Blood in the Water... Downey Jr. Taking Heat For Comments About 'Birdman' Director

[AuH20]

You just knew it was coming after that contentious interview. The thought police want to nail him to the cross.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-director.html
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywo...dman-director/

After storming out of an interview earlier this week with Britain’s Channel 4 News, the legendary actor sat down to again discuss the film, where he made a remark about Oscar-winning Birdman director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.

The Mexican director has been critical of superhero films in the past, even telling Deadline last October he considers them “cultural genocide.”

“The way they apply violence to it, it’s absolutely right-wing,” he told the entertainment industry news outlet. “If you observe the mentality of most of those films, it’s really about people who are rich, who have power, who will do the good, who will kill the bad. Philosophically, I just don’t like them.”

In an interview with The Guardian, Downey was asked what he thought of Iñárritu’s comments, to which he answered: “Look, I respect the heck out of him, and I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide’ just speaks to how bright he is.”

Some are now calling the comments racist, and one Twitter user went as far as to say, “Robert Downey Jr is a mega tool. He gave up drugs & became a right wing A—HOLE.”

[heavenlyboy34]

I don't see the racism there. It is impressive for non-native speakers who learned as adults to come up with something like "cultural genocide"-unless perhaps they've done cultural immersion for a number of years.

[donnay]

RDJ leans more libertarian and the media hates anyone who can critically think for themselves.

[donnay]

I don't see the racism there. It is impressive for non-native speakers who learned as adults to come up with something like "cultural genocide"-unless perhaps they've done cultural immersion for a number of years.

HB,

It is getting so ridiculous you cannot say you want Chinese Food--it's Asian Food.

[phill4paul]

HB,

It is getting so ridiculous you cannot say you want Chinese Food--it's Asian Food.

Damnit! There are times when I want Chinese instead of Japanese or Thai. Asian doesn't cut it when being descriptive.

[donnay]

Damnit! There are times when I want Chinese instead of Japanese or Thai. Asian doesn't cut it when being descriptive.

I agree. It is getting so crazy that the thought police is everywhere. Brown-bag your lunch? You are racists!

[phill4paul]

I agree. It is getting so crazy that the thought police is everywhere. Brown-bag your lunch? You are racists!

Ughhh. Peeple and der powor wittle feewings getting hurtzies.

[donnay]

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”

~ Charlton Heston

[Ender]

I don't see the racism there. It is impressive for non-native speakers who learned as adults to come up with something like "cultural genocide"-unless perhaps they've done cultural immersion for a number of years.

There is nothing racist about it- just a cool way of circumventing the director's comments about violent right-wingers. The media has been after Downing ever since he stood up for Mel. How dare he!



Or they just might be jealous, 'cause the dude can sing!

[William Tell]

In an interview with The Guardian, Downey was asked what he thought of Iñárritu’s comments, to which he answered: “Look, I respect the heck out of him, and I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide’ just speaks to how bright he is.”

Some are now calling the comments racist

Yeah, because Spanish speakers are a race.

[phill4paul]

There is nothing racist about it- just a cool way of circumventing the director's comments about violent right-wingers. The media has been after Downing ever since he stood up for Mel. How dare he!

My respect increases.

[Slave Mentality]

Twitter fight pussies! Alejandro was right about something. The "Hero" movies in Amerika such as Iron Man are nothing more than fancy Lockheed Martin commercials. War machine has the movies, spy machine gets all the network dramas. It really is sickening to be aware of how much we are propagandized.

Try ditching cable for a couple of years and you would be amazed. Guaranteed.

[Todd]

I didn't know "Spanish" was a race.

[phill4paul]

Twitter fight pussies! Alejandro was right about something. The "Hero" movies in Amerika such as Iron Man are nothing more than fancy Lockheed Martin commercials. War machine has the movies, spy machine gets all the network dramas. It really is sickening to be aware of how much we are propagandized.

Try ditching cable for a couple of years and you would be amazed. Guaranteed.

Meh, entertainment is entertainment. I enjoyed Winter Soldier.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/1282...al-mainstream/

[specsaregood]

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[AuH20]

Twitter fight pussies! Alejandro was right about something. The "Hero" movies in Amerika such as Iron Man are nothing more than fancy Lockheed Martin commercials. War machine has the movies, spy machine gets all the network dramas. It really is sickening to be aware of how much we are propagandized.

Try ditching cable for a couple of years and you would be amazed. Guaranteed.

Tony Stark actually spurned the U.S. government in the second Iron Man film if I'm correct.

[heavenlyboy34]

HB,

It is getting so ridiculous you cannot say you want Chinese Food--it's Asian Food.

Someone should inform those Culturally Insensitive Panda Express folks.

[AuH20]

Iron Man was built without government supervision. The power core that Tony Stark had implanted in his chest could be construed as an environmental risk. Iron Man was definitely not a social justice warrior, but he did take a turn for the worse with the registration program. So I could understand why progs would not like Tony Stark and the man who plays him.

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-med...man-3-politics

Although he undergoes something of a personal and political makeover later in the film, the beginning of Iron Man 2 shows Stark in familiar form. When he's called to a hearing on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pressure him to turn over his terrorism-fighting toys to the US government and military. In response, a defiant Stark denies the government his property, cockily mocks the panel of lawmakers, and brags that he "successfully privatized world peace." This is met with wild cheers from the gallery

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/...iberal-america

[Rudeman]

Speaking Spanish isn't a race, hell I know several Mexicans that are white & green eyed, plus a lot of Spanish people are white as well.

[dannno]

Someone should inform those Culturally Insensitive Panda Express folks.

Yep, particularly since I believe those are Korean spare ribs

They are actually pretty tasty, whatever they should actually be called.

[TheTexan]

HB,

It is getting so ridiculous you cannot say you want Chinese Food--it's Asian Food.

Mandarin food is probably ok, I'm not sure if that really counts as a type of cuisine, but I know its a flavor of chicken at Panda Express

[JK/SEA]

didn't the Spainards wipe out the Mayans?...

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

...the legendary actor...

Legendary?! LOL.

I stopped reading after that.

[VIDEODROME]

Someone should inform those Culturally Insensitive Panda Express folks.

Damnit, I want some Panda Orange Chicken now.

[Ender]

Legendary?! LOL.

I stopped reading after that.

Yep, he is legendary.

He is the kind of actor that has gotten better as he's gotten older- like Anthony Hopkins or Hugh Laurie. Robert Downey could now spout the yellow pages and we'd all be mesmerized- and that's called legendary.

[idiom]

Twitter fight pussies! Alejandro was right about something. The "Hero" movies in Amerika such as Iron Man are nothing more than fancy Lockheed Martin commercials. War machine has the movies, spy machine gets all the network dramas. It really is sickening to be aware of how much we are propagandized.

Try ditching cable for a couple of years and you would be amazed. Guaranteed.

If you had watched any of them you would know that basically all comic plot lines are incredibly critical over governments and centralised power.

[angelatc]

Ha ha ha! I might love this celebrity person!

[angelatc]

Yep, he is legendary.

He is the kind of actor that has gotten better as he's gotten older- like Anthony Hopkins or Hugh Laurie. Robert Downey could now spout the yellow pages and we'd all be mesmerized- and that's called legendary.

I agree. I think he is much more versatile than Sean Penn and Leo DeCaprio, even though the critics fawn over them.