Hollywood's only fault is being too accurate and too truthful in regard to how it depicts Arabs and Muslims. It reminds me of reading that many Arabs and Muslims complain when newspapers and TV shows label Muslims who commit terror acts as "Muslim Terrorists." These whiners are addressing the wrong audience. They should not be complaining to those who report the news, they should complaining to those who make the news.
The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson and his entourage are stuck in a small Colorado diner because of a raging snowstorm. While there, a TV broadcast cuts to a story that Uday Hussein, the current Iraqi dictator and son of Saddam Hussein, has sent his troops into Kuwait, and is preparing to overrun Saudi Arabia and then attack Israel.
My younger readers will probably be shocked to learn that Donald Duck was once depicted as a Hitler-saluting Nazi in the 1942 Disney propaganda cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face.
If a film is based on real events, on real people, and the dramatization and combination of characters only enhances the plot action but does not materially change the true nature of the participants, then even if the characters are portrayed doing evil things, the film cannot be categorized as being negative.
There have been hundreds of Hollywood films where some corporate CEO is intent on taking over the world and has henchman going around killing anyone who gets in his way. No one has ever complained that this stereotype is complete nonsense: there has never existed in real life, a CEO of a corporation involved in trying to take over the world. Yet Hollywood keeps churning out films like Scanners (1981)
In his 2001 book Reel Bad Arabs, Jack Shaheen cites The Delta Force (1986) as one of the four most anti-Arab Hollywood movies ever made.
But is it?
If Arab terrorists existed only in Hollywood films, then Planet of The Arabs might have some legitimate claims. Otherwise we see their complaint for what it really is: a desire for Hollywood never to present the truth about Muslims and Arabs.
In my previous 6 articles I showed that Hollywood and its Jews portray Arabs and Muslims honestly and accurately, despite the claims alleged in the YouTube video Planet of The Arabs.
Anyone who has seen the film Exodus (1960) based on the 1958 novel, Exodus, by Leon Uris, is probably quite surprised to see this particular film included as an example of Hollywood stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims.
The film does not say that all Arabs or Muslims are terrorists. Just this guy Omar who happens to be Arab because if the writers made him the Norwegian Ruler of a mythical Arab desert kingdom the audience would have left the theater in the first ten minutes. One can only distort reality in films so much before the audience decides to stop the willing suspension of disbelief.
So when Arabs, Muslims, or Middle Easterners see themselves depicted in films as evil terrorists, they do not understand that this has nothing to do with racism or bigotry but rather is simply a plot device. Hollywood needs villains.
