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1. #1
   On July 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pm, walterc said:

   Are they going to cover the genocide that took place during Mao’s cultural revolution? Probably not.

   Is this going to be followed up with the story of how Hitler brought Germany back to greatness?

   So many unanswered questions.

   Unfreaking believable.

2. #2
   On July 16th, 2007 at 3:48 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

   On July 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pm, walterc said:

   You said it all bro.

3. #3
   On July 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pm, Rusty said:

   Calm down, fellas. For all you know this biopic will be decidedly anti-Mao. Or it could be pro-Mao. Who knows? Stop jumping to conclusions.

4. #4
   On July 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pm, josetheguerilla said:

   Hollyweird loves commies, I’d be willing to put my Vegas money on a movie that is mostly pro-Mao.

5. #5
   On July 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pm, huggybear said:

   Isn’t it a bit misleading to label Diaz a “Mao cheerleader” for having a messenger bag emblazoned with a Mao slogan that is written in a language she doesn’t speak? Ignorant, perhaps. But excusably so, I would say. But that hardly makes her a “Mao cheerleader”. Especially when you consider she apologized for it after it was brought to her attention. Cut the girl some slack! And I say this as someone who does not like Cameron Diaz.

6. #6
   On July 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pm, Rusty said:

   Also, Cameron Diaz is Cuban-American. Hopefully her Dad gave her a hard time over the bag, too.

7. #7
   On July 16th, 2007 at 4:56 pm, rjbjrirish said:

   I suppose the next film will be about Pol Pot. Of course, it will have to a “short” as he only killed about 2,000,000 of his countrymen.

8. #8
   On July 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pm, dedalus said:

   I wouldn’t assume all filmmakers are reflexively pro-Mao. The Chinese director Zhang Yimou made a powerful film called “To Live” in 1994 that shows the ignorance and cruelty of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution by focusing on the suffering of a Chinese family over the course of four decades. If anyone is interested in seeing what one prominent filmmaker has already done with similar subject matter, it is worth checking out, especially for Gong Li’s performance.

9. #9
   On July 16th, 2007 at 5:05 pm, Rusty said:

   rjbjrirish,

   The Killing Fields?

10. #10
    On July 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm, Grafted said:

    Mao might be so stigmatized that it would be a surprise if this film was clearly pro-Mao, even though much might be glossed over, and even though the left loves communism.

    Even though the (far) left would love some aspects of Hitler, even Hollywood would not (soon) make a movie in his defense.

    However, I still won’t trust Hollywood on this film as far as I could throw it.

11. #11
    On July 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm, see-dubya said:

    I wish they would make a movie based on Jung Chang’s Wild Swans. That’s a first-hand account of the Cultural Revolution, warts and all. She’s since done a biography of Mao as well that I haven’t read yet–but which reviewers said was devastating.

12. #12
    On July 16th, 2007 at 5:44 pm, nbarry said:

    It appears to me that the projected film is about the 1949 communist takeover. The rest is silence (or whitewash).

13. #13
    On July 16th, 2007 at 6:25 pm, TaiChiWawa said:

    Coming soon to a theater near you . . .

    Sean Penn as you’ve never seen him before.

    He is – - – ZEDONG!

14. #14
    On July 16th, 2007 at 6:30 pm, Rick Moran said:

    The Cultural Revolution and its 20 million dead was a drop in the bucket compared to the total from the civil war which may have reached 100 million dead – mostly communists killing government sympathizers as they did in Viet Nam. Every village they entered they would drag out anyone who ever said a kind word about Chaing and execute them. Whole villages were razed to the ground, the inhabitants killed.

    Those who romanticize these thugs will never get it. Mao was a butcher. And glorifying him as some kind of “people’s hero” is a titanic miscarraige of history.

15. #15
    On July 16th, 2007 at 7:28 pm, Racoonberry said:

    I am wrapping up a tour of China this week. Last week I visited Beijing, the Great Wall, etc., and saw those messenger bags at many of the major tourist kiosks. It’s ironic how the Chinese tourism industry is capitalizing on Chairman Mao baubles. You can anything from small books of his sayings to messenger bags, hats, and watches. Even in a nice shop his sayings are on landscape paintings. It would be easy for the unsuspecting tourist to come away with some of this stuff, but the big red star should have been a dead give away, it’s clearly been a symbol of communism since the early 1900’s.

    Anyone who wants to probe the veneer of success ought to check out a local Chinese hospital. A travel companion took their son to a children’s’ hospital for treatment and was welcomed to open sewage on the floors, massive crowds, and oppressive conditions. It may have been cheap, but the potential for disaster is high.

    Hopefully, this movie will cover that. If they stick to the tour guide script they’ll only see the glitz and miss the ugly underbelly of the dragon.

16. #16
    On July 16th, 2007 at 8:00 pm, Artbyruth said:

    Liberals LOVE dictators!!!

17. #17
    On July 16th, 2007 at 8:26 pm, John Ansell said:

    http://www.formosabetrayed.com/about/story.html

    I wonder if Hollywood will fund this tale of Taiwan.

18. #18
    On July 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pm, puhiawa said:

    The beatings, torture and execution of the entire landed class should be so entertainng. Then there was the wonderful iron quotas where citizens had to turn in all metal leaving them nothing to farm. Followed by the fly quota, 10 bodies a day for each family member, followed by the bird quotas, then the rat quotas. Then there is the problematic 30 million dead.

19. #19
    On July 16th, 2007 at 11:52 pm, Miss Ladybug said:

    The guy who wrote the book? What are his views on Mao, and how does his book portray Mao? That might indicate how Hollywood might treat it.

    Also, the Big Red Star… even time I see a Macy’s commercial on TV, I can’t help but think “COMMUNISM”…

20. #20
    On July 16th, 2007 at 11:53 pm, Miss Ladybug said:

    even = every
    proofreading is a wonderful thing, when I actually do it…

21. #21
    On July 17th, 2007 at 3:22 am, someone said:

    The Chinese director Zhang Yimou made a powerful film called “To Live” in 1994 that shows the ignorance and cruelty of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution by focusing on the suffering of a Chinese family over the course of four decades.

    He later made a film called “Hero” that offered tortured apologetics for the Chinese regime’s brutality.

22. #22
    On July 17th, 2007 at 6:21 am, Tantor said:

    Communists don’t drag along journalists who don’t give their revolutions good ink. The standard commie strategy is to wage their war in the media. They are all about propaganda.