Get A Clue Award Goes To...Envelope Please
The movie Paradise Now, which depicts suicide bombers in Israel, has been nominated for the Golden Globe awards in the foreign film category, and has been well received internationally.
But the film has been, shall we say, a bomb in local theaters. Only a few thousand Israelis have seen the film since its premier in November.
The producers, pressed for a reason, claim that "apparantly Americans are more progressive".
It appears that common sense is not common enough in movie producers. It never occurred to them that the idea of glorifying suicide bombers would be somewhat offensive here.
Most people in Israel have unfortunately either experienced the tragedy of a terrorist attack or know someone who did. And these guys can't figure out why the public doesn't want to see their movie.
As a friend of mine says, its time for a clue-by-four.
The movie Paradise Now, which depicts suicide bombers in Israel, has been nominated for the Golden Globe awards in the foreign film category, and has been well received internationally.
But the film has been, shall we say, a bomb in local theaters. Only a few thousand Israelis have seen the film since its premier in November.
The producers, pressed for a reason, claim that "apparantly Americans are more progressive".
It appears that common sense is not common enough in movie producers. It never occurred to them that the idea of glorifying suicide bombers would be somewhat offensive here.
Most people in Israel have unfortunately either experienced the tragedy of a terrorist attack or know someone who did. And these guys can't figure out why the public doesn't want to see their movie.
As a friend of mine says, its time for a clue-by-four.
posted by westbankmama at 2:04 AM
2 Comments:
Actually, this Ynet article is very misleading: Despite it not being formally distributed, the film has been completely sold out for the very rare screenings it had in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa: I've never seen the Cinematheque that full. And nb the audience was a huge cross-section of Israeli society. Plenty of kippot and scarves as well as people less demonstratively religious, and lots of Arabs.
By the way, whatever else there is to this film (and it was very disturbing) there's no "glorification of suicide bombers" at all. I'll be writing about it properly soon.
Thank you for your comment. I guess ynet misleads in all directions, not just against the right (with the exception of a few good opinion pieces).
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