Letters to the Editor
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Thrasher
Now I know why you are obsessed with race.
Because you are a racist.
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Jolie's ancentry
Angelina Jolie is part Iroquois through her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. Doesn't that make Jolie "of color"? Her skin tone is about the same as Jennifer Beals's.
We're not talking about casting the role of Hattie McDaniel here. In many photos I've seen of Mariane Pearl, "black" does not jump out at me as a descriptor.
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#1 Power Actor in Hollywood.
Will Smith
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Nothing tragic nor sad about being Black in truth it creates envy and contempt
from others who lack this cultural dna... White folks know this to be true and it has been the basis of thier centuries of oppression against people of color...
Now that is sad...
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August Schellenberg
From Wiki -
"August Schellenberg (b. July 25, 1936 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actor. His ethnicity is Mohawk and German."
Ooooops Thrasher - that Jewish name get ya?
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According to interview on HBO before film Shellenberg informs viewers he is a white german
sorry to disappoint but I trust the actor's own words and not those in print by unk editors..oops sometimes the jewish surnames are not changed before they venture off to Hollywood..
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Anonymous is obessed with me becuase I am supposingly obessed with race that makes Anonymously obessed with race then
lol,lol,lol,.. just thought I would used your own underdeveloped logic on you...
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Jolie being casted as a person of colour is not a newsflash but certainly deserves to be noted
given Mariane's race was part of the film and the reason why the white media was all over the story besides Pearl of course being jewish..
As I noted earlier in America Black woman and thier husbands have been murdered by American terrorists on this soil many times over tragically, this topic in truth is really old news of course except for the issues I have surfaced all day in here...
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No it doesn't
Mariane's race was part of the film and the reason why the white media was all over the story besides Pearl of course being jewish.
That's crap. It was never an issue during that horrifying drama. His Jewishness was a huge issue, because his killers made it one. And it was a big story because it was a big story -- a well-regarded journalist kidnapped by terrorists right after 9/11 partially because he was a Jew.
Thrasher: Race and gender are big issues of yours. Good for you! No go find an issue where they actually apply.
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Lets examine the facts:
1. Daniel Pearl was jewish.
2. He traveled to islamic dominated area he was wholly unfamiliar with to seek out specific people.
3. He didn't speak the language.
4. He, unlike Christianne Amanpour, NEVER traveled as an investigative reporter to the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter.
It is tragic he died, but very predictable. He had no business being over there, no experience, no language skills, no knowledge of his sources or the area. He was a total neophyte and an idiot. What did he expect would happen? That they would all go to temple together?
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Ben Dover
So are we blaming the victim now?
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Average film nothing to write home about...
Really other than the over kill jewish reporter angle with a drop dead beautiful coloured wife there really is nothing but flash here no lasting anything just the same tired middle east saga spiked with the angst of a coloured girl to add some taste to it...
The film would have so much better if a woman of colour was casted instead we are labored with the antics of a painted white female with cosmetic accessories does nothing even for style points...
I am troubled by the ease people attach greatness to the ordinary all this does is threaten truly outstanding efforts and threshold performances none of which were present in this film..
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So who will play Tiger Woods
In the Tiger Woods story someday?
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They should have used Jennifer Anniston!
For Marie's part....I mean honestly, it would be more believable than Jolie and her big U.N. I had a baby with Brad Pitt Lips. Who had more pain to draw from? Jolie or Anniston? Obviously Jennifer is in more pain than sextress Jolie....so I say Jennifer, though not black or even remotely of color should have played Marie whatshername.
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FUNNY
how much sympathy a woman gets when it is not her but her husband who is getting his head sawed off. In a rational world, the man would get the sympathy, attention, media and the woman would be considered merely somebody who knew him.
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so if Daniel Pearl was just some jerk from Poland
would a movie be made about it?
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Marianne Pearl was kind of troll like....
nothing like Jolie...kinda ridiculous
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Boy I have never seen a film pushed as much by Salon as
this movie....it's like you can't turn around without bumping into those lips!
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The bitch made money off of her husbands death
Peroid.
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hey guys what about Darfur?
Stop worrying about Marrianee/Angelina
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Love is blindness
Wow, I go to the letters section to see what people are thinking about the film and ::shock!!:: it's a race riot. I thought I'd commit this little morsel to print though:
I remember this story very well. I remember when Daniel Pearl was kidnapped. I followed the story closely and hoped for his release all the while knowing he would probably never be seen alive again. Tragically, he was not. I think he was a great journalist and a very brave man and I thought his wife, who was pregnant for the first time, was incredibly brave. My heart broke for her. I could not imagine what it must have been like for her--I still can't. It made me shudder to think about it. I remember seeing footage of her, from then and from more recent times. I certainly knew what she looked like. And guess what? Although I noticed that her hair was very curly and I thought it made her look "exotic" (i know, racist right there, but allow me to continue, by your leave), I never once though about her race. Until yesterday, I had NO IDEA that she had any African heritage, or Latino heritage or Asian heritage. I thought (foolishly, I suppose; I just was never interested in her genetic make-up) she was Caucasian, perhaps of East Indian descent or Pakistani. Maybe Jewish or Arabic. And this is not the Angelina version of Mariane--it's Mariane.
I didn't care. Really. And I still don't. I did care that she was another human being in a horrible situation. I'm really glad that's all I knew and I really didn't care to research her DNA.
I sure as hell know this--as a French national, I doubt she ever thought about it either. (I'm sure she's as proud of her heritage as anyone is, but not obsessed with it). Not that there is no racism in France--there is. Plenty of it. But it isn't like here. If you look French--and she could pass--they don't question too much. Their history is vastly, vastly different. When she saw her husband, I highly doubt she thought, "Wow, I like that white guy. Uhoh." She probably thought, "Wow, I like that guy." And as it turns out, she really did like that guy. And that's the whole point. Love is blind--at least it can be some places. It doesn't have to follow rules or be aware of history. It can do as it wants. And the world can try to crush it or kill it. Sometimes the world is successful at this, but mostly, it is not. Even in this case, where Daniel Pearl was viciously murdered, it did not kill her love for him. It did not kill her basic humanity. She actually did something with this tragedy. I admired her then and I admire her now. And when I see this movie, guarantee I am not going to be thinking about what races she is made of. She is a human being. She, apparently, is made of ALL the races combined. Perhaps she is what we will all look like someday, when we no longer have this conversations.
and to whatever troll tonia67 is, she "made money" off of her dead husband the way the New Jersey widows have "made money" off of their dead husbands from 9/11. In short, they haven't. They have tried to make the world more responsible, more educated, better. Do you think, for one second, they'd rather keep the money or have their husbands back? I pity you.