Posted on 05/06/2023 11:38:50 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss, an Academy Award–winning actor best known for his role in the Jaws, said in an interview that the new diversity rules imposed by the Oscars for films to be eligible for the “Best Picture” award “make me vomit.”
“They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover on Firing Line which aired Friday night on PBS. “This is an art form. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
New policies enacted by the Oscrars in 2024 will see film award eligibility dependent upon meeting two of four stipulated diversity benchmarks. One, for instance, mandates a third of a movie cast must be comprised of “an underrepresented group.”
The actor also discussed his decades-long commitment to improving civics education. In 2006, the star created the Dreyfuss Civics Initiative aimed at revitalizing national awareness of government and politics.
“I think we’re in the endgame right now,” he told PBS. “We could let slip the greatest idea for governance ever devised, and we won’t even know that it happened.”
“I still can’t really wrap my head around the fact that people confuse being exposed to an opposing view on any subject with being a traitor or with being a subversive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Me too!
We were all young and dumb once upon a time. He learned.
He has a non profit called Thedryfussinitiative.org that is attempting to bring the study/instruction of “Civics” back into our schools. His reasoning is: you can’t expect the children of today to run the government they will inherit if they don’t even understand how it was setup, designed and why.
He’s also a civil war re-enactor and a supporter of our military. Is it real, or a scam? Dunno. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt till proven otherwise.
Dreyfuss.....you made your bed, sleep in it fool. The left created these monsters and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Left wing foolishness is all fun and games till it comes a knockin..
Is he referring to proAmerican conservatives ?
Think I misspelled Dreyfus in my link.
The reality is that the Academy Award rules mean nothing in real life. Your reward as, “an artist” comes from your audiences and not from the annual academy masturbation night.
Mr. Dreyfus can make any movie he wants and if it’s good people will pay to see it.
It’s worse than that. There’s nearly a full generation of Americans that need “safe spaces” where they are not challenged in any of their thinking. They want to relegate opposing opinions to spaces they can avoid. Leftist have made pussies out of the young.
Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss, an Academy Award–winning actor best known for his role in the Jaws...”
I think they missed a few:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000377/awards/
BTW, what is “the Jaws?” I remember his part in Jaws, just not the Jaws.
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Or Will Smith as James West in “The Wild Wild West” which was a awful movie.
Dreyfuss is left but he a free thinker and not party....really refreshing
Thanks for reminding me of that. They've been applying diversity rules to characters for a while now.
Obviously you have not listened to Richard Dreyfus’s reading of Moses in the Word of Promise performance of the New King James Bible.
I agree with this old man, who I really loved in “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.” When you are this old, you don’t give a (bleep).
Underrepresented in the media: Hispanics, Asians, and believing Christians
They already have a sign “No Christians need apply”.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Welcome to your Communist Utopia you have spent your entire life building Dreyfuss.
“Dreyfuss is probably realizing he’d be burned at the stake by his Hollywood friends if he gave that performance today.”
If he keeps on like this, they will dig it up and use it against him anyway. That and dozens of others, just sitting in archives and waiting to be dusted off and reinterpreted.
The Left created this monster and now it’s turning on them like Frankenstein.
The old saying, “You made your bed, now lie in it” fits here.
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