On Monday, actor Brad Pitt attended the
screening for a new film in which he co-stars with Christian Bale, Steve
Carell, and Ryan Gosling, The Big Short.
The film takes on the banking elite and exposes the corruption and sheer unaccountable nature of the ruling class.
Four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed.
During the screening, Pitt, and director Adam
McKay, both revealed that their interests in this film were not just
theatrical. The duo bravely expressed their discontent with the criminal banking cartels.
When Pitt was asked if banks should have been
held responsible for the crisis that inspired the film, Pitt replied
with a sigh, “I’m as frustrated as you are . . . I think it’s horrible
that no bank officials have ever been held accountable. Therefore,
there’s no incentive to stop this behavior.”
After Pitt had expressed his uneasiness,
McKay took a unique stance as far as Hollywood goes, and blasted the
Obama administration for its failure to prosecute the bankers.
McKay said, “We did a screening .
. . Nancy Pelosi was there . . . We talked about that. It’s the oldest
scam . . . [Bankers] tell the leaders, ‘If you put us in jail, you’ll
ruin the economy’ . . . I think Obama has done a lot of good things, but
I think one of the big black marks on his presidency is that no one
went to jail.”
The power of Hollywood to influence and
educate the public is enormous. However, most of the fluff oozing out of
Hollywood merely props up the status quo and refuses to challenge the
paradigm.
When Hollywood insiders risk ostracization
from the industry elite by calling out criminals within the
establishment, they certainly deserve acclaim.
While there are certainly other issues to
disagree with Brad Pitt and Adam McKay on, the fact that they have made
such a bold statement against the banking elite is noteworthy, to say
the least.
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By Matt Agorist via The Mind Unleashed via The Free Thought Project
