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11/01/2020

DIÁRIO DE BORDO: O caso de Richard Jewell

 Paul Walter Hauser (fazendo de Richard Jewell), Sam Rockwell (fazendo do advogado Watson Bryant) e
Clint Eastwood (fazendo dele próprio)
É melhor dar corda aos sapatos e ir ver O caso de Richard Jewell. Eastwood vai fazer 90 anos e não haverá muito mais oportunidades de ver novos filmes de um dos poucos realizadores politicamente incorrectos ainda vivos.

Politicamente incorrecto? Sem dúvida. Ora leia-se o que ele disse há três anos nesta entrevista à Esquire:

«But he's onto something, because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist. And then when I did Gran Torino, even my associate said, "This is a really good script, but it's politically incorrect." And I said, "Good. Let me read it tonight." The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, "We're starting this immediately."»

1 comentário:

Anónimo disse...

Antes de mais e acima de tudo, grato pelo "link" da entrevista. É imperdível.

Acerca da "pussy generation":
CE: All these people that say, "Oh, you can't do that, and you can't do this, and you can't say that." I guess it's just the times (...)
They're boring everybody. Chesty Puller, a great Marine general, once said, "You can run me, and you can starve me, and you can beat me, and you can kill me, but don't bore me."
(...)
But he's onto something, because secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.
(...)
I remember, one of the most affecting things that ever happened in my life. I was a little kid, five years old, and a guy comes to the back of our house and says to my mother, "There's a bunch of wood in the back. Could I chop that up for you, ma'am?" And my mother says, "We don't have money." And he says, "I don't want any money. Just a sandwich."
(...)
He was a guy trying to exist, and that's the way people were then.

Abraço