My former MUN teammate John Wie is all about the movies these days. Writing from London where he is attending the prestigious London School of Economics, Wie picked the Hurt Locker to nab the Oscar for best picture. Though his personal favorite was "Up In the Air"
At first I was all about the Hurt Locker. A decent, small budget Middle East picture with some Arabic language dialogue. ("Imshi, Imshi!" the soldier yells while hurling a water at a boy in a car). Plus, the movie was filmed in some of the same areas I used to roam through in Amman! My friends joked you could See Reem Shwarma in the background!
My first grumblings about the picture came when I read and interview where it was claimed that the film was filmed "Miles from the Iraqi Border." The border is actually few hours away. Living in Amman one could get confused there are road signs for Iraq where everywhere but, Amman is still 500 miles from Bagdhad. I decided to let that one side.
Then I read in the Los Angeles Times accusations that the makers of the Hurt Locker decided to create an "angry crowd" scene by driving a Humvee into a Palestinan refugee Camp. Other allegations emerged that the story was lifted
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