Yeah, I remember reading about this big controversy a few days ago. Just so I'm clear on the issue, let me get this straight:
Movies like "Saving Private Ryan", made in the day of Political Correctness, depict Americans vs. Germans...Americans win, Germans lose, and this movie was still a HUGE success IN GERMANY!Hell, movies like this have been made for decades, and the propoganda of American patriotism vs. European/Asian evil is older by five-fold.
But "Pearl Harbor" is somehow offensive?? Perish the damn thought! We have Japanese Asians as American citizens, so this movie might offend their people, heritage, families, etc. Last time I checked, I'm 1/4 German. Yet Private Ryan doesn't offend me in the least. If you're an American citizen, your creed should not matter. If Pearl Harbor offends you in some manner, you should only blame yourself for going to see the movie. You're Asian? Too bad, to me you're just another American citizen. I thought the entire point of the 21st century was to bring "tree-hugging, easy-going, racial equality" and other egalitarian thought patterns into the US. But far be it for Hollywood to depict a historically-correct act of agression by the now-pacifist Japanese, because some of our Asian-Americans might not be able to stomach it. As the editor of this report stated, the Japanese is exactly as she said - an "old enemy". When I watch an American Revolution film, should I worry if it will offend British people, who haven't been enemies in nearly 200 years? I suppose now, I have to.
G.D. U.S., F.U.
Jewbroni~