Catch up with the ongoing story here.

 

That is like an Isreali politician asking not to play Shindler's List because it may offend German people. Politcal correctness just plain sucks.

I feel like I am surrounded by morons.
 

This reminds me of religious extremists who set the fire at a Paris cinema playing The Last Temptation of Christ. Different method, same goal...

Some movies took a lot of liberties with the facts in order to make better wartime propoganda for the troops. Tora... is one of the films that told their stories in the most historically correct context.
(Well, as historically correct as a Hollywood action movie can be...)

Melanie, my Fiancé, who is in charge of the local historacal museum says, that when they have exhibits that contain material that some might see as offensive they just use the standard disclaimer to the effect of, "This is how people WERE back then."
The museum did a WWII exhibit a short while ago. It contained some pretty strong anti-German and anti-Japanese propoganda posters. They simply explained that this was the "sign of the times". Many people hated Germans and Japanese simply because they were "The Enemy" even though they had never before met one.

As far as "Last Temptation", that was a total let-down.
When that came out there was a lot of furor over the movie. Every time I walked by the theatre (The Cheri in Boston) there would be somebody outside protesting the film. One time, there was even a group of Nuns kneeling on the sidewalk and "praying"!
I went to watch it based solely on that and neither did I think it was as blasphemous as they made it out to be nor did I think it was a very good movie, otherwise.

(To be honest, I think it even makes Christ look MORE holy!)

I think one of two (or both) things was going on:

1) These people had never actually watched the movie and were just protesting on the say-so of others.

2) These protests were staged by somebody in order to drum up publicity for an otherwise Hum-Drum flick. (The old "Banned in Boston" thing! )
 

My late father refused to see the movie when it first played in a theatre because he was concerned that the movie will be very anti Japanese. He did see it many years later when we watched the movie together on a laserdisc at home and he was very pleased with the way the Japanese was portrayed.

-Claude
 

Christopher said:

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"I feel like I am surrounded by morons."

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How true...As days go on, I feel the same.

=TMP=
 

Neat, huh? Even the politicans liked it.

Dennis
 

Adam, Hurry Back...

P.S. I would love to wipe that smile off her face.

I am confused.
 

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from Bob Marr:
... If this is the way they think in the West Coast I would start heading back East as soon as possible. The next civil war will be the East against the West and we all know that the new West coast will be the Mississippi River and we will make sure all Western Politicians wear leaking life preservers

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Uhhhh.... I don't know about that, Bob. We've got a whole bunch of subs & carriers around here, & the shipyards to keep 'em running. It's far more likely that when your hypothetical war's over, all broadcast stations in the US will start with "K"!

Seriously though... I've seen the movie several times over the years. I didn't know about the collaboration that Claude speaks of... but now that makes sense.... since I recall being intrigued that either side would make a film with the amount of balance this one seemed to have.

It's unfortunate how rampant (rabid) political correctness seems to thrive... frequently in parts of California.

Forget about San Pedro... you can run that show in my theatre.

At this point, they'd probably never get a permit for such a thing, but wouldn't that just be the ultimate

-Claude
 

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I recall when my partner was faced with the unpleasant executive task of firing Akira Kurosawa from Tora! Tora! Tora! and trying to replace him with another Japanese director. No one would accept the assignment. No one at all. Crass Hollywood-a Zanuck, at that-had defiled a national shrine, a living monument, and all Japan turned its back in silence.

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From the book The Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie:

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[He] signed a contract with Twentieth Century Fox to film the Japanese sequences of a flabby epic, Tora! Tora! Tora! The struggle to work on that film, complicated by the tampering of the American studio then headed by Darryl F. Zanuck, so utterly demoralized and exhausted Kurosawa that he was finally driven to sabotage his own work. News leaked that Kurosawa was shooting scenes only to decide that the sets had to be another color and all the footage re-shot. His motive was clearly to provoke Fox into openly firing him and thus to avoid responsibility for contractual liability, though which he could otherwise be blamed for failure to live up to their agreement.

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Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasuku took over the reigns.

Ja ne,

Paul

 

Paul, she's a POLITICIAN.....ANYTHING to get her face on the evening news. That's what they LIVE for.
 

I'm about as far west as you can get in the continental U.S., about 500 yards from the ocean, and I don't think that way. Ya gotta remember that's California (where I was raised but am hesitant to mention) where weird laws and decisions are made by weird politicians and judges.

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Bob
The Old Showman