Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

[trooper]

Originally posted by rextorres:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Moore is a jerk and only the French would give him an award for an anti-Bush movie.

Actually that's another mistruth.

The jury committee (the ones who choose the winner) is made up of 3 Americans, 1 Brit, 1 Chinese, 1 Finn, 1 Haitian and only 1 French person. 1 French Jury Member does not constitute as the "French" giving Moore an award. You can look it up if you don't believe me.

I suppose it's a credit - and a lack of bigotry -on the French to choose mostly foreigners. I can't imagine an American organization allowing mostly foreigners to pick an award for anything much less the most prestigious film award.

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Moreover, the Jury president is Quentin Tarantino, a typical french film maker...

"french" have not given Moore the price. The Jury did, but most of them are not french people, and they are completly free of their choices.

Most of french people admire American way of life, wealth and Culture, and remember all European countries have a debt of gratitude to pay to the USA since WWII.

What many people in europe (and the rest of world) dislike when dealing with American politics is war operations for business, lack of interest about pollution issues, business around weapons (including personal mines) , industrial spying (Echelon and so on), and journalists forced "blindness" about all things that the US shouldn't be proud of.

[ May 24, 2004, 07:45: Message edited by: trooper ]