Daily Telegraph Hopes To Make Lebanese Movie News More Palatable By Making Sure We All Know There’s A Hot Blonde Woman Involved
The prize for moronic entertainment news coverage of the day goes to the Daily Telegraph (surprise, surprise!) for their efforts in reporting the shooting of a film in Sydney, Cedar Boys, that aims to challenge the public’s misconceptions of young Lebanese men.
Sounds like an interesting project, doesn’t it? Except you wouldn’t really know it from the way the Tele promoted the story, which can really be summed up by this picture their art dept whipped up for the piece (the flick happens to also star Rachael Taylor from Transformers in an incidental role.) :
It could just be us (though it’s the Tele, so it probably isn’t), but this whole thing makes us think of the brainstorm that went into this piece, which probably went along the lines of: “Okay team, we need to do a ‘think piece’ on this low budget movie about Lebanese youths in Sydney, except no one wants to read about those scary Lebs. Anyone got any ideas? Yes, you up the back… Why yes, let’s make sure everyone knows that it’s okay, there is a hot Anglo woman in the cast!”
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The only way I can explain your reaction to this kind of a movie is idiotic and uneducated.
I guess you could give us a better pitch to the Lebanese life in Sydney since you seem to claim to be such an expert on the issue, but then again best not to ask you for another bad opinion.
Lets take a look at most of the dark tall and good-looking guys in the movies these days.
John travolta in Grease with the beautiful blonde
The Wog Boy who gets the smart blonde
I mean the list goes on about how the talk DARK and HANDSOME gets the cute little blonde at the end.
It’s never how the tall blonde and Anglo get the cute Anglo blonde at the end; it’s just not the right recipe for a good movie.
So I am guessing maybe there is a theme here
In typical movie genres the talk dark and handsome gets the blonde.
So I guess you will just have to live with it,
Because guys with curly blonde locks look very girly and the last thing a girl wants is another girl.
I should know I’m a girl and I am currently studying film at Sydney University.
I think this movie definitely has an audience and if they can put together in itself a good story that’s hard hitting enough it will make an impact and that’s what we as the Australian community have been craving.
And before you think this was written by a Lebanese girl out west im actually Australian with a background of Italian descent.
Thanks
i think its great that there are representatives of the lebanese community that are trying to illustrate the challenges the lebanese must contend with to belong, although we certainly do not.
majority of the lebanese youth in australia today are australian born, thus they are australians yet there still remains an obvious prejudice against all things foriegn in australia.
for as long as i can remember the muslim community has been labelled nothing more than a threat, terrorist as oppose to freedom fighters,
dirty muslims as oppose to my friendly neighbour…
the lebanese youth and community in general is under such substantial scrutiny and judgment from the greater society that they have been refrained from moving past the stereotypes given to them.
the lebanese are such a highly cultured group yet our positives are overshadowed by the media representations of us. deviants/rapists/theives/etc..
if it isnt yet clear, i am also a lebanese muslim
i wear the hijab and it scares me to think that we have to entice the australian viewers with an anglo women to share our story, our struggle-
is this not racial supremacy?