Mr. Hussaini and his contracted film makers are resposible for this situation and should pay less than 1% of what they make from this movie/book. Every day thousdands of Afghan children are being traded and used as sex slaves. Their human rights are being violated, because they don't have a choice. These guys and their families had a choice not to take the money and live their peaceful lives. The human right organization sponsoring this initiative should be ashemed of their sponsorship. They close their eyes when the Afghan boys/girls are being sent to Arabic countries for sex and have been rapped by the Pakistani Police in the camps.
I think it is absolutely disgusting that our own Afghans want to drive these two little boys out b/c of a realistic scene in the movie. Please help them!
Please make up for the low pay rate by getting these boys out of harm's way! Being familiar with other cultures, I know they will be persecuted and perhaps killed.
I am sure the writer knew the sensative subject but to sell his book had to juice up the story contrary to Afghan culture and religion. With the money he made, he should support them in any way he could. Again, money was the issue with those boys were minipulated to play the disgusting scene. They should have known better. Their fathers should be punished and fined. Why should I part with my money to save a bunch of vultures? I read the book and liked most of it but was really disgusted with a few shameful scenes placed for no good reason except to insure the sale of the book. What is the next book about? How Afghan women make exotic playmates? Sex under the burga?
i was in Afghanistan recently and I know first hand the terror that these boys could be facing! Paramount and Mr. Hossani must be held accountable for the safety of these children!
Leave it to the money-grubbing $oul leeches at Paramount to jump on the Corporate bandwagon and schill the ill-gotten gains of exploitation while young lives tremble beneath the merciless sword of Fate. That's not what we built this country on and it's not what WE are about. Let us band together and show up the heartless executives with the force of our humanity. It's time we got the backs of these kids, they need us now.
i think this was a great book!
however, I feel that making a movie out of it is unnecessary and it really threatens the lives of the hazara actors in the film... The hazara group has always been looked down upon in Afghanistan, this will only encourage people to hate on them and make them feel worthless. Their lives are at danger is this movie is released. It isn’t necessary to put someone(s) life at danger to make money for yourself.
My favorite novel. I don't want anything bad associated with it. And don't tell me you plan on being graphic with these scenes...they were so delicately treated in the novel with no grotesque description! Please don't ruin it for me paramount. keep the scene implicit like the old movie days! Not explicit! that would ruin everything for me and for those boys acting it out!
At the very least, Paramount, consider the opportunity for some good press. These boys are going to be making you a lot of money - very little of which you're sharing with them - so look out for them, right?
Basically, the big industry used these boys and their image/lifestyle - such as if you take Lisa Simpson's voice, you cannot use her for anything else, everybody will be looking at these boys (and whatever role they may have played) seriously and critically...
And that pay is asinine. Oprah at least built a place where those girls could stay for a few years, but three months then back to the hellish ways... come on.
These boys deserve better than a one-time, low pay-off fee and a kick back into dangerous surroundings. Paramount needs to step up to the plate and take care of their actors.
