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In interview granted to Denver Post online last week, American actor Sylvester Stallone, in admiration for Franz Werfel's book about the Armenian community "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh", leaves the door open to the possible arrangement of this project about which he has spoken for two years in back. "I would like to spend it in writing and directing, less in the public eye but providing something for the public" he said.

So what is the Stallone Surprise, the project he's always wanted to write or direct? For years Stallone's wanted to create an epic, and the book that intrigues him is Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh", detailing the Turkish genocide of its Armenian community in 1915. (After futile attempts to turn the novel into a movie, filmmakers finally succeeded in 1982, but it was a low-profile production.) French ships eventually rescued some Armenians, and Stallone has his favorite scene memorized: "The French ships come, and they've dropped the ladders and everybody has climbed up the side. The ships sail. The hero, the one who set up the rescue, has fallen asleep, exhausted, behind a rock on the slope above. The camera pulls back, and the ships and the sea are on one side, and there's one lonely figure at the top of the mountain, and the Turks are coming up the mountain by the thousands on the far side."

A pretty great shot. The movie would be "an epic about the complete destruction of a civilization," Stallone said. Then he laughed at the ambition. "Talk about a political hot potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."

By Jean Eckian for AZG.com

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lets get together first

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2007-01-23 17:18.
hey everyone lets get together on open table, in europe some where, all the historians from all sides. if it was genocide i dont think any armenian would be alive today to tell the story. my sympathy goes to dink family. enough killing from both sides. lets fight global warming instead.

Armenian Genocide and Turkish Armenian Dialogue

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Submitted by erku on Tue, 2007-01-23 17:39.

"if it was genocide i dont think any armenian would be alive today" first all all this is a very Cynic way of expressing about millions of people who have perished like Hrant Dink, for just being an Armenian. Also this is sinful against TRUTH.

Second; what do you mean by "enough killing from both sides."? When have the Armenians killed the turks?

If people talk like you without any healing, there won't be any dialogue.

It was nice of the Turkish people standing up today saying "we are all Armenians, we are all Dink." But can you care for a second that so many people have been killed for just being Armenians?

In my opinion Turkey is today in a very dangerous situation. Either the society will recognize the Armenian genocide and heal, or the Turkish nationalism will take over the country. The later has not been a good option for any society.

The issue of the Armenian Genocide will serve as catalyst.

Yeah, and while we're at it,

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Submitted by Rueben (not verified) on Tue, 2008-03-04 05:06.

Yeah, and while we're at it, let's "...get together on open table [sic]..." and get to the truth of whether Adolph Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jews, and whether he indeed succeeded in slaughtering over 6 million innocent Jewish civilians.

What an idiot!

"If it was genocide i [sic] dont think any armenian [sic] would be alive today to tell the story."

Again, what an idiot!

I suppose, by your logic, since there were survivors of Hitler's slaughter of Jews, Pol Pot's slaughter of 2 million suspected non-communists, Rwanda's slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis, Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 Armenians, etc, that these are not genocides.

For your information, the term 'genocide' was invented in 1944 by Raphael Lemke in order to precisely and efficiently describe what Turkey did to Armenians, and what the NAZIs did to Jews.

80% of the Armenians living at that time in what is now Eastern Turkey, Northern Syria, Northern Iraq were exterminated by Turkey under Kemal Ataturk, by Turkish soldiers and hired Kurdish thugs under command of Talat Pasha and Enver Pasha.

Before you go spouting off nonsense, and proving yourself to be a complete idiot, you should make some kind of effort to know what you're writing about.

Of course, you would never do that because (can you guess?), you're an idiot!

This movie needs to be made

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Submitted by Armenian (not verified) on Wed, 2008-06-18 23:30.

This movie needs to be made to show the world what monsters Turks really are.