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Lebanon's economy ministry says it has asked the country's security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because its lead actress, Gal Gadot, is an Israeli.
A senior security official says no formal request has been received yet, and that the ban would require a recommendation from a six-ministry-member committee.
[...] Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and has a decades-old law that boycotts Israeli products and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling or having contacts with Israelis.
Supporters of the boycott took to social media to campaign against the movie.
@TimesofIsrael Please don't watch the movie wonder woman, boycott.
The star gal gadot is a pro-IDF Zionist who herself served in the terrorist organization pic.twitter.com/fvWSHRIx2w
— Tee (@boyzinthehoood) May 29, 2017@GalGadot you showing your support just shows you are as evil as the Israel army baby killers # boycott #WonderWoman
— Zam m (@zam18028526) May 30, 2017Israel is sick..and the new Wonder Woman supports it! Boycott Israel! https://t.co/QJ1FCGzfkh
— Nick Littlejohn💿 (@nickmlittlejohn) April 10, 2016
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday May 31 2017, @02:32PM (1 child)
That simply isn't the case with movies (at least the "special effects demo reels" you refer to): the audience has gotten ever larger, mostly thanks to foreign exports. That's why these movies have such dreadfully simple plots and dialog: they're easy to translate into different languages and foreign audiences will understand them and not feel left out because of too many cultural assumptions contained.
See this link [hollywoodreporter.com]: the global box office revenue hit a record in 2015 (which itself surpassed the record hit in 2014) of $38B. Here's another one [latimes.com]: thanks largely to China, Hollywood is making more money than ever. From that article: "It was a similar tale for Universal Pictures' "Everest" and 20th Century Fox's "Kingsman: The Secret Service," two films that did far better overseas than they did in the U.S. And increasingly, it's the international response that matters most to Hollywood."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @02:59PM
Dreadfully simple plots have always been the forte of action movies.
There is nothing new there.
Action movies aren't any dumber than they ever were, its just that the economics of foreign markets have caused hollywood to make more action movies.