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In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II.
Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud." The hackers posted messages indicating they objected to the film's mocking portrayal of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Chamberlain was infamously blamed for the policy of appeasement in which Britain allowed Adolf Hitler to seize territories in Europe in the late 1930s.
Lowe also claimed he saw Seth Rogen, one of the film's stars, at an airport on Wednesday. Lowe says they were both stunned. .............(more}
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rob-lowe-compares-the-interview-to-the-rise-of-nazism-2014-12#ixzz3MG7SkeJ
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)What he said sounds pretty accurate - in the sense that Chamberlain acceded to a Dictators requests and so did the Movie Showing establishment of America. The comparison breaks down if he suggested that Kim Jong II was, like Hitler, an expansionist who wanted to rule the world; clearly he's not. But he is a brutal dictator, and we've agreed to do what he wanted because we are afraid of him.
Bryant
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)attack movie theaters he's not in danger-- theater patrons are.
I don't know if it was the correct decision to pull the movie, but I do know you don't be a hero with other people's lives.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)They're ~everywhere~ these days and can strike at a moments notice.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)I recently saw a documentary about high school kids holding off an entire North Korean invasion.
So there.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)So double there!
Orrex
(63,216 posts)Because I labored for years under the mistaken notion that the Powers Boothe role was played by Michael Ironside.
Those scars run pretty deep.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Who cares?
Sony caved, and after this you can be damned sure that some movies will not get made simply because it might upset some crazy assed dictator. Many of those movies would have far more artistic merit than "The Interview."
I will think hard before I buy another Sony Product.
I don't support cowards.
Now, I need to tear into my closet, pull out my old Sony Walkman, and burn it in protest.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Hilarious.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)MANative
(4,112 posts)absolutely nothing that points to credible threats of any attack on theaters.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Or Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe?
Marr
(20,317 posts)North Korea is going to be a strictly taboo topic in movies now, you can bet on it.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)most famous cavers...ridiculous article, IMHO.