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Major Hollywood Producer Vows to Make the NRA ‘Wish They Weren’t Alive’ With Upcoming ‘Big Movie’
The Blaze ^ | 1/16/14 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 01/16/2014 9:04:08 AM PST by Impala64ssa

Big-time movie producer Harvey Weinstein revealed Wednesday that he is making an anti-gun movie with actress Meryl Streep that is going to make the National Rifle Association “wish they weren’t alive.”

During an interview with Howard Stern on his radio show, Weinstein said the new full feature drama will take the NRA “head on.” He also said he’s never owned a gun and never will.

“I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it. I think the NRA is a disaster area,” Weinstein said.

After first telling Stern that he shouldn’t reveal too much about his secretive film, the producer spilled the beans.

“I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this issue head on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them,” he added, referring to the NRA.

Weinstein said the film is not a documentary and will be a “big movie like a ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’” The Hollywood heavyweight was clear that he wants to scare people enough so that they don’t want to be involved with guns.

When Stern challenged his anti-gun logic, Weinstein argued that he would “find a gun” if something like the Holocaust were to happen and his “people” were being marched into Auschwitz.

However, as the Washington Times’ Emily Miller points out: “Mr. Weinstein has been watching too many movies if he thinks the good guys find fully-loaded firearms in convenient locations to use only when necessary.”

Miller also notes that the chairman of the Weinstein Company is one of President Barack Obama’s biggest fundraisers.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1dontsearch; banglist; gunmovie; harveyweinstein; nra; nramovie; streep; weinstein
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To: Impala64ssa

Seems to me that preventing the “Auschwitz” from ever being built in the first place would be the better idea.

Then again, I’m not a dumb-ass Libtard.

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” - Robert A. Heinlein


21 posted on 01/16/2014 9:23:36 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: rktman
But he may raise membership levels in the NRA kinda like the “lyin’ king” raising firearm purchases.
Maybe the SEC should investigate Michael "two dinners" Moore and Weinstein. Are they trying to artificially pump up the value of Smith & Wesson by spewing this garbage? Market manipulation, insider trading?
22 posted on 01/16/2014 9:23:47 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa
The money doesn't matter to this multimillionaire leftist or that ‘Bowling For Columbine’ was already a major flop & financial disaster.
23 posted on 01/16/2014 9:24:22 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Here we go again, another guns-and-hunters-are-evil message movie.

Stanley Kramer peddled the same cr@p back in 1971 with “Bless the Beasts and the Children”. The marquee poster featured a scope sighted lever action rifle intended to horrify liberal moviegoers over the culling of bison herds.

Guess a .338 Lapua super rifle will furnish the frightful image this time. And aging ingénue Meryl Streep will lead the children into the bright new tomorrow.

Geez.......


24 posted on 01/16/2014 9:26:35 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Impala64ssa

This is such a great idea I think he needs to finance this with his own money.


25 posted on 01/16/2014 9:27:59 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jonty30
In short, box office failure.

As opposed to

Lone Survivor Sets Post-9/11 War Movie Box Office Record

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3112219/posts

26 posted on 01/16/2014 9:28:31 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Albion Wilde

So many Hollywood lefties nowadays are unshaven lardbuckets.

Just more proof of the injustices of capitalism, I guess.


27 posted on 01/16/2014 9:31:18 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Impala64ssa

“Weinstein argued that he would “find a gun” if something like the Holocaust were to happen and his “people” were being marched into Auschwitz.”

Hey moron, before “your people” were getting rounded up and marched into Auschwitz, they were disarmed.

This is precisely why I refuse to go to movies!


28 posted on 01/16/2014 9:35:16 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Impala64ssa
"Big-time movie producer Harvey Weinstein revealed Wednesday that he is making an anti-gun movie with actress Meryl Streep that is going to make the National Rifle Association “wish they weren’t alive.”"

I'm glad to hear Hollywood liberals publicly admit that they make movies not for entertainment purposes but for brainwashing the American population into the leftist worldview and mindset. And just think, Americans are voluntarily queuing up and paying to see and hear the lies.
Amazing.

29 posted on 01/16/2014 9:37:36 AM PST by StormEye
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To: Impala64ssa
I wonder how many Unarmed security people he has surrounding his comings and goings?
30 posted on 01/16/2014 9:39:07 AM PST by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Jonty30
In short, box office failure.

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Correct.

31 posted on 01/16/2014 9:40:45 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: N. Theknow

Hitler thought the same thing about Jews....they don’t need no stinking guns!


32 posted on 01/16/2014 9:41:48 AM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Impala64ssa

He will convince no one against guns. He may make the libs feel “good” but will make gun supporters all that much more determined to keep their guns and support the 2nd Amendment and gun rights groups. These Hollywood elites are so full of themselves.


33 posted on 01/16/2014 9:45:49 AM PST by falcon99
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To: Impala64ssa

Weinstein’s meal ticket Quentin Tarantino on guns:

Tarantino: ‘Everyone has the right to own a gun’

“Initially I think that everyone has the right to own a gun. I myself have one because I live alone in a large house and want to be able to defend myself,” the 49-year-old director said.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/121975/tarantino-everyone-has-the-right-to-own-a-gun


34 posted on 01/16/2014 9:48:17 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Impala64ssa

Howard Stern is one of the priviledged few non-government civilians to have a NYC-valid conceal carry permit.


35 posted on 01/16/2014 9:58:05 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Impala64ssa
If he even makes this movie, it'll be lame, preachy, obvious box office poison.
36 posted on 01/16/2014 9:59:44 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Save for later


37 posted on 01/16/2014 10:02:25 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Impala64ssa

Meryl “i hate walt disney” Streep. (a threat to her overblown oscar creds)


38 posted on 01/16/2014 10:03:51 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TexasCajun
Bowling For Columbine’ was already a major flop & financial disaster.

You've got the wrong movie.

Bowling for Columbine cost Lumpy Reifenstahl about $4 million to make. It grossed over $20 million in the US and another $35 million overseas.

39 posted on 01/16/2014 10:06:01 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Impala64ssa

In response to Weinstein, I’d like to see a movie that starts out with the a woman, alone in her home, when a Bad Guy starts kicking in the door or coming through a window.

Terror-stricken, she runs upstairs to the bedroom where she bolts the door and dials 911. While the operator is telling her to keep calm and wait for the police, the BG kicks in the bedroom door and the woman screams - then a look of realization passes over her face and she opens the drawer to the nightstand, pulls out a .38 and shoots the BG.

“THE END” then scrolls up the screen. Total run time 2-3 minutes.

THEN, as people are looking at one another asking WTF?, the movie continues with either a blurb or the director telling the audience something like “OK, that’s what would happen if the woman had access to a handgun and we’d have no story to tell. However, let’s start again, without the gun and see what happens.”


40 posted on 01/16/2014 10:11:35 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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