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...currently acts as a spokesperson for the Avon Foundation’s “Speak Out Against Domestic Violence?? campaign and testified before Congress last July in support of the federal Violence Against Women...
...trouble with this ‘cycle of violence?? perspective is that it confuses cause and effect,” Dershowitz wrote in the op-ed. “The period immediately preceding Munich was plagued by airline terrorism [and]...this long pattern of high-publicity, low-risk hijackings is what encouraged Black September to up the ante by infiltrating the Olympic Village in Munich...
...before his piece appeared in the Globe, Dershowitz wrote a similar op-ed in The Baltimore Sun in which he made the same arguments regarding “the cycle of violence?? and why having European countries arrest and extradite the terrorists would not have been successful. In the Sun piece, however, Dershowitz also attacked what he saw as the film’s “one-sided political view” and insinuated that the film’s screenwriter opposes Israel’s existence...
...Munich” to a rich tradition of spy cinema (and the team’s Rube Goldberg-esque bombs are more than a little reminiscent of Q’s gadgets).Taking a cue from David Cronenberg’s recent film “A History of Violence??—which similarly explored the toll violence exacts on its practitioners—Spielberg depicts gun violence in all of its goriness: exit wounds, blood splatters, and charred flesh. This verisimilitude, combined with the knowledge that the depicted events are historical, make “Munich?...
...Adamson says.This magnifying approach continued as Adamson visualized the film’s climax. Lewis narrates “Wardrobe”’s final battle in a couple of pages, but Adamson expanded it to a lengthy set piece of generically swashbuckling violence??inspired, he says, by “the battles from ‘Braveheart.’”These scenes, along with the rest of the film, were shot on the windswept fields and mountains of New Zealand, in an unmistakable attempt to recall the heroic vistas that Jackson found...