The WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO SOLDIERS. As American men and women put their lives on the line in Iraq and other locations throughout the world, DISNEY and its subsidiary MIRAMAX have set a July 25 opening for the story of enlisted man running a profitable drugs and stolen goods business out of an Army base!
Oh yeah, this is going to go over real well.
The filmâs director Gregor Jordan describes SOLDIERS as a robust satire illustrating the corruption, drug use and violence that goes on in US Army bases. At the filmâs open, a painted US flag is on the ground and is stepped on by marching soldiers. The film features an excessive amount of profanity by senior officers, suggestive sex [oral sex in bed, sex in a car, sex in a swimming pool], theft of government property, and rampant drug use by soldiers.
I guess the director never heard of "Golden Flow".
Actor Joaquin Phoenix explains, "I donât know why anyone would be offended. It wasnât a movie that was intended to offend. And if we donât show things as they really happen, then whatâs that about? Censorship!"
No one is going to censor you Joaquin, we just ainât gonna go see your movie. Or go to Disneyland.
The movie studio has been receiving complaints from military insiders, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Note that in Hollywood complaints equal censorship.
One letter written by a retired Army Colonel, representing the Ninth & Tenth [Horse] Cavalry Association, the group of real "Buffalo Soldiers," warns of the filmâs racial overtones.
"Scenes show MPâs, who are black, committing acts of violence and engaging in corruption," writes Col. Franklin J. Henderson. "These scenes, intentionally or unintentionally, provide a bad image of black soldiers and degrade the sterling service of the real âBuffalo Soldiersâ who were mostly black men."
Yup, not only anti-military, but anti-black. Two for the price of one!
Director Jordan was so concerned by the mood of the country during the most recent military activity in Iraq that he asked for the movieâs release to be delayed from springtime.
"I thought, This is not the time to be putting this movie out. If we leave it a couple of months, the warâll be over and off all the front pages. Then weâll go."
Brilliant plan.
"Here in the UK no one gets upset, but over there, where the President is fighting these military campaigns in the name of democracy, the first casualty seems to be freedom of speech, the cornerstone of any democracy."
Typical, they can call Bush a lying, baby-killing cowboy all day long, but the slightest hint of protest to one of their movies and they cry foul. 
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