Posted on 05/09/2017 8:11:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yeah, he’s talkin’ to Trump...and you.
On Monday night during his speech accepting the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Chaplin Award, actor Robert De Niro blasted the Trump administration.
"I don't make movies for rich liberal elites,” De Niro said at the event, which took place at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theatre. “We make movies to entertain audiences. Audiences vote by seeing them; critics vote by writing about them; and then posterity takes its time to decide if they’re art - or not.”
He continued:
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because of our government’s hostility towards art. The budget proposal, among its other draconian cuts to life-saving and life-enhancing programs, eliminates the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For their own divisive political purposes, the administration suggests that the money for these all-inclusive programs goes to rich liberal elites. This is what they now call an ‘alternative fact,’ but I call it bullsh*t.
De Niro also noted that the namesake of his award, Charlie Chaplin, was "an immigrant who probably wouldn't pass today's 'extreme vetting,’" adding, "I hope we're not keeping out the next Chaplin."
Those at the event to praise De Niro were a who’s who of liberal Hollywood, including Sean Penn, Harvey Keitel, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas and Barry Levinson, and director Martin Scorsese, who has directed De Niro in eight films. Also in the audience were Michael Mann, Christopher Walken, John McEnroe, John Turturro, Marisa Tomei, Michael Barker, Avi Lerner, Katie Couric and Harvey Weinstein.
De Niro also praised his fellow stars, sarcastically describing some of them in words used in the tweets of President Trump. “By being here tonight, you are supporting arts for everyone,” DeNiro said. “You’re supporting the slapstick of Charlie Chaplin, the great body of work of Marty Scorsese and Barry Levinson, the dumb-ass comedies of Robert De Niro, the ‘overrated performances of Meryl Streep’ and your own taste and needs.”
Thank you for supporting MRCTV! As a tax-deductible, charitable organization, we rely on the support of our readers to keep us running! Keep MRCTV going with your gift here!
Sounds like Robert would like to take in a few Syrians.
I must haved missed the part about “reciting lines written by someone else”, in Art History class.
Shove it up your 0bama, Bob!
Nobody gave Chaplin government funds to make films. He made films, people paid to watch them and then he made money, not the reverse... The government handing out taxpayers money to ‘artist’ who make films that people don’t watch.
Yep.
After his behavior in Trump’s election, I have written this man off. I won’t watch a single movie that has him in the cast. He is a typical anti-American lefty Hollyweird jackass.
Chaplin wasn’t from a Muslim country, if those groups are so great let Hollywierd fund it.
Maybe not but they love getting on the Big Government handout train.
If (for some strange reason) there were not another movie made, another song written and not another painting painted, the world would be just fine.
We have an entire catalogue of entertainment/culture to choose from by people who were actually proficient at their craft.
What’s more, Robert De Niro is REALLY full of Bullstalin.
Charlie Chaplin and other successful stars and starlets bucked the studio system and founded United Artists with their own wealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio. The studio was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks with the intention of controlling their own interests rather than depending upon commercial studios.[1] The studio was repeatedly bought, sold and restructured over the ensuing century. The current United Artists is an in-name-only successor to the original company, which was acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981.[2]
So he does not make movies for himself?
He is 1% of the 1%
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.