Billy Zane and Gary Busey Team Up for Anti-Jewish Film
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Casting, Celebrities and Controversy, Politics, Cinematical Indie
Remember when Hansel intoned that sage bit of wisdom "Listen to your friend Billy Zane, he's a cool dude"?
That's about to become some very risky advice, as Billy recently
teamed up with fellow actor Gary Busey in a highly controversial
Turkish movie called Valley of the Wolves: Iraq. The sucker is solid gold over there, and may be slated for an
American release. Let me share with you the basics of the story:
Billy Zane is a zealous Christian Army Commander named Sam William Marshall, who believes he is serving the Almighty by ridding the world of Muslims. Together with a Jewish doctor friend (played by Gary B.) Sam Marshall captures Muslim children and harvests their organs to package and send back to America for use by good little Jewish boys and girls. The film will also incorporate dramatic re-enactments of real events, thus lending a higher level of believability and credibility to the project.
Okay, so there was this Muslim propaganda sitcom not so long ago called Zara's Blue Eyes. I watched it in a Middle Eastern politics course that I took in college. I swear to you, this new blockbuster is the exact plot of Zara, and is, in fact, a popular belief within large sections of the Islamic world. Draw from that whatever conclusions you will - I'm not here to make political statements...but you can bet your best suit that it'll be an incredible political argument if this sucker hits the states. Talk show hosts such as Glenn Beck are already on the story. Can't you just hear the free speech vs. treasonous propaganda arguments already?









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3-07-2006 @ 11:56AM
Can said...
Anti-jewish is a very limited and quite frankly uninspiring colourification of a movie that expresses the reaction to recent actions of certain western powers. Not least the US intervention in Iraq, and western intervention in the region in general, which is what this film is actually about. One might be tempted to ask how such violent and extreme expressions of demonisation of the west find such willing audiences in the region, if one were so inclined of course. Especially considering the rap middle eastern and similar 'foreign' cultures have recieved and continue to recieve in hollywood. Demonification is a sword that cuts both ways, it is perhaps natural that escalation of 'real world' conflicts will lead to such conflicts in popular culture industries.. No?
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3-07-2006 @ 2:23PM
Scott said...
Can is right, it can't be reduced to anti-Jewish. It's also anti-Christian.
I agree that Islam and middle-Easterners are demonizing in a lot of US media, but tat doesn't justify films like this, which seems to be what you're suggesting.
Both are horrible. Both problems must be addressed. Of course there's a reason why many Iraqi's don't like the West, but that doesn't change the reality of the film. It's anti-Jewish, anti-Chirstian, anti-West, it relies on stereotypes, and it tries to convince audiences that the demonizing, destructive fiction is totally true.
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