Clooney's Next Movie Exposes 'American
Corruption'
Wed Apr 27, 2005 18:45
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Clooney's Next Movie Exposes 'American Corruption'
This September, Warner Brothers will release writer/director Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana," part of Hollywood's next wave of films that will more directly 'engage' the War on Terror. The film stars George Clooney and Matt Damon, and takes place just prior to the first Gulf War.
Details of the film are sketchy, but this report from a private screening recently surfaced on Ain't It Cool News:
"It tells a complicated story about oil, the corruption in American government, and the Persian Gulf. Clooney and Damon each have their own story: George as an old school ... Middle East agent for the CIA and Matt as an oil trader working for riches in the gulf. Jeffrey Wright ... is a junior lawyer working for an oil company merging with another one, keeping the government off their backs. His story is complicated and murky, but we learn his business is too, very corrupt.
"There's also a young immigrant worker in the Middle East who gets inspired by a Muslim radical and ... ends up becoming a suicide bomber who blows up a tanker in the gulf. ... Don't know who that young actor was, but his story is arguably the most moving of the bunch."
Let us translate:
* Oil companies are bad, government regulation of oil companies is good.
* Muslim terrorists are tragic, 'complex' figures who are well intentioned, with good hearts.
* The first Bush administration was the root cause of 9/11. Eight intervening years of Clinton foreign policy had nothing to do with it.
It's inconceivable that Gaghan -- writer of "Traffic" and the revisionist "The Alamo" -- will treat the War on Terror fairly. Conservatives should be on the watch for "Syriana," and take Warner Brothers to task for releasing it. For three years after 9/11, conservatives were told that the War on Terror was too sensitive a subject to address through film -- hence the total lack of movies supporting America after the attacks. With the passage of time, however, it seems Hollywood is comfortable enough to reveal it's real feelings about 9/11 -- and they're consistently anti-American.
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This September, Warner Brothers will release writer/director Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana," part of Hollywood's next wave of films that will more directly 'engage' the War on Terror. The film stars George Clooney and Matt Damon, and takes place just prior to the first Gulf War.
Details of the film are sketchy, but this report from a private screening recently surfaced on Ain't It Cool News:
"It tells a complicated story about oil, the corruption in American government, and the Persian Gulf. Clooney and Damon each have their own story: George as an old school ... Middle East agent for the CIA and Matt as an oil trader working for riches in the gulf. Jeffrey Wright ... is a junior lawyer working for an oil company merging with another one, keeping the government off their backs. His story is complicated and murky, but we learn his business is too, very corrupt.
"There's also a young immigrant worker in the Middle East who gets inspired by a Muslim radical and ... ends up becoming a suicide bomber who blows up a tanker in the gulf. ... Don't know who that young actor was, but his story is arguably the most moving of the bunch."
Let us translate:
* Oil companies are bad, government regulation of oil companies is good.
* Muslim terrorists are tragic, 'complex' figures who are well intentioned, with good hearts.
* The first Bush administration was the root cause of 9/11. Eight intervening years of Clinton foreign policy had nothing to do with it.
It's inconceivable that Gaghan -- writer of "Traffic" and the revisionist "The Alamo" -- will treat the War on Terror fairly. Conservatives should be on the watch for "Syriana," and take Warner Brothers to task for releasing it. For three years after 9/11, conservatives were told that the War on Terror was too sensitive a subject to address through film -- hence the total lack of movies supporting America after the attacks. With the passage of time, however, it seems Hollywood is comfortable enough to reveal it's real feelings about 9/11 -- and they're consistently anti-American.
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George Clooney
George Clooney - Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, News Articles, Fan Sites
