Costner blasts Bush assassination film

Yahoo News UK ^ | September 12, 2006 | WENN

[dbehsman]

Kevin Costner has waded into the debate about controversial new movie Death Of A President, insisting director Gabriel Range failed to consider how George W Bush's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated.

The Dances With Wolves star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend, where he premiered his new film, The Guardian, alongside the screening of Death of A President.

Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film.

He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world.

"Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish... or think that's even cute."

[RogueIsland]

That was a very classy thing for him to say, especially since he probably leans left personally. Compare and contrast with Alec Baldwin...

[Non-Sequitur]

I seem to remember quite a stink when Jeffrey Archer published a novel back in 1977 called "Shall We Tell The President" involvoing a plot to assassinate a newly elected President Ted Kennedy. Why no uproar about this?

[Non-Sequitur]

I seem to remember quite a stink when Jeffrey Archer published a novel back in 1977 called "Shall We Tell The President" involvoing a plot to assassinate a newly elected President Ted Kennedy. Why no uproar about this?

[tkathy]

Maybe some tiny shred of intellectual reality seeps into the emotion filled brains of hollywood.

[Non-Sequitur]

There seems a lack of civility, good manners, decorum and protocol in Washington these days.

Ya think? It's been that ways since Reagan was in office, and has gotten steadily worse every year.

[Always Right]

The left is nothing but a bunch of soulless hate-filled socialists who worship at the alter of sexual deviancy. They are sick sick people.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Costner was bloody brilliant as Eliot Ness. And here he comes out in support of GWB -- yet *still* some FReepers b*tch and complain! Un-be-flogging-lievable! What do ya want, folks??

Ask 'im nicely for your money back for WaterWorld if you must.

Surely this time he is On-Message!

Crikey.

[montag813]

How about a movie called "Bubba's Great AIDS Adventure"?

I think we should produce such a film, given this one. It would portray Clinton's sexual assaults, gropes and rapes, as well as his contracting syphillis and chlamidia, and struggling with his sexual perversions in the wake of his heart attack.

[tcostell]

I know liberals who are so filled with compassion that they sometimes come around to conclusions that they might otherwise be led to by logic. Just because they lack the ability to think doesn't necessarily mean they are reprehensible human beings.

This is an excellent example.

[maineman]

Agreed!

[7thson]

I liked some of his early movies. Bull Durham, The Untouchables, Silverado. I even liked Dances With Wolves. I also liked Revenge. I thought he started going downhill with A Perfect World and then The Bodyguard. I rented Waterworld and it was a waste of 3 hours. I kept watchign thinking it would get better and it never did. Tin Cup was good and I also liked Field of Dreams.

[justa-hairyape]

This is not the only time though that the moonbats have talked about assassinating the President.

Hinkley sp? apparently tried to assassinate President Reagan as a way to impress Jodie Foster. This was somehow related to her acting role in the movie Taxi, which was about assassinating someone. Do not remember who, off hand. So we have a precedent establishing the possibility that an assassination attempt actually carried out against a current 'conservative' President was based partly on a domestic movie. That is probably why we have not produced such movies here domestically.

[montag813]

Kevin Costner is a leftist liberal dungbeetle.

Based on...?

[MissAmericanPie]

I watched a program within the last week where the Republicans in Hollywood are coming out of the closet. Even those people to whom politics never enter their minds.

The young people coming into Hollywood as camera men, lighting specialists, those kinds of grunt jobs who have come through the liberal public school system and hate it are having a big influence on the sets and in the politics of Hollywood.

There are those loud mouths like Barbara Stricnine, Martin Sheen, and Ed Assner who get all the attention because of their venom, but since the home run hit by The Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson, and Governor Arnold Swartzenager, many other stars no longer fear for their careers for coming out as being Republican.

There may be hope for that place yet.

[imintrouble]

Of necessity actors have to become (or are) narcissistic and with success and huge amounts of money for doing little more than playing other people, they become megalomaniacs - believing they can influence their nation into concurring with their own beliefs.

Witness those actors who are at the front lines in electoral campaigns - passing along their fervent messages of candidate reverence.

I dislike also what Toronto Canada is doing annually, giving a venue to anything anti-American on film they can book - and have had a great sphere of influence on our northern neighbors who are quickly taking on what I believe to be the nourishment of what we might look upon as an enemy.

We worship actors as knowledgeable humans when there are merely mirrors of others far more important in our world.

They in fact are of moderate intellect, capable of memorization and movement, and have natural beauty or medically assisted beauty to be endowed with far more than they are capable of in reality - by their needy fans.

Actors live in a fantasy world - they have crossed over from what is real and necessary for a successful nation of power and worth, into some child-like posturing that if you are "loved" all is well.

The assassination of a disliked American president is but one goal and result of these disaffected people who cannot think beyond what is happening in their world next month.

Perhaps they believe they are all Ronald Reagan clones - when they are merely witnesses to one man's journey from fantasy into the real world of service to his nation.

[Tenacious 1]

[I guess Kevin Costner figured out who no longer goes to the movies.]

Good point. I am not sure if anyone else does this (somebody else must), but it makes me feel good.

We keep a black list of actors/actresses we will not watch. We will not watch them on TV, rent the videos and certainly not go to the theater to see.

I recently entertained an unsuspecting crowd at local bar and filmworks establishment when our friends were talking about films they had recently seen. My wife explained that we can't watch that film because so and so is on our "do not watch" list. I then had to explain;

Actors/actresses are paid to entertain me. They are little more than a chosen distraction to my important life. They are jesters. If I feel like laughing, I choose to be entertained by people on film doing or saying something funny. If I feel like being excited, I choose action or adventure. These folks have no direct useful talent that provides for necessary public consumption. They do not produce food, materials, goods or services that necessarily sustain our economy. They provide entertainment as I desire it. They provide it when I desire it and I choose what it is I desire. Again, they are merely jesters. They do not have impressive credentials. They have no real world experience. They offer no substantial wisdom that any reasonable and useful citizen of the United States can use or rely on in the real world.

Therefore, any overpaid jester that finds a media outlet to preach to about how I should view the world, vote or live my life will not be entertaining me. I am not amused in any way, shape or form by some actor/actress that purports to understand real life in any meaningful way or have such wisdom as to influence my values or morals. By and large, Holy-Wood types live lives of vile contempt for righteous, upstanding, hardworking Americans. They themselves reside in a Godless, morally bankrupt circle of social degenerates. Anyone influenced by any of these malcontents, I deem ignorant and misguided.

One stranger, upon overhearing my rant suggested that he too would view the jesters in a different light. Then, several discussions about who should be on "do not watch" lists broke out around us. Our movie, United 93, started moments later.

[nyconse]

I like the Bodyguard. Most women did!

[bmwcyle]

I agree. I would not attend Oliver Stone's recent movie because he used it to make money to make his other types of movies. Juan Williams wrote a conservative book repeating Bill Cosby's message. It was correct but he defends the people who are causing the problem. I won't buy his book.

[srmorton]

I loved it! Dances with Wolves, also. I am still surprised that he spoke out so forcefully, but good for him!

BTW, the sad thing about The Bodyguard is how someone as beautiful and talented as Whitney Houston could have messed up her life so much.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I am not sure just what Costner's politics are but I do remember reading a story that after Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's he somehow had become friend's with the Reagans and used to take him and play golf until he was no longer able to. So you may want to cut him a little slack.