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 He has a point - as a founding member of the twenty-year-old Tibet House organization, it would be hard for Bill O'Reilly to challenge Gere to a game of Tibetan Jeopardy. On The Hunting Party, he knew that he would have to do research just as carefully. "I made a point of visiting all the places where something happened, and talking to as many people as I could, and having dinner with as many people as I could," he says. "And getting drunk with as many people as I could. To feel the texture of it. These journalists [that we portray in the film], we spent time with, and other ones. I felt pretty intoxicated with the experience of Sarajevo, and of the war." He agrees that the entire Bosnian situation as a whole is absurdly confusing. "There's a wonderful BBC documentary that's about six hours long that was done on the Bosnian war. It was the bext explanation, emotionally and factually, that I've seen. I forget what it was called, but that's the one to see. I remember seeing it six hours straight through. Look, the ones that really know what's going on are the Bosnians. In Sarajevo. Everybody else only cops to knowing a little bit of what goes on. But everyone was taking advantage of everyone else in that area. And everyone wanted Bosnia, to take a piece of Bosnia. And the only way to do it was to kill everybody, or at least to make life so miserable that everybody would just go away." However, Gere also has optimism that such problems can be fixed by the international community. "As soon as Clinton got serious and said I'm going to stop this, it stopped, almost immediately," he says of the warring in Bosnia. "This feeling that the international community can't control these little wars is wrong. It's just how they do it. How good the diplomats are, how decisive they are militarily." He then veers to that related, inevitable topic. "You know, what we're doing in Iraq is insane. Diplomatically, militarily, it makes no sense whatsoever. So of course it's going to fail. It doesn't mean it has to. The approach was wrong to begin with." He goes on: "This is ancient stuff that's never been dealt with. The problems of communities living together was created by Western powers anyhow. There was no Iraq sixty years ago. So this is all fabricated, you know, it's a pretend country." Aware that he's entered touchy territory, ... |
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