Thursday, October 06, 2005

Hollywood PC over realism

It seems that Albert Brooks, hardly known as a conservative firebrand, lost the backing of SONY pictures in distributing his new movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim Workld" soley over the title.

According to reports SONY Ceo Michael Lynton wrote to Brooks about the movie stating, "Obviously it was funny but more than that it spoke to some very significant issues that we are all confronting today with a sense of humanity and irony . . . it would have been my pleasure and honor to be able to distribute the picture and I had no problem with either its content or marketing materials. Having said all that, I do have an issue with the title . . . recent incidents have dramatically changed the landscape that we live in and this, among other things, warrants changing the title of the movie"
This is the same type of ridiculous P.C. environment that caused them to change the terrorists in that Ben Aflec Disaster "Sum of All Fears" based on the Tom Clancy novel from Mid-eastern to Natzi's. I mean come on, Natzi's were bad and all, but they are not exactly a present day force to be reckoned with, unless you happen to be a minority in certain underpopulated areas of Eastern Bavaria where they will no doubt annoy you with their thrash-punk music. I'm not saying lets all portray all Middle Easterners as bad, hardly, however, not being realistic is in itself ALSO a form of censorship. This movie was seen by the CEO of SONY, who by all reports, loved it, and cancelled distribution merely because the title mentions the Muslim World. What is SONY afraid of? That by using the word "Muslim" in the title some people will suddenly sit up and say "Hey! Thats RIGHT! all the planes that hit the towers WERE hijacked by people who were muslim" I got news for SONY, we've already heard it, and what you've succeded in doing is denying distribution to a funny movie that not only doesn't offend muslims but was recently accepted by the Dubai Film festival in the United Arab Emirates, apparently the word Muslim isn't as offensive in Dubai as it is in the offices of SONY. Hey! Politically Correct AND Stupid, nice to see whos in charge of SONY.

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