Wow thanks Dave! I had forgotten that film. Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 6:32 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 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.
