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Thursday, February 02, 2006

it's not just the turks. the list of countries who feel this way about us is growing by the second

i know i know it's just a movie but it's also based in reality. i think the world views us as a bunch of greedy barbarians

In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents
By BENJAMIN HARVEY
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.
They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison - where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
"Valley of the Wolves Iraq" - set to open in Turkey on Friday - feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime NATO allies: Americans.
The movie, which reportedly cost some $10 million, is the latest in a new genre of popular culture that demonizes the United States. It comes on the heels of a novel called "Metal Storm" about a war between Turkey and the U.S., which has been a best seller for months.

One recent opinion poll revealed the depth of the hostility in Turkey toward Americans: 53 percent of Turks who responded to the 2005 Pew Global Attitudes survey associated Americans with the word "rude"; 70 percent with "violent"; 68 percent with "greedy"; and 57 percent with "immoral."
Advance tickets are already selling out across Turkey for the film, which has dialogue in Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish and English. In addition to Turkey, the film is set to be shown in more than a dozen other countries - including the United States, Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Russia, Egypt, Syria and Australia.....

3 comments:

isabelita said...

Well, it takes a greedy barbarian to know one, but since the USA is indeed being run by a pack of greedy barbarians, I tend to agree with whomever in th eowrld considers this possibility...
Yes, you're right, people's views are so often reflected in their artistic expressions. Austen perfected the comedy of manners...
Lately, film and fiction cannot help but depict, once again, the Ugly American.

Neil Shakespeare said...

They have a long way to go to catch up with us. I can't even imagine the number of films American companies have produced featuring scenes such as described in your post, only in reverse. In fact, if it weren't for terrorist plots, where would Hollywood be?

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