Posted on 09/15/2020 7:59:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a see of obedience, Hollywood director Judd Apatow is one of the few openly talking about how his peers have effectively sold themselves out to China.
The director has been openly critical of American leaders being silent on the ongoing abuses in China.
It is shameful that no US companies and very few politicians speak up about concentration camps in China. The United States has abandoned the world when it comes to human rights. https://t.co/h3yspyv2vg
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) September 7, 2020
He doesn’t just stop there. He’s also criticizing his own colleagues.
In an MSNBC interview with Ari Melber, Apatow notes that despite China’s human rights abuses can clearly be seen on full display, the communist country has “bought our silence.”
The 40-Year-Old Virgin director warned of “a corporate type of censorship that people don’t really notice, which is a lot of these giant corporate entities have business with countries around the world, Saudi Arabia or China, and they’re just not going to criticize them, and they’re not going to let their shows criticize them, or they’re not going to air documentaries that go deep into truthful areas because they just make so much money.”
Apatow continued by saying it’s not just a question of knowing if it’s okay to see a joke or not. Now it’s an entire lockdown on certain subject matters, specifically human rights abuses by China.
“Hey, I want to write a movie about the concentration camps in China and Muslims in concentration camps. I want to write a movie about someone who escapes,” said Apatow giving an example.
“No one would buy the pitch,” he said. “Instead of us doing business with China and that leading to China becoming more free, what has happened is a place like China has bought our silence with their money.”
It’s a sad thing that Hollywood stars would rather gather together to push Joe Biden and defeat President Donald Trump than actually call out China. If Trump began handing out gobs of cash to Hollywood producers and directors, one has to wonder if they would suddenly feel the need to defend and support Trump despite the fact that they hate him.
Hollywood’s obedience to China, and even that of sports leagues like the NBA, prove that all their talk of equality and goodness is just that…talk. When the rubber meets the road, Hollywood is fully ready to toss all of their signaled virtues into the wood chipper. Money means more than principles.
While Apatow is assuredly no right-leaning figure, credit is given where it’s due. It’s not easy to speak out this plainly against one’s colleagues but at least, in this, Apatow is correct. Especially when so few are willing to take paychecks from communist human rights abusers.
Apatow joins Matt Stone and Trey Parker as one of the few in Hollywood that openly resist China.
(READ: South Park Doubles Down on Its Anti-China Stance for Its 300th Episode)
Additionally through Apatow Pictures, he produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Undeclared (2001–2002), Funny or Die Presents (2010–2011), Girls (2012–2017), Love (2016–2018), and Crashing (2017–2019).
Apatow also produced the films The Cable Guy (1996), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Begin Again (2013), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and The Big Sick (2017).
It’s worse than that. Those corporations would like to see China’s policies implemented everywhere.
This is, in part, why tariffs are a good idea. China needs our money. Well, our money should be buying us a better China. More free. If China is taking our money and buying our silence, our government should use tariffs to make such transactions far less popular for both sides. Our economy should be a political tool.
I’m surprised to hear this fro a big Hollywood lib like Apatow.
I thought he was going to talk about Horrywoo cranking out open propaganda for the Communist regime, as they have been, for decades.
But, I guess he likes the money, too.
It seems to escape everyone, but China has been pouring the US dollars, for which they have no need, into buying Hollywood propaganda, American technology, Africa and South America. Oh, and a little bit to buy Democrat politicians and Republican sell-outs.
Doing business with the chinee in the expectation of them opening up to freedom is like a bowl of water interacting with a turd in the expectation that the turd will become more clean. The water just turns to sewage. Sorta like romney, ryan, feinstein, kristol, nadler, hollywood, the chamber of commerce...
Even a broken cuck is right once a decade....
Apatow is still as POS.
Well, congratulations to Apatow for being a normal human being while living and working in the cesspool known as Hollywood. It is genuinely good to know that he not only feels this way, but that he has the courage to speak up about it AND condemn others for their cowardly silence or their outright complicity with one of history’s most brutal regimes.
Maybe his lead will give some others the courage to do the same. As bad as Hollywood is, there HAVE to be a lot of normal people there.
There’s no black people in China. No way to make white people feel guilty.
“Hey, I want to write a movie about the concentration camps in China and Muslims in concentration camps. I want to write a movie about someone who escapes,” said Apatow giving an example.
“No one would buy the pitch,” he said.
True, but Apatow has enough money and influence he could self-produce whatever he wants, even if the studios aren’t interested. But he’d probably just be flushing money down the toilet because nobody would promote it or distribute it.
Shouldn’t be too surprised. He spoke up back in 2014 when Sony was going to give in to North Korea and pull Seth Rogen’s movie “The Interview”:
https://deadline.com/2014/12/judd-apatow-the-interview-twitter-disgraceful-1201328806/
“he has the courage to speak up about it”
Well, he’s got “FU” money now, so that makes it a lot easier to be courageous.
It's important for us to remember that there are good people in Hollywood...few... but still some.
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