I think you're confusing the USA with a Japanese-owned US subsidiary's
film made partially with Canadian financing. If the US government paid
for the film, was responsible for hiring the director, stars, writer,
etc then you'd have a point but this movie has nothing to do with the
US government or the vast majority of its people. Chaplin made
considerable fun at the expense of Hitler and Mussolini with "The
Great Dictator", released in 1940 by United Artists. At that time
there was significant support for Hitler in the US (certainly more
support than there is for Kim Jong-un in 2014) and it truly angered
Hitler and his supporters. By your reasoning we should have withdrawn
"The Great Dictator" since Chaplin as a thespian is not qualified to
accurately solve political matters and relied on democracy and
diplomacy to take care of Hitler and his cronies instead.
Your second point is that outsiders will believe "The Interview" is
representative of all Americans then you acknowledge that this is not
true and plenty of people in the US don't feel that way. First, I am
not at all sure that is really the case. When traveling abroad I find
most people have no problems separating US government policies from US
citizens and are fully capable of recognizing that no country's
populace is homogeneous in its attitude. Perhaps your experience is
different. Even if what you say were true, I put it to you that the
response is not to modify our behavior to align with outsiders'
mistakes but rather to disabuse them of their error. If we change our
lives to mollify everybody's misconceptions of our country we only
give up control of ourselves.
Colin
On FridayDec 19, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Movie Posters wrote:
Shouldn't the United States lead by example? That is by democracy
and diplomacy. Putting out a film were you are assassinating another
countries leader sends out a message that this kind of behaviour is
acceptable and that's wrong in my honest opinion; and especially
when writers try to satirize/label this film as a comedy. Few
thespians in Hollywood are qualified to accurately solve political
matters of this sort. The threat North Korea poses to freedom and
world peace is not a laughing matter.
The second point I'll make is the release of this picture from an
American studio makes it seem to outsiders that the message,
commentary, statements within the film are representative of the
beliefs and ideals of ALL Americans as a whole. Plenty of us
American's don't feel this way. We want to see democracy brought to
North Korea in a peaceful, diplomatic fashion.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Movie Posters <[email protected]
> wrote:
Shouldn't the United States lead by example? That is by democracy
and diplomacy. Putting out a film were you are assassinating another
countries leader sends out a message that this kind of behaviour is
acceptable and that's wrong in my honest opinion; and especially
when writers try to satirize/label this film as a comedy. No
thespians in Hollywood are qualified to accurately solve political
matters of this sort. The threat North Korea poses to freedom and
world peace is not a laughing matter.
The second point I'll make is the release of this picture from an
American studio makes it seem to outsiders that the message,
commentary, statements within the film are representative of the
beliefs and ideals of ALL Americans as a whole. Plenty of us
American's don't feel this way. We want to see democracy brought to
North Korea in a peaceful, diplomatic fashion.
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