What does Hollywood NOT turn into a movie? Does it really take a Hollywood movie to get the world to care about injustices and issues that are happening all over the world? Sam Feuer, president of Sixth Sense Productions (which also produced Hotel Rwanda), justifies the making of the movie about the 6 Bulgarian medics by saying:
'...the story of The Benghazi Six would be "inspirational".
Speaking to Reuters, he said: "The world needs to learn about this injustice. It's not just a Bulgarian story, it's a human story that the world will relate to and learn from."
Mr Feuer confirmed his company is approaching some Hollywood stars.
"Our job is to develop the best script possible that will attract them," he said.'
While I appreciate his intention of educating the world about injustices, if he really means it, I do not think making a Hollywood movie will achieve that purpose. Think about Hotel Rwanda. How many people actually still continued FEELING something AFTER the movie was over? How many of them tried to educate themselves about the complexities of the issue? Then think about how many people said "it's horrible" then continued eating their dinner as if nothing ever happened? It gets more dangerous when Hollywood stars are playing the roles, because the media have rendered ordinary people incapable of distinguishing the fabulous celebrity lifestyle from reality. Having Hollywood stars play these roles will only undermine the message of the event. What I find the most ridiculous about what he said was that their job is "to develop the best script possible that will attract them." Isn't he a bit self-contradictory by saying that? If the event is significant enough, as he claims, shouldn't that already attract the stars? It seems like he thinks that the event is not important enough that they need to change the script, distort some facts, stray from the truth so make it a more important issue to attract the stars. Well I bet (some of) these stars that they are going to find have no Bulgarian origins at all!
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I agree with you that movies usually fail to bring about any real change. We see so much war, violence and suffering on TV that nothing really phases most people anymore. I think Westerners need to encounter these tragedies face to face in order to be inspired to act.
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