Thursday, October 15, 2015

Is Racist “Homeland” series? – BBC

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Image caption The episode in which is painted out Chapter 2 Season 5 of the series, which already aired in the United States.

The hired to do some painted in a decoration of the American series “Homeland” and artists took the opportunity to show their displeasure with what he considers a stereotypical portrait Arabs and Muslims.

“Homeland is racist,” “Homeland is rubbish” were some of the messages written in Arabic three contracted artists. And all went unnoticed until the point where the air were painted

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The artists, who revealed in a statement his “feat”, explained that the graffiti were commissioned in June to give “more authentic” to a decorated that recreates a refugee camp.

Custom reluctantly

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Image caption “Homeland” received the Golden Globe for best drama of the year in 2013.

At first liked the order, but after thinking better, felt that his art could convey your “political discontent and many others with the string” .

“It was our time to present our point of view with a subversive message using the same series “they said.

The episode in which is painted out Chapter 2 of season 5 the series already aired in the United States.

“visual supplement”

According counted, no one actually found what they were writing .

scenario designers were “too frantic to pay attention,” ironizaron artists.

They complained that the producers tried the Arabic script as “A mere visual complement” .

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Image caption The graffiti said that no SUPERVISION what they wrote and producers just wanted Arabic script as” complement “on stage.

“We are trying to make a call atanción a more differentiated view of the region and we are also trying to say that Things are not as simple as they seem in this program “he told the BBC Caram Kapp, one of the artists who participated.

In the second season of the series, your description of the Lebanese capital, Beirut , provoked criticism from the portrait that made the center of Hamra, which they considered had little to do with reality.

Some Pakistani spectators also they bothered by how it was represented the capital, Islamabad, and the name of a character who is a terrorist is almost identical to the former Pakistani ambassador to the US.

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Image caption “Homeland is not a number.” This is one of the messages that the graffiti written.
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