New DePalma Movie To Slam War, Soldiers
Add one more to the list of Hollywood intelligentsia whose work I won’t go out of my way to support. “Casualties of War” wasn’t enough….
‘People Will Be Arguing Over This Film’
By Yael Lavie
Middle East producer
Friday August 31, 2007American director Brian De Palma is launching his controversial new film based on the alleged rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by US troops. The creator of classics like Scarface, Casualties of War and The Untouchables is tackling the Iraq war and Bush administration head on with the movie Redacted.
“When I read about the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq 2006 – five US soldiers raped a local girl, killed her and her family and later tried to disguise it as an insurgent attack – I knew I had a story.
“Redacted tells its story using modern forms of media covering the war. Net blogs, web reporting and other aspects unique to the conflict are featured heavily in it.
“In real life, I feel helpless to stop these horrible things that are happening, this horrible war that I am financing as an American citizen.”
I hope DePalma enjoys his notoriety. While he clears his feelings of being “helpless”, he’ll inflame the very people young Americans on the ground are fighting against.
“Everything that is in the movie is based on something I found that actually happened. But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can’t use that because it’s real and we may get sued. So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real.”
What happened in the “Mahmudiyah incident” was an isolated incident. “Redacted” will give the enemy another impression.
A potentially deadly impression DePalma doesn’t appear to care about….
August 31st, 2007 at 1:33 pm
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