I went to Cinema City in City Mall yesterday to watch the new Tintin movie. The movie was produced by Steven Spielberg, but you wouldn’t know that just by looking at the posters. Steven Spielberg’s name is blacked out on all posters!
I guess that we shouldn’t mention or see his name since he’s jewish, but we can go ahead and watch a movie he produced. I wonder whose decision this was: Cinema City or the Government?
Who takes such decisions and force the Movie Theaters to hide the name of Spielberg is the General Security Authorities !
Ashraf el shourafa2
How did you find the movie?
anti-lebanon since its made by the zionist :/
This is so stupid. No one used to hide Spielberg’s name before. What changed now?
The HA government and their stooges…
most probably
This country has gone to the dogs. this is appalling, I can’t boycott theatres in Kuwait, because I already did that years ago when they cut the kissing part out of the ending to ‘The Ants’. Do the islamics understand that the ants in this movie are not real?? The crowd actually boo’d. the islamics in Kuwait will not insult my intelligence and when you go to movies that they insult great directors because they think they are more accomplished, they make fools of this nation. He will get an e-mail from me and I will tell him this story. Godcha!!!
Omg! that is HILARIOUS and very sad 🙁 i shared ur story with a lot of people. Lebanon is so fake, everyone acts so open minded but … I don’t like lebanon, i wish i didn’t live here
“I don’t like lebanon, i wish i didn’t live here”
Don’t feel bad, we also wish you didn’t live here.
The movie will be in theaters on December 21, 2011. ,but u can find it in Lebanon and Kuwait now!
That’s normal. When people were lined up for weeks outside the movie theaters in the States waiting to be the first in line to watch the new Star Wars, it came out in Kuwait a day before it did over there and the theater here was practically empty.
You have GOT to be kidding me. I thought Lebanon was beyond this religious nonsense. A country with so many religions is supposed to encourage tolerance and denounce ignorance.
That is indeed extremely retarded
I wonder if they also modified the credits so his name doesn’t show too 😛
They did. They’ve got a black board and a guy with a rope. When the credits start to roll, he pulls the board up over the name that shall not be seen or spoken :p
LOL voldemort “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” ;p
3eib ba2a!!
Very weird. We don’t have an anti-Jewish policy. They have a new synagogue in Beirut now. Plus the covering is done in a stupid way. As if the name can’t be covered on photoshop before printing.
Are you sure it’s not some idiot who don’t like him, who did it?
On every poster?
What the fuck?
Absolutely retarded. I can’t imagine this being something imposed by the government. It was probably the decision of the extremely intelligent people who run the cinema. Have you tried seeing other cinemas such as grand cinemas? That chain is pretty large and I’m sure nothing that stupid would be imposed unless they were forced by the government. Fingers crossed it was just some racist managers and not something done by our not at all corrupt government.
ok this is silly, not to mention hypocritical, but beyond that, Spielberg is a Jew, not necessarily a Zionist…so they are wrong on all bases…Sure some would argue that he is zionist, but thats debatable, lol for instance the ZOA (zionist organization of America) banned ‘Munich’ for ..dehumanizing.. isrealies (or rather mossad agents). If he is clearly zionist, and money is funnelling into Israel because of his movies, well then..boycott seams in its place if he isn’t then let the great filmmaker be. But either case this whole name hiding hypocrisy looks demented.. Anyway, my point… its one layer of silliness shrouded in another…
“Spielberg is a Jew, not necessarily a Zionist
Jewberg gave israel a million dollar donation during the 2006 war with Lebanon.
I don’t believe in censorship, however i strongly believe in boycotting all of Steven jewberg’s movies. Of course i don’t mean refrain from watching them. Why do you think God created thepiratebay 🙂 or file sharing or “pirated” DVDs.
There are ways to enjoy “jewish entertainment” without paying hypocritical stooges like jewberg and his ridiculously named “good person’s foundation”
Its people like you that make the middle east such a bad place. If you feel like boycotting Spielberg movies, then I suggest that you stay home. People shouldn’t suffer because of your views. “jewish entertainment” you are pathetic.
“People shouldn’t suffer because of your views”
Whoa, tone it down a bit drama queen.
Hollywood is jewish. That’s a fact ( Just ask cinema city, they have to deal with jews everyday to secure rights to jewish movies ). facts can’t be racist, haisam.
facts may not be racist, but you certainly are.
There are a lot of Jews in the movie and television industry here in California–and even more non-Jews. It’s a major industry in California, so everyone is involved. However, they aren’t Zionists–they live in Los Angeles and are very assimilated Americans, very liberal, many very pro-Palestinian, pro-Two-State solution. Stereotyping people is bad and doesn’t help world peace.
Dude, he said spieldberg and him only and called him jewberg while he should have said zionistberg i guess
Alain, Israel had war with Hesbollah dogs, not with Lebanon. And.
GOD created thepiratebay? are you retarded? sure you are. Jews created thepiratebay:)
“are you retarded? sure you are”
as opposed to the almighty david who answers his own questions?
just so you know smiley, thepiratebay is not jewish, it was created by the Swedish anti-copyright organization PiratbyrÃ¥n. And it’s hated by the the jewish entertainment industry to the point that the congress of kangaroos actually threatened all of Sweden over it.
“Alain, Israel had war with Hesbollah dogs, not with Lebanon. And”
Try not to convulse yourself to death Dave, someone wouldn’t probably want that, though I can’t be sure.
You guys do know retarded is a term that should not be used but looking at where this discussion has reached, am not surprised to see such terms 🙂
Before you start jumping to conclusions about the “extremely intelligent people who run the cinema” and the “racist managers”, please check your sources and do face the reality of this country. Unfortunatly, it IS your corrupt government that imposes these restrictions, and not Cinema City. (I am speaking on their behalf).
Why be so harsh and judgemental on something you are not sure of? Anyway, I guess this is just the reality of our people. They just need a reason ta “yenshrou” any organization/ people who own it, to distract themselves from the true corruption of the government.
And just FYI, the poeple who own and run Cinema City are anything but racist and idiots. They deal with jewish communities on a daily basis to actually get the rights to distribute these movies from the USA to the theatres. Have you thought of that?
I never said that the people who run the cinema are racist and stupid, I just said that its a possibility, if they were the ones to impose the selective censorship. This is very unfortunate if what you’re saying is true.
Now the latest news was that some lone employee decided to do that. Was that a prank? Coz if it was, it’s a good one. Otherwise, this is well… bizarre and doubtful… I don’t know what to think or believe anymore. But when did anyone know what to think or believe in this Godforsaken country?
🙁
I am sure the administration knew about it and let him do it. It’s like having a ‘Halal’ sign in some pre-dominantly Muslim area. No one forces you to put it in Lebanon but you get more customers this way.
While the ‘Halal’ thing is a pure marketing stunt, what Cinemacity did was completly stupid.
“”This was a mistake made by an overzealous employee,” said Bassam Eid, theatre co-ordinator for Circuit Empire, which operates a chain of cinemas in Lebanon.”
We have a new mystery at hand. Who the cheese is DK?
Spielberg films were banned by the Arab League (which includes Lebanon) in early December 2010 in response to learning that Spielberg donated 1 million dollars to Israel during the 2006 war.
Considering the film is being shown and only his name is censored, then I think you should count yourself lucky.
I wish the film was censored, then we’d know were we stand. All this bizarre business is not getting us anywhere.
At that rate we will need to ban 129 movies he produced 21 movies he wrote 50 movies he directed 12 movies he acted in.
Lak 129 movies!!!
hollywood has more movies than that, w lak 2aloha el3arab jara.
Lebanon is on its way to have a name change to “New Iran”
They could emulate FYROM & call it FLROI
Hi Chahe, I’m a reporter at The Daily Star and writing a story about this, would it be possible to contact you? Do you have an email or a cell number I can get you on? I’m olivia.dailystar@gmail.com. Thanks in advance, O
Sure, sent you an email
Hi Chahe, thanks for that, for some reason the email hasn’t arrived. Could you possibly try olivia.alabaster@dailystar.com.lb and olivia.alabaster@gmail.com as well? Thanks! O
Hi Olivia. Not to mind your business, but if you share your mail in public on the internet you’ll get lots of spam in it. This is coming from an IT guy. (didn’t think you could get away with it, did you?) 🙂
Maybe the ImpactBBDO people covered his name up coz they’re pissed off that everyone now knows they copied Spielberg’s original “dont vote” TVC campaign !!
its probably not that but the idea crossed my mind lol..
they could’ve photoshopped his name off the poster before printing like one of the comments said…but i still dont understand why such thing would be done.
Asinine.
Guys
Stop turning this into a whole Zionist conspiracy thing. We ve had tons of spielberg movies already and not once was the name censored. Whomever came up with such a decision obviously doesn’t know how to differentiate between art and politics. This is a movie for God s sake.
La conspiracy wala shi…simply its the BBDO people ! its purely an art issue
Would a movie produced by binladen be banned in the USA?
Last time I checked, Steven Spielberg was not one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. I’m not saying I like Spielberg, he’s a dick, but that shouldn’t interfere with the Lebanese peoples’ rights to have their own say. If individuals dislike Spielberg, they can always avoid watching his movies. It isn’t for the government to control what gets to our end. This isn’t Iran ffs.
Naw–the USA never bans anything. You guys are funny, getting all worked up over a Jewish non-Zionist giving $1M to — NOT Israel — but the New Israel Fund which Israeli Zionists hate because it funds Palestinian NGOs and civil rights movements. The money he gave was earmarked for improving hospitals in the Galilee, providing hot food for children who were evacuated….not exactly a “Zionist” cause, huh? The Lebanese are supposed to be the smartest and most cultured people in the Levant–c’mon, do some research before jumping to conclusions.
I am so glad you wrote this Trish.
I did not bother recheck this whole $1M donation as I thought they did their research properly before calling him a Zionist. Can’t believe this is what it turned out to be!
Thank you again.
“the USA never bans anything”… I’m not sure about that… try setting up a single page website to support Al-Quaida, and see if they don’t get your ISP to take it down within days, with the feds knocking at your door, wanting to ship you to Guantanamo for “questioning”.
Yes, Spielberg loves Palestinians. In fact, he loves them so much that they are always cast in positive light in his movies. Just like “raiders of the lost Arc”, the movie ( which also coincidentally stars indiana jewns ) that almost literally painted Arabs with a cartoonishly evil paintbrush for the dimwitted american public.
“the USA never bans anything”
Banning in Lebanon is purely political and not in least cultural, in that nothing gets really banned. In the US however, well just try voicing your opinion and you might find yourself banned… from your job that is.
Banning in America exists on every scale, it’s just more sophisticated than covering a name on a poster.
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hahahahahah stupid Lebanese will never grow up ma32oulll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg#Politics
http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/spielberg-directs-aid-to-israel/2006/08/10/1154803000553.html
Spielberg is not only a jew, he’s a Zionist and a racist sh*t! also his movies are interesting only for retarded ppl. so stop making yourself open minded and sophisticated, the guy funded a war against your own country!!!! at least HA government allowed the cheap movie for the cheap minded….
i really pity u
Ma7moud,
HA government you say? I thought our gov was called the Lebanese government.
If we want to follow your logic, then I suggest you go out close all McDonalds, Starbucks, all retail stores having brands belonging linked to Jewish corporations or individuals somehow around the world and all companies that have Jews in them or controlling them.
Once you are done with this list, please update me.
It’s Lebanese government, I used “HA Goverment” ironically as it was been used in one of the comments…
As for Jews related corporations I have no issue with them nor with Jewish as a religion but I’m certainly have problems with the offensive entity that occupying an Arab land, attacking my country and killing my own people…
Anyway, don’t take it so personal, I have no list neither I just don’t like whoever supports our enemy and looks down to us as a Lebanese.
Sorry if I sounded tough above, I just don’t like to read rubbish on how we should be modern and art tasters….
Ma7moud,
Why don’t we boycott everything that’s American then? They provided missiles not just money in 2006.
Are you ready to do that?
No one is supporting Israel or any country attacking your people but it’s no one’s right to boycott movies and stop books and publications from coming in because of their political stance.
Let me remind you about the Iranian movies that were banned in Lebanon. Were those producers Zionists as well? Did they help Israel?
Messing with people’s freedom of expression and freedom to watch whatever they want is unacceptable. You wanna boycott someone, do it yourself. Don’t impose your decision on others and don’t mix politics with art and culture.
I’m a Jewish Zionist (I also support in Lebanese self-determination incidently) but it’s good to see the wide-ranging diversity of opinion on this blog. Debate is healthy and positive and is the only way to evolve ideas.
I personally believe that the non-oil producing countries in the middle-east eg Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, Armenia, Georgia, Azabajian (maybe Turkey although they might be too big and too dominant) etc should form an economic cooperation zone and forget war.
very constructive idea..
Dude, Azerbaijan is one of the top oil producing countries..
I don’t mind jews at all, they are people like us, they are even my best friend where my muslims home buddy decided to leave me, the jews toook care of me so giving shit to jews is bad man, seriously wake up khalena n3eesh, we always dream of living in our perfect balad but then this shit comes and we’re back to square zero.
but I don’t really like zionist and I’d say that to anyone in this world.
i hate child killer.
censorship not freedom of speech.. regardless of whether or not you like the message or messenger.
get over yourselves racisttttttttttttttttts ,racist Lebanese
Find out more at http://lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/730905/Spielberg_biffe_sur_les_affiches_de_%3C%3C_Tintin_%3E%3E+%3A_une_insulte_a_l%27intelligence_rapidement__rafistolee_par_ses_auteurs.html – it is a pure CinemaCity issue – not a government (for a change!)
@Najib why ur making fun of the list, if its proven that the brands you named support Zionest, why not to boycot them… is it so hard for us to make our own coffee and burger comon!!!
We are in a fight with a brutless enemy, and if you read well around you and whats going on in the world you will notice that they spare no chance to screw us financially, so why cant we do the same! cause ma minfee2 bala 2ahwet Starbucks 3al sobo7!!!
Its not an act of freedom or democracy to deal with establishments that take our money in the right hand and pay it to an enemy in the left hand, its purely stupid my friend… I really look forward to have a mature lebanese generation and to stop being riduculosly westernized.
Roy,
Boycotting Starbucks in Lebanon does not mean you are boycotting Starbucks’ owner. On the contrary it means you are harming the Lebanese business man who paid to open Starbucks here. Same for McDonalds and others.
You cannot screw the US financially. They will screw you any time any day. Remember how they blacklisted one bank here and few days later it got closed. Khaleena 3al ard.
There are tons of ways to express yourself aside from boycotting food and coffee chains and movies, or breaking guiness records.
How about we start by modernizing our laws and enhancing the internet and communications and resolving our political divisions and so on ….
You say so, i say boycotting would harm the mother company and the lebanese franchisee thus will make the lebanese business people try to think in investing in developing our own local concepts rather than just getting them from outside and paying its royality fees in addition to purchasing all the items from the mother company.
Me alone i cant screw US financially, even lebanon alone cant do so i agree but if we start having a united mature arabic generation ( am taking about the mass arab cause the fight with the Zionist inlcude us all) am sure we can especially US is doing good in screweing its own economy nowadays, not to forget the power of the fareast dragon.
About resolving our internet and communication along with our political divisions, who said I dont agree and how can be boycotting such brands related to not modernizing what you have mentioned!!
U say “Khaleena 3al ard”, i say we have the skills and talents, we can get the resources, and we have the right of a better tomorrow, rather than following what the others decide to be a trend.
Roy,
You will shutdown half the businesses in Lebanon if not more by boycotting US products or franchises. There’s nothing wrong with supporting local products but that’s not how it’s done. Your approach is disastrous.
You want Arab countries to fight Israel and Zionists? Who exactly? Qatar? Jordan? Egypt?
Let us focus on our internal problems for now and try to come out from the mess we are in, before making world-domination plans.
While you are at it, give peace a chance.
Najib,
U make it sound that shutting half of these businesses in leb will effect us a lot, thats funny since last time i was in lebanon i dont remember it was the heaven on earth in terms of organization and infrastructure or the financial situation of the people.
Having 10% as a rich level of the community is not a healthy one as ive learned from the books thus a change is needed, maybe the change which ur making fun of it.
It wouldnt kill us if we live without macdonalds, and if we go on thinking in a defeatable way we will never reach any further in our country…
U cant imagine how much i love lebanon, maybe more than my family and it makes me sad seeing the wrong definition of freedom & democracy being implemented leading to disolve our local talents or pushing them to travel. Everything should have boundries even the freedom and democracy.
For the arab countries, u never know what would the future brings if they start sensing a mature generation in one of them, for example lebanon!
Last, i know am becoming annoying but please bare me a bit; companies first rules are customers satisfaction and not be engaged into politics, thus if they dont apply that and dont respect my feelings as a customer, why should i keep on being loyal to them; no one is allowed to underestimate us.
FYI, for the countries uve talked about, a lot of lebanese franchises started to spread their especially lebanese restaurants and they are competing with the international concepts since this industry was our focus, i believe if we start focusing elsewhere we can reach to the same results too.
Please, stop underestimating ur people so others dont.
Thanks a lot.
Well said roy!
@Najib, I’m not with censorship wherever it was. And boycotting Spielberg and Zionist supportive corporations will not only financially affect them, you’re also marking them and getting the world attention that something’s wrong happening here at least in your own eyes, these are the so called cause, values and principles that real human freedom is built on top…
Nevertheless, I respect your point of view and honestly i do feel the same sometimes, we can’t boycott all american products, we need them badly in some domains. but for sure we can willingly boycott the firms that directly involved in supporting Israeli offensive acts in Lebanon (like el akh Spielberg) just to raise our point of view and protect our rights.
I totally agree with Roy as well, we have the potentials and we certainly can make change. I’m not asking you to be aggressive nor to use violence! Just stand for your rights to be fairly treated and respected for your own opinions by Americans, Europeans and all other nations!
P.S.: When I said “my people” above i meant Lebanese people.
Ma7moud,
How will it financially affect them? How does Spielberg lose if you boycott his movie in Lebanon or the whole Arab world?
What is the % of viewers of Tintin in the Arab countries when compared to the whole world?
Losses will be bigger on the Lebanese side.
Also if Trish is right about what she’s saying, then you guys are making a fuss about nothing.
Roy,
Change is done by improving the work conditions and salaries and encouraging CSR, not by shutting down thousands of businesses employing tens of thousands of Lebanese.
I don’t care about McDonalds but think about all the Lebanese it employs. Same for Burger King, Starbucks etc etc …
” FYI, for the countries uve talked about, a lot of lebanese franchises started to spread their especially lebanese restaurants and they are competing with the international concepts since this industry was our focus, i believe if we start focusing elsewhere we can reach to the same results too.”
This is exactly how things are done and what we should be working on. I am quite sure we can achieve many things but boycotting others will not get us anywhere. Trust me on that.
The Lebanese have accomplished some great achievements and reached very high positions outside Lebanon. I never underestimated them. All I am saying is that you cannot go against globalization and the US and multinationals. You work your way around them and achieve high positions and then make a change.
I am not against globolization, i am against any company that doesnt respect my opinion and my feelings whatever the company is either international or multinational or even local, and would support any other company that consider them even by having a neutral policy. As simple as that my friend.
The mice that roar. When will you pathetic dufusses wake up from your self induced stupor and join the living. Boycotts; Zionism, Arabism..bla ..bla..bla…The Arab countries are in an awakening and you still regurgitating the 60’s crap.
What have you accomplished lately? Skybar?
am not cool as u r…
who listens to u thinks that we overcame the 60’s with our industrial revolution… ohh thank god its 2011 sar fee macdo w starbucks in leb what an evolution.
I live my life pretty good dont worry, but unlike u, sometimes i think about what’s going on around me.
And which marvelous lalaland do you hail from Jeff?I can only wonder…
Definitely not yours Alain!!
“Definitely not yours Alain!!”
And thank god for that.
You seem so elated…even thanking God that you are alone in your lalaland …God speed.
Oops, someone didn’t get a joke, I’m assuming you’re american>
Also, how can you not being there makes me alone? Are you the only other person in the world?
This is the equivalent of covering one’s ears and yelling “la la la la I can’t hear you I can’t hear you”
And equally ridiculous.
This is true for many comments in this thread as well.
they haven’t done that before! dont think its goverment related cause i havnt seen them blocking speilberg name at other cinemas!
for those of you who don’t support,free enterprise,free speech and democratic Lebanon,go live in Iran ! You can get all the brainwashing you want there and bask in your ideologies.
Isn’t Cinema City a business run by Jews?
By people from Zghorta .
Retards! this country keeps degrading culturaly day after day. Lebanon is now just a piece of land for thugs to live on, and their life can be summarized to eat, mate and loathe the surrounding.
Lebanon the lost civilization.
Your keyboard must be soaked in drama.
SIMPLY LEGEnDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ridiculous act and ridiculous comments..
Whoever took this decision has it all wrong.. The problem is not with Jews, its with Zionism.. But still, Iran or the Arabs in general have nothing to do with this, It’s simply someone stupid sitting in the wrong place..
I am this close to closing this post.
Please do
I thought we’d keep it until we hit 100 comments but 99 is more attractive 🙂
PS: Chahe’s gonna kill me.