Comments on: “The Greek American Image in American Cinema” http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2009/08/27/the-greek-american-image-in-american-cinema/ The No1 Source for Greek Entertainment News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Two more with Terry Moore « The Ascetic Sensualists http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2009/08/27/the-greek-american-image-in-american-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-24971 Two more with Terry Moore « The Ascetic Sensualists Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:25:10 +0000 http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/?p=1224#comment-24971 [...] like our heros. From an interview with Cineaste editor and modern Greek culture expert Dan Georgiadis: From the 1930s-1950s well over half the Greek American characters are professional gamblers. There [...] [...] like our heros. From an interview with Cineaste editor and modern Greek culture expert Dan Georgiadis: From the 1930s-1950s well over half the Greek American characters are professional gamblers. There [...]

]]> By: George T. Karnezis http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2009/08/27/the-greek-american-image-in-american-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 George T. Karnezis Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:41:26 +0000 http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/?p=1224#comment-3679 Thanks for this; I wonder if Dan will also consider images of Greeks who have left the country and then returned. I just happened upon the film PANDORA which treats this subject and wonder if there are any more films like this that treat this subject. Thanks, Dan, for your work; I used to teach an intro to film course and CINEASTE was a fine resource for students and me. Yiasou. Thanks for this; I wonder if Dan will also consider images of Greeks who have left the country and then returned. I just happened upon the film PANDORA which treats this subject and wonder if there are any more films like this that treat this subject.

Thanks, Dan, for your work; I used to teach an intro to film course and CINEASTE was a fine resource for students and me. Yiasou.

]]> By: JJ http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2009/08/27/the-greek-american-image-in-american-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-3417 JJ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:45:15 +0000 http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/?p=1224#comment-3417 OK we have a pic of a Greek resistance fighter, who is not a Greek American, Zorba who is not a Greek American, 3/4 of the characters in the pics are not Greek American characters, and 3/4 are not Greek American actors. EG Irene Pappas is not a Greek American and not portraying one, Anthony Quinn is not a Greek American nor portraying one. Stock photos of Casavettes, Kazan, Penelope Spheeris, Colicos as Papadakis (Wife-beating diner owner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice"), the extremely pejorative Greek American Senator Mavros, and if we are going to use Quine and Pappas, how about a still from" A Dream of Kings?" Overall I think Dan makes good points, but having myself worked as a screenwriter, deep down I do believe that one cannot leave the treatment of Elia Kazan when he received his long overdue Academy award without comment. I do believe if he had been part of one of the dominance ethnic groups in Hollywood would not have gotten the shameful treatment he got at the Oscars in 99. As it turned out out Stalin killed more innocents than Hitler. So one has to wonder if Kazan had been exposing Nazi sympathizers before a legal, required and duly elected US Congress, whether he would have received such shameful treatment? No small matter since Kazan is easily the most important and influential Greek American to ever set foot in Hollywood. OK we have a pic of a Greek resistance fighter, who is not a Greek American, Zorba who is not a Greek American, 3/4 of the characters in the pics are not Greek American characters, and 3/4 are not Greek American actors. EG Irene Pappas is not a Greek American and not portraying one, Anthony Quinn is not a Greek American nor portraying one. Stock photos of Casavettes, Kazan, Penelope Spheeris, Colicos as Papadakis (Wife-beating diner owner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice”), the extremely pejorative Greek American Senator Mavros, and if we are going to use Quine and Pappas, how about a still from” A Dream of Kings?”

Overall I think Dan makes good points, but having myself worked as a screenwriter, deep down I do believe that one cannot leave the treatment of Elia Kazan when he received his long overdue Academy award without comment. I do believe if he had been part of one of the dominance ethnic groups in Hollywood would not have gotten the shameful treatment he got at the Oscars in 99.

As it turned out out Stalin killed more innocents than Hitler. So one has to wonder if Kazan had been exposing Nazi sympathizers before a legal, required and duly elected US Congress, whether he would have received such shameful treatment? No small matter since Kazan is easily the most important and influential Greek American to ever set foot in Hollywood.

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