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Robert De Niro and Warburton
The Mission is one of my all time favourite movies and Robert De Niro’s performance marked him as one of the all time greats for me. I wasn’t aware of his other cinematic masterpieces but for years he was one of those actors, like Jonny Depp and Susan Sarandon, who could pursuade you to watch a film simply because they didn’t appear in poor films. Of course in recent years he’s got on the same band wagon as the other silver stars in those cookie cutter old-people-are-hip movies.
His lustre got somewhat tarnished for me in his outspoken condemnation of Trump. Don’t get me wrong, I believe Trump is a terrible person and utterly unfit to run a tap never mind the USA. My problem is the 2 dimensional nature of his attacks. Initially they hit their target pretty well and he embodied the feelings of many who didn’t have the platform he had. What he failed to address was the underlying corruption that allowed a Trump presidency in the first place and the liberal class that did pretty well out of having a clown in White House.
In the words of the Apostle Paul, he is a clanging cymbal (and a loud one at that). His rants serve only to fire up the pussy hat wearing Trump Resistance Movement who generate plenty of heat but little light. Its such a waste of a platform. My motivation for writing this is as façile as critiquing an actor on…
