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| Hollywood and the Antigun Left goes after the NRA | |||
| 2014-01-16 | |||
Mr. Stern asked Mr. Weinstein on Wednesday whether he owned a gun. The Hollywood heavyweight replied that he did not and never would. "I don't think we need guns in this country. And I hate it," the producer said. "I think the NRA is a disaster area." Mr. Weinstein then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. "I shouldn't say this, but I'll tell it to you, Howard," he said. "I'm going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we're going to take this head-on. And they're going to wish they weren't alive after I'm done with them." The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a "big movie like a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'" The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, "Gun stocks -- I don't want to be involved in that stuff. It's going to be like crash and burn. The chairman of the Weinstein Co. (formerly Miramax) is one of President Obama's biggest fundraisers. He brought in more than $500,000 from his Hollywood friends for the president's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2012.
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| Posted by:badanov |
#21 One scene has the Senate leader eating a puppy dog. Naw. A well-known libertarian law professor leads a group of Tea Party Republicans in a round of puppy smoothies. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-01-16 21:41 |
#20 How different would the movie be using actors with no film history? Much, much better. Seriously -- big name stars don't bring credibility to a role, they bring all their previous roles to it. When you can't immediately remember an actor's name, you start naming their previous roles... like that guy from the cross-dressing TV show in the 80's playing Walt Disney along with the princess of France from that Branagh film. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-01-16 21:40 |
| #19 I'm fn laughing here. Bigger than Mr. Smith I tell ya, bigger! I'm gonna grab Meryl Streep and we're gonna come kick your asses! Mr. Smith. I see it now, Streep goes to the Senate partly by horrific tragedy, partly for vindication. Its a sinister Republican controlled senate. One scene has the Senate leader eating a puppy dog. A bill is introduced to eliminate all regulations for a pure 2nd amendment country. Mrs. Street bravely hobbles to the Senate floor (shot in the opening scene, only survivor of family) in order to filibuster. maniacal laughter from the Senate leader. "har har har, it was you Democrats who ended the filibuster! Do you feel the irony?" Cut. Roll credits. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-16 16:11 |
| #18 Rjoe - you forgot Whoopie Goldburg as the Katrina Victim (Bush'es fault) and now Sandy Victim (also Bush'es fault!) who is kept poor and on minimum wage by 'the [white] man' and who's Son gets tragically killed by a racist 'white hispanic' who comitted the hate crime of objecting to having his head bashed into concrete. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-01-16 16:01 |
| #17 Harvey Weinstein of the Kill Bill films. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-01-16 15:50 |
| #16 RJoe, good casting. Penn would look comical enough with a rifle, I picture him with a 1.5 scale double barrel chainsaw bayonet pure black rifle. Whats the plan boss? Hour and a half building up the anti-hero, scenes staring blankly at Lone Ranger re-runs, an oddly uncomfortable sexual scene with Streep and ending with some ultra-violence set to Beethoven? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-16 15:23 |
| #15 You guys have it all wrong -- I see Hollywood gold: Sandy Hook Holocaust A Harvey Weinstein Production Starring: Merle Streep As Nancy Lanza, the ditzy mom Tom Hanks As Peter Lanza, the stay away dad Sean Penn As Adam Lanza, the victim of a cruel uncaring society Al Franken As Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy, the tragedy exploiter |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-01-16 14:53 |
| #14 Put your money where your mouth is, Mr. Weinstein. Insist your bodyguards, gate guards, etc., not own any guns. And refuse to work with, or even talk to, anyone who won't do the same. In fact, if you really "don't think we need guns in this country," insist the cops get rid of them as well. *crickets* |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-01-16 14:44 |
| #13 Ring me up when that feckless wench brings joy to millions of children like Disney did, and his legacy continues to do. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-16 13:36 |
| #12 A familiar name. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-01-16 13:31 |
| #11 Ah ... making a note to myself to avoid this movie when it comes out, and also to avoid Meryl Streep. She had one strike against her in my book for bad-mouthing Walt Disney at a recent awards show. This will be another. At the rate Hollywood is insulting my values, there aren't many A-listers that I can go watch any more. I've been crossing my fingers that Peter Jackson doesn't shoot off his mouth until the last part of The Hobbit is released... |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2014-01-16 13:23 |
| #10 Keep up your communist/fascist rants boneheads. Keep losing money and what little prestige you have. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-01-16 13:09 |
| #9 I wonder if Weinstein's bodyguards own any guns. |
| Posted by: charger 2014-01-16 12:16 |
| #8 Out in the real world they would be referred to as loose cannons. Its just they have a specialty in being able to make expressions. Strike that. The most famous actors are the same damn character in every movie, so it would be more accurate to say they turned themselves into stereotypes. Consider an easy example, the movie Gravity. Two actors, both with an extensive filmography. How different would the movie be using actors with no film history? Clooney is in it, well he chased down a terrorist in New York and killed vampires in a Mexican strip club - that film history automatically adds an air of authority to this character, in fact the industry relies on it. I remember the first time I saw Executive Decision. Steven Seagal was billed. He always wins. It was a total shock to see him gone in the opening chapter. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-16 11:49 |
| #7 Think a film about the Barberry Pirates would make money... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-01-16 11:38 |
| #6 For what it is worth, Harvey is channeling people he works with in Hollywood... Comedians and Actors have psychotic personality traits, study finds The traits scored were "unusual experiences", such as belief in telepathy and paranormal events, "cognitive disorganization" such as difficulty in focusing thoughts, "introvertive anhedonia" - reduced ability to feel social and physical pleasure, and "impulsive non-conformity", or tendency towards impulsive, antisocial behavior. The researchers of the University of Oxford's department of experimental psychology found that comedians scored significantly higher on all four types of psychotic personality traits compared to the general group. Most striking were their high scores for impulsive non-conformity and introverted personality traits, the researchers said. The actors scored higher than the general group on three types - but did not display high levels of introverted personality traits. |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Clash8728 2014-01-16 11:21 |
| #5 These Hollywood people are seriously deranged so why does anyone listen to them? They talk about things they know little about. If they had their way, we would have all been living under Nazism, Communism, Shintoism, Islamicism, Leftism or some other repressive "ism." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-01-16 10:52 |
| #4 Never owned a gun, So of course he knows all about Guns (Yes sarc) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-01-16 10:42 |
| #3 Streep, right next to stegosaurus, I know of. Had to look up jolly boy. Needs to spend $500mil at least. Perhaps a remake of LOTR but the good guys have no weapons, especially Legolas' high capacity assault quiver AR shotgun sad puppy murderer. Apparently, he is a big Roman Palanski supporter and stiffed fellow traveler Michael Moorefood. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-16 10:36 |
| #2 From the people who brought you Birth of a Nation another piece of bigoted propaganda masquerading as 'art'. 1 - end all tax write offs for the entertainment/sports industry. Never have been 'vital' for the economy. 2 - return to the original 14/14 copyright provisions with that second 14 years extendable only an individual artist, not a corporation. Ought to take a deep slice of life long 3 - unbundle cable and satellite television. These 1%'ers really want attention. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-16 09:18 |
| #1 Movie producer Harvey Weinstein announced for the first time on Howard Stern's radio show that he is making a full feature drama to try to destroy the National Rifle Association. Weinstein, another Amish Trotskyite, left coast |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-16 07:52 |