Phil, So don't go see the movie.
On Dec 10, 12:44 pm, Philobealo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have to weep for the future, if people are learning about the past > from Tinseltown. The latest crime against truth is called Che, a > hagiography that warps history to make communist executioner Che > Guevara into a hero. > > "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara!" announced > Benicio del Toro this May, as he received a "best actor" award for his > starring role in Che, a reverent new film about the communist > revolutionary. As the crowd at the Cannes Film Festival erupted in > thunderous ovation, the Puerto Rico-born actor gushed that "I wouldn't > be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets > you'll have to pay your respects to the man!" > But some stubbornly refuse to pay their respects. Thus, the actor > received a much cooler reception when Che, directed by Oscar-winner > Steven Soderbergh, had a private screening in Miami Beach this past > Thursday. Cuban-Americans, including the mayor of Miami Beach, > protested the 4-and-a-half hour glorification of the man they consider > a Stalinist mass-murderer. > Miami's media proved equally unwelcoming. At a press conference after > the screening in Miami Beach's Byron Carlyle Theater, Marlene Gonzalez > of the Spanish language America TeVe network asked del Toro about some > glaring omissions in the movie. What of Che's role in ordering the > executions of ordinary Cubans? And why no mention of the forced-labor > camps established on the guerilla fighter's orders? A suddenly hurried > Del Toro denied that Che bore any culpability for these horrors. He > refused even to admit Che's bitter falling out with Fidel Castro, > claiming that, to the contrary, the two always got along splendidly > and that Castro was genuinely heartbroken when Che was captured and > killed after fighting to his last bullet. > The contrast made for a moving scene. As protestors outside the > Carlyle Theater brandished pictures of relatives murdered by Che > Guevara, del Toro paid tribute to their murderer. Questions about > Che's brutalities — meticulously recorded in books like Exposing the > Real Che Guevara — he brushed aside as the embittered fabrications of > Cuban exiles. > The following day, del Toro flew to Havana to present his film at the > Havana Film Festival and hob-knob with Castro regime officials. Che > was billed as the highlight of the festival and the Stalinist regime > rolled out the carpet for their honored guest. > Del Toro publicly thanked the Cuban regime for research assistance. > > That del Toro considers the Cuban regime a reliable source for the > film is telling. Consider that the Castro government has jailed more > political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's and > executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first > three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 > million) in it's first six. These figures come from the human rights > group Freedom House and from the Black Book of Communism, authored by > French scholars and translated into English by Harvard University > Press, not exactly headquarters for the vast-right wing conspiracy. > It's no accident that moonbat-infested Tinseltown produces grotesquely > distorted historical stories. As Orwell noticed: > > Who controls the past controls the future. > Those who share the socialist vision of the future as a boot stamping > on a human face have powerful friends in Hollyweird. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
