Movie Directors in Venice (Italy) slam Bush
Venice - Top directors used the Venice Film Festival to criticise the Bush administration, the war in Iraq and Hollywood itself, on Friday, presenting three starkly different movies to express their views. Oliver Stone, in the canal city for the European promotion of World Trade Centre, said he was worried about when, if ever, the "war on terror" would end.Stone also took a swipe at his own industry, saying that movies like Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbour "worshipped the machinery of war".
Spike Lee, also in town to publicise a film in Europe, was typically outspoken about US President George W Bush. "It's a country for the rich," said the director of "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts about Hurricane Katrina and the government's response to the emergency. "Bush doesn't care about poor or white people either. If you're poor ... he doesn't care about you period."
Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch film maker best known for Hollywood hits Basic Instinct and Total Recall, said he saw little reason for optimism. "It is difficult to imagine there is an enormous amount of hope available to humankind," he said on Friday at a news conference for his new World War II film Black Book.
"Among ourselves we have killed 150 million people (in the 20th century). Humans are often animals to each other."
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