Bill O'Reilly aired the clip of the exchange between De Palma and a film distributor at the New York Film Festival.
The video was captured at the New York Film Festival on Monday as De Palma demanded that the dead US soldiers be shown in his film.
World Entertainment News reported on De Palma's despicable outburst:
The Carrie filmmaker is furious photos of real life G.I.s wounded in Iraq have had their faces obscured on the end credits of his film Redacted, reports New York Daily News.If you call the raping and murdering Iraqi women "fighting in Iraq"...
Speaking at a Q+A at the New York Film Festival on Monday (08Oct07), he said, "Redacted is, in fact, redacted. The montage of photographs at the end, I had nothing to do with (obscuring the photos). It's because Mark Cuban, the man that financed this movie, was disturbed by them.
Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures - the film's distributors - called the claims a lie, insisting, "It's a legal issue, and we're going to resolve it."
De Palma snapped back, "Yes, we are, I felt my cut was violated, and I am seeking to have those pictures unredacted."
The forthcoming film tells the story of U.S soldiers fighting in Iraq.
But, then again, maybe that's what the media believes is going on over there.
I would like to see DePalma redacted from our society.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see his "cut get violated" by the USMC.
ReplyDeleteWoot!
Hmmm, what would De Palma do if he was being lined up for a Nick Berg haircut?
ReplyDeleteScream for the Marines?
Pray for Army intervention?
Blubber away like a sissy?
I'm guessing all the above and more...
Fortunately in this war we have blogs.
ReplyDeleteSo far these types of films have been bombing (har) at the box office.
Skerry and his ilk can't pull off the kind of crp they pulled off in the late 60s early 70s.
Power corrupts, perceived power corrupts absolutely.
ReplyDeleteMark Cuban is the slime ball producer behind it.
ReplyDeleteA marketing conartist who uses people for what he wants in life. He has always wanted Follywood in his life. He moved there once and failed. He's a far left liberal, but he'll always claim he is "Apolitical" to the public.
BS, don't believe it. He is libertarian at best, but mainly a slime ball.
He also produced the movie that shows President Bush getting assasinated, murdered. He has an agenda. He has no morals. It is all about the money. So he'll do anything for money.
But his heart is with the far left nutjobs of Follywood. The day he bought the Mavs, he flew Follywood actors/actresses into the games that year, along with perenial nutjob and loser Dennis Rodman.
But he has to be careful in Texas, a long time traditional state. He did this by sponsoring troops at the first game. This gives him brownie points so he can get away with making garbage hit piece movies on our troops and our President.
He'd sale his mother away for the right amount of money. Always the ultimate salesman.
I say, boycot him, the Mavericks, his Movie theatre chains, his HDTV and Dan Rather, and any movies he produces in the future.
Easy come, Easy go, he can lose that billion as fast as he got it in one stupid move.
Joshua
I am appalled to hear that Redacted has been redacted. As if it were possible to further destroy the identities of the poor, maimed, dead Iraqis (not US soldiers as you claimed)whose faces formed the background of the end titles in Brian De Palma’s film, now add the redaction of their images entirely. Are the cost benefit analysts working for the pharmaceuticals, automobile manufactures and the tobacco companies the only ones with any sense of risk or courage anymore? I prefer to think this has less to do with protecting the producers from legal action or the Iraqis from humiliation and invasion of privacy, than a monumental cowardice when it comes to confronting of the American moviegoer with a little too much reality. De Palma’s initial acquiescence to the insurers forced him to abandon the use of any actual footage in the body of the film. This has already resulted in the Right Wing warmongers accusing him of “making it all up” because he restaged rather than using the real footage. This colossal inability on their part to understand the difference between art and life is too outrageous to even deserve comment.
ReplyDeleteWhat this chronic failure of nerve on the part of underwriters will do to the future of actual documentary filmmaking I leave to cynical speculation. I am convinced however that eventually the entertainment industry, corporations and the insurance pencil pushers will so lobotomize the creative spirit in this country, that the only artists left in our culture will be members of the Britney Spears Ilk’s Club.
If you wish to see an unrepentant, unredacted piece of filmmaking that is not afraid of lawsuits and not afraid to show the real face of war, I recommend to you a moving three minute video on YouTube called “Kindertotenlied”.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=kindertotenlied&search=Search
I hope that when the producers, whose footage was stolen for use in this video, finally get around to suing the filmmaker, they will learn exactly how much blood can be squeezed from a rock (as opposed to Iraq). Abject poverty, my friends, does have its privileges.
Peace,
Bob Boldt