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November 27, 2005
The Next "Passion Of The Christ"?
Well, that may be a stretch. But it looks like Bruce Willis will try to put a screeching halt to the string of malicious Hollywood movies that place our troops on the same moral level as the Viet Cong or al-Qaeda jihadists. (hat tip: AJ Strata):
ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy. It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.
The Deuce Four, of course, is the outfit that Michael Yon was embedded with; Yon's reports of the battalion's work in Mosul has made him justly famous in the blogosphere and beyond.
I sure hope that Willis is able to follow through on this project, and I hope it hits the same grass-roots nerve that Mel Gibson's "The Passion" did. I wonder if he can have it ready by November 2006?
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Oh wow--a movie both halves of my partnership would want to see. And I bet we're not the only couple that would apply to. I think that's money in the boxoffice, if they can just get it made.
Posted by: AcademicElephant at November 27, 2005 07:58 PM
I agree completely about the box office potential--this could be a test case to see if (given the example of Mel Gibson) the H'wood honchos' desire to make money can outweigh their rabid bias. Or maybe Mel can help finance it. ;-)
I guarantee you all they'd have to do is just write the screen play from Yon's blog, leaving nothing out. (Remember that Yon mercilessly exposed the miserable performance of a couple of green US soldiers in the back alley firefight that injured LTC Kurilla.) A really honest movie would go over like gangbusters.
Posted by: Jeff at November 27, 2005 09:23 PM
