Terrorists are Film Buffs

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A new video claiming to be the work of terrorist network al-Qaeda has been analysed by the country's foremost cinema experts who have found that it definitely has been influenced by cinema greats Orson Welles and Sergei Eisenstein.

Felicity Collic, director of the Australian Society of Cinema Studies, had this to say:
' The Islamic terrorists have clearly been influenced by the film greats of the early 20th century. Just look at the framing of bin Laden as he reads out his latest threat to "Crush the infidel empires". That's pure Hitchcock. Notice how each shot of the American flag burning is progressively shorter than the last, adding to the suspense. That's Eisenstein down to a tee."

Lacking, however, said Collic was the script. Gone was the post-deconstructionist subversion of the modern theocratic state and in its place is the same old 'crush the infidels' that has been in vogue for the past 8 years. ' When they first did the crush the infidels shtick, it had the shock factor and the middle eastern zeitgeist' Collic said. 'Now it sounds hackneyed and tired. I'd give it 1 and a half out of 5'.

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