A group of like-minded “peers” voted Brian De Palma as “best director” for his crock-, er, “docudrama” film “Redacted,” a film he admitted that he hoped would cause Americans to put pressure on their Congressman to get the US to pull out of Iraq:
Veteran US director Brian De Palma won the Best Director award at the Venice film festival on Saturday for “Redacted,” his hard-hitting Iraq war film.
The dramatisation of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by US soldiers, was also honoured on Friday with the Future Film Festival Digital Award, for the film that makes the best use of animation or visual effects.
De Palma, who is best known for such violent fictions as the psychic thriller “Carrie” and the gangster movie “Scarface” (1983), turns 67 on Tuesday.
Amerpundit responds :
In order to push his anti-war, pro-retreat agenda, de Palma is willing to present our troops as murdering, raping monsters. Never mind the fact that the occurrence was an extremely rare event, and we punished those involved for it. No, de Palma presents the single event as a reason to retreat.
Apparently, De Palma’s forgotten (conveniently) a single event, or rather, a series of them that happened nearly six years ago, a series of devastating attacks that included 19 terrorists, four commercial airliners, iconic buildings in the US, and the murders of 3,000 innocent people. A series of events which slam home the reasons why the US should not to retreat from fighting and defeating Islamofascism. Not now. Not ever. He’s also overlooked (again, conveniently) the fact that the very men and women he’s so keen on denigrating as nothing but heartless and cruel brutes are the very people who have put it all on the line in order for him to have the right to hurl the kind of invective he does at the military, via his “art.”
The chronic myopia of self-loathers like De Palma never ceases to amaze me. Instead of being able to put into perspective the fact that the attrocities committed in Iraq by US forces are so few and far in between so as not even equate up to a percentage point when compared with the vast, overwhelming majority of honorable, hard working, dedicated men and women serving in our military, he, as Amerpundit noted, uses one event - one single event - as a proxy for his grievances with the Iraq war and President Bush. As I’ve written before, if De Palma were really interested in the “truth,” he’d do a film about the hundreds of thousands of men and women in the US military who have served with valor and honor in this war, who are among America’s best and brightest. But instead, his short-sightedness, not to mention hatred, of war and of the President have led him to make yet another film depicting the US military in the most unflattering light possible in hopes that his “art” will inspire Americans to pressure their Congresspeople into having the US pull out of Iraq.
Anti-war types love to use examples of attrocities committed by US troops as evidence that the US should pull out of that war and come home. What doesn’t compute with these people is that, unfortunately, in every war, the reality is that you are going to have a tiny minority of troops who commit attrocities. That is not a reason to abandon a country in a time of war, nor is it a reason to ignore threats from our enemies. If it were, we’d have pulled out of every war we’ve ever been a part of, and we’d have never responded to 9-11 by going after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and the AQ and the Hussein regime in Iraq. The fact of the matter is that our military is filled with strong, courageous, dedicated, honest individuals who - even under the most stressful conditions - have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, who haven’t forgotten that their every deed, every action is viewed as representative of the United States. The vast majority of these people are so filled with love and pride for their country, that they wouldn’t dream of debasing it by committing a deliberate act of brutality against any innocent person anywhere. This is the type of truth that elitist fools like Brian De Palma and other moral relativists like him refuse to consider, as it would, of course, interfere with a narrative created by them - a narrative that doesn’t match up with reality.
Click here to find out what the predictable reactions are to De Palma’s win from the “troop supporting” gang at the Democratic Underground … but only if you have the stomach for it.
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If anyone would take the time to research the movies that De Palma directs, you would see a very definite pattern: They all have to do either with violent death or near-death and/or those who commit these acts. It’s just my opinion, but he seems to be fascinated with death and violence to the point of obsession. I find it hard to believe that anyone with such a narrow repitoire is able to have a realistic perspective on life; it is inevitable that his fantasies would color everything he says or does. Personally, I would question such a person’s sense or reality. But, we seem to be living at a time when the lunatics are running the asylum - for some reason, the world we now live in expects victims to apologize, criminals to have their acts analyzed and then excused on the grounds that their victims were “asking for it” by not being “sensitive” to the terrorists feelings. People like De Palma are awarded for the propaganda they spew - as I recall, Lord Haw-Haw was regarded as a “hero” by the Nazi party for the demoralizing broadcasts he made during WWII. I see very little difference between him and De Palma. What is most exasperating is that Mr. De Palma chooses to ignore the thousands of American fighting men and women all over the world that are willing to sacrifice their very lives to protect all Americans, including this Ingmar Bergman wanna-be. Do you understand what that means, Mr. De Palma? Their LIVES … absolutely everything they have and everything they are. Would you ever, ever even consider making such a sacrifice? Can you even comprehend how great a gift you are given by these young men and women every single day of your selfish, self-indulgent life? Frankly, Mr. De Palma, I am not as selfless as the fighting men and women in the US Military - I personally think you and your kind are not worth the sacrifice.
Comment by Iwo Gina @ 9/9/2007 - 1:52 pm
“The chronic myopia of self-loathers like De Palma”…I don’t know much about De Palma, but in general, these people are *not* self-loathers…it’s the *rest of us* that they loathe. They have very high opinons of themselves, and view the American people as inadequate to their high standards.
About 50 years ago, C S Lewis analyzed a very similar phenomenon. See my post Repent Now.
Comment by david foster @ 9/9/2007 - 4:03 pm
People like De Palma choose to be willfully ignorant of the simple fact that the Islamos will use their anti-American propaganda, and still murder them the first chance they get.
Comment by Tom TB @ 9/9/2007 - 7:35 pm
I wonder if Kerry gets cowriter credits…”in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan“.
Comment by camojack @ 9/10/2007 - 3:50 am
I’m waiting for SOMEONE to do a movie about ALL THE GOOD THINGS OUR TROOPS HAVE DONE, like building schools, adopting that little infant that all the troops fawn over an keep at the military hospital in a pumpkin seat, the utilities we have turned back on, the endless good deeds they do EVERYDAY, but that kind of movie, so far, has not been made and would probably not win any SO CALLED LEFT WING AWARDS, cuz normal people would go see it and we don’t count.
to them depalma. FOOL.
Just the smelly, hippie, demonstrating leftoids count in the wonderful world of hollywierd.
When they attack I hope they visit mr. brian’s studio, see how he like em up close and personal.
Better than any troop bashing movie you ever did, huh brian.
Try flashing
Comment by Drewsmom @ 9/10/2007 - 5:17 am
I’m waiting for SOMEONE to do a movie about ALL THE GOOD THINGS OUR TROOPS HAVE DONE, like building schools, adopting that little infant that all the troops fawn over an keep at the military hospital in a pumpkin seat, the utilities we have turned back on, the endless good deeds they do EVERYDAY, but that kind of movie, so far, has not been made and would probably not win any SO CALLED LEFT WING AWARDS, cuz normal people would go see it and we don’t count.
to them depalma. FOOL.
Just the smelly, hippie, demonstrating leftoids count in the wonderful world of hollywierd.
When they attack I hope they visit mr. brian’s studio, see how he like em up close and personal.
Better than any troop bashing movie you ever did, huh brian.
Try flashing
Comment by Drewsmom @ 9/10/2007 - 5:17 am
Sorry, I posted twice guys, I’m pissed that this crap would win an award so close to the anniversary of 9/11.
We have forgotten, not us normal folks mind you, but most of the loons.
Comment by Drewsmom @ 9/10/2007 - 5:19 am
My favorite De Palma story was from years back, after “Dressed to Kill” was released.
He was living with Nancy Allen (an actress in the pic) and actually went public with the ultra-wimp whine that she was “scaring him” at home–presumably by popping out at him, precisely as did the actors in his films.
This is the first and only time in the history of Hollywood that a horror film director went public with being a wimp.
He was never more than an cheap Hitchcock wannabee, and is trying to revive his stumbling career with Leftist agitprop.
Comment by Red Ryder @ 9/10/2007 - 10:34 am
I’ve never been a fan of de Palma’s films. Red Ryder mentions he is a Hitchcock wannabe, but he’s nowhere near the master. De Palma substitutes gore and blood and such for Hitchcock’s masterful suspense. Hitchcock never needed gore for his films, de Palma is an uncreative hack with delusions of adequacy IMO.
Comment by Severian @ 9/10/2007 - 10:49 am
De Palma is basically a one trick pony. Whose one trick has rotted badly with age.
Jack.
Comment by Jack Deth @ 9/10/2007 - 1:17 pm
10, Jack, DePalma is a Trancer. Take care of him.
Comment by PCD @ 9/10/2007 - 1:22 pm
Maybe he would like to do a movie about the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein. If he likes violence…I can’t think of a better subject.
Comment by Terrye @ 9/10/2007 - 5:36 pm
David Foster,
The C.S. Lewis piece works even better for those calling for reparations and an official apology for things like slavery, Hiroshima and CarrotTop.
As for the DePalma film winning the award, it calls to mind Quentin Tarrantino after giving a best picture award to Michael Moore for “Farenheit 9/11″, where he said, “This isn’t political!”
Comment by Marshall Art @ 9/10/2007 - 11:46 pm