Paramount Condemns Israeli Film Boycott After Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix and 3,900 Industry Names Sign Pledge

Will Emma Stone show support by tossing gays off rooftops?

[quote]As an American Jew, I am not supporting this either.

Does this mean you support Paramount or Film Workers for Palestine?

I love you, Israel. I just don't think you are going the right way. These people are FROM there. That is what I mean. I want the carnage to STOP. Obliterating a country because of Hamas is extreme. I don't hatre us and I do not hate them. Hamas is one thing. These people are not our enemies.

Now I can officially never pay attention to that stupid cunt again. And Joaquin Phoenix is a talentless ugly piece of white trash who only had a career because Hollywood felt bad that his far more talented, gorgeous brother tragically died. They both can fuck off.

So disappointed to see Olivia Colman on there. Disgusting.

Say goodbye to that Oscar nomination, Emma!

Don't these dumbass actors know 80-90% of Hollywood is run by Jewish people?

All these actors are barely educated clowns who got lucky. Why anyone would pay attention to their opinions is a mystery.

Uh-oh. Now Hollywood will force the producers of The Crown to re-shoot and replace all of Olivia Colman's scenes in the 3rd and 4th seasons with Debra Messing as the middle-aged Elizabeth II!

Emma Stone has always been very unlikable and now she’s sealed the deal.

No more Oscars for this cunt.

[quote]So disappointed to see Olivia Colman on there. Disgusting.

She has to live with her homely face so that’s punishment enough.

People are and should be free to protest the actions of the Israeli government in any legal way they have a available to them.

[quote] People are and should be free to protest the actions of the Israeli government in any legal way they have a available to them.

And people should feel free to protest the beyond hateful, homophobic and deadly beliefs and actions of Palestine in any legal way available to them.

Gays for Palestine are like chickens for Colonel Sanders. Only the chickens are too stupid to know any better.

R13/R14 Some of us view human rights more broadly than how our particular identity group might be affected.

You’re so brave, R15.

Paramount is paying literal Nazi Bari Weiss $200 million to run news for them. Is anyone surprised?

Just boycott CBS, Paramount+, and everything else they own.

Let me know how it feels to be screaming in terror as you’re thrown off a rooftop, R12.

Career suicide. Not just in the industry but at the box office. I hope it was worth it to them.

To everyone who says Israel is doing the wrong thing, what would YOU do if you were Israel? I never hear any of them propose a plan of action, only STOP. Israel stopped many times before and look at what happens day in and day out in Israel courtesy of Hamas. So, what would YOU do?

Throw me off a rooftop and set me on fire, Hamas!

I'm having a hard time finding where these people are demanding freeing the hostages Palestine/Hamas has kept captive for nearly two years the day of their terrorist massacre?

So you’ve never heard of the Two State Solution that’s been talked about for decades R20?! The one proposed and endorsed by the UN?

Any gay man who supports any Muslim theocracy deserves what’s coming to them.

[quote] So disappointed to see Olivia Colman on there..

Why?

R12 R15 And where does that get you aside from a white savior complex?

Black Americans have a saying: “all skin folks ain’t all kin folks”.

If you’re joining a fight of a cause for a group that doesn’t even like you, it’s privileged and performative.

It's called justice, R26, and it's not just for me.

Also, this has nothing to do with race, R26.

R20 Not genocide, that’s for fucking sure.

It’s not our job to help them figure out how to not be barbarous monsters.

No, they’ve never fucking stopped. They’ve simply gotten more brazen and barbaric since 10/7.

Oh and, do die in a grease fire you genocidal cuntard.

[quote]It's called justice, [R26], and it's not just for me.

I may have missed it, but have you called for justice for the Israeli hostages and the hundreds who were raped, beaten, tortured, set on fire in front of their kids, and the 1,200 murdered during the October 7th attack? Are you angry that Hamas started a war then embedded itself within civilian populations to ensure there would be casualties?

R30 Not R27 but yes, I do feel sorry for the civilians who died on 10/7, as much as I feel sorry for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians massacred by Israelis.

But guess what, there were bound to be repercussions for seven decades of apartheid and slaughter. You seem to be pretty understanding of Israelis wanting to exterminate all Palestinians in retaliation of 1200 dead civilians, but somehow you can’t wrap your head around why Palestinians started fighting back after 75 years of nonstop cruelty?

R4 Calling Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most talented actors of his generation, talentless, gotta be the worst take I've seen on this site

OP, what do you mean by "for a bunch of Germans?"

R14 So, according to you, fuck those gay people in Palestine. Let them be bombed by Israelis

I only block MAGAs, and yet I can't see the pro-Israel posts everyone is quoting here.

Weird!

Please dial down the rhetoric. Not all Muslims are fanatics who want to exterminate gays just as not all Israelis are fanatics who want to exterminate Palestinians. The signers are denouncing one very specific and very obvious genocide that is currently being carried out by one specific Israeli government, not advocating for the eradication of Israel. Please respect their right to do so.

But that conflicts with their Hasbara, R36.

It's really strange isn't it R35! I wonder what it could mean?

People have the right to give political opinions even famous people. However, I don’t think well known Hollywood actors have any significant sway over most people anymore. I think they’re seen as rich out of touch elitists.

You know why R25, and if you don’t, figure it out.

Paramount Skydance Corporation is lead by David Ellison, son of Oracle cunt Larry, himself a big fan of Dump and bff of Netanyahu.

No wonder.

[quote] [R4] Calling Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most talented actors of his generation, talentless, gotta be the worst take I've seen on this site

Acting is not a talent. It’s a parlor trick we’ve elevated into something grand and important based on media indoctrination when it really isn’t:

Musicians have talent. Scientists have talent. Writers have talent. Mathematicians have talent:

Actors are clowns and anyone can be a clown 🤡.

[quote] Not all Muslims are fanatics who want to exterminate gays

🤣

Emma Stone should focus on finding a film that actually makes money and refrain from signing worthless petitions to prove she’s smart because she has an inferiority complex due to her lack of education.

Has Emma Stone signed a petition to prevent people in the United States from going bankrupt due to healthcare costs? Or a petition to prevent people in the United States, the most prosperous country on earth, from going hungry or homeless?

Or are those causes not media “sexy” enough for her and her unquenchable thirst for attention and publicity?

Are serious issues in your own country not worthy of your worthless signature, Emma?

Go fuck yourself, you ugly, phony bitch.

I don’t share the hate for Stone but you nailed it. Signing petitions about other countries when there is so much wrong with your own.

[quote]refrain from signing worthless petitions to prove she’s smart because she has an inferiority complex due to her lack of education.

Emma Stone may have a lack of FORMAL education, but her 20+-year acting career, which includes learning about filmmaking, travelling to film festivals all over the world and dealing with the international media to promote her movies (not to mention being Yorgos Lanthimos's "protégée" for some years), has been its own education, just of a different kind. She's perfectly capable of holding her own in interviews. She has nothing to apologize for when compared to actors who *have* been to college.

R48 = Emma Stone, uneducated dummy.

Emma Stone has her GED.

Do you think she has it framed next to her two Oscars?

R48, I think it’s generous to call Emma Stone’s career an “education.” Film isn’t an actor’s medium—it’s the director’s and editor's. Actors, even the best ones, are ultimately working within someone else’s vision and are fairly passive in the larger creative process.

And let’s be honest: attending film festivals or sitting through press junkets where you’re asked what it’s like to be a “strong woman” or whether you prefer yourself blonde or with red hair is not exactly the stuff of intellectual rigor. It’s entirely possible to work in Hollywood for 20 years and still be as thick as two short planks—see her BFF Jennifer Lawrence, who with a straight face once called herself the world’s first female action star. Experience in the industry doesn’t automatically equal depth or insight.

Well-educated people don't describe others as "uneducated." They use the phrase "not formally educated."

What is short-sighted is to dismiss the value of exceptional life experience and exposure to world-class talent, even in someone of average intelligence, and to insist that that formal education is the only valid gateway to personal, cultural, and intellectual enrichment. Emma Stone doubtless has more interesting stories to tell than the average American college graduate.

R53 = flunked out of 10th grade and is still trying to rationalize it.

[quote] Well-educated people don't describe others as "uneducated." They use the phrase "not formally educated."

Could you please point to a reference for this cultural grammar rule you just made up, Emma?

You have two Oscars, bitch. You’re incredibly lucky, not smart. Deal with it.

I have huge respect for performers like Meryl, Sigourney, Angela and even that ungrateful bitch Viola as they actually studied their craft and learned technique, performance and history before embarking on their careers.

Cheap tarts like Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence just wanted fame, money and celebrity and got lucky. Thankfully, the latter’s career is dead. Emma is aging like milk so hopefully she’s not far behind.

Maybe think about it for 30 seconds, R55?

This isn't about Emma Stone at all. You know that if the political loyalties she expressed had been different, that poster would never have brought up her education (or lack thereof).

In any case, she's on the side of Omer Bartov and Pankaj Mishra, neither of whom are known for their lack of educational credentials.

Omer Bartov's "Infinite License":

I’m surprised GED Emma could even sign her name much less read a petition.

Did she use a crayon? 🖍️

Emma doesn’t seem very concerned with restrictive abortion laws that put women’s health at risk or the lack of gun control that’s killing countless Americans every day. I guess those are so 2023 and passé now.

What cool outrage will Emma lend her signature to next?

Didn’t Joaquin drop out of a movie that he deemed “too gay” recently? And now he’s supporting Hamas?

Can’t say I’m a fan.

[quote] This isn't about Emma Stone at all.

Everything is about Emma Stone.

[quote] Everything is about Sharon Stone.

FIFY.

[quote]To everyone who says Israel is doing the wrong thing, what would YOU do if you were Israel?

I think a Labor government in Israel would have handled the whole thing a lot more effectively and humanely. Israel's problem is that it's run by a right-wing government that, like our own right-wing government, runs on macho militarism (and also isn't very popular among Israelis). And Netanyahu refuses to call elections because he knows he'll lose.

I support the right of these actors to boycott Israel, but I wish they'd also boycott some other countries that are behaving equally badly. Are they aware of how China is treating the Uyghurs? No. But it's just as bad as Israel in Gaza.

R61 so, boycotting the Israeli institutions and companies that are implicated in genocide and apartheid=supporting Hamas? You sound exactly like those religious MAGA idiots on Twitter, that you probably hate

R65 = GED Emma.

R52 Many actors become successful directors because they learn about storytelling as an actor, how to successfully work with other actors, and by watching the director and crew. Acting is a wonderful way to learn not only about the stage or film business, but about potentionally any subject the world, as well as the human condition. It can be a wonderful education to those given the opportunity and who are open to it.

R64 American taxpayer dollars and weapons support Israel. That makes America complicit in the actions of the Israeli government. Americans a vested interest in expressing their opinions about a genocide partly funded by the US.

I dob't understand all the whataboutism on here. It's understood that an individual has the right to pursue their own interests and inclinations, whatever they feel passionate about. I wouldn't want someone else to prioritize what political or charitable issues I should be spending my time or money on. Would you?

* Americans have a vested interest * I don't understand all the whataboutism

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[quote] Some of us view human rights more broadly than how our particular identity group

How do you view the right to not be thrown screaming off a rooftop due to your sexual orientation?

I view it as their right to throw me off and I would respect it as I respect all cultures. I’m not Xena-phobic.