Call for boycott of Dallas Mavs and everything Mavericks

[Holt's Cat]

So that event was not reported widely in the US and the soldiers involved were not subject to prosecution?

[ChumpDumper]

So that event was not reported widely in the US and the soldiers involved were not subject to prosecution?

So information from the war zone is always complete and unfiltered?

[ChumpDumper]

If you can find a de Palma quote where he says all US soldiers are rapists and murderers and that's the norm and that's what this movie is about, I'll be convinced.

[Holt's Cat]

No, but that event would be the wrong one to use as an example. It would be the right one to use if you wanted to make a sensationalistic low budget anti-war film.

[ChumpDumper]

No, but that event would be the wrong one to use as an example.

Why? It's a story that happened during the war that was reported.

[ChumpDumper]

And really, the fact that this story eerily parallels that of Casualties of War had to make it an irresistible choice for this particular filmmaker.

That said, I think de Palma is mostly a hack and I'm not a big fan of this kind of mixing of fact and fiction..

[Spurminator]

For a film about the Mainstream US Media filtering damaging news out of Iraq to have any impact whatsoever, the subject has to be extreme.

And from the sounds of it, de Palma is using primary footage... which would be a lot better than simply recreating/dramatizing the events. But I'd have to see it first.

[Holt's Cat]

If you can find a de Palma quote where he says all US soldiers are rapists and murderers and that's the norm and that's what this movie is about, I'll be convinced.

So the incident is not representative yet it is supposed to represent the reality of the war? Anyways, such a direct quote is not likely to be found. Must it?

Probed about the film's stance, and addressing the issue of whether the film demonizes U.S. soldiers, DePalma countered emphatically, "Hey, it's a big bad war out there and we need all the help we can get. If I can make a fiction film that will help, more power to me." Concluding the thought, he added, "We are all on the same team, we hate this war and want it to end."

http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/09...ide_07_de.html

[ChumpDumper]

So the incident is not representative yet it is supposed to represent the reality of the war?

It's a story that happened during the war that was reported.

Anyways, such a direct quote is not likely to be found. Must it?

Yes.

[BacktoBasics]

How ing Un-American he is to do ent these crimes.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Ahem.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...ewpost&t=77161