Via Free Republic
Pride goeth before the fall. Weinstein should be careful here. It could be that gun owners may make Weinstein wish he was never born. It is easier and legally safe to go after an amorphous political group as an individual. Those organizations don't vote, but they have a lot of money which makes the advocate a working man's hero. In reality it means the advocate is a pussy.
From TFA: |
Movie producer Harvey Weinstein announced for the first time on Howard Stern's radio show that he is making a full feature drama to try to destroy the National Rifle Association.
Mr. Stern asked Mr. Weinstein on Wednesday whether he owned a gun. The Hollywood heavyweight replied that he did not and never would. "I don't think we need guns in this country. And I hate it," the producer said. "I think the NRA is a disaster area."
Mr. Weinstein then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. "I shouldn't say this, but I'll tell it to you, Howard," he said. "I'm going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we're going to take this head-on. And they're going to wish they weren't alive after I'm done with them." The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a "big movie like a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'"
The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, "Gun stocks -- I don't want to be involved in that stuff. It's going to be like crash and burn.
The chairman of the Weinstein Co. (formerly Miramax) is one of President Obama's biggest fundraisers. He brought in more than $500,000 from his Hollywood friends for the president's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2012.
| I think it's a brilliant idea. Let him spend the large sums of his own and like-minded others's money necessary to make a serious film, let it lose horrendous amounts for them because about half of the population is happy to own guns, and leave Mr. Weinstein & Co. with that much less to invest in the politicians of their choice. |
He might want to check with the dudes who made Lions for Lambs and other anti-Iraq war rotgut movies, just to see how they did. I think they had a similar agenda. It helped take the luster off of Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep.
At the same time that Lions tanked, the movie 300 was doing boffo business. Why? Everyone in the audience knew who the heroes were.
So make your movie Mr. Weinstein. We know who the heroes are. |
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