I believe that it is the least that we can do. If paramount only took .01% of the money they will make from this movie and put towards helping these boys and their family, it would be more that enough to help them.
I hope with these signatures we can do something, not against the movei, that I'm sure will show us a little more about the afeganistan culture but I'd like to help these kids.
Please save the children who acted in this movie. The revenues from the movie will surpass any expenses it may take to ensure their safety. It will not cost much to help them get education in return to help their country.
i know you meant well. but coming out of Afghanistan you should have realized that this film not can but WILL put these kids in danger. you KNOW what the society is like over there, and putting them in this spot, now have an obligation to protect them. please do the honorable thing.
I fully intend on raising awareness regarding this petition and campaign. I would like to see the film when it comes out; however, would not feel comfortable doing so until Paramount does more to ensure that the adolescents who starred in this film are no longer at risk as a result of their participation. Please assist these boys and their families!
Paramount, please show the world you aren't exploiting these children, by giving them their fair share of the profits (no doubt you would if they were from the US...), so that they can pay for a new and better life in a safer city.
This is horrid and against human rights...quite obviously. One would think knowing the controversy around the book etc, the film makers would have been a. more sensitive b. smarter to not use actors from the region. (if that is the case).
this is definitely shocking.. how can american stars be paid millions of dollars that they don't need while these children are left to defend for themselves? is there a legal reason or something or were these kids just being exploited..
As a writer and a journalist that has worked in third-world/war ravaged countries, I am appalled by what I have just read. The book had a powerful effect on me, but if this account is true, this demeans the story to the point that I will probably toss it in the garbage. If you cannot protect the child actors and their families in creating the machine of entertainment, then I see little difference between this and child exploitation.Hat's off to those signing this petition.
No film or any other form of art or entertainment is worth putting people's lives in danger. In light of the millions the film will earn, the filmmakers can certainly afford to help the Afghan families that may be harmed because of their participation in the film. The welfare of children should always come first - always.
The people from Dreamworks should actually read this novel and realize the repercussions of the release of this film could be devastating to these families and the least this production company could do would be to help them achieve a better life.
An amazing story, and they were not paid enough to be able to create a safety around them if they return to their home country. Allow them to stay in the US.
Please find it in your hearts to help these young boys and their families, they do not deserve to be punished by their countrymen for participating in making Western entertainment.
I really dont give a crap about how much these boys were paid.....that is irrelevant to this issue......
The point is if Dreamworks decides to make a movie like Kite Runner that contains a scene within the movie that will cause problems due to cutural sensitivities about the issue contained within the scene, they should have fully disclosed the nature of the scene to these families (My guess is they didnt and they didnt INTENTIONALLY)..the family if they knew about the scene would not have let their child act in this movie for any amount of money...Homosexuality is an immoral sin in the eyes of Muslims and to depict a rape of one young boy by another and then the rape of a boy by an adult, the people that see this fill are going to want to ostracize and punish this little boy that plays Hassan in the movie because of what he acted out in the movie......some may even believe he really had sex with another boy and an adult
They have a moral responsibility to help these kids and their families in any and all ways possible to avoid the horrible situation that will inevitably happen when this movie comes out.....
