TBILISI -- How do you create a historic movie about an event to which there are two stories? Clint Eastwood's solution of creating two movies (such as his Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) makes a strong case. At least so it seems in Eastern Europe, where plans are taking place for the filming of two movies about the war in Georgia in the summer of 2008.
Hollywood is shooting for its version of the film, starring Andy Garcia as President Saakashvili (see left), potrayed from the Georgian perspective while Serbian director Emir Kusturica plans to create his own film, from the South Ossetian perspective. Thus, the filmmakers are in essence putting the two sides of the story into the mainstream as their version of history.
The World Trade Foundation (WTF) recognizes the lucrativeness of this opportunity. Firstly, the duality of the movies represents a larger amount of spending and production in the film industry worldwide. But the real growth opportunities stemming from this move are in fact the opportunities devised from adding duality to history.
If history was always written in duality, news media, textbook publishers and historians would bask in the amount of new content needed to be produced. The WTF encourages the public not to protest or halt this trend, as the loss in the slightly obscured public knowledge of history and the world today would be greatly overshadowed by the large and sustainable gains available by adding each new version of history.
Related reading: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8316018.stm
Image source: BBC News
The World Trade Foundation (WTF) recognizes the lucrativeness of this opportunity. Firstly, the duality of the movies represents a larger amount of spending and production in the film industry worldwide. But the real growth opportunities stemming from this move are in fact the opportunities devised from adding duality to history.
If history was always written in duality, news media, textbook publishers and historians would bask in the amount of new content needed to be produced. The WTF encourages the public not to protest or halt this trend, as the loss in the slightly obscured public knowledge of history and the world today would be greatly overshadowed by the large and sustainable gains available by adding each new version of history.
Related reading: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8316018.stm
Image source: BBC News
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