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Kingof the Apes
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Call me KOTA
Feb 2002
time: 21:28
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...ix_030611170319
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Egypt bans US blockbuster movie Matrix Reloaded
CAIRO (AFP) - The Hollywhood science fiction hit movie Matrix Reloaded has been banned in Egypt for threatening to offend traditional religious views on the creation of humankind, the chief censor revealed.
The director of artistic censorship, Madkur Thabet, said that "despite its excellent technical level, the film was banned because it deals with subjects like human existence and creation.
"And these are questions linked to the three monotheistic religions that we respect and which we believe in," Thabet added. "These questions have in the past provoked crises and tension."
He said the decision was taken by a "committee of university professors and cinema experts."
In addition, he said, "the film has too many scenes of violence at a time when we are trying to fight this phenomenon."
The distributors of the movie have the right to appeal the ruling to a committee within the culture ministry.
Egyptian censors banned the original Matrix in 1999, but the distribution company had obtained permission to show it after appealing it to the ministry commission.
The sequel, starring Keanu Reeves (news), took 91.7 million dollars at the US and Canadian boxoffice -- the second-best weekend opening ever, box office trackers Exhibitor Relations said May 18.
"The Matrix Reloaded," the second in a planned trilogy -- had the best opening of all time for an R-rated film, the label given to movies not recommended for children under 17.
The film is a dark fantasy, which retains the mix of pseudo eastern philosophy and Western mythology, spectacular fight scenes and lavish special effects that made the 1999 original such a hit.
Reeves, who plays the series' Kung fu kicking, shades-wearing hero, Neo, is back as part of the band of rebels who battle intelligent machines in a future in which humans are enslaved within the Matrix -- a virtual reality that looks very much like Los Angeles today.
It was released by the US studio Warner Bros.
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What do you think? Personally, I don't think they banned it for causing 'religious tension', especially after they had aired that Anti-Jewish series during Ramadaan (I can't remember what it was called, Something engineered by Lenin as propaganda and used by Hitler to justify the Holocaust.) My thoughts are that they are either:
1. Trying to hurt American movie industry
2. Really are trying to cut back on violence (Personally, I think watching The Matrix won't make Egypt any more dangerous)
3. The film is not conservative enough for the Mullahs
4.A combination of the above (my thought)
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Bereta_Eder
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they're too sexy for their hats
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Bereta_Eder
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Fundie Pyramid Land.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys Land
err Sand something terrorist Land
you are an endless source of intuitive placenames!
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:28
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Kramerman:
they probably each have numerous wives...
one thing that i don't understand though is what is the role of Mullahs... Sunnis, i though, don't got a priest class and that is one of the major differences between Sunnis and Shiites (who have ayatollahs and imams). So what are these mullahs?
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:28
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quote:
Originally posted by Kingof the Apes
[What do you think? Personally, I don't think they banned it for causing 'religious tension', especially after they had aired that Anti-Jewish series during Ramadaan (I can't remember what it was called, Something engineered by Lenin as propaganda and used by Hitler to justify the Holocaust.) My thoughts are that they are either:
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"protocols of the elders of zion" engineered by the Czarist secret police (certainly not by Lenin, for reasons i wont go into here). The egyptian film, IIUC, sort of acknowledged they were a forgery, but then turned around and implied they were essentially true anyway.
Which is a very relevant point. If Egypt were merely censoring against violence or whatever, we might not agree with such an approach, but i think we could hardly deny their right to avoid this aspect of globalization. When however, they defend anti-semitic crap on the basis of "freedom of speech" and play it during Ramadan, when viewership is highest, and then have the temerity to turn around and ban western films, it puts things in a different perspective.
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Zylka
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I AM SICK AND F*CKING TIRED OF MATRIX THREADS, IF YOU MUST ASK
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12-06-2003 00:35
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. Life would be much better for 'em, and us too becaus ethey would stop *****ing and complaining all the time
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