The American film director Todd Haynes has urged the film industry to stand up against the new government of Donald Trump and warned of the danger of being “infected” by the radical changes that are going on in the United States.
Speaking with AFP in Berlin, where he leads the jury at the Berlinal Film Festival of the city, said the director of “Far From Heaven” and “Carol” that he was shocked by Trump's “Barbaric attack on American democratic institutions”.
“It is a terrible moment that we are now doing that all the energy needs to resist and return to a system that, inadequate as it is, is something that we have taken for granted,” the 64 -zei years old.
He noticed how many American companies had already positioned themselves to earn a favor from the new Trump administration in Washington.
Large American companies of Investment Bank Goldman Sachs to Social Media Giant Meta have announced changes in their diversity and inclusion policy, known as Dei.
Dei initiatives are often mocked as “awake” by Trump and his supporters.
“Unfortunately, as not necessarily in Hollywood, but in many other places that have to do with massive business force, we already see a surrender to this new administration that is simply shocking,” Haynes told AFP.
“When people say,” Oh, they just play the long game “, that is when you notice that you are polluted by the culture in which you are sitting and losing your own capacity to get up. And that is what in our past Has happened and we must be aware of the danger, “he continued.
Last week Major Hollywood Studio Disney announced his staff that the dei dropped as a “performance factor”, but would still include “inclusion” as one of the core values.
The move led to unrest in some employees, according to American reports in the media.
– 'resistance' –
The uncertainty created by the new government of Trump has been a constant conversation point this year at the Berlinale of this year, the first major European film festival since the former Reality TV star for the second time on January 20.
The new in American in American in American in American in American -born director, Tricia Tuttle, opened events last Friday by claiming that Cinema could be an act of “resistance … against all perverse ideas that many extreme right -wing parties all over the whole distribute world and throughout Europe “.
The festival ends on Sunday, the same day as a quick election in Germany, called after the collapse of the ruling coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the end of last year.
The campaign is distributed bitterly, with the extreme right-wing AFD rise in the polls and enthusiastic support of Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an important Trump supporter and assistant.
Haynes also warned of the impact of “the callige, hateful campaign against transmensers in particular and strange people in general” during the Trump campaign for the presidency last year.
“I think we have not realized how much everything is at stake,” he said AFP. “It means that we all have to start fighting for all the things we fought for in the past, all over again.”
The planned film by Haynes about a gay romanticism from the 1930s was pause last year after Star Joaquin Phoenix stopped just a few days before the start of filming for unknown reasons.
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