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Several upcoming Hollywood films use the damaged Iraq veteran to raise questions about an ongoing war, the New York Times is planning to report on Thursday Page Ones, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
"Media in general responds much more quickly than ever before. Why shouldn't movies do the same?" said Scott Rudin, a producer of 'STOP LOSS,' which casts Ryan Phillippe as a veteran who defies an order that would send him back to Iraq. The film, he said, was deliberately scheduled to be released in the middle of the presidential election season.
The TIMES's showbiz reporter Cieply is set to details how in the past, Hollywood usually gave the veteran more breathing space. William Wyler's 'BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES,' about the travails of those returning from World War II, was released more than a year after the war's end. Similarly, Hal Ashby's 'COMING HOME' and Oliver Stone's 'BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY,' both Vietnam stories, came well behind the fall of Saigon.
That's because most Hollywood writers, directors, etc back in the '40s served, or at least were busy making our own propaganda films. There was a genuine respect for the guys who fought, and Best Years of Our Lives was filmed to portray the tragic cost of a war that had to be won. Even the Vietnam films had to be careful, they were filmed when the country was beginning to recognize the wrongs done to our soldiers by the anti-war movement, and Ho'wood didn't want to be on the wrong side of that one.
Today? Anyone want to guess where the average Ho'wood producer/director/writer has his heart? Anyone? Bueller? They 'support our troops' by declaring them to be children, to be damaged goods, and by spitting on their mission. I'm betting the mainline movie companies won't make a single film sympathetic to our soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan. Not a one. |
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