Posted on 09/02/2017 9:21:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
George Clooney’s “Suburbicon” has a timely subplot — based both on present times and a 1957 incident — about racism in white America. That subplot, however, resounded deeply during the Venice Film Festival press conference for the film, which stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore.
“I was watching a lot of speeches on the campaign trail about building fences and scapegoating minorities and I started looking around at other times in our history when we’ve unfortunately fallen back into these things,” said Clooney, talking about how the pic germinated. While casting around for story ideas, Clooney found a 1957 incident that happened in Levittown, Pa., in which an African-American family moved into a suburban development; however, many white residents in the area reacted with violence.
Then, while looking to try to make a film out of the Levittown story, he remembered that the Coen brothers had written a script called “Suburbicon,” so those two elements were meshed together. Of course at that stage the Charlottesville, Va., race riots had yet to happen, noted Damon, who in the film plays a bad guy who goes all the way, to an extent that he’s “never been able to do so far” in his career. “When we were filming we obviously could not have predicted the race riots,” said Damon. “We weren’t literally thinking that race riots would erupt in America right before this came out. But it does speak to the fact that these issues have not, and are not, going away. So there’s an honest reckoning in our country.”
As to the character Damon plays: “It’s kind the definition of white privilege when you are riding around your neighborhood on a bike covered in blood murdering people and the African-American family [who are his neighbors] is getting blamed for it,” he said. Clooney pointed out that the film’s very dark tone reflects the anger he sees in the U.S. today.
“If you go to our country…depending on what side of the aisle you sit on, it’s probably the angriest I’ve ever seen it,” he noted. “There’s a dark cloud hanging over our country right now.” But he added: “I’m an optimist…I believe that we will get through all these things…but people are angry; a lot of us are angry.”
The “Suburbicon” director also underlined that the film “isn’t a movie about Donald Trump. … This is a movie about our coming to terms constantly with the idea that we have never fully addressed our issues with race.” Moore, who plays a double role in the pic, made a clear-cut a statement on the issues being raised by Charlottesville. “We are living in the United States where people are arguing about removing Confederate monuments: They must be removed,” she said. “You simply cannot have these figures from the Civil War in town squares and in universities for our children to see. As a parent and as a citizen I need to be active in the eradication of those, in the re-education of everyone. We have to take responsibility for it.” Clooney joined her on a similar note: “This is something that is really festering right now in the United States: Talking about the Confederate flag, and the Jefferson Davis monument,” he noted. “Now, if you want to wear it [a confederate flag] on your T-shirt or if you want to hang it on your front lawn…have at it. But to hang it on a public building where possibly African American tax payers are paying for it — and it’s a symbol of hate — that cannot stand.”
Not as “dark” as merry old England huh Clooney?
Yeah, no kidding and I'll bet he has armed security guarding said fences. May just as well call Hollywood, Hypocritland.
Wifey and I tried to watch `Men Who Stare At Goats’ earlier.
Looked at each other after giving it a chance and I said, “The only thing they do here is blow goats.”
Looney really stunk up the screen with that loser.
Beau Bridges, Ewan McGregor, others all complicit.
Is this like the “chill wind” Tim Robbins spoke about?
Smug Alert!
Clooney’s moving back to the UK?
Race riots? What race riots happened in 2017? WTF is this bozo talking about? And the dark cloud over America dissipated when the Imam in Chief, Muhammad BaracK O Hussein, was kicked out of the White House. The Divider hates Americans, loves BLM Murderers, Sharia bigots, illegal aliens, and wanted to import half the Muslim world into the countrt
Remind me again why people give money to Hollywood?
And that dark cloud is modern day liberalism of which clooney is an advocate of.
By the way, I am so proud of folks greatly reducing their viewing of movies this past summer. The less money we give liberals like this guy, the better.
http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/summer-movie-business-1202519863/
JoMa
All of the large=scale movements and protests we see going on today, including anti-Trump, confederate flags and statues, Black Lives Mater, are components of the same organized communist movement. Nothing particularly new here, as it's the same bunch who have led the so-called "peace"/"anti-war" rallies (during Bush), anti-GOP protests (outside convention centers during presidential election seasons), and the pro-illegal immigration rallies. The communist organizers look for ANY excuse to go the streets, create chaos, and push for "Revolution". See my FR Home/Profile page for much more about this.
[[George Clooney: ‘There’s a dark cloud hanging over our country’ (BARF ALERT)]]
Yup- it’s called islam George- pull your head out of your butt
"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Michelle Obama on the night of her husband's 2008 election victory
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"The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance."
https://web.archive.org/web/20091111002409/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
Hollyweird scum LYING propaganda — there were no “race riots” in Charlottesville this summer. There was a LEFT WING riot by mainly white Lefturds.
I'm so fed up with the current garbage & current obsession with race/gender that I stick to older features.
Which country is that, Georgie?
These people are so far removed from reality they think movies that are depressing and bloody are entertaining. I think it makes them feel virtuous.
No thanks. I’ll pass. And so will most of America.
The movie is already a big fat fail.
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