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Inglourious Basterds threaten Tarantino movie screening in Urals
Published: 28 August, 2009, 21:02
A frame from Tarantino's movie "Inglourious Basterds"
TAGS: Movies, Crime, Scandal, Russia, Protest, Terrorism
A Yekaterinburg cinema may refuse to show the latest Quentin Tarantino work, called "Inglourious Basterds," following anonymous threats to explode a bomb if the movie continues, Intrefax-Urals reports.
Unknown people have pledged they will blow up the Kosmos cinema in Yekaterinburg, Urals, unless the cinema management stops showing Inglourious Basterds. According to police, the highbinders didn’t like the plot of the movie.
On Friday, the cinema management was forced to close the movie house for some time, but after police combed the area and didn’t find any explosives the cinema continued operating. However, the Inglourious Basterds was cancelled.
As the regional police spokesman Valery Gorelykh says, the cinema management is now “thinking over the advisability of showing the movie in future.”
Meanwhile, a criminal investigation has been launched into the case. The authors of the bomb threat are charged with giving knowingly false information about an act of terror, and may face up to three years behind bars.
The film presents an alternative and quite original vision on WW2. The action takes place in Nazi-occupied France where a group of Jewish-American soldiers, known as "The Basterds", are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
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"... An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. The media and major Jewish organizations were opposed to the book because they percieved it as portraying Jews in a negative light, possibly stirring up anti-semitism and weakening their power to exploit the tragedies committed by the Nazi's for their own political agenda. However these same organizations are promoting Tarantino's fictional film. Sack's message from his book was not to promote hatred against Jews. Instead, the books purpose was to prove that Jews are no different from any other group of people who have suffered from persecution but aren't immune from committing autrocities against others. Behind an Eye for An Eye: Revenge, Hate and History by John Sack ...." http://www.examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m8d29-Fictional-film-Inglourious-Basterds-promoted-while-true-story-of-revenge-supressed
American movies are not film-art and this is the problem in reality. Humans have grown-up over this "global war on terror" and the earth's masses are no longer interested in being fed the level of intelligence which has been acceptable in the past -- poor memories, and renditions of sick egos with ONLY their imagination of bits and pieces of horrible art. Good for Russia to begin the giant step in demanding ONLY the finest of art to be worthy of showing the people how imagination can truly benefit the ego rather than desecrate it. No further imagination brand poisoning by those who do not appear to be able to find the idea of true balance in the co-creation of "enlightened" great creative genius.
It does sound horrid. I should threaten my local theatre.