Hit North Korea with its worst fear: Global humiliation
Dec 24, 2014, 9:03 AM | Updated: 9:07 am
If a movie inspires a raging international controversy that usually means it's powerful, persuasive and artistically brilliant -like Birth of a Nation, or Battleship Potemkin, or more recently, The Passion of the Christ. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures - Sony, Ed Araquel)
(AP Photo/Columbia Pictures - Sony, Ed Araquel)
If a movie inspires a raging international controversy that usually means it’s powerful, persuasive and artistically brilliant -like “Birth of a Nation,” or “Battleship Potemkin,” or more recently, “The Passion of the Christ.”
That is emphatically not the case with the lame comedy “The Interview,” which fomented a new crisis involving North Korea.
The right way to make up for Sony’s initial mistake in canceling the film would be to give the Korean dictator what he dreads most: searing, world-wide humiliation.
Seth Rogen and James Franco should be featured as presenters in the upcoming Academy Awards on February 22, handing some make-believe Oscar to Kim Jong-un lookalike Randall Park, who played the portly potentate in the film.
The Hermit Kingdom threatened terror over ridicule in a movie seen by a few million. Now, let them experience derision and embarrassment in front of a global audience of nearly a billion on Oscar night.
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