Lebanon bans The Post

[Disir]

BEIRUT: Lebanon has officially banned The Post, the latest film by acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, an industry source told Annahar Sunday.

Though The Post had passed the government's normal screening procedures, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon (CBSIL) put pressure on the government to block the film over its director's ties to Israel, the source told Annahar.

Steven Spielberg, who hails from a Jewish family, was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1 million donation to Israel during the 2006 conflict with Lebanon.

...The film was scheduled to be released on January 18th in Lebanon. In 2011, AFP reported that an overzealous employee at a movie theatre in Lebanon has blackened out the name of Spielberg from posters featuring his movie Tintin.

The employee, acting on the fact that Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office in 2006, covered the movie maker's name at the weekend on posters advertising the film, a theatre official told AFP.
Lebanon bans The Post - Annahar Staff

I'm not a fan of Spielberg because he flat out lied about events in another movie. That said, at some point this crap becomes funny.

 

[Sunni Man]

Good for Lebanon. ....

 

[Penelope]

BEIRUT: Lebanon has officially banned The Post, the latest film by acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, an industry source told Annahar Sunday.

Though The Post had passed the government's normal screening procedures, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon (CBSIL) put pressure on the government to block the film over its director's ties to Israel, the source told Annahar.

Steven Spielberg, who hails from a Jewish family, was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1 million donation to Israel during the 2006 conflict with Lebanon.

...The film was scheduled to be released on January 18th in Lebanon. In 2011, AFP reported that an overzealous employee at a movie theatre in Lebanon has blackened out the name of Spielberg from posters featuring his movie Tintin.

The employee, acting on the fact that Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office in 2006, covered the movie maker's name at the weekend on posters advertising the film, a theatre official told AFP.
Lebanon bans The Post - Annahar Staff

I'm not a fan of Spielberg because he flat out lied about events in another movie. That said, at some point this crap becomes funny.

What did he lie about in what movie? Curious, thank you.

 

[Disir]

Munich. He left information out and added crap in, as well as, took events out of sequence intentionally. I read Vengeance before the movie came out. This is not fiction where taking liberty might be at a minimum overlooked. This is lets take what the book is about and alter it so we can pretend this is an appeal for peace.

 

[abu afak]

Munich. He left information out and added crap in, as well as, took events out of sequence intentionally.
I read Vengeance before the movie came out.
This is Not Fiction where taking liberty might be at a minimum overlooked. This is lets take what the book is about and alter it so we can pretend this is an appeal for peace.

Actually, 'Munich' was indeed "fiction," Not a documentary.

Munich (film) - Wikipedia

Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical Drama Political Thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
Based on the book 'Vengence'....
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Historical authenticity

Although Munich is a work of fiction, it describes many actual events and figures from the early 1970s. On the Israeli side, Prime Minister Golda Meir is depicted in the film, and other military and political leaders such as Attorney General Meir Shamgar, Mossad chief Zvi Zamir and Aman chief Aharon Yariv are also depicted. Spielberg tried to make the depiction of the hostage-taking and killing of the Israeli athletes historically authentic.[29] Unlike an earlier film, 21 Hours at Munich, Spielberg's film depicts the shooting of all the Israeli athletes, which according to the autopsies was accurate. In addition, the film uses actual news clips shot during the hostage situation.
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So make up some new Lies for your 'anti-cough-zionism.'
gameover
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[Disir]

Munich. He left information out and added crap in, as well as, took events out of sequence intentionally.
I read Vengeance before the movie came out.
This is Not Fiction where taking liberty might be at a minimum overlooked. This is lets take what the book is about and alter it so we can pretend this is an appeal for peace.

Actually, 'Munich' was indeed "fiction," Not a documentary.

Munich (film) - Wikipedia

Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical Drama Political Thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
Based on the book 'Vengence'....
[......]
Historical authenticity

Although Munich is a work of fiction, it describes many actual events and figures from the early 1970s. On the Israeli side, Prime Minister Golda Meir is depicted in the film, and other military and political leaders such as Attorney General Meir Shamgar, Mossad chief Zvi Zamir and Aman chief Aharon Yariv are also depicted. Spielberg tried to make the depiction of the hostage-taking and killing of the Israeli athletes historically authentic.[29] Unlike an earlier film, 21 Hours at Munich, Spielberg's film depicts the shooting of all the Israeli athletes, which according to the autopsies was accurate. In addition, the film uses actual news clips shot during the hostage situation.
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So make up some new Lies for your 'anti-cough-zionism.'
gameover
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Read the book? It is fiction now. Find an argument you have a shot at winning.