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Shock, Awe and Razzmatazz in the Sequel
Topic: Current Events 2:47 pm EST, Mar 25, 2003

Get the popcorn, there's a war on!

] The start of the war caused business at movie theaters to
] drop by 25 percent on Wednesday as people stayed home to
] watch the war, and snack-food sales and restaurant
] deliveries thrived. The opening salvos of the war had
] taken the place of prime-time entertainment, and
] television stations did their best to serve up gaudily
] produced coverage: the war in Iraq as the ultimate in
] reality television, as the apotheosis of every favorite
] Hollywood genre, from the combat thriller to the
] coming-of-age tale to the blow-'em-up, special-effects
] extravaganza.
]
] As he watched the "shock and awe" bombing that lit up the
] Baghdad sky on Friday , the veteran reporter Peter Arnett
] exclaimed, "An amazing sight, just like out of an action
] movie, but this is real." In the last week other
] commentators and viewers were drawing a lot of movie
] analogies too.
]
] The burning oil-well fires elicited comparisons to
] science-fiction movies; the plight of seven Tennessee
] families who had sent pairs of fathers and sons off to
] the war brought comparisons to "Saving Private Ryan."
] Allusions to the HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers" were
] ubiquitous, and the postbombing videotapes of Saddam
] Hussein (which might have starred one of his doubles)
] drew comparisons to the comedy "Dave," in which a
] look-alike fills in for an ailing American president, and
] "The Prisoner of

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