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By Shannonn Kelly 

Director Brian De Palma has a right to ask.

Remember those Abu Ghraib prison photos. Who do you think took them? Soldiers. Yep that right. Soldiers.

That’s because anyone (including soldiers) can get a hold of a digital camera and shoot whatever they want. The soldiers are real, the pictures are real-

So why was De Palma forced to redact, or black out soldiers faces in photos in his film “ReDacted”?.

It was at the strong request of the distributor Magnolia Pictures owned by Mark Cuban also owner of the Dallas Mavericks (currently seen competing on Dancing With The Stars), which is releasing the movie in mid-November. Apparently Cuban was disturbed by the pictures.

ReelHeART says: “Uhm, isn’t that the point…”

Read what DePalma had to say at the 2007 New York Film Festival for the Q & A on “Redacted”…

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3if4ef26bbb490c2c50004c7fa32e93368

written by RHIFF