Posted on 09/13/2017 3:05:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro hopes his latest critically-acclaimed film can help repair what he calls a broken political system following President Donald Trump’s election.
The director, whose Cold War fairy-tale drama The Shape of Water just won the coveted Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival this week that Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan was a callback to a time in 1960s America in which if you were “white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, it was a great time to be alive,” but not if you were “anything else.”
“It’s like a cancer. We have a tumor now,” the Oscar nominee told reporters, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “That doesn’t mean the cancer started with that tumor. It was gestating for so long.”
The director, who was born in Guadalajara Jalisco in 1964, also hit out at proponents of strict immigration enforcement in the U.S.
“I’ve seen, for most people, this thing started two years ago. But if you’re Mexican, and you crossed the border, they never really went away,” he said. “They’ve been latent all this time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Canadians, Mexicans and liberals all telling us how bad America is ... but dug in like ticks in the USA and won’t leave.
Go Trump. Win win. MAGA!
Go home.
Why doesn’t this Mexican f—ktard go back to his crap hole of a country and make movies there?
Hey Guillermo - why don’t you fix your own $hithole of a country instead of criticizing us?
I really loathed Pan's Labyrinth. Some critics called it the best movie of the year, even the best movie of the century (it was a very young century at the time). The political thrust was shallow and tawdry. The much praised effects looked clunky and second rate. And the movie was ugly and exceptionally cruel to its child heroine.
Del Toro's a comic book horror director. And not the best of those by any means.
Exactly.
He should ask the cartels to finance his next movie.
So then you respond by making it miserable for everyone except the rich elites ? Gotcha.
That mortarforker is whiter than me. Pound some Chihuahua desert sand efftard.
“In 1997, at the age of 33, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax Films to shoot another film, Mimic (mostly in Canada). During this time, his father, automotive entrepreneur Federico del Toro, was kidnapped in Guadalajara. Del Toro’s family had to pay twice the amount originally asked. The event prompted del Toro, his parents, and his siblings to move abroad. In an interview with Time magazine, he said this about the kidnapping of his father: “Every day, every week, something happens that reminds me that I am an involuntary exile [from my country].”
In other words, the only thing he knows about life in the United States in the 1960s is propaganda from anti-American leftists.
But in the 1960s in Mexico, his beloved home country, there were events like the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, part of the greater “Mexican Dirty War.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War_(Mexico)
So yes, Mexico sucked then, and Mexico still sucks today.
If America has a “broken political system”, it is still light years better than whatever it is that Mexico has.
Does Guillermo del Toro Merde have a Green Card?
So Trump’s America is a cancer?
Mexico is diarrhea.
Who the heck are these people? I must be out of the loop. I guess all these people think they are important or something.
So much for “The Strain.....”
Wish I could get a refund on the book series.
I’m proud that I don’t know who this cretin is.
If he is that traumatized by Trump then I have a solution: GO HOME!!!
1940s-’50s WERE great as I was growing up.
When I finished active duty with the Navy in ‘62, jobs were scarce and the economy was poor. ...Then, after JFK, LBJ made things even worse with his “Great Society” and Viet Nam, where several of my boyhood friends died. The ‘60s were NOT great!
The only movies he made that were actually decent were the Hellboy movies, and even those were adaptations of a graphic novel series by Mike Mignola and John Byrne, so he really doesn’t deserve that much credit. Other than that, he’s scum. Same with his friend Hideo Kojima.
If he really hates America THAT much, why doesn’t he do us all a favor and go back to Mexico. Either that, or he should give up his hatred of America. I dislike it when his ilk bashes America and implies that Mexico is better, especially when he had first hand experience as to how Mexico isn’t even close to being as good as America, whatever the latter’s flaws were.
Go back to Mexico then and never come back...and take the crap you call movies with you. We have no need for you or your “work”. We have enough garbage to handle as is.
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