| Monday, November 28, 2005 |
| Die hard for the cause |
 First the million-dollar bounty, now the movie. Bruce Willis is set to make a war pic depicting the heroic exploits of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Interesting quote, though, and I think subtle and accurate:
The 50-year-old actor said he was in talks about a film of "these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom".
That about sums it up. U.S. sentiment is one thing, the sentiment of the guys fighting over there is another. When you talk to them, they focus on the day to day successes and their belief in what they're doing. Even the ones who know that the premise of the war was faulty (or even the ones who'll admit it was cooked up) believe in what they're doing overall for the Iraqi people. That might be the most painful thing about this war -- it exploited, twisted and wasted the United States military's basic desire to do good around the world. I like Bruce Willis (despite his politics) and I'll probably see the flick (it's by the same guy who directed "Armageddon," which I loved). But if it devolves into a gauzy, pro-Bush love-fest, or even includes one scene of Dubya strutting around on an aircraft carrier, I'm outta there, no matter how much the tickets cost... I enjoy laughing at Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bush's other Monicas on the radio for a little while every day, but I ain't sitting through two hours of that crap...
...On a totally unrelated note: outside looking in, I can sooooo see why Bruce and Demi ultimately couldn't get on...
Tags: Iraq, movies, War, Bruce Willis |
posted by JReid @ 1:02 PM   |
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