Director Peter Berg was interviewed by Israeli Channel 10 to promote his new board game-inspired film Battleship and got pretty far off topic. He kinda gets it together enough to plug Rihanna, but whoa don’t get him started on draft dodgers!
Man, I wish that interviewer had it together enough to work in a “you sunk my battleship” reference, but he just looks terrified that the Shin Bet is now going to show up and haul him off.
Anyway, Battleship hits theaters this weekend in the US, no way it lives up to the original:
Ha i wondered where that guy disappeared from the TV screen.
Join the IDF mo******er
I think that actually is a copyrights violation
The paratroopers brigade sang that for years during their boot camp.
You Americans are spoiled rotten you know that Philip.
I always played that game with a pen and piece of checkered paper.
Berg is a mediocre film director and seemed not very well informed nor terribly coherent in his remarks to this israeli film flack … it would have been entertaining if they’d gone on another 10 minutes to get Berg fully into interview train-wreck territory … he might have brought up the dancing israelis of 9/11 or the USS Liberty “My Dad was a Navy historian” … what is of note is that people feel emboldened to speak out directly to israelis about once taboo subjects – the control has worn off
It’s nice to see the people running our mass media still have the time and energy to keep abreast of the complex issues of American foreign policy. Whoever said Hollywood was self-absorbed?
He kinda gets it together enough to plug Rihanna, but whoa don’t get him started on draft dodgers!
LOL! Rihanna was in an auxiliary military program for children in Barbados, but neither she nor Peter Berg are veterans.
What a chickenhawk that man is: *he* dodged the draft, he wants Israelis to do the work for him.
Also, for the record: there are NO draft dodgers in Israel. There are people who go AWOL (relatively few), there are refusers (like dear Noam Gur) and there people whom Israel’s army exempts.
The whole draft-dodging discourse is perplexing for that reason – what does he want, for people to do military service even if they’ve been excused by Israel’s (despicable) army?