This is certainly not something you see every day in Hollywood. Actual courage. It hardly ever happens that people put their names on the line to stand up for what they believe in. They aren’t revoking Glazer’s Oscar or anything like that. He isn’t being “canceled.”
Glazer’s speech angered many people, not just showbiz people either. Videos and social media posts cropped up on TikTok, Youtube, and X. Here is the Variety exclusive:
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors (Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh), executives (Gary Barber, Gail Berman), creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors (Eli Roth, Rod Lurie), producers (Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing) and representatives (UTA’s Jake Fenton, Gersh’s Jeffrey Greenberg, attorney Craig Emmanuel). About 50 more individuals have added their names since the open letter was first published.
Here is the letter:
If you are interested in signing it, you can do so here.
And here are all the names.
Here is why I won’t be signing the letter. It isn’t that I don’t agree with it. What I think about it is beside the point. I applaud all of them for standing up for what they believe in and for the Jewish people. But it’s not appropriate for me to sign it, as I’m not a Hollywood professional or an Academy member. I have also made my own feelings known about this, but I’ll say it again anyway.
Here is Glazer’s speech:
Thank you so much. I’m gonna read. Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance; to my producers, actors, collaborators. All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the — [Applause.] Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? [Applause.] Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you.
He is saying even the brutality on October 7th is Israel’s fault. He’s saying Israel should not exist because it is an “occupation” and that the Jews have no right to live there, and so, from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free. Okay.
The speech he should have given he gave on the thank-you cam later.
I’m not going to speak on the war itself. I am not educated enough about it to do that. But I will say I applaud the signers of the letter, and I admire their courage for speaking out. I think Jonathan Glazer is kind of a pompous jerk and an opportunist for standing there in a tuxedo, holding a gold statue, and then going off to drink champagne afterward. He’s not the one whose wife was raped and then shot right in front of him or the one whose child is still being held hostage, yes, even now. He’s just a filmmaker, and who gives a shit. Sorry, but give me a break.
Political speeches at the Oscars are ultimately self-serving. People who win awards seem not really to want them. They need to absolve themselves of the sins of even being there and winning one. And for what? For people to pat them on the back? Write essays? Surely there are better ways to bring awareness to the plight of victims of the war in Gaza. Why not make that movie?
Anyway, you can read the whole story here.
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That person is a crackpot or a troll, or maybe both.
I can call my dick ‘National Socialism’ but that doesn’t make the words mean anything.
Apparently you don’t know what “scapegoat” even means, so this makes it difficult to understand what the fuck you’re trying to say.
Putin is trying to obliterate Ukraine and its magnificent culture in order to claim the vast territory belongs to him, to prop up the collapse of Russia’s agricultural and oil interests.
Putin is trying to murder a million Ukrainians, devastate its cities, and subjugate the destitute survivors.
The USA is trying to help prevent that.
But thanks for letting everyone here know that you can’t understand that simple obvious reality.
You’ve let us know that we can scroll past your stupid political nonsense commentary, and look instead for the occasional clever thing you might say about movies. If any.
You often have interesting things to say. So I cut you slack for perhaps not having a strong command of the English language.
Because a lot of the time, you type a string of shallow gibberish.
Your reply here is one of your gibberish offerings.
That’s why it was called national socialism
Man, your problem is not USSR anymore. It’s gone.
Well, he’s been a bit too late, huh? And anyway, equal brutality to the irresponsible general washing of your governments taking over the world to serve your, USA and Russia, war. ”on behalf” us. We, people, could deal between us without both of you. We were fuckin each other very well anyway…
This is the same with USA. Russia is just another world, doing the same things with USA in the …same world, so to keep on being ….USRussia. Ukraine is a scapegoat and as such is serving both sides. Period.
”performers”…
no idea, i just remember it being a topic on the news back in 2016.
The fox, he has seen the movie Antichrist. He is therefore wary of moviemakers.
It is my belief that many people online enjoy their feelings of Anger. These people are excited to be Angry. Perhaps it is the only feeling they have left to feel as they age.
What role was Donald Trump in a Playboy Video? I do not want to imagine it!!!! LOL
Did Trump play his normal role in Cinema del Cornuto? That of a man who must pay millions of $ for any woman to let him touch them? LOL
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(Took me several minutes to select which one of the dozens of Paul Mescal / Normal People gifs to post here. I’m still not done deciding.)
That whole situation is far more than just a cinematic plot point. It’s far above the plane of mere melodrama too.
(besides, what’s wrong with melodrama, he said, with an exaggerated theatrical scowl.)
Hulu would indeed be a great place for your series to land. Hulu gets us.
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Thin ice, Renzo.
But I’ll just say what I’ve been saying for years: the fluctuating number of millions of viewers that the GG and Oscars get is far less important that this question: What annual event ever gets higher ratings than the Oscars, Grammys, or Globes? and the answer is: nothing but sports.
No network is ever going to throw away a deal with a show that can demand and receive $2.2 million for every 30-second commercial.
No other show on TV besides the Oscars gets that ad rate unless it’s a show that tosses balls around. That’s not going to change.
now THAT i didn’t know yet MORE COUNTER propaganda that must been posing as the Anti- Defamation LEague where i read (supposedly) on the Anti- Defamation LEague true website that they ‘warned’; against influence of Jewish voice for Peace…i am disgusted feel so filthy at myself that i didnt not chekc specific web address for REAL Atni DEfamation LEague…what on earth is going on here is noth9ing sacred on the internet? what a low dog of a deception trick that is…to imitate the noble true Anti Defamation LEague….
Well i admit as a learned person when i was wrong bout Jewish Voice for Peace…sorry delayedcatch up now i got my head together consistently look at this matter with composure and clear eyed lense…as always Ryan you are ever enlightnening to the truth…of course i trust you as far more reliable source more often than not than ‘impostor’ websties…butto pose as the ‘Anti Defamation :LEgaue-= the true one that has all but ensured true awareness of dangers of anti semetism and advisories to safeguard global jewish communities for hackers or fraudsters to set up a phantom immitation site to attack credible yough jewish movements like Jewish Voice for PEace well frankly it absolute disgrace that has abiltiy to compromise integrity of the REAL anti Defamation LEague this is very very disturbing …i fell for it my G-d..
if someone can pls help me to tell me memebers name i blocked cos if i KNEW at time that was NOT the TRUE Anti Defamation league’s advisroy warning…and now esp knowing Tony Kushner himself founded Jewish Voice for PEace…someone pls tell me name of user who advocated for Jewish Voice for PEace so i can apologise i owe a fellow Jew united for same cause dspite minor differences an apology…wow does blind rage and frustration decieve pls tell me user who jewish i blocked cos at time i was gullible enough to fall for elaborate onloine hoax NO WAY esp given Kushner, Tony himself founded Jewish Voice for PEace it has any sinister motives wont someone be kind enough to share who user was i blocked? i dont remember user name eyt?
time for me to atone here…to a fellow Jew…PS: i never looked up actual true Abnti Defamation LEague website before so i had nooo idea first time i looked it up what it proper web designation was…only reinforces the danger of people unfamiliar to webnsite designation true one that vulnerabiltiy right there hackers and impostors prey on….that is awfulk…
did you get my email my dear friend (i will say that now that albeit took you loong time you tried to convey to me for sooo long that WHOLE TIME in background while i was seeking to overcome my own immediate crisis in the shadows the spectre of dark side of social media pervaded our ‘relationship’ think bout it this is true..sure i accept my share responsiblity but to be able to thanx ironically and unfortunatley of course to the Glazer smear campaign nature of the source of it problems caused by the medias oerreliance of source of it to be able as i have now to see beyond my immediate crisis where nbo false alarm TURNING POINT IS TRULY GENUINELY FAIR DINGKOM – FALSE ALARMS I PROMISE YOU THAT IT PROMISE I CAN KEEP as far our capacity to consistently get alone going forward for all minor differences you know why?) cos i can see beyond my struggles settling down after esp loooongest 4 years in my life..make a differnce when they in control Dear amazing Ryan (i bloody well mean that with al my soul now) …cos i see through the ploy of predatorial nature of social media…that on few occassions compounded my now settled rage and self realisation it was leading us on making us clash…made me think for too long than was justified that it was championing one side of politics over another but now i see Ryan i see FULL PICTURE and SEE THROUGH simple fact social media activism is NOT AUTHENTIC GENUINE for the NOBLE cause based activism…it doesnt represent your true nature or my own..and for all of uis one point another to take the bait lure of media’s tendency to quote social media make us believe what media quoted fortime was truth…to look see thr9ough it it liberating feeling….can you see that and embrace that too btw us? i hope so…cos NEVER AGAIN will i take the bait of parroting social media activism NEVER here i SWEAR IT… esp in light of it vain pursuit of preying on Jewish fears in light of Israel Hamas War and dragging Glazer down with this cheap nasty ploy..we better than that mate we better men, better human beings…u know?
Look forward to hearing your thoughts and as per my email did you see Spielbergs inspiring speech? weblink i emailed you?
https://www.jta.org/2024/03/25/culture/steven-spielberg-decries-machinery-of-extremism-on-campus-and-laments-israel-hamas-war-deaths-at-usc-ceremony-honoring-holocaust-survivors
there’s a recent satire on Trumpism, “American Carnage”, that while it is a really flawed film, actually nails on the satire, what Trumpism and ultra-capitalism is about, on several levels. I won’t spoil it… but while its limited in its results, the film is rich in meaning/warnings.
These photos are so funny. In Italy we have the word for these type of men. We say Cornuto. We even have the hand gesture for it, which is to make a hand into two fingers showing horns. The man who has cornuto horns, he can not satisfy his own wife. LOL
There is machismo culture in Italy too. It is worse in the south, the more south you go the worse it gets. A man who would attempt to show his overdone machismo is one to laugh at. To be machismo is to be ridiculous. There is no intelligent woman attracted to a man like that.
I did not misunderstand something about what Sasha wrote in her tweet. I can’t find it now, but I know what I saw. I sent you email to show you have proof. But I understand that you try to protect her or explain things away. But I did not misunderstand what she tweeted about.
People should not write things in public that they do not mean to be seen. “at face value” – face value it is the ONLY value. Words that got written, they exist. She was not joking, but I will stop trying to convince you. What I told you, it is verbatim.