{"id":493,"date":"2004-09-03T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=493"},"modified":"2004-09-03T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T13:15:31","slug":"three-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/three-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThree Kings surprised me by being so much more than another action movie. I&#8217;ve been tempted to get it on DVD, not only because I liked the movie, but because it has excellent commentary tracks. So reading that Warner Bros pulled the documentary from the new special edition makes me angry. <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/F\/FILM_DOCUMENTARY_REJECTED?SITE=TXAUS&#038;SECTION=OLYMPICS&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Their reason?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Warner Bros. spokeswoman Barbara Brogliatti said the studio made the decision after seeing the completed documentary, which features interviews with Iraqi refugees and veterans of the current war in Iraq. &#8220;This came out to be a documentary that condemns, basically, war,&#8221;  she told the newspaper. &#8220;This is supposed to be a special edition of `Three Kings,&#8217; not a polemic about war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe people at Warner Bros. must have never seen Three Kings&#8211;it&#8217;s a pretty scathing anti-war movie. In the beginning, the Americans view the Gulf War as a big party where they get to blow things up. They don&#8217;t understand anything about the politics of the region and can&#8217;t distinguish between one Arab or another. As one character rudely puts it, &#8220;They&#8217;re all just sand-niggers to us.&#8221; As the movie progresses and the three main characters are separated from the Americans, they meet individuals who educate them on the real conflict in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crying over spilled milk. And blood.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom line: Highly Recommended<\/h4>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/three-kings\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}