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There is a bitter group of people that would criticize Angelina Jolie if she handed them a million dollars with no strings attached. This woman, arguably the “realest” celebrity out there and unquestionably a pathfinder in terms of women in film, is always going to be the whore who stole Brad Pitt away from poor, sweet Jennifer Aniston.
However, Jolie’s latest critics are the Women Victims of War (WVM), a group made up of wartime rape victims … and their issue is a bit more legitimate. Basically, they’re taking offense at the reported storyline of a “love story between a Muslim victim …
… and her Serb rapist.”
To Jolie’s credit, she is making every effort to clear the air … although that might well be because her license to film in Bosnia was revoked over WVM’s complaints.
“I have great respect for all the work of the WVW association … and I would like the opportunity to speak with them to personally clear up any misunderstandings about this project,” Jolie said in a statement issued through the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, in Bosnia.
She added that part of the reason to make her first movie as a director was to remind people of what happened during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and to give attention to the survivors of the conflict that left some 100,000 people dead.
All right, let’s be honest … isn’t that pretty much what Steven Spielberg did with Schindler’s List?
For a celebrity to extend herself with this level of apparent sincerity is rare. I mean, I get the feeling based on Jolie’s work with the UN and her efforts following Hurricane Katrina that the woman is an actual humanitarian, that it’s not all some face game to her.
And the WVM seems open to discussing their concerns directly with Jolie, which also speaks to the group’s collective character.
Bakira Hasecic of the WVW, whose members are all wartime rape victims, told AFP Friday that she would gladly meet with Jolie.
“We would like her to show us the script so we can see if it contains elements that falsify history and the truth,” she said.
Hasecic has not seen the script yet and the WVW complaints were based solely on the press reports.
And therein is perhaps the most frightening thing about this story. A legitimate, concerned group that has struggled through atrocities most of us cannot imagine had one of the world’s biggest celebrities banned from filming in their country because of media rumors.
Scary.
And I have to wonder if Jolie’s image played a role in the decision. Beyond her infamy as the so-called “other woman,” Jolie has taken heat for everything from adopting children outside of the United States when there are multitudes of American children in need of a good home to allowing her daughter Shiloh to explore her potential inner male.
If another director had planned this film and the press buzz was minimal, I get the feeling that WVM might well have been pretty much unaware of it … or that a more low-key level of negotiations might have transpired with script-sharing going on and quiet, open communication ruling the day.
So what do you think? Would we be hearing about this if the film’s director was Jane Doe, or is a result of the “Angelina Jolie Mystique”?
Either way, it’s drawing a lot of attention, which means the film will probably be a blockbuster, which means that Jolie will rake it in, which means that she’ll have more to give, which means …
Wait, why does everyone hate this woman again?
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People want her to be a monster, a home wrecker, a sexual psycho, and an entertainer. They don’t want her to be a mother, a partner, a humanitarian, and an intelligent woman. She can’t win no matter what she does any more than Jennifer Aniston can shed the image of the needy, clingy, perpetually single loser.
What annoys me about the Jolie v Aniston battle is that Brad Pitt came out unscathed and even praised for landing Jolie. He was clearly a participant in the erosion of his marriage and possibly guilty of having an affair, but he’s given a free pass and praised for his cinematic and humanitarian work while the women involved are left battling to repair their reputations.
Well, I came here to comment, but jeneria said pretty much everything I was going to so…
I really like Angelina. I don’t know why everyone is still so hung up on her “stealing” from Jenifer Aniston. It happened back in, what, 2003? You can’t steal a man anyways. They’re not mindless objects seduced by the lure of teh titties.
Angelina is an angel,she does tremendous good for the unfortunate on this planet,Brad wondered away for a reason,no one can destroy a solid relationship.
People need to move on and get over it. Husbands have left wives for others for centuries. People evolve as has Angelina Jolie. She has become an inspiration; shedding her past wild life to become a true humanitarian. I hope an amicable agreement can be made with the WVW and this movie can be completed. Possibly somewhere down the road Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and all the other starlets out there could take note and put some of their millions into changing the world for the better; at least a little part of it. I must say that there are celebrities working very hard working for their own causes who are barely noticed and I also applaud them.