May 16, 2003

The Weasel Dance...

...has begun in Cannes. A steady parade of self-righteous, sycophantic entertainment types will seek to curry favor and publicity in the French press by claiming they are being unfairly censored or oppressed in the US by the Bush administration. Film maker Wim Wenders seems to think that consumers refusing to buy products produced by people with whom they disagree is "McCathyism". Funny, all this time, I thought it was freedom of association and a free market place.

The 50's blacklisting was a cowardly, shameful response by the movie/entertainment industry. The studios didn't have the balls to stand up to the govt...even though they controlled the PR machine. Blacklists are only effective when the people who hold the means of production/distribution enforce them. The blacklisting was done to protect profits. Who do these people think they are fooling, Hollywood has zero integrity. They'll fold like a cheap suitcase if the product doesn't produce the expected grosses.

Buy a clue, asshat, a free market decides what they will endorse/buy...not whiny liberals.

Wim Wenders slams "almost McCarthyist" atmosphere in US

CANNES, France (AFP) - German film director Wim Wenders said he was wondering whether to pack his bags and leave the United States because of the poisonous "almost McCarthyist" atmosphere there.

Wenders, who lives in the United States and was at the Cannes film festival to present his new film "The Soul of Man", said "right now I really feel like it" when asked whether he wanted to leave the country.

There was an "almost McCarthyist" response to critics of President George W. Bush's administration, he said. "Perhaps I should stay," Wenders said. "I don't know, I'm split about it."

Wenders previously quit New York in the early 1980s and gave back his "green card" working and residence permit because of anger over the administration of former US president Ronald Reagan.

"I have the same feelings at the moment, it's very disagreeable," he said.

Wenders will head a jury that will award the festival's Camera d'Or prize for best first feature-length film during his stay at the May 14-25 festival.

His film about Blues music is being screened out of competition at the festival.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

Posted by feste at May 16, 2003 12:02 PM | TrackBack
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So he wants to go back to Germany, where you go to jail for publicly speaking out against the government? Interesting.

Posted by: Courtney at May 16, 2003 06:55 PM

Wimmers is having a "Dixie Chick" moment...sucking up to the French press for attention. If he could make a living and receive the attention he craves from his native audience he wouldn't live in the US.

Of course if he's going mebbe he could get a group rate and take a few of his equally put-upon and disgruntled colleagues.

Posted by: feste at May 17, 2003 10:03 AM
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