Der Interview mit Tom Cruise und Steven Spielberg

Stephen Spielberg has said in other interviews that the upcoming War of the Worlds is a metaphor for the war in Iraq, with the evil aliens as the U.S. and Tom Cruise-led New Jersey-ites as the insurgency. It is no wonder then that Der Speigel asks this:

SPIEGEL: Aren't you afraid that audiences in some parts of the world may even applaud when they see Americans lying on the ground?

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