A Speech on the Presentation of the Film Reel Bad Arabs

Good evening. I am honored to be in Los Angeles today. I am very pleased that many people who decided to appear on today's first day backed up this movie. I know that you can see lots of box office movies, but you choose to see my documentary, it really means a lot to me. As you know, this movie has been made very wonderfully. I have been going to the movies since I was young and have been raised in Pittsburgh.

Looking at Dr. Jack Shaheen's documentary film "Reel bad Arabs", he debated about 1,000 Hollywood movies with the theme of Arab and concluded that most movies draw Arabs in a distorted way . I like the idea of ​​this power. I agree very much that Hollywood's film industry depicts Arabs as bad in most cases because they are influenced by American foreign policy agenda. "

Dr. Jack Shahin, author of "Lille-Bad Arabs" and "Arabs: Stereotype Archives in American Popular Culture" analyzed the Arabs in the American film and television of the last century. The way it is drawn. In 2006, his book "Lille Bad Arms: How to Destroy Hollywood" was revised as a documentary and presented to domestic and international audiences. In his book, Shaheen says, "What is the Arabs? In myriad movies, I claim that the answer is as follows: Arabs are arrogant murderers, dirty rapists, religious Fanatic, oil-rich idiot, and female abuse "Shaheen's books and documentaries highlight many examples of Arabs and the Middle East in the American media, the same repetitive negative stereotypes as in the last century

According to Jhally's documentary Reel Bad Arabs (2006), lecturer Jack Shaheen said that through Hollywood's history, there is always a stubborn Arab stereotype of depriving people of humanity "of mankind as a whole" and robbing their personality. Simplify it to singular comics. This is evident in 25% of Hollywood movies and there are more than 300 movies (Shaheen 2006 as described in the RBA). Focusing on the depiction of Arabs in Hollywood movies, I will show you some long and repeating movies in front of you: Aladdin, Gladiator and 300 back to the future, and " I will discuss their way of keeping on creating ideas