On Good Morning America this morning, Diane Sawyer interviewed the director and stars of, Lions for Lambs, the multi-million dollar movie that is failing dismally in the box office. The movie is basically a bully pulpit for the leftist agenda of Robert Redford who directed and produced the movie. [yawn]
This is the second time that Redford has been interviewed on Good Morning America by Diane Sawyer about the movie just this week. The hollywood threesome were there to promote their movie, an anti-war drama. Sawyer played a minute long clip of the movie during the interview. In that clip we see the character that Cruise plays haughtily complaining to a journalist, “Your network led every report about the invasion of Iraq with the digital screen-sized flag to the square-jawed saluting Marine and the bald eagle soaring to Aaron Copland.”
The message being that the media is not liberal enough, obviously. Oh.
Diane Sawyer then fell all over herself and begged, “Speaking as your resident windsock, what would you have us do? What would this film have us do?” She then sat back and let Redford respond that when “we found out the cause behind the war was a lie, that’s when I think everybody should have stood up, wakened up, and moved forward.”
What a pathetic exchange! Can Diane Sawyer be any more of a sycophant? Is it any wonder the movie is bombing in the theaters? Who wants to pay perfectly good hard-earned money to be lectured by the learjet liberal elite!
All I want from the mega multi-millionaire actors in hollywood is to be entertained. I really don’t want to hear their opinions on anything. Just stick to the script and act. Take us away from the troubles of the world for an hour or two. Is that too much to ask considering what they get for their acting?
h/t Newsbusters
November 8th, 2007 at 12:55 am
The movie is bombing in theaters ? It does not open until Friday - 2 days from now ! Sawyer did not fawn over Redford. I watched the interview and she did not fall all over herself and beg. Wow. Just because someone is an actor does not mean they should “jetison their citizenship”. Streep and Redford are both exrememly intelligent and have valid opinions, and in America we are still allowed to express them. At least for now.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Michelle, no one is saying they can’t speak. Contrary to what I have heard them say. They don’t seem to see the irony of speaking out about not being able to speak out.
I’m just saying I don’t want to go to the movies to hear their rhetoric.
Just because they have a right to say it doesn’t mean I have to buy a ticket to hear it.
Here’s Entertainment Weekly’s review of this bomb….
Liberal message movies tend to follow the Mary Poppins principle: Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The sugar is suspense, mystery, romance — the sweeteners Hollywood sprinkles over Important Issues like corporate duplicity or blood diamonds to render them palatable. Lions for Lambs is different. It’s all medicine, and doesn’t try to hide the fact. It doesn’t pretend to be a thriller or a love story or a vehicle for George Clooney’s five-o’clock-shadow heroism. Directed by Robert Redford and written by the gifted topical button pusher Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), the movie consists mostly of people sitting around rooms, usually two at a time, debating the conflict in Afghanistan, the quagmire of Iraq, the arrogance (or is it stay-the-course courage?) of war-on-terror politicians, the superficiality (or is it muzzling?) of the press, and the complacency of everyone else.
Are we having fun yet? Lions for Lambs may be the first movie that feels as if it should have a credit that reads, ”Based on an episode of The Charlie Rose Show.” The tiny scale and armchair talkiness mark the movie as a bit of a folly, an act of idealistic hubris in today’s commercial marketplace, yet that’s its (minor) fascination too.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
When Diane Sawyer was interviewing Meryl Streep, I couldn’t understand one word that Streep said about Bill O’Reilly. Can anyone tell me what this great? actress said?
BSC: Me either. She was screeching. Her voice felt like fingernails on a chalkboard. I thought the same thing - where is that great actress? Maybe, like so many, she can only be great when others are giving her the words? I don’t know.