Activist and occasional actor George Clooney said on Saturday that his latest film Suburbicon is an angry movie for an angry country -- America.
Fox News reports that Clooney, speaking from the Venice Film Festival where Clooney's latest directorial effort is competing for the festival's Golden Lion prize, said, "A lot of us are angry — angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going. It's probably the angriest I have ever seen the country, and I lived through the Watergate period of time," Clooney added. "There is a dark cloud hanging over our country right now."
Yes, and that dark cloud is emanating from the radical left, which has stepped up its "resistance" to Donald Trump's presidency from silly "pussy hat" marches to anarchist violence.
Suburbicon stars fellow Progressive activist Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as a couple that lives in an idyllic, all-white, 1950s suburban community which "erupts in anger when a black family moves in."
Seriously? A movie about pre-civil rights era racism? Way to bring the country together, Clooney. Here's an idea: why not take a page from the playbook of pro-American Hollywood A-listers like Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) and Mark Wahlberg (Patriots Day), who make inspirational movies that Americans want to see?
Suburbicon is based on the true story of William and Daisy Myers, a black couple who moved to Levittown, Pa., in 1957 and were harassed by the town’s residents. The script apparently was inspired by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
“The genesis of the screenplay [came when] I was watching a lot of [Trump] speeches on the campaign trail about building fences and scapegoating minorities, and I started looking around at other times in our history when we’ve unfortunately fallen back into these things, and I found this story that happened in Levittown, Pennsylvania,” Clooney said.
"We wanted it to be funny, we wanted it to be mean," he said. "But it is certainly angry, and it got angrier as we were shooting." Well, that certainly sounds like box office magic. Who wouldn't want to see a mean and angry film starring the less-than-beloved Matt Damon that inflames racial tensions?
“When you talk about ‘Making America Great Again,’ America being great everyone assumed was the Eisenhower ‘50s, and it was great if you were a white, straight male, but other than that it probably wasn’t so great,” Clooney said. “It’s fun to lift up that curtain and look underneath that thin veneer and see some of the real problems that this country has yet to completely come to terms with.”
"Fun"? What's going to be fun us watching this movie bomb, like nearly every movie Clooney directs (Leatherheads, anyone? The Monuments Men? Not ringing a bell?). How studios still allow him to direct films is a mystery not even Columbo could solve.
