Posted on 09/02/2017 9:21:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
George Clooneys 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 weve 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 hes 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 werent 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 theres an honest reckoning in our country.
As to the character Damon plays: Its 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 films 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, its probably the angriest Ive ever seen it, he noted. Theres a dark cloud hanging over our country right now. But he added: Im 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 isnt 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 its a symbol of hate that cannot stand.
Oh, and the title, “Surburbicon” stinks, too.
You know, the one where the soros paid “black lies matter” and the antifags attacked the soros paid Jason Kessler’s “Unite the Right”.
The dark cloud is in the minds of unbelievers. Those who love Jesus always have Sonshine,as witnessed by the Gospel Singers in the hurricane relief center in Houston.
>>>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<<<
Makes me wish I was his next door Neighbor, just for fun.
It’s all those dang Southerners in Pennsylvania. #LooneyClooney
“based on a true incident” like Texas Chainsaw massacre “was based upon” the same 1950s Wisconsin incident as Psycho and Deranged.
Can you say embellished?
Michelle Obama said that America’s HISTORY and traditions would have to change.
Obamao’s cultural revolution
Their ambitions have been notoriety, power and money ‘masquerading as service’.... Their very lifestyles evidences such....and will continue to do so.
Clooney is absolutely right although he doesn’t mention the fact is hanging over top of California
Clooney is absolutely right although he doesn’t mention the fact is hanging over top of California
Buying a movie ticket is the same as donating to the Democrat Party.
Yep. And it’s still obama.
Blacks are all Kunta Kinte and whites (other than liberal elite whites) are all KKK members...
Simple and simpleminded... Hollywood's as shallow as they are vile.
Tell looney Clooney if a low income black section 8 housing unit where to be built in his area or illegals where to be housed in a facility next to his glass house on the hill, or Hollywood elites will now be housing illegals, how do you think he would respond? HYPOCRITICAL DESPICABLE HUMANS!
White privilege means ‘white reputation’...
In short, until we prove different we’re given the benefit of the doubt. It’s a culturally EARNED reputation.
Blacks have an earned cultural reputation too - a reputation they don’t like - a reputation for being violent and criminal. Because statistically they ARE more violent and criminal.
Neither the white or black ‘reputation’ holds past the point of the individual person, but it’s a factor in how we relate.
George Looney may have touched on something real this time, but the movie does star fellow nitwit Matt Damon, so . . .
Boycott Hollywood. It’s the only way to be sure.
Spoken like a true statist. Boycott this beeyotch, too!
Boycott all of Hollywood. It's the only way to be sure!
(Sorry, Chuck Norris and James Woods and Jon Voight, but this truly is for the greater good.)
PING!
The more Hollywood becomes disconnected to America, the more they sow the seeds of their own destruction. The box office is only going to get worse for them. Some get it, unfortunately not enough and Chinese money won’t save them.
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