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2007-12-05 Fifth Column

OLIVER STONE SEEKS TO FILM "AHMADINEJAD'S ADVENTURES"

From Secrecy News email newsletter. Source links to Teheran Times.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone is expected to visit Tehran in the near future to negotiate arrangements for a film about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian press reported last week.
Stone cavorting with the enemy. Giving him aid and comfort by making a propaganda film. I wonder if there is a term for that kind of activity?
"We have announced that he has asked for permission to travel to Iran for direct negotiations and to plan the project," one official told the Tehran Times.

Stone first sought Iranian permission last summer to make the film, variously referred to as "Ahmadijenad's Adventures" or "The Truth About Ahmadinejad." His initial request was denied, but was then reconsidered and approved by the President himself "if certain conditions were met."

Among such conditions, the Tehran Times reported, "Stone would not be allowed to invent any scenarios. [Instead,] he should only use incidents from the president's real life in the film."
The Iranians do, however, have permission to *ahem* create any scenarios, using their artistic license.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2007-12-05 14:22|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 If Stone is only allowed to"...use incidents from the president's real life in the film." and the film will indeed imitate life, then the film will indeed be only a SHORT feature.....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-12-05 14:32|| 2007-12-05 14:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if he will be shown the well where the 12th Imam will rise from below?

Posted by Delphi 2007-12-05 14:36|| 2007-12-05 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Could easily be a one-way trip. (I hope)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-12-05 15:03|| 2007-12-05 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Here are some more tidbits for your reading pleasure:

News about the proposed film project "has amazed and worried many friends of Islamic Iran's honour and power and those concerned about its reputation," according to one Iranian commentator.

"How can one trust a person... who, despite efforts at proclaiming himself to represent the opposition in America's ruling system, is in line and in accordance with the essence and the overall policies of this system," wrote Elham Rajabpur in the conservative Tehran daily Keyhan.

The writer objected to several of Stone's films including Alexander ("a hated figure among Iranians") and The Doors (about "one of America's perverted and half-mad singers").

"We are afraid that the outcome of [Stone's Iranian film] venture will not be the true and realistic portrayal of an intellectual and a peacemaker such as Ahmadinejad, but a portrayal of Ahmadinejad according to Stone, Hollywood, and global Zionism."

The Doors---our secret weapon, LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-12-05 15:04|| 2007-12-05 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I do hope they cast Rowan Atkinson in the lead.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-12-05 15:07|| 2007-12-05 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Or Martin Short...

Posted by Pappy 2007-12-05 15:48|| 2007-12-05 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Honestly, what theater owner is gonna take a chance on getting his screen pain-bombed while this tripe is showing?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-12-05 15:51|| 2007-12-05 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Or Paul Ruebens (aka PeeWee Herman)

Posted by SteveS 2007-12-05 15:55|| 2007-12-05 15:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Since the picture he made on Castro made so much money...

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-12-05 16:08|| 2007-12-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-05 16:24|| 2007-12-05 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 "'Rosebud' was his atomic bomb."

"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!"

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-12-05 16:29|| 2007-12-05 16:29|| Front Page Top

#12 OMG tu, I didn't know that Mr.A was an Orthodox Jew. That explains a lot. It's all part of that Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy[WZC]. /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-05 17:35|| 2007-12-05 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 My boyfriend suggested Emmanuel Lewis in the lead role and now I can't stop laughing.

Posted by ryuge 2007-12-05 20:38|| 2007-12-05 20:38|| Front Page Top

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