Harvey Weinstein is a big time Hollywood producer. He has produced some of the most violent films over the past couple of decades, including Pulp Fiction, U want me to kill him?, Django Unchained, Sin City, and Kill Bill.
To be fair to Mr. Weinstein, he has produced family friendly movies like The Nutty Professor, Miss Potter, and Finding Neverland.
During his career as a producer he has made a boat load of money off violence on film. By boat load I mean hundreds of millions.
Now he says he’s going to produce a film intended to make the National Rifle Association look like Satan personified. In an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, Weinstein admitted that those who call him a hypocrite have a point.
Regarding the issue of guns he told Morgan, “As much as I want to ignore it, as much as I want to go on with my regular life, I can't shake it this time.”
Personally, I welcome his declaration to make the movie. It may mean he’s turned the corner on movie violence. That would be a good thing. If not, then as he says, he will deserve to be called a hypocrite.
As a gun owner, I will wait and see how much truth there is in his anti-NRA movie. I confess I will be very surprised if there’s much in it at all, beyond the usual knee-jerk reaction to gun violence that would have us restrict the rights of honest men and women in a way that will never, ever, stop violent criminals from committing violent crimes like the ones they’ve grown up watching in his movies.
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