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December 27, 2005
Sadly, Mr. Daoud, You are NOT following the program
Spielberg's therapy program for peace, that is. [ UPDATE at end ]
According to Spielberg, if only Israelis and Palestinians would get together and talk and hug and cry together and look at amateur films of each other's lives (a program he has planned for 2006), then intractable geo-political problems would melt away like so much pollution into the dissolving ozone. Which is the reason, Mr. Spielberg and his corps of actors...
[S]pent three weeks re-creating the Munich massacre in Malta and Hungary, with Arab actors from Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt and France playing the terrorists and Israeli actors playing the Israeli athletes. None of the actors had read the entire script, only their small portion.“It was just very, very difficult for me to play war with them,” says Spielberg. “With real people from the real regions, and then to be staging these scenes of brutality as well as compassion. And it was — it was brutal and cathartic at the same — all in the same breath, to stage a scene where Jews have been killed and then I say, 'Cut.' The Palestinian with the Kalashnikov throws his weapon down and runs over to the Israeli actor who is on the ground and picks the actor up and falls into the Israeli's arms and is sobbing. And then the Israeli actors and the Arab actors all running into this kind of circle and everybody is crying and holding each other.”
“It wasn't like we all held hands and sang, 'Let's give peace a chance,' ” says Kushner, who was on the set every day. “People were very careful, and really sympathized with one another. Everybody arrived sort of saying, 'I know this is hard for you coming from where you're coming from.' ” Kushner has seen this before, working with Israeli and Palestinian actors both in Israel and the territories. “There's a real — sometimes it's clumsy, sometimes it's not — but a real desire to say, 'OK, we're trying to speak to one another across an enormous divide.' ”Yet, despite this extremely cathartic approach to an intractable geo-political problem, sadly Mr. Daoud will not get on board.
The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics attack in which 11 Israeli athletes died said on Tuesday he had no regrets and that Steven Spielberg's new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation.Uh oh! But poor Mr Spielberg made the move in order to help bring peace! Think about all the people you will be disappointing, Mr. Daoud.
All we can imagine is that perhaps he has not yet had enough crying and hugging sessions with his counterparts in Israel to be serious about making peace.
"We did not target Israeli civilians," [Daoud] said.What's with the buckets of negative energy there!"Some of them (the athletes) had taken part in wars and killed many Palestinians. Whether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier."
Would a colonic help with that?
Spielberg's producer, Kathleen Kennedy, told a preview audience at Princeton University that a Palestinian consultant was used for "Munich". She did not say who it was.What!? They're not afraid, are they, that if they reveal his name, he might be assassinated as a collaborator or something? Dude! That's so unhip!
UPDATE: But then it occurs to me, Mr. Daoud has the right to be pissed! After all, Michael Moore used Hezbollah to distribute Fahrenheit 911 in Lebanon. And what! Mr. Daoud hasn't even rated a private screening!! That's just so unfair!
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Alcibiades | 12/27/05 at 03:45 PM | Categories: - Munich Massacre
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More likely they're concerned that their consultant's name would further erode the fig leaf of objectivity that they wish to maintain for the project.
soccerdad ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.keshertalk.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| December 27, 2005 05:00 PM
Soccer Dad, you don't get it. These are JEWS who wrote this film, don't you see? Jews! How could they possibly have negative thoughts about Israel? They're Jews.
That's the fig leaf on this project.
Meryl Yourish | December 27, 2005 06:25 PM
Sadly none of this surprises me.
Jack | December 28, 2005 02:43 AM
The Palestinian Arabs might want to stay away from the "All Israelis are soldiers and therefore fair targets" idea. Presumably it is consistent with Muslim morality that the Palis can kill women, children, and civilian men because they might, at some future time, be in the army. On the other hand, the Palis have used women and children as well as grown men as terrorists, and they do not dress them in uniforms or other garb distinguishable at a distance to distinguish the terrorists from the civvies. Therefore all Pali Arabs are, potentially, terrorists and the Israelis, following the moral reasoning of the Palis, are justified in killing them all as really being terrorists, as the Israelis are really soldiers according to the Palis. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, you know.
Isn't it nice for the Palis that the Israelis act according to Jewish moral reasoning, and not that which the Palis use?
Michael Lonie | December 29, 2005 01:16 AM
at least they've finally released a more honest poster for the movie
sultan knish | December 29, 2005 01:09 PM
LOL. Thank you for that Sultan! That's hysterical.
alcibiades | December 29, 2005 01:21 PM
