HUNGER - Steve McQueen interview (1/4)

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[@billingtonmarc25]

This guy is seriously talented, the way he put Hunger together was unlike anything I'd seen before.

[@cdeignan47]

Really, political porn is what you're in to?

[@Paul5520]

Excellent film & great all around depiction

[@Auntkekebaby]

He's so brilliant because he understands humanity. The Black experience is a big part of it.

[@alanna8983]

I wonder, if Bobby were black, would this jerk have been as disrespectful of his legacy?

[@admetussenatorofthesullane7759]

Laoch it’s all relative. Oppression comes in different colours, faces and environments. Learn from one to understand the other

[@cdeignan47]

More politically correct, unthinking nonsense. Read my essay above.

[@ProjectDystopia]

& he's Brilliant Director!

[@cdeignan47]

Really? Read above.

[@ProjectDystopia]

@@cdeignan47 What are you talking about?

[@joelkeane3160]

An incredible artist.

[@cdeignan47]

and a lazy fuck who knows shit about Irish history. Give me a break.

[@sebdetyra651]

Love this guy, he's a goddamn master.

[@Auntkekebaby]

When the interviewer asked about the Brixton riots...I feel that you have the do the film that's in you. It's about what you feel you can mold into something artistic. There's a broader theme where you can say that Hunger is also about the riots.

[@pragmatic1ultramagnetic202]

+Auntkekebaby Exactly. Same story. Different people.

[@olliephelan]

Well , he mentions Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo for a more important reason Ye must remember that these people were jailed with trial , or trial without Jury . Brixton was an isolated incident compared to 35 years (and counting) of riots in North . Hes first and foremost a Conceptual Artist . His "job" is to do what hasnt been done before . And the Hunger Strikes have never been done before . A lot of people in Britain dont know that these were british citizens campaigning for the rights that any other british citizen had . Imagine if 3 black families living in one house , had just one vote between them all ? And the 3 whites down the road had one vote each ? And could have as many as 6 votes each if they owned their own homes ? So , you go on a Civil Rights March and come back and find the white police burning your street down . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When this was going on there was a media blackout about Northern Ireland ,in Britain . So McQueen is breaking the rules by simply doing a film about it . It was a bit delicate to do a film about it in the past , but now you,ll start seeing lots . -------------- My sister in law (British ) was just finishing University at this time . She believed Ireland had one large town and the rest was donkeys and thatched cottages and farmers , and there was people throwing rocks at each other in North for some reason - that was the extent of her knowledge , and still is with a lot of British

[@cdeignan47]

Horse manure. Read my essay above.

[@MozzieMutant]

Basically made a Brixton riots film in the end

[@CHOSEN1Official]

''swept under the carpet'' very true steve

[@cdeignan47]

Sands was a suicide bomber in reverse, that's all. NOT a fucking hero. Don't believe the hype.

[@supermanwich23]

I loved you in Magnificent Seven.

[@alanna8983]

😆😆😆😆😆 And Django Unchanged.

[@Niamh2012]

This interviewer has actually talked about Bobby Sands and pop bands in the same context. Wtf?

[@cdeignan47]

Yeah, to him it's entertainment. Obscenely ill-informed twat.

[@manus3203]

He's a genius that interviewer is a knob

[@ronankerrigan7821]

i love the exciting part on page 3 ;) eeey eeeeeey get meh? ye know, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more say, no more

[@olliephelan]

Subtitles 4:32 changes ABU GHRAIB to ABERCRAVE as if its some Irish village LOL.

[@mallslim2234]

The man is a genius.

[@cdeignan47]

No he's a lazy douche bag. Read my essay above.

[@supermanwich23]

And he's got himself an accent too.

[@CHOSEN1Official]

this interviewer blatantly hates this movie.

[@cdeignan47]

No this interviews knows nothing about Irish history and this interview is accordingly worthless. It's just the usual round of publicity crap, designed to sell this hideous piece of grandstanding political porn. Read my essay above for more details.

[@toffee20]

haha Steve is great.. coys

[@cdeignan47]

Yeah, it’s well done and written but as a proud Irishman, I find it politically pornographic and problematic. Why this story? There are so many more worthy Irish stories. I think you made this movie mostly to make a splash for yourself Steve, and you’ve abused Irish history to your own ends in the process. What's that fancy term we have now, oh yeah, "cultural appropriation". Sands is a nobody tragedy, not a hero. He’s a one man sacrificial lamb for the tiny martyrdom cult wing of the the Irish Republican movement. If you'd read a book, or done any real research other than watching an ITN or BBC news clip, you would know that. But no, just you saying that a news item inspired you is actually sickening in its superficiality. You have nothing but a crypto-imperialist contempt for the richness of Irish history. Did you make any calls to to Eamon McCann, Bernadette McAliskey, Mairéad Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize joint winner), Seamus Mallon, Betty Williams, Ciaran McKeown, Nell McCafferty, Bertie Ahearn, Albert Reynolds and/or many many more fine life affirming Irish men and women? Sands is such a risque, sexy arena, right? Oh that’s right, they’re boring peacemakers. You’re just ambitious Steve and that's fine in the abstract. I would respect you a lot more if you were honest about your motivation. Spare us all the patronizing BS of your virtue signaling cliches. Some film directors are cultural parasites and some are not. You found a way to dig a visual grave, to titillate, to shock all the hopelessly sensitive in Hollywood, look at you. Your film is historical and politically lazy and dull and utterly distorting. You provide no context for the microcosm of the Maze prison which you portrayed so claustrophobically. You didn't even bother to look at the effects of the Hunger Strike on the debate around Sinn Féin, the IRA, relations between both islands, the legitimacy of Westminster and so much more. Now that's a story or rather a series of stories worth telling. But then you're just not that interested now in Irish history are you? Terry George should slap you rounds the ears. Some Mother's Son is head and shoulders a finer piece of cinema that the toxic wasteland of Hunger, which abused the talents of Michael Fassbinder and Liam Cunningham in particular. Actors take jobs, you have the distinct privilege of setting a cultural agenda. Have some fucking sense of responsibility for the cultural power of your craft, you charlatan. Hang your head in utter shame. Your first movie is about as life affirming as a toxic dumpster fire. There's a street in Teheran named after Bobby Sands. That is really all we need to know about Mr. Sands and the tragedy of his wasted life. That he is honored by a regime that sent hundreds of thousands to their suicidal death in the name of a corrupt theocracy is, well, you tell me Steve McQueen, you tell me. Next time you want to movie about Ireland, give one of the above a call for crying out loud, you sloppy, arrogant fool.

[@lukeellis3114]

Sorry to give a very short reply to your incredibly long-winded comment, but if you feel that there are more worthy Irish stories, then why don't you go out of your way to tell them? Steve McQueen owes nothing to Ireland or its history. He made a film about a specific time in Irish history which interested him, and it was a pretty damn good (though not perfect) film.

[@scozc1]

@@lukeellis3114 Agree with you totally, the lad above I think likes the look of his boring writing.

[@tomasofaolain3117]

@@scozc1 and we still cannot figure out what the problem is a divided mentality