This is the scene that was supposedly the culprit behind getting the threats and subsequently getting the movie pulled.
Kind of a lame scene.. the guy really doesn't even look like Kim Jong Un.
They should have had Dennis Rodman on the helicopter too..
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Still pretty weak of Sony. I guess North Korea never saw Team America...
Dangggg! Hail Hydra!
It's amazing to me that this idea got past not one, but apparently a bunch of chowderheads in Hollywood
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It's amazing to me that this idea got past not one, but apparently a bunch of chowderheads in Hollywood
That's a weak argument that has no basis in reality. Very few people will go apeshit in this country. Actually, there will be a portion of the population that will enjoy such a movie based on who the president is at the time.
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Can you imagine if some studio in North Korea made a comedy about assassinating the sitting US President? We'd be ape-shit.
Some other countries around the world (including North Korea) actually finance, abet and execute terrorist attacks against the West, instead of making satirical movies about it. What we disrtribute as satire, they do as propaganda and educational curricula.
So I completely disagree that a reciporical movie in DPRK would ellicit a similar response from the U.S. It happens every day over there.
It's amazing to me that this idea got past not one, but apparently a bunch of chowderheads in Hollywood
I don't think we'd go ape shit.
Not really much of a stretch - 'a person inside Sony' could easily be any level employee or contractor with enough access to their internal network to launch the malware.
Basically, companies spent the first half of the Internet age putting up big walls on the outside to keep people out, and then attackers wised up and figured out easy ways to get inside, none easier than having some entry level employee send an e-mail or open a file while on their network.
Basically, companies spent the first half of the Internet age putting up big walls on the outside to keep people out, and then attackers wised up and figured out easy ways to get inside, none easier than having some entry level employee send an e-mail or open a file while on their network.
Yup. Or just popping in a USB drive. Somebody sends a USB loaded with a ppt or media file, and a secret malware, and a naive employee connected to the server pops it into his machine.
That's how Stuxnet got into the Iranian reactors.
It's amazing to me that this idea got past not one, but apparently a bunch of chowderheads in Hollywood
Uhhh didn't someone make an indie film about assassinating Bush while he was still in offce? And that was an American if I'm not mistaken.
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Basically, companies spent the first half of the Internet age putting up big walls on the outside to keep people out, and then attackers wised up and figured out easy ways to get inside, none easier than having some entry level employee send an e-mail or open a file while on their network.
Yup. Or just popping in a USB drive. Somebody sends a USB loaded with a ppt or media file, and a secret malware, and a naive employee connected to the server pops it into his machine.
That's how Stuxnet got into the Iranian reactors.
Yup, just scratch 'naive employee' for 'determined insider'. All they need is some mechanism to get that file inside (USB, web download, e-mail, etc.) and open it up, and it all starts from there.
We're going on 4 years from when the first high profile of such attacks took place, the Chinese exfiltration of data from Morgan Stanley.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/morgan-stanley-network-hacked-in-same-china-based-attacks-that-hit-google.html - ( New Window )
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It'll take them forever to figure out the 0 and !.
Why "poor Ronnie?" My people basically showed you bitches who's the boss. Should be more like, Ronnie's people are the shit.
Actually, we owned all you fools, especially all the middle aged white guys, who own movie theaters. What now, biatch?
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Especially if they're overweight middle aged white guys.
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Middle-aged white guys are the worst.
Especially if they're overweight middle aged white guys.
Don't even get me started!
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Can you imagine if some studio in North Korea made a comedy about assassinating the sitting US President? We'd be ape-shit.
Some other countries around the world (including North Korea) actually finance, abet and execute terrorist attacks against the West, instead of making satirical movies about it. What we disrtribute as satire, they do as propaganda and educational curricula.
So I completely disagree that a reciporical movie in DPRK would ellicit a similar response from the U.S. It happens every day over there.
exactly. not to mention there are action shows and movies in the U.S. that include such plots involving the U.S. President (e.g. 24)
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Actually, I never did - which could be indicative of the reason why there was no uproar.
Second, there's a huge difference about a movie portraying a terrorist assignation of the president and one making a joke about the US Government plotting to kill the Korean president.
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Ever heard of Death of a President? Pretty sure we didn't threaten the British...
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Actually, I never did - which could be indicative of the reason why there was no uproar.
Second, there's a huge difference about a movie portraying a terrorist assignation of the president and one making a joke about the US Government plotting to kill the Korean president.
Yeah...you're still overestimating how our population will react to movies/shows about assassinating our president or any other officials.
And really, I don't think anyone really gives a shit about a movie plotting to kill the dictator of N.Korea beyond how it may impact the bottomline.
i completely, 100% support the right of anyone to make a film that IS disrespectful about Obama or NK or anyone. But you have to be willing to deal with the consequences; or at the very least, you should have thought them through
Playing in a theater near you Dec 2015.