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Mark Cuban Quotes Liberal Hall of Shame
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Produced by: Mark Cuban The War Within (2005) - Produced by: Mark Cuban Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) - Written and directed by: George Clooney - Produced by: Mark Cuban Redacted (2007) Produced by: Mark Cuban ---------------------------------------------------------------
Someone needs to tell that to Executive Producer and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban. The movie, about a Pakistani Muslim homicide bomber who blows up New York's Grand Central Station, is especially frightening because the goal is to get you to like the terrorist, Hassan (played by Ayad Akhtar). Hassan does not have a scary looking Mohammed Atta-esque visage. He is a laid back, very likeable, devout guy, with regular values that could be those of the religious Christian or Jew next door. And that's the point. Producers want you to sympathize with Hassan, understand his point of view. At the end of the film, viewers may find themselves actually rooting for this hail-terrorist-well-met to blow up Grand Central. In media notes provided by the movie's publicists, Director and Co-Writer Joseph Castelo's answers to questions are mortifying. "How are we ever going to understand what's going on right now if we don't see these people [homicide bombers/terrorists] as human beings?" Is he asking or telling us? His "Director's Statement" is the written definition of chutzpah: "I understand the reluctance to extend sympathy to those who wish to do us harm. But I am a firm believer in the power of empathy. Whereas a sympathetic portrayal would imply an affinity, either emotional or intellectual, with Hassan, our protagonist, an empathetic depiction implies a more complex and potentially enlightening dynamic: that of coming into an awareness of the experience of another." October 12, 2005
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