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‘Dogville’ director blasts Bush
MSNBC ^
| 5/19/05
| Jeanette Walls
Posted on 05/19/2005 4:34:57 AM PDT by pissant
Edgy director Lars von Trier startled the crowd at Cannes by referring to President Bush with an obscenity.
Von Trier, who directed Nicole Kidman in Dogville, made the comment while unveiling his new film Manderlay, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, at the French film festival.
When asked why his recent films depict America in an unflattering light, Von Trier responded, Mr. Bush is an a**hole.
The Danish director explained, So much in Denmark is American. We are a nation under influence. America fills about 60 per cent of my brain. So, in fact, I am American. But I cant go there to vote and I cant change anything, because I am from a small country. So that is why I make films about America.
"Manderlay" is about slavery on a plantation in America in the 1930s. The film is dense and complex, and can be read as a critique of Americas attempts at nation-building, noted The Australian. It received loud applause at the press screening on Monday and, despite the provocative questions, the press conference that followed was strangely muted. Perhaps the idea of discussing the films sensitive subject matter simply made the predominantly white press corps uncomfortable.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dirtyrats; eurotrash; filthyrats; hollyweird; hollywoodleftists; rats
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worthless POS alert!
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:34:57 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
"All your brain are belong to U.S."
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:37:00 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
To: pissant
"When asked why his recent films depict America in an unflattering light, Von Trier responded, Mr. Bush is an a**hole. "
I'm hurt...
Okay, I'm over it...
Mr. von Trier molests collies...
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:38:14 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll.)
To: pissant
Manderlay" is about slavery on a plantation in America in the 1930s. Since slaves were freed almost a hundred years earlier this has to be fiction.
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:38:32 AM PDT
by
DouglasKC
To: LIConFem
I'm guessing he's a turd burglar as well
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:39:47 AM PDT
by
pissant
(Pissant - Life coach extraordinaire)
To: pissant
I sat through about 20 minutes of Dogville before shutting it off out of complete boredom. It could be the worst movie I ever attempted to watch. Knowing that, who really gives a rat's behind what this tool thinks?
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:40:14 AM PDT
by
rampage8
To: DouglasKC
To: DouglasKC
he's an expert, don't you know?
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:40:22 AM PDT
by
pissant
(Pissant - Life coach extraordinaire)
To: pissant
"I'm guessing he's a turd burglar as well."
Um... I'm not quite sure what that is, but I'll take your word for it! ;o)
Bring me the head of von Whatshisname!!
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:42:17 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll.)
To: pissant
Nicole has sure gone downhill lately.
To: sgtbono2002
Unfortunately, I think you are correct. Tome Cruise ruined her.
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:48:54 AM PDT
by
pissant
(Pissant - Life coach extraordinaire)
To: pissant
Lars von Trier: "
America fills about 60 per cent of my brain. So, in fact, I am American. But I cant go there to vote and I cant change anything, because I am from a small country. So that is why I make films about America.
Another pathetic little man, from a nondescript little country, who is obsessed with tilting at wind mills.
I wonder what fills the other 40% of his mind? Buggering little boys?
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:50:25 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
( Save the Republic from the shallow, demagogic sectarians.)
To: pissant
Too bad he's such an *ass, Dogville was a good movie.
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:51:25 AM PDT
by
bonfire
(dwindler)
To: rampage8
Should've stuck with it......great twist at the end.
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posted on
05/19/2005 4:52:19 AM PDT
by
bonfire
(dwindler)
To: pissant
and Hollywood wonders why it's box office is in decline?
To: pissant
"Manderlay" is about slavery on a plantation in America in the 1930s. Huh?
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:00:53 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Jon Alvarez
Jon Alvarez wrote:
and Hollywood wonders why it's box office is in decline?
--> LOL, do you think they even have a clue they are in the decline? :)
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:02:33 AM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: pissant
I liked "Breaking the Waves".
Doesn't mean I give a rat's ass what this Danish dumbs--t thinks.
To: DouglasKC
And yet Danny Glover was heard praising it to everyone that would listen as a true and great piece of work. If anyone wants to pitch in to buy him a one way ticket to Cuba I will start with the first $20
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:02:39 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for not reading the whole article since 1999)
To: pissant
America fills about 60 per cent of my brain
Probably just septic tank runoff.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:03:31 AM PDT
by
schaketo
(Not all who wander are lost)
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