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Thread ID: 6481 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-05-04
2003-05-04 22:44 | User Profile
5-4-03
Seven Years In Tibet -- and Decades of Double-Standards
Re: the movie "Seven Years in Tibet," 1997, starring Brad Pitt
We wonder why the director of "Seven Years In Tibet" [1] was "forced" to add apologies-for-Nazi-sympathies to the film, unplanned, before the film was released. Indeed, the movie's real-life character was not involved in any Nazi crimes. Nonetheless, Pitt's screen character is apologetic for his political and/or racial views.
It is odd that real-life Stalinists like Lillian Hellman and Paul Robeson can champion the world's most murderous ideology [Marxism] for years and no Jew says a word, but when a movie is created that casts Nazism in an only-slightly-positive light, special alterations must be made to the film before it is released. Jews, and Jews alone, have created such a stifling atmosphere surrounding the topic of Nazism-on-film that no such films have ever been accurate past the military uniforms and geographical details. Historical facts are being denied the American public by one race -- the Chosen. The desires of God's Pets curb reality each time.
The "Seven Years In Tibet" feature mentioned above is highlighted here:
"A controversy over the revelation of the real-life Harrer's Nazi Party affiliation brewed during the film's production, forcing Annaud to briefly deal with the subject in the film." [url=http://entertainment.msn.com/Movies/Movie.aspx?m=475427]http://entertainment.msn.com/Movies/Movie....e.aspx?m=475427[/url]
"However director Annaud has cleverly refrained from making the film a story of the arrogant Harrer who finds solace in Buddhism. He makes up for the lapse by inserting an apologetic voice-over in which Harrer explains away his earlier mistakes and expresses regret over his ill-conceived notions." [url=http://www.screenindia.com/nov07/inter3.htm]http://www.screenindia.com/nov07/inter3.htm[/url]
[1] review of "Seven Years In Tibet" -- [url=http://movieweb.com/movie/7yearstibet]http://movieweb.com/movie/7yearstibet[/url]
2003-05-07 04:23 | User Profile
Franco,
Yes it is too bad they put this kind of nonsense in the Film. I have been told the Book is Great.
Get the book; skip the film!
**Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, Dalai Lama
List Price: $13.95 Price: $11.16
* Paperback: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x 8.26 x 5.49 * Publisher: J. P. Tarcher; (September 1997) * ISBN: 0874778883 * Other Editions: Library Binding | Audio Cassette | Hardcover (Large Print) |Audio Download (Audible.com) | All Editions * Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars Based on 56 reviews. Write a review. * Amazon.com Sales Rank: 44,531
Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
Excellent insight into a lost culture, November 1, 1997 Reviewer: rushlowa@hotmail.com from Andrea Rushlow, Asheville, North Carolina Heinrich Harrer's natural writing style makes this book a pleasure to read. Although Harrer states that he is not trained in literature, his writing style is pleasant and down to earth. This book - written through the eyes of an Austrian - gives not only an insight into the lost culture of Tibet but also expresses the sensitive character of the Austrian mountaineer. (Don't listen to the news telling us that he was a Nazi. When you read this book, you will learn that he did not have the time nor the interest to kill jews. In contrast, he loved - and was loved by - a people who pick up little insects before anyone steps on them.) Many years ago, my mother introduced me to this book. She was born in Harrer's hometown Huettenberg and has met him a few times. Maybe someday you have time to visit the little museum about Harrer's adventures in Tibet in this charming Austrian mountain village.
url: [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874778883/]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...l/-/0874778883/[/url]
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2003-05-08 00:45 | User Profile
Do you drive a Volvo? Heh heheheehe. I'll bet you have a Bob Marley sticker also.
2003-05-10 21:13 | User Profile
> Tibetans are a beautiful and peaceful people being massacred by Communist Chinese slant eyed hordes. I have a Free Tibet sticker on my car. So should everyone at OD. **
I might have had some sympathy for the Tibetans, but for the fact that everybody with a "Free Tibet" bumper sticker around here is a nasal-voiced, beads-and-sandals clad, VW-bug driving pansy. That's enough to poison any sane man's opinion against almost ANY cause.**
Shouldn't even enter into the equation for an honest man. If you agree with the first statement, the second statement is irrelevant.
In the movie OFFICE SPACE, a character is the butt of jokes because his name is "Michael Bolton", like the insufferable singer. When,finally, he is asked why he simply doesn't stop the bleeding by changing his name,he responds " No way! Why should I change it? He's the one who sucks!"
Same principle.
2003-05-10 23:05 | User Profile
rban:
...but the original pure Buddhism was most definitely an offshoot of Hinduism.
And, the purist of all--Jainism, which Buddha tried for a period and declared too ascetic even for Him!
2003-05-12 20:37 | User Profile
Unfortunately you guys are correct in that the upper crust of society, ie, the neo con elite, are too obsessed with financial gain and so called business opportunities in China to risk offending the slant eyed Commies by supporting the Tibetan cause....which leaves Tibet to the crowd you describe.
What does being "slant-eyed" have to do with anything? Tibetans are just as Mongoloid as the Chinese. Incidentally, AY, you may be aware that Buddhism was founded by Gautum Buddha who was a Hindu in India.....
Gautama Buddha was a Nordic aristocrat from Nepal, ignoramus.
the Orientals have bastardized Buddhism with their own peculiar 'slant' (pun intended)...but the original pure Buddhism was most definitley an offshoot of Hinduism.
Buddhism was rebellion against Hindusim just as much as Gnosticism represents a rebellion against Judaism.
Anyway, I have great attachment to the Tibetan cause and am assuredly not a reefer puffing Volvo driving environmentalist by any means!
No you aren't. You are just a funny Hindu supremacist idiot.