Before Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart opened at the Cannes Film Festival, Paramount Vantage delivered a screener of the film to Asra Nomani's home in Morgantown, West Virginia. She watched the film with her parents and was shocked with the final product.
"I thought ironically for a movie called A Mighty Heart, it lacked a heart," says Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent who became a close friend of Danny Pearl when the two worked at the newspaper's Washington DC bureau. "It didn't have the pulse of any of the people it depicted. What made me saddest was I didn't even feel for Danny."
And then Nomani watched on the Internet all the hoopla at Cannes-- the star-studded affair with images of Angelina Jolie (who plays Pearl's wife Mariane in the film), producer Brad Pitt and its other cast members.
"I felt dirty about it," Nomani says. "I know we are supposed to take Hollywood with a grain of salt, but as a society we can't just give it a pass. A man died -- Danny died for the making of this movie. He became a sacrificial lamb, not just for the terrorists, but also for our super entertainment industry."
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And then Nomani watched on the Internet all the hoopla at Cannes-- the star-studded affair with images of Angelina Jolie (who plays Pearl's wife Mariane in the film), producer Brad Pitt and its other cast members.
"I felt dirty about it," Nomani says. "I know we are supposed to take Hollywood with a grain of salt, but as a society we can't just give it a pass. A man died -- Danny died for the making of this movie. He became a sacrificial lamb, not just for the terrorists, but also for our super entertainment industry."
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