It's Just a Movie

The upcoming movie The Interview depicts a talk show host James Franco and his producer played by Seth Rogen traveling to North Korea for an interview with Kim Jung Un and being asked to kill him by the CIA. When I saw the preview for this movie the first time I thought, what the heck, and I said as a joke "Well North Korea's definitely gonna kill us now." It's funny with all the stupid movies James Franco and Seth Rogen have been in they now make a comedy that involves a nation and their dictator who at this moment hate the world, especially America. They literally have threatened us numerous times and have propaganda videos of bombs blowing up the U.S., so we are making fun of them!

Now I've learned some more about some actual dilemmas the movie is facing. With Sony, the movies producer, recently being hacked, thought to have been North Korea reacting, the thoughts of Sony and the directors have been revealed. E-mails that were released talked about the worry that some of Sony's executives had over this movie and its content. The E-mails did not really say much of anything important but, even the makers of this movies realized how strange what they were doing was and could see that there was issue with it. The reaction by North Korea and comments by some of its officials are crazy compared to these concerns.

North Korean officials according to latimes.com  have stated in response to the movie that it is "an act of war" as well as "it is a western war propaganda." So as I think anyone could assume, North Korea, the one country that basically has no friends, and hates everyone, is not happy that we made a movie about killing its leader, surprise surprise. The only thing I can say to this though is North Korea is crazy and spiteful either way and though this movie is a real stupid idea but if a couple of pot heads making a really dumb movie can piss of North Korea they really need to chill out. However Japan is worried because Sony has representation there and while vying for kidnapped Japanese citizens this movies outrage began. I feel like the stupidity of this movie is so not worth the trouble it is and will cause, however North Korea isn't getting its vengeance today.