Word: syriana
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...from the Middle East, I was glad to see that Syriana and Three Kings did not stereotype Arabs as aggressors. Do you think the U.S. is involved in the Middle East only to protect its own self-interest? -Ahmed Abbas, CairoMost countries are involved in almost everything they do only to protect their own self-interests. It would be naďve to think that anyone is doing anything out of the goodness of their heart...
...under 50 and had a hit movie last year. Depp fronted only the third movie in history to earn more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and he dropped from #2 to a seventh-place tie. Clooney can star in and direct politico-art movies, like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, and be an outspoken liberal just ahead of the Iraq-fatigue curve, yet he stays more or less in the same slot over three years...
...guys make for exciting TV. Working patiently to improve America's image in the Muslim world--not so much. (Maybe Aaron Sorkin could spice it up with an office romance and lots of walk-and-talks.) Muddy a terrorism thriller with liberal concern over root causes and you get Syriana, whose plot audiences couldn't follow with a GPS device. "The politics of the show," says executive producer Howard Gordon (a registered Democrat), "are narrative politics...
...squarely on the abject villainy of conservative causes and Big Corporations. There was the superheroic-stolidity of Edward R. Murrow facing down Joe McCarthy in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the conservative lawmakers colluding with the shady oil corporations of “Syriana,” and the political-correctness of “Crash...
...urge the Security Council to intervene in Sudan's Darfur region. B) To urge the Security Council to intervene on the set of Oceans 13--the policy of appeasing Matt Damon must be stopped! C) To explain the plot of Syriana. D) To get Jet Skis banned from Lake Como...