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| Cannes Film Festival Puts Anti-Americanism In Focus |
| 2005-05-16 |
| More Ass-hattery than usual this year despite the absence of a steaming pile of crap from Michael Mooooooore. Here's a taste: The dark underside of the United States has taken center stage in several films at Cannes this year, capped on Monday with a scathing attack of past and present racism in America by Danish director Lars von Trier. "Manderlay," about a fictional Alabama plantation where people are living in 1933 as if slavery were never abolished, staggered festival-goers with a disturbing portrayal of America that fails, even today, to come to terms with its racist past. Von Trier, whose fear of flying has prevented him from visiting the United States, won thunderous cheers at the world premiere and a news conference, where he said he enjoyed bashing America on screen because it invades his life even in Denmark. "We are all under the influence -- and it's a very bad influence -- from America," said the 49-year-old Dane. "In my country everything has to do with America. America is kind of sitting on the world. "America has to do with 60 percent of my brain and all things I experience in my life, and I'm not happy about that," von Trier said. I'd say 60 percent of my life is American so I am in fact an 'American' too. But I can't go there and vote or change anything there. That is why I make films about America." So let me get this straight. This Danish guy who's afraid to come to America makes a film about a FICTIONAL 1933 Alabama plantation that is supposed to provide a "staggering" portrayal of racism in America, including present day racism?! Right . . . . I refuse to attack Denmark as a country because their government has been on the right side of the fight against Islamofascism, but dicks like this really piss me off. |
| Posted by:Tibor |
| #6 BTW, I finally saw Emmerich's Emetic Epic last night (The Day After Tomorrow for those who've forgotten his "credits") and it was a howler, lol! Amazing. I'm sure Maurice Strong got a good laugh from it. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-16 23:40 |
| #5 ROFL! *bravo* |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-16 23:34 |
| #4 Oh no! Not another filmmaker! How much criticism must we take?! How many 'artistic' statements, negative portrayals and renderings from pretentious European directors can Americans withstand?! I thought that we would never survive the wrath of Wim Wenders and Roland Emmerich. And then when Ken Loach and Pedro Almodovar started bad mouthing the U.S., it was all I could do not to burst into tears. But with Lars Von Trier launching his sequel to Dogville, I think us Neo-Cons need to throw in the towel. The U.S. must repent. Lars has shown us the error of our ways. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-05-16 23:23 |
| #3 Manderlay? Somebody's got his literature confused: Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again... On the road to Manderlay Where the flyin' moonbats play And the dawn comes up like blunder Outer Napoule, 'cross the Bay 'Less he means Mandingo. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-05-16 22:22 |
| #2 His work might not be slanted enough to win the palm. Next year he should try to compare Bush to Hitler more. Its a little formulaic but if he's shooting for pay-dirt, boy-meets-girl just won't cut it. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-05-16 20:15 |
| #1 49 yrs old. Yep, about right. Lol, if he just cried in his beer I might find him a merely pathetic and toolish creature. No, he hates himself, thus - in that peculiarly moonbat logic - it must be America's fault. It can't be that he's just a fuckwit moonbat and toolfool. No, that would never do. I wonder if a Bush-like character was the cruel slavemaster of his epic. And Dr Rice - was she his plaything? This guy will be an instant celeb in LLL GoofyWorld. Sigh. It won't be a minute too soon when my generation finally fucking dies off and the output of moonbat misanthropy drops back to a trickle. The kids seem to be weathering this teacup tempest of self-flagellation remarkably well - in America, anyway. It's us. We gotta go. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-16 20:09 |
