I believe this film's plot is based on a book that a Nazi wrote
I've also met Americans who base their historical knowledge of Tibet on this movie :doomer:
Interesting that the movie makes such a big stink about him getting detained by the British "just for being as German citizen". Maybe the "I am literally a Nazi officer" had something more to do with it.
Today I found out that the Mongolian communists killed 17,000 Lamaist monks in Mongolia during the period of the Great Purge and it took all of my power not to post the chad Stalin "Good" meme.
Everyone hates slavers and feudalism until it's the Communists putting a definitive end to it. Like "Oh no those dirty commies put thousands of slave owning feudal lords who hoarded the wealth of the nation and imposed theocratic rule to the sword!"
Everyone hates slavers and feudalism
I wish this were actually true.
The average American is more brainwashed than any other human being in world history.
It’ll be true until America ends. Good thing empires usually only last about 250 years.
The movie The Long Walk, which is actually really good, features Nazis and common criminals being imprisoned by those nasty Soviets. There's a scene where the main characters get to Mongolia and see a huge sign of Mongolia's leader shaking hands with Stalin, and they say something like: "Oh, no! It's here, too!" Then they find a Buddhist temple in Mongolia which has been smashed, the obvious implication being that the narsty communists did it. White liberals love Buddhism because it allows them to pretend that they are above the fray and better than everyone else; it's impossible for them to conceive of the fact that it was used as a tool of oppression under feudalism (and even under Japanese imperialism). There are still Zen temples in South Korea which were constructed during the period of Japanese domination.
White liberals love Buddhism because it allows them to pretend that they are above the fray and better than everyone else; it’s impossible for them to conceive of the fact that it was used as a tool of oppression under feudalism
They're periodically huge fans of Hinduism and certain boutique flavors of Islam for the same reason.
Guilty as charged here, as I am white and test-driving calling myself a cultural Muslim due to my admiration for Islamic culture and my lack of interest in committing to any of the more difficult aspects of Islam.
Highly recommend not calling yourself a cultural Muslim, sounds like you’re self IDing as an islamaboo
just do the shahada and make your excuses for not doing hajj after you die
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Slaver pedos deserved worse
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It is bad when you liberate an oppressed people from the the brutal, slave owning, feudal theocracy.
Who would have thought that a Nazi would dream of violent genocide of foreigners?
The director of “Seven Years in Tibet,” Jean-Jacques Annaud, subsequently released a letter expressing slavish regret. He “solemnly declared” that he never supported Tibet independence and never had contact with the Dalai Lama. “Moreover,” he added, “becoming friends with him is out of the question.”
Buckled like a belt Respect to Richard Gere for sticking to his convictions. Sure no major studio will touch him with a 10 foot pole. Small price to pay for standing up for Tibet. Seriously someone he knows has read :parenti-hands: if he read God and His Demons he'd still be starring in blockbusters.
The same Tibet where the lamas had forbidden the education of women, kept serfs, and basically ran the entire nation as a religious fascist nightmare? That Tibet?
The same Tibet where the People's Liberation Army marched in, destroyed the temples, shot the monks, and started teaching women to read?
So the head of the Chinese film bureau summoned the head of Sony Pictures and told him if he doesn't make it right Sony can pack their shit and get the fuck out of China: not just Sony Pictures, all of Sony. Dude got on the phone and told Annaud to fix it. Same thing happened to Disney after they released Kundun. Not only did Eisner apologize, he purposely tanked the film by not advertising it and releasing it in limited theaters. That market is like a money printer and they rely on China to make a profit. China is kind of using Hollywood to promote its values, the same way the US did for the longest time. The remake of Red Dawn was supposed to be China as the evil force but changed it to North Korea to not piss off the film bureau. If the new Top Gun stayed true to its roots, the enemy would have been China, like the original was no doubt the Soviet Union. Instead Paramount didn't want to risk its relationship so they chose Iran. Interesting book about Hollywood and China is Red Carpet. It's written by a WSJ journalists so you know what to expect, but it's pretty informative.
Oh that’s the one where brad Pitt plays a Nazi mountaineer right? Sick
