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Thursday, January 19, 2006
So an American comic walks into Pakistan - Toronto Star
With a provocative title like Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, how could Albert Brooks not grab our attention?
The picture opens with Brooks being cold-shouldered by a real-life movie director (Penny Marshall) and casting director (Victoria Burrows) before being inexplicably chosen by the U.S. government for a top-secret project. (Maybe the President saw Finding Nemo.) His mission, should he decide to accept it, is to journey to Muslim lands to find out what makes people there laugh. Perhaps if Americans understand Muslims better, the reasoning goes, they might feel less inclined to fear or want to kill them. The premise is potentially hilarious, not to mention seriously provocative, and there are several ways Brooks could have approached it. He opts for the path of least offence, by making himself the butt of his mild humour.
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Title of the post is wrong as the brooks mainly visited india and his visit to pakistan just lasted for a few hours and he spent that time with pakistani terrorists. the movie is pathetic, no research, following generalized perceptions and stereotypes. The most ridicolous thing is that he is hardly interviewing muslims.
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