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Matt Damon Brings Equality to the Planet | FrontPage Magazine
By Mark Tapson On August 3, 2012
Actor Matt Damon, whose fee the last time I checked is $10 million a movie, has his finger on the pulse of the American common folk, and he wants you to know he feels your anger about economic inequality.
The American public is angry about financial unfairness, Damon said recently, but neither political party is addressing that in its presidential campaign. “I don’t think the Republicans or the Democrats really understand the level of anger at the sense of unfairness that the majority of people in the country feel,” he commented.
Damon, 41, was speaking at Comic-Con in San Diego, where he was promoting his upcoming (March 2013) movie Elysium, a $100 million sci-fi epic with a class warfare message as subtle as an Occupier’s Molotov cocktail. Here’s part of the synopsis:
The synopsis proceeds to explain that Matt Damon’s character takes on a mission that “could bring equality to these polarized worlds.” So instead of conquering evil, Hollywood heroes now “bring equality”? How uninspiring. If Damon wants to bring equality to polarized worlds, perhaps he could have scrapped the movie and distributed its $100 million budget Robin Hood-style to his comrades in the waning Occupy movement; they desperately need the influx of other people’s cash to buy more iPhones and hoodies, which are essential for rioting incognito (not to mention for co-opting Trayvon Martin protests).
The movie star’s revelation about the anger of the common man came at a Bruce Springsteen concert he attended several months ago at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In a song entitled Jack of All Trades, about Wall Street greed and the gap between the Haves and Have-nots, Springsteen sang: “The banker man grows fatter/The working man grows thin.” The lyrics make no mention of the fact that the working men and women in his audience grew quite a bit thinner just paying for the concert tickets, which began at $115+ each for general seating. Springsteen nevertheless dresses like a working man himself onstage, in solidarity with them.
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The American public is angry about financial unfairness, Damon said recently, but neither political party is addressing that in its presidential campaign. “I don’t think the Republicans or the Democrats really understand the level of anger at the sense of unfairness that the majority of people in the country feel,” he commented.
Damon, 41, was speaking at Comic-Con in San Diego, where he was promoting his upcoming (March 2013) movie Elysium, a $100 million sci-fi epic with a class warfare message as subtle as an Occupier’s Molotov cocktail. Here’s part of the synopsis:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine manmade space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth… A hardline government official will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium.Anti-immigration politicians, environmental devastation, One Percenters… all this movie needs is a futuristic racist Tea Party congregating in a homophobic chicken restaurant and it will have addressed all the left’s current favorite targets.
The synopsis proceeds to explain that Matt Damon’s character takes on a mission that “could bring equality to these polarized worlds.” So instead of conquering evil, Hollywood heroes now “bring equality”? How uninspiring. If Damon wants to bring equality to polarized worlds, perhaps he could have scrapped the movie and distributed its $100 million budget Robin Hood-style to his comrades in the waning Occupy movement; they desperately need the influx of other people’s cash to buy more iPhones and hoodies, which are essential for rioting incognito (not to mention for co-opting Trayvon Martin protests).
The movie star’s revelation about the anger of the common man came at a Bruce Springsteen concert he attended several months ago at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In a song entitled Jack of All Trades, about Wall Street greed and the gap between the Haves and Have-nots, Springsteen sang: “The banker man grows fatter/The working man grows thin.” The lyrics make no mention of the fact that the working men and women in his audience grew quite a bit thinner just paying for the concert tickets, which began at $115+ each for general seating. Springsteen nevertheless dresses like a working man himself onstage, in solidarity with them.
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