Baghdad Blog to become a film

[jason]

Ex-Lemmingworks. ##.

Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Baghdad Blog to become a film:

The Baghdad Blog, the daily dispatches penned by the Iraqi architect known as Salam Pax, is to be turned into a film.FilmFour will co-produce the big-screen version of the acclaimed blog written by Pax, which chronicled life during and after the allied invasion.Salam Pax is the pseudonym of the 20-something from Iraq whose online diary Where is Raed? received huge media attention and a loyal, worldwide readership after it appeared on the web in 2003.

If you don’t know about the Baghdad Blog, aka Where is Raed ? you should check it out. I remember reading it during its run, and enjoying some of it, but not being that interested in the war, and busy with things, I didn’t follow it as much as others did. When it came out as a book, I was astounded to see how well it read as text. I’ll watch the movie, as it should be hard to wreck.

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Movie

[livepillars.livejournal.com]

It should be interesting to read the blogs of these people and their accounts of daily life in a war torn Iraq. I am curious to read their entries, although living such circurmstances as a child or as a human being is so devastating!. I'll at least try to read the reviews to find out and be clear about the context.
Be well.
Livepillars.

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[livepillars.livejournal.com]

Very interesting!

Livepillars.

Re: Movie

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

great. let me know what you think about it.

Re: movie and blogs.

[r2glily.livejournal.com]

Hi Jason,

Quite facinating stuff. I love the irony and humour in his writings. This should make for an interesting and inspiring movie. I am not sure If I would watch it. It would depend on the content that they include I guess. I would like to check the book out however. I sometimes think that we are quite sick individuals to want to know about the war and watch movies about it. Then again, I guess it is a part of our make-up to want to know:-)

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[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

I think you'd find it acceptable. All of it takes place in cafes and homes and things. NO war. The war is all around, but nothing about fighting or anything. So I assume it would be more about 'life during war time' than a war movie. I'll try to find my copy of the book to bring to class.