Posted on 10/16/2004 5:06:58 AM PDT by trashcanbred
New York comic and director Woody Allen talks about President Bush and the election campaign in the United States.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Allen, do you see your president, George W. Bush, as a comic or a tragic figure?
Allen: Bush himself is rather comic. When you listen to him speak, you sometimes just have to laugh out loud. But if he were to be reelected, that would be a tragedy. ...
SPIEGEL: As a chronicler of Manhattan, why haven't you incorporated September 11th into your films yet?
Allen: I just don't find political topics profound enough to deal with as an artist. After all, the entire history of mankind consists of murders. It's just the cosmetics, the decoration that changes. In 2001, a few fanatics killed Americans, and now Americans are killing a few Iraqis. When I was a child, the Nazis killed the Jews. Now the Jews and the Palestinians are killing each other. Over the thousands of years, politics is too fleeting an affair, too unimportant, because everything repeats itself. But I'm a citizen, so of course I'll vote. ....
Allen: When people in show business take a position in American political campaigns, it doesn't seem to do much good. I guess the Europeans have more respect for artists. In the US, when authors like Norman Mailer or Philip Roth speak out, the only people who acknowledge what they say are those who already agree with them. That doesn't generate any new votes. ....
Allen: With "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore made a highly successful and good documentary. But the trouble was, the only people who loved the film were the ones who agreed with him. I'm one of them. But Moore was also unsuccessful in influencing the other side. They did a survey to test that hypothesis. A hopeless case.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
In other news, Woody Allen's next wife was born today.
But first she has to go through the adoption process....
Child Molesters Who Marry Their Daughters for KERRY!
Another overlooked special interest group falls into the Dem camp. Darn!
Woody Allen is in no position to judge what a hopeless case is.
Funny how these LIEberals don't attack on there own home TURF!
. . . to his current wife.
September 11, 2001 - just another unfortunate and isolated political incident.
WOODY ALLEN, GET A LIFE!
When Woddy Allen bashes the US, can Pee Wee Herman be far behind? Guess all the PERVS and Degens from H'wood will be overseas bashig the US soon. Deaf ears here. Are their careers in need of boosting? Will Woddy share hsi daughter with them?
Gosh I'm glad Woody Allen is their problem.
The diminutive pedophile hasn't had a big hit stateside for awhile. This is the only press he can get.
Of course, I must admit, I love his movies, "especially the earlier funnier ones". His early stand-up stuff is ingenious and very funny.
That does it! I'll never watch another one of his flicks.
I agree his older works are funny. But all of his new works are just not there. I think the times changed and so did he... but they went in different directions.
Irregardless he is not someone I hold a lot of respect for. His comments on 9/11 were pretty callous and shows he feels he is "above all that".
Hmmm you must have been the only one given his current success.
Woody Allen is a natioanal embarrassment himeeelf. He is defintaly the stuff of which cartoons are made. Allen with his daughter, albeit adopted daughter (thank god) cum wife, lover, is almost too funny to contemplate. He of the confused genius genre, frizzed out hair etc what's left of it) thick glasses and perpetually changing voice makes most adults blush at his clumbsey attemptss at adult humor via gropiing, overt sexual innuendo and hysterical sexuality. Actuaally no American gives a danm about him. Wonder why the Germans do?
"SPIEGEL: As a chronicler of Manhattan, why haven't you incorporated September 11th into your films yet?
Allen: I just don't find political topics profound enough to deal with as an artist"
Huh????
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