Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: An ironic protest
As with all trends, people in Pakistan seem to have woken up to it far too late. Pakistanis and Arabs have long-replaced Hollywood’s first favourite – Communists – as the bad guys in productions.
While there have been several attempts by the Arab-American community to protest against the way the Middle East is depicted on celluloid, they have not been able to stop imaginative Hollywood screenwriters from getting their way. One notable example to the contrary though, is the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s efforts in having a line from the opening song of Disney’s Aladdin changed.
The latest bone of contention for Pakistani critics is John Travolta’s From Paris With Love, which released this February. According to Wikipedia, it reportedly depicts Pakistanis as part of a “labyrinth of cocaine and prostitution, and (who) hang around with explosive vests on their tables. Furthermore, their plot is to infiltrate the US Embassy with explosives hidden beneath their burqas.”
See the full article from “The Express Tribune”