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Planet of The Arabs

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Submitted by Danse on Thu, 2007-09-06 02:15.

Posted this over at the truthaction forum and thought it would be a good topic for discussion here as well.   

Planet of The Arabs

A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired by the book "Reel Bad Arabs" by Dr. Jack Shaheen

Official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2005

Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)
12 were postive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 90O and so were negative.

09/04/06 Video Runtime 9 Minutes

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14836.htm

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Real Truther's picture

Hey Danse

Submitted by Real Truther on Thu, 2007-09-06 02:21.

can you pick an avatar?  you can email me a gif to rt at wtcdemo... or jpg.  or upload one.  or pick one of our handsome used avatars in the avatar lot.

 

I want to keep annoymice unique so we can recognize registered users by site i mean sight!

 

i'm going to force your hand.

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Danse's picture

done. 

Submitted by Danse on Thu, 2007-09-06 03:01.

done. 

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gretavo's picture

very nice

Submitted by gretavo on Thu, 2007-09-06 03:20.

the boat is not actually sinking is it... Undecided

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Danse's picture

Actually, it's in the

Submitted by Danse on Thu, 2007-09-06 04:47.

Actually, it's in the process of being dragged over a mountain. It's an image from Werner Herzog's film "Fitzcarraldo", based on the true story of a man who really, really liked opera. In fact he liked it so much that he thought everyone in the world should be able to hear it, including the natives of Peru.  So he tried to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle.

"Fitzcarraldo runs his ship as close as possible via an alternate river
and then enlists the aid of the native Peruvians to drag his ship over
a mountain to the desired area. However, the natives seem to have their
own agenda in so mysteriously acceding to Fitzcarraldo's wishes. The
results manage to both mock and affirm the dreams of determined figures
like Fitzcarraldo, making absurdity out of the stuff of human endeavor
without negating the beauty of that effort."

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kate of the kiosk's picture

man in the wilderness

Submitted by kate of the kiosk on Sat, 2007-09-08 14:25.

not as haunting and obscure, but another film with "portage" - John Huston as the mad captain.

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Danse's picture

Found the full interview of

Submitted by Danse on Thu, 2007-09-06 06:42.

oops wrong thread...

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bruce1337's picture

A testament to the power of Hollywood

Submitted by bruce1337 on Thu, 2007-09-06 18:04.

We need more demonstrations targetting mass media.

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