I think that while the movie may indeed be funny, one has to question the wisdom of making it at all. Of course, there was the promise of $$$ involved for Sony, so there you go.
I think Sony and exhibitors like Regal etc were afraid that the movie would kill attendance at the multiplexes showing it, hurting the business in general. And the notion that something might happen at a screening - something bad - is real enough. But where were their HEADS when they decided to make a film which makes light of the assassination of a head of state? And don’t forget Li’l Kim is a God also! Where do they get off killing God? Hmm? You know they could have made X-MEN MEET THE HULK just as well. The irony is that THE INTERVIEW is a lot hotter property dead than alive. I suggest that you all just watch MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET again, and forget the whole thing. Kirby On Dec 19, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Posteropolis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Toochis: > > Death of a President (2006), about the assassination of George W. Bush was > controversial, though not as much as this and it had only limited release > anyway because it was not a major studio film. > > One thing that never gets mentioned in this controversy is that Sony is a > Japanese company and thus much more sensitive to pressure to North Korea than > a US corporation might be, given the dark history that connects Japan and > Korea and of course Japan’s physical proximity to North Korea. > > Dave > > > From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Toochis > Morin > Sent: December-19-14 9:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Interview > > I think the 9/11-type threats made it tough for the release. Also the other > studios were upset that audiences would be too afraid to go to the movies. > > One question: which movies have the assassination or killing of a > contemporary living person in them? What kind of controversy did they cause? > > > Toochis > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 19, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Simon Oram <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sony have no backbone but that's typical of many if not all Corporations. >> >> I would of imagined Team America was more controversial? >> >> Nomis >> >> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. >> From: Tommy Barr >> Sent: Friday, 19 December 2014 10:38 >> To: [email protected] >> Reply To: Tommy Barr >> Subject: [MOPO] The Interview >> >> All very quiet here about what I thought would be an item of extreme >> interest. Who is to blame for pulling the film - Sony or the American cinema >> chains who refused to show the movie? >> >> Tommy >> >> To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 >> > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Kirby McDaniel [email protected] Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
