just you'd think that Hollywood would at least *sometimes* think about the possible reprecussions and reconsider things. =\ Afterall, they could still make money on fictional patriotic stuff!
Kell
In one respect, unfortunately these 90%+ Muslim nations are skewed no matter what. Show them the film Mary Poppins and they will see it as America and Great Britton in league with Satan and using black magic rather than a childrens fantasy movie. Their religious beliefs are so warped and malaligned and they have been lied to for so many years. One news report was a film clip of a Islamic religious leader telling would be martyrs that if they give their life to God in this way (violent murder) that they will be guarenteed a place in paradise and given thirty virgins for wives. They believe freedom of expression is Satanic because the words are not from the Q'ran/Koran (?). I'm sure you know this already but in a situation where no matter what you do or say will result in the same situation what should you do? What you believe.
And if Fidel Castro is so well loved why were all those crimes supposedly committed and why have so many Cubans fled to the US?
You do have a good point. But the amount of people world wide that are Muslims who hate America and its allies is really a small number. Unfortunately this small number has a lot of zealots who are willing to go to extreme violence. We certainly haven't seen the last of them.
Besides when in Americas history have we not been hated by someone. The British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Japanese, etc....
And what nation hasn't been hated by some other nation for its entire existance. Even Switzerland is hated by nations for giving financial support to nations that some nation is at war with.
And if Fidel Castro is so well loved why were all those crimes supposedly committed and why have so many Cubans fled to the US?
You do have a good point. But the amount of people world wide that are Muslims who hate America and its allies is really a small number. Unfortunately this small number has a lot of zealots who are willing to go to extreme violence. We certainly haven't seen the last of them.
Besides when in Americas history have we not been hated by someone. The British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Japanese, etc....
And what nation hasn't been hated by some other nation for its entire existance. Even Switzerland is hated by nations for giving financial support to nations that some nation is at war with.