Several web sites are reporting that 24's Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to give a speech about the evils of torture to West Point cadets.
According to a story from Hollywood.com, Sutherland accepted the invitation to speak after some military experts publicly expressed concerns that graphic torture scenes on 24 were having an adverse effect on interrogators in the field.
A general was quoted in the Hollywood.com story as having asked the show's producers to change their story lines: "They should do a show where torture backfires. The kids see it [torture on TV] and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24?'"
Wonder if Sutherland will bring a power drill as a torture "don't."
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2-26-2007 @ 6:09PM
Adam said...
Didn't it already backfire in that picture?
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2-26-2007 @ 6:27PM
Douglin said...
"It is deeply irresponsible and ludicrous that something like that happened," Kiefer told the Daily Star Sunday. "I'm shocked that anyone - let alone highly trained military personnel - would want to copy anything from what is obviously a fictitious TV show. That's crazy. If it takes an actor to go to West Point to help officer cadets differentiate between reality and fantasy, then I'm happy to do that." - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a43138/sutherland-responds-to-24-criticism.html
Sounds like he's gonna yell at them
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2-26-2007 @ 6:56PM
C C said...
Excuse me, has anyone really watched 24? If they did, they would know that whenever torture is used to interrogate a suspect, it ALWAYS BACKFIRES. It seems to me more often than not that the subjects of the torture are innocent? Or those painful chemical injections flat out don't work? Wearing wires and taping conversations are far more effective methods to catch the bad guys in the 24 universe.
I can't wait until the end of this season and it turns out that the two torture scenes everyone is complaing about turn out to have been STAGED as part of a scam.
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2-26-2007 @ 9:33PM
montana mike said...
torture is the best part of the show, and keifer is the man. i'm sure the government has people just like that. keep up the good work 24--best show on tv
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2-27-2007 @ 10:39AM
LC said...
I wouldn't say it "Always" doesn't work. there was that one memorable torture scene a few seasons ago where the traditional interrogation wasn't working, so Jack walked in and shot the guys knees out where he then told him that the secretary of defense was the target.
Then there was this season where the reformed terror leader sticks a knife in the leg of a mole in his group where the dude spilled the beans.
Still, it is sad that an actor has to tell cadets that torture doesn't work. If TV is really influencing future officers, which I highly doubt, then we are in deep doo doo.
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