Angelina Jolie's love for the children of the world is well-renowned; quite often she can't go more than a couple of hours without adopting one of them, giving it a fart-headed name and smugly parading it around the capital cities of the world.
But maybe Angelina Jolie's pro-child status has been slightly exaggerated. During the Indian shoot of her new movie A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie has run into all kinds of ridiculous trouble, and it's not showing any signs of letting up. Indian police yesterday arrested three of Angelina Jolie's bodyguards after they apparently shoved and insulted some parents of children at a school where a movie scene was being shot. However, the producers of A Mighty Heart have put out a statement blaming the paparazzi. For, um, all the bodyguards apparently pushing women around and calling them "bloody Indians." Obvious really.
We don't know about you, but we're not sure if we'll want to go and see new Angelina Jolie movie A Mighty Heart. Sure, A Mighty Heart is based on the heartrending memoirs of Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, but we have our reasons to be weary of the movie. 1) A Mighty Heart is an Angelina Jolie film, so it's bound to be rubbish, and 2) we'd much prefer to see The Making Of A Mighty Heart instead, since that sounds like it'd be just about the most hilariously offensive thing we'd have ever seen.
More or less everything that has taken place during the shooting of A Mighty Heart sounds like it was planned by either the world's biggest blundering dunderhead or Jeremy Beadle masquerading as producer. So far since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived in India, everything they've touched has attracted nothing but bewildered slack-jawed stares. For instance, Angelina Jolie's decision to go blackface for the film prompted a debate on the acceptability of the matter, while Angelina Jolie's bodyguards have been accused of choking photographers and Angelina Jolie's car knocked a boy off his bike. Angelina Jolie even made the simple act of getting on a train difficult, as it was accompanied by all sorts of screaming and jumping and bodyguard-blocking.
And now things have somehow managed to get worse for Angelina Jolie and the makers of A Mighty Heart; three of Angelina Jolie's bodyguards have been arrested outside an Indian school for pushing some parents around, as BBC News reports:
The scuffle took place when the Anjuman-i-Islam school in Mumbai opened its gates to let parents collect their children. "Children were waiting inside for us and, when they opened the gates, those men [bodyguards] pushed our ladies and children. They also said 'You bloody Indian'. This is just not done," said parent Mohammed Yusuf Patni. Senior Mumbai police official Brajesh Singh told the BBC that the three bodyguards had been charged with "insult to religion and threatening to kill".
Don't worry, though – Angelina Jolie hasn't suddenly turned evil, it's all the fault of the terrible paparazzi, you see. In a statement, the producers of A Mighty Heart said:
"We had the full permission and co-operation of the school to film on the premises. Unfortunately, our arrival was impeded by the paparazzi waiting at the gates of the school. When the gates were opened to allow the parents in to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed into the school causing confusion."
We can't say for sure how responsible the paparazzi were for the scuffles, but Angelina Jolie does have a history of trying to get photographers arrested. When Angelina was in Namibia one snapper was arrested twice, while another photographer was arrested for being a bit too near Angelina Jolie's son school once – not to mention the time that she got the American secret service in because someone nicked one of her memory sticks. Also, it's hard to see how some photographers could have prompted a bodyguard to call a parent a "bloody Indian."
All in all, though, it'll be incredibly hard for Angelina Jolie to top this incident in terms of sheer dumbness, unless of course she orders that all the film's lighting be achieved by setting the homeless on fire, of course. Which we believe she's got pencilled in for the middle of next week.
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