Is movie "Munich" propoganda?

[Felix_Nietzsche]

The murder of Olympic Athletes in the Munich Olympic by Arabs was one of my earliest recollections of international politics as a young boy. This event and many other attrocites that followed formed my beliefs that the Arab culture is decadent and only worthy of disgust and contempt.

Spileberg's ego is out-of-control. He said in a Time magazine interview that he hopes his movie will help bring peace to the middle east. For this fantasy to come true he has to make sure Arab audiences enjoy his film as much as Jews. So what does Spielberg do?....... He changes the story from what really happened to make the film more 'friendly' to Arab audiences and then he interjects his personal view that revenge does not solve anything. For example, one of the Israeli agents that executed the Arab murderers was portrayed in the film as regretting his role in the executions when in reality he is STILL PROUD to this day for bringing justice to the families of the murdered athletes. When interviewed he was shocked by Spielberg's portrayer of his character. There were other liberties taken by Spielberg in this story as well.

My question to Spileberg is why alter the story from the truth? If you want to make a fictional movie then make a fictional movie. To take a true story and alter some key facts to tell a different story is dishonest. In fact to tell a good lie you need to include a good dose of facts so that the lie can be more easily swallowed. Many ignorant people will see this movie and believe that the story is 100% facts when it is not. Spielberg, you are a liar. The story was good enough to make a movie without you taking liberties with the truth....

Stick to ET and Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Wes Mantooth]

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Stick to ET ...

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please no

[chessforlife]

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My question to Spileberg is why alter the story from the truth? If you want to make a fictional movie then make a fictional movie. To take a true story and alter some key facts to tell a different story is dishonest. In fact to tell a good lie you need to include a good dose of facts so that the lie can be more easily swallowed. Many ignorant people will see this movie and believe that the story is 100% facts when it is not. Spielberg, you are a liar. The story was good enough to make a movie without you taking liberties with the truth....


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I couldn't agree more. Well said.

[andyfox]

Any time I see, at the beginning of the film, "Based on True Events," I beware. Isn't everything based on true events? Every filmmaker alters the facts to fit his story. I believe Ron Howard, for example, had to apologize to Max Bear for the portrayal of his father in Cinderella Man. I'm sure there were artistic conceits in The New World.

Spielberg doesn't claim to be an historian. I haven't read the book on which he supposedly based his story. His portrayal of the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes was shown in all its brutality. I don't find his comment that he hoped his film would bring peace to the Middle East to be one of an out-of-control ego. He has been very philanthropic towards Israeli and Jewish causes. I believe he does indeed hope that his film contributes to dialogue. His point of view, from what I saw in the movie, was that violence is an endless cycle and will only end up with ever greater violence. (At least that's the way I saw the significance of the final shot.)

[daryn]

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[andyfox]

I was British in my last life. My favorite is when they say, "an hotel." [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Borodog]

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I was British in my last life. My favorite is when they say, "an hotel." [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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I remember once having a discussion with a linguist about whether or not the use of the article "an" before the consonant h caused the cockney habit of dropping the h altogether. Unfortunatley that was 15 years ago and I can't recall exactly what he said. It makes sense, though.

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Spielberg doesn't claim to be an historian."

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"An historian"

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I was British in my last life.

My favorite is when they say, "an hotel." [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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John Cole prefers "a historian" to "an historian." That should settle it I hope.

[andyfox]

John's an hypocrite.

[John Cole]

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