Thursday, May 12, 2005
1972 Munich Massacre Movie
The United States officially begun fighting terrorism in 2001. For the Israelis, their battle began 30 years before that. Steven Spielberg is going to make a movie about the start of the Israeli’s battle with terrorists.
US director Steven Spielberg is to begin shooting a movie on the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Spielberg’s spokesman said, adding that filming would take place in Hungary.
The film will be called “Vengeance” in reference to the subsequent operation by Israeli intelligence agents to track down and kill several of the murder suspects, Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy told the national MTI news agency.
This should prove to be interesting, and a movie I just might go see. Spielberg is a liberal through and through. If the movie is sympathetic to Jews and portrays the Palestinians as the monsteres they were, then Spielberg will be portrayed as a “traitor” and catch a lot of heat in Hollywood. Maybe he will try to show balance and show the Palestinians as freedom fighters who made a mistake. I don’t think so though. As Spielberg gets older he has been getting more in touch with his Jewish side. It will be interesting to see what he does.
More information: Who murdered the athletes of the Israeli 1972 Olympic Team in Munich?, a concise timeline, Wrath of God: The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre (an interesting read, and what Spielberg’s film will be about).
Update: Thanks to dorkafork for this link from the comments - A Day in September (documentary).
Update II: Thanks to andy, who has a long memory, for this link to Sword of Gideon, from 1986 (They had cable back then?).
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Makes me want to see this movie on Munich, which I’ve heard is excellent.
Interesting. I wonder what a Spielberg Holocaust movie would look like now. Schindler’s story was one of the only “happy” ones available, and it always struck me as weird that a Jew would make a movie about a bright spot in all that darkness.
I have a tendency to like Spielberg’s movies, so this is one I’ll definitely want to see. I wonder if he has it in him to do the dark, unhappy subject matter justice, though?
I doubt it. Look at how much AI sucked.
OTOH, I bet War of the Worlds will be the shizzle.
Cut the last twenty minutes off of AI, and I would have loved it. If it had ended with the little boy trapped under the ocean, staring at the blue fairy who was as much a construct of the imagination as he was, and it would have been perfect.
That last twenty minutes just rips the guts right out of the story. Darnit.
You’re cracked. That movie sucked from start to finish. It just proved that Spielberg can’t make a good Kubrick movie.
Of course, Kubrick wasn’t making any good Kubrick movies at the end there. Eyes Wide Shut was teh suck.
Eyes Wide Shut was a horrible movie--any movie that can make that much nudity boring is just complete and utter crap.
Now if he would just make a movie about the truth of Castro’s atrocities.
Oh, nevermind…
Hey, what about Sword of Gideon? I remember watching that on HBO years and years and years ago. Don’t recall too much, but I think one guy opens the fridge and gets blow to pieces.