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Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂsinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-12

John McTiernan, the man who directed Die Hard went to jail, and promises to publish the many interviews he did there - fascinating interview
theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/
#DieHard #PrisonTime #GunPorn #RepublicansAreTheConfederacy

McTiernan feels he was “just roadkill” in the Pellicano case. But he says that he was given an insight into the way he believes the government regularly abuses its power. He quotes Nelson Mandela’s remark, “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.” In particular, McTiernan says the non-white prisoners were discriminated against and humiliated and that 90% of “the black and brown guys” in prison alongside him “were not criminals”. “They were just local kids who, if they had anything to do with the local drug industry at all, they were working at the only thing where they could make more than working at McDonald’s.” McTiernan spoke to around “250 guys” when he was in prison and “snuck the interviews out”; he plans eventually to publish this material. “Their stories were amazing, just sickening and shocking. The war on drugs in the United States is really just [racist] Jim Crow [law]. There is no Republican party, it is the Confederacy, simply the Confederacy … the war on drugs is a disenfranchisement programme. In the South and in some of the border states like Missouri, 30% of the black and brown men can never vote for the rest of their lives.”McTiernan isn’t at all what you expect from an action movie veteran. Fiercely critical of what he calls “gun pornography”, he dots his conversation with references to Shakespeare, likening Die Hard to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He says that being in Neuchâtel, watching four movies a day, reminds him of when he was a young cinephile studying at the American Film Institute watching French New Wave movies and being tutored by his mentor, the Oscar winning Czech film-maker, Ján Kadár.

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