Another Item for the ‘No, We Do NOT Want to Be Like Them’ File
More than a few European critics (HT NewsBuckit via Hot Air) can’t put away their Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) long enough to enjoy a movie — one that is on its way to big success at the box office:
The studio had banked on how well sword-and-sandal movies play abroad, but when 300 was unveiled at the Berlin Film Festival in February, the filmmakers got some hostile reactions from journalists. “I was getting bombarded with political questions,” says Snyder. Some Europeans saw Leonidas’ lone-wolf march against the Persians as an allegorical defense of President Bush’s incursion into Iraq. “When someone in a movie says, ‘We’re going to fight for freedom,’ that’s now a dirty word,” says Snyder. “Europeans totally feel that way. If you mention democracy or freedom, you’re an imperialist or a fascist. That’s crazy to me.”
Yes, I know there has been some of the same BDS in movie reviews here in the US, but it appears to be nowhere near as pervasive. Though movie is being panned here by the usual “smarties,” they’re mostly not going the BDS route.
Pass the popcorn.
