I've been hearing rumors about this for a couple of days, so I've decided to publish it.
For years, Stallone has wanted to create an epic, and the book that intrigues him is Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," detailing the Turkish genocide of its Armenian community in 1915.
French ships eventually rescued some Armenians, and Stallone has his favorite scene memorized: "The French ships come, and they've dropped the ladders and everybody has climbed up the side. The ships sail. The hero, the one who set up the rescue, has fallen asleep, exhausted, behind a rock on the slope above. The camera pulls back, and the ships and the sea are on one side, and there's one lonely figure at the top of the mountain, and the Turks are coming up the mountain by the thousands on the far side."
The movie would be "an epic about the complete destruction of a civilization," Stallone said. Then he laughed at the ambition. "Talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."
Not only would that make a great film when properly produced, keeping in mind a low-profile version was made in 1982, but it would project the greater issue onto the masses. Here's to Stallone!
3 comments:
well he certainly has that "armenoid" ugliness about him... why not! Cheers to Stallone and his armenian funded film about fabricated history!
Yes, he certanly does have that Hooooottttttt "armenoid" sexyness about him. Fortunately for everyone, well except for the people who deny their past(and are ashamed of themselves) he has that "armenoid" brain also. Thanks to his own funding, for his movie of the worlds most denyed truth. Everyone who views is will not remain ignorant as the turks have.
I think he is doingg a stand up job of letting people see the truth in a world of the blind( most of all,the turks who have no eyes at all). A thousend cheers and thanks to Stallone. Its good to know that someone in the movie buisness remembers us(Armenians).
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