Ed Zwick
Ed Zwick
Edward M. Zwickis an American filmmaker and Academy Award-winning film producer...
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Some of (the concerns) we were able to deal with -- having to do with sensitivities in the portrayal of Islam in the movie, ... But some of which asked us to change the premise of the film, which we were unwilling to do.
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I think it's a movie about us, ... I think it's a movie about this country and it's a movie about the Constitution. I think there is a very comfortable and familiar myth in this country and not necessarily a false one, but an important one about a set of freedoms that we have in this country. I think the fact is this country has never really been tested.
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It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale, ... I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step.
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There's a less anxious approach to the work itself, ... and I think that actually affects the work.
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Well, I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears,
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We received a letter from a group called CAIR, which is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, I believe, ... And they asked to meet with us. And we met with them.
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What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.