I tthink the essence of your comment is pretty much the essence of Hollywood as well. Anyone can make anything to offend anyone, as long as it’s hugely profitable nobody cares and it’s unlikely to influence public opinion or policy whatsoever.
Most consumers will just laugh at the funny guy on the screen without even linking the actor to Israel or US foreign policy.
Critics can go hard after the movie however much they want. Worst case scenario for the movie producers is that it’s not hugely profitable. The next movie they put on the silver screen could be a documentary about a child in Gaza produced by a Russian without the audience even batting an eye.
That’s just completely false. We recently saw a massive antisemitsm smear campaign aganst Marc Ruffalo (who’s even Jewish) for criticizing Israel. Plenty of other racist stuff that got people cancelled too. No way you’re going to make anything near this movie if you’re not Sasha Baron Cohen.
I’m saying it’s not very effective to try and do a “slam dunk” on someone when your slam dunk is a comment that is just displaying poor media literacy. It’s not well thought out and doesn’t offer much in discourse in a follow up. Little sarcastic comments made in ignorance don’t lead to enlightening discussions.
I tthink the essence of your comment is pretty much the essence of Hollywood as well. Anyone can make anything to offend anyone, as long as it’s hugely profitable nobody cares and it’s unlikely to influence public opinion or policy whatsoever.
Most consumers will just laugh at the funny guy on the screen without even linking the actor to Israel or US foreign policy.
Critics can go hard after the movie however much they want. Worst case scenario for the movie producers is that it’s not hugely profitable. The next movie they put on the silver screen could be a documentary about a child in Gaza produced by a Russian without the audience even batting an eye.
That’s just completely false. We recently saw a massive antisemitsm smear campaign aganst Marc Ruffalo
(who’s even Jewish)for criticizing Israel. Plenty of other racist stuff that got people cancelled too. No way you’re going to make anything near this movie if you’re not Sasha Baron Cohen.Just to point out – Mark Ruffalo is being smeared for being anti-zionist but he’s not Jewish
Thanks for the correction I’m not sure where I got it from. I thought I read it online once but I double checked and you’re correct .
I’m saying it’s not very effective to try and do a “slam dunk” on someone when your slam dunk is a comment that is just displaying poor media literacy. It’s not well thought out and doesn’t offer much in discourse in a follow up. Little sarcastic comments made in ignorance don’t lead to enlightening discussions.
You didn’t expain what you were talking about nor what point is being missed. Go ahead and explain what poor media literacy you’re talking about.
Yawn