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Originally Posted by chicagofrog
= how to make a movie dull in one lesson.
if people cannot be honest, looking back at their history and what gave them (at least a relative) freedom and play the dumb over-emotional card, it's their own fault. should we remind them all the friggin' time (a movie is made, a book is published, etc...) Resistance fought the Nazis with what they would call terrorist methods? that the borderline between terrorists and insurgents is more than vague and that the American Revolutionaries fighting the British army were what else than insurgents (= terrorists from the governmental point of view?)
if people cannot be honest, looking back at their history and what gave them (at least a relative) freedom and play the dumb over-emotional card, it's their own fault. should we remind them all the friggin' time (a movie is made, a book is published, etc...) Resistance fought the Nazis with what they would call terrorist methods? that the borderline between terrorists and insurgents is more than vague and that the American Revolutionaries fighting the British army were what else than insurgents (= terrorists from the governmental point of view?)
But the wholesale, explosive destruction of massive buildings to make a point is a little too similar to another explosive destruction of massive buildings to make a point. Yes, it was sensational and made good cinema but it also made that kind of activity a little more acceptable. And I don't believe it is acceptable. Do I believe filmmakers should have the right to blow up buildings, towns, cities or planets in their films? Absolutely. Do I believe it's a little irresponsible to imply that it's acceptable even if innocents may be involved? Absolutely.
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
