There is so much wrong about this, I am not sure where to start

[dangermousie]

I don't follow American entertainment very closely (after all, I already obsess over Korean one and books and I do need to sleep and play with Baby Mousie sometimes) but I was vaguely aware of Angelina Jolie making her directorial debut in a movie which was a love story set during the civil war in former Yugoslavia. "Hmmmm,can be interesting"

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[ficchica]

This is an unsubstantiated rumour. Jolie and the main actress have denied it. I think I'll believe them over a newspaper who didn't even publish the script. As for the government department they didn't even read the script when they granted the permit, nor did they ask.

[dangermousie]

I hope so.

[shiegra]

Actually, no.

"They no longer have the authorisation to shoot in Bosnia. They will have it if they send us the scenario with a story which will be different from what we have been told by people who read it," Grahovac told the radio.

In other words, they wouldn't give them the script. Which is kind of telling.

When the Women - Victims of War organisation announced they would boycott the film a few weeks ago, Jolie apparently sent them a letter asking them not to "pass judgement on the film beforehand, especially before they've seen it." Not 'I'm not trying to play off horrific trauma as a sweeping gesture of love!" just 'don't judge it before you see it.' Which I've heard before, most recently when Amanda Palmer was making a gross picture out of herself.

[dangermousie]

Yes, andthey were telling the press 'wait and see complex story blah blah' which is setting off alarm bells to me.

[shiegra]

The way I'm seeing it, the signs are pointing to either either true, or it's so painfully entitled it's also offensive.