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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (14503)	9/11/2007 8:36:24 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Another name added to the Hollywood Wall of Shame >Brian De Palma clearly stated he wants to stop the war, and he thinks his new movie about an Iraqi girl's rape can help, regardless of the consequences of defaming US troops during war time. In an August 31 Reuters article, De Palma asserted “The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people. Sky News online picked up the thread that he hoped his new film will alert people about “these horrible things that are happening, this horrible war that I am financing as an American citizen.” De Palma's comments were made Friday, at the Venice Film Festival, after showing the movie that is fiction supposedly based on the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who was then killed and her house set on fire. It's pure recycled fiction. The movie is a do-over for De Palma, who made the same movie back in 1989 when it was called “Casualties of War” and starred Michael J. Fox. This is De Palma's second try at slandering the American military. Reuters noted De Palma's belief that if only people could see the real war photos and hear the real stories that aren't censored by the “corporate establishment,” people would simply turn against the war, thus ending it. No thought to Al Qaeda in Iraq and the insurgents or even Iran—apparently it will all just “stop." "If we can get these stories in front of a mass audience, maybe we can stop the war." Reuters laid out a series of statements that showed how stupid and ill-informed he thinks Americans who support the war are by claiming they don't know the “truth” and just need his help to understand: “It's all out there on the Internet, you can find it if you look for it, but it's not in the major media. The media is now really part of the corporate establishment," he said. Right, everything on the Internet is true. De Palma claimed that the mainstream media are not telling the whole story by withholding graphic images and in the process divulged his storyline isn't as “real” as he claimed: "When I went out to find the pictures, I said (to the media) give me the pictures you can't publish," he said, adding that because of legal dangers he too had to "edit" the material. "Everything that is in the movie is based on something I found that actually happened. But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can't use that because it's real and we may get sued," De Palma said. "So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real." The media ignored this telling statement that he “fictionalized” the “things that were actually real” in a movie that is supposed to be the “reality” of what's going on in Iraq What does that leave? Also, lawyers tend to worry more about being sued for libel and slander than factual events. They worry about Hollywood movies making claims that are not true. The truth is a defense against lawsuits, but random Internet rantings and the Jesse MacBeths and the Scott Beauchamps of the world make lawyers sweat. De Palma showed that he is an Ugly American who doesn't care about the potential negative effects on the solid human beings who currently serve in the US military. The film, shot in Jordan with a little known cast, ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians killed by Al Qaeda with their faces blacked out for legal reasons.