Greengrass in the Green Zone

[devincf]

http://chud.com/news/8568

[stump]

Thank god this movie is being made.

[Nexus]

Huh. Had never considered the Altman-Greengrass parallel.

Hope that after this Greengrass finds the time to get back on Watchmen. I know someone else was supposedly picking that up now, but I liked his pitch a lot more.

[FrankCobretti]

After "United 93," I can't wait to see what Greengrass does with this material.

[Bayouradio]

This is particularly interesting to me because of his comments regarding U93. That those passengers were the first people to take on the new world after the attacks. That they fought the first battle against terrorism. I like that Greengrass approaches his material with strong intellectual and philosophical underpinings. That said, it will be interesting to see his take on how other people fought one of the subsequent battles and screwed it up beyond all recognition.

[Johnny Tremaine]

You know what's going to be really funny? Listening to the commentary of conservative talk radio show hosts upon hearing news about Greengrass' new Green Zone film. They have been praising United 93 (which I also think is a great movie) from the rafters and telling their listeners that the film validates the Iraq War. I think conservative heads will explode.

On another note, for Bourne Ultimatum, I hope that Greengrass backs off from using that shaky-cam technique for shooting his action sequences. It got to be pretty annoying.

[E.T.C.]

I'm truly surprised that Rajiv Chandrasekaran was even allowed into the GreenZone to witness the goings on there, seeing as how he's a reporter for the Washington Post (generally considered a liberal newspaper). And the last thing this administration wants is something like facts getting out to the public.
I'm sure conservatives will condemn this as a liberal smear campaign. I'm always amused how things like, you know, the truth get pegged as slander.


At any rate this promises to be a great movie!

[E.T.C.]

In case anyone is curious, I found a really great interview with the author over at Democracy Now.org.
Here's the link:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/29/151212

Enjoy!

[FrankCobretti]

I'm truly surprised that Rajiv Chandrasekaran was even allowed into the GreenZone to witness the goings on there, seeing as how he's a reporter for the Washington Post (generally considered a liberal newspaper). And the last thing this administration wants is something like facts getting out to the public.

Umm, almost everyone in Washington reads the Post - liberal and conservative. Don't confuse the lowest-common-denominator bullshit that is political talk radio with what responsible people actually do.

Demobilizing in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

[Bitches Leave]

Now we just need a film about the Fallujah massacre to really wake up people. Man some fucked up shit took place there.

[Jan]

Now we just need a film about the Fallujah massacre to really wake up people. Man some fucked up shit took place there.


http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75167

Starring Harrison Ford.
Though it seems to be stuck in Development Hell. Thanks Indy 4. Maybe the first good thing about Indy, that this won´t see the light of the day.

[Bitches Leave]

http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75167

Starring Harrison Ford.
Though it seems to be stuck in Development Hell. Thanks Indy 4. Maybe the first good thing about Indy, that this won´t see the light of the day.


Nah that is going to be a fantasy movie. No way any producer will get the Pentagon blessing for his film if he were to show some of the stuff that really took place in there. And without the help of Pentagon I think it will be hard to get the material needed to shoot such a movie.

[fabfunk]

I think you'd have to be excited about Greengrass getting involved, though these types of films have been dying on the vine lately.

I'm apprehensive, but excited about the wave of Iraq-themed films coming out of Hollywood. It's great that people are tackling these issues, but there's a fine line here. There's always the threat that these films, while smart and researched, can be skewed a tad. In some cases, the left influence is more believable, but at the same time, you hope these films can bridge the gap of communication between progressives and conservatives, unlike stuff like "Syriana", with obvious bad guys like Tim Blake Nelson and companies named KILLEN and CONNEX.

I'm excited about this. I'm intrigued by "Lions For Lambs" and the slightly less relevant "Charlie Wilson's War". But I fucking fear Paul Haggis' "The Valley Of Elah".