https://www.dailykos.com/news/AndySerkis News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 02:44:51 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 02:44:51 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/12/11/1818398/-Andy-Serkis-may-have-saved-Britain-all-on-his-own <p>Andy Serkis as Theresa May. Precious.</p> <p>Enjoy.</p> <div class="dk-editor-embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder youtube dk-embed" href="//youtube.com/watch?v=Tjp5OmoDYQM" data-width="560" data-height="315" data-src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Tjp5OmoDYQM" data-frameborder="0">YouTube Video</a></div> <p class="is-empty-p"></p> <p><strong>Updated </strong>with better video and captions!</p> rss@dailykos.com (Fonsia) AndySerkis Brexit Recommended _1818398 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:22:30 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/5/8/1297739/-No-conservatives-it-s-not-hypocritical-for-an-actor-to-support-gun-control <p>Every time an actor or actress has the audacity to voice his or her opinion that maybe, just maybe, a nation with <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jan/18/mark-shields/pbs-commentator-mark-shields-says-more-killed-guns/" target="_blank">more gun-related deaths since 1968 than in all American wars combined</a> needs to take a look at how criminals have such an easy time of getting their hands on guns, the typical hysteria follows.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <i>He/she glorifies guns in his/her movies (by using them), and he/she wants to take my guns away?! God damned un-American, leftist, hollywood elitist hypocrites!&nbsp;</i><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> No, they don't have to advocate anything like taking guns away; yes, that's how it's filtered through the right-wing spin machine anyway. Seriously, pick a celebrity who has dared to speak about guns, and google their name along with "hypocrite" and "guns". <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=hypocrite+stallone+guns" target="_blank">Sylvester Stallone's a good example</a>. Or, heck, just type in "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hollywood+hypocrites+guns" target="_blank">hollywood hypocrites guns</a>". You get article after article from the screeching mouthpieces on the right, alleging that playing with a gun onscreen disqualifies you from having an opinion on gun control. Indeed, a mere mention that you support gun control (notably stripped of all context and specifics) is <a href="http://youngcons.com/10-big-time-celebrities-that-hate-the-2nd-amendment-and-want-to-take-guns-away" target="_blank">enough to justify accusations</a> that you <i>hate the second&nbsp;amendment</i>.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Now, I'm not saying that some people who demand gun control are not hypocrites. If you think that no one should ever own a gun, and yet you own guns, you're a hypocrite; if you think that no one should depict gun use or ownership, while doing it yourself, you're a hypocrite. But suggesting stricter gun control laws, while complying with what you're suggesting? Sorry, right wingers, that's not hypocrisy.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Of course, my saying so isn't going to convince anyone whose rage censor kicked off at the dreaded words "gun control". So let me illustrate by way of example.<br /> <br /></p> <blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /> I own and drive a vehicle.<br /> <br /> I believe there should be limitations on who can and cannot drive.</blockquote> Do those declarations render me an elitist, America hating, freedom-destroying car-hater? Or can we all agree that it's not a good idea to permit six year olds behind the wheel? What about those with significant visual or mental impairment, impaired to such a degree that they would present a hazard to other drivers and pedestrians? What about drunk drivers?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I'm pretty sure most people -- including most car owning, driving people -- can agree that those are reasonable limitations. I'm further fairly certain that agreeing that drunks should not be behind the wheel, while being a sober driver, does not render one a freedom-hating hypocrite. (On the other hand, if one rails about drunk driving while driving drunk, one is, of course, a hypocrite; but that's not what we're talking about here: we're talking about people who comply with the law they're advocating [be it driving sober, or refraining from bazooka ownership]).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> So, just as calling for reasonable limitations on driving while being a driver yourself is not hypocritical, no more is it hypocritical to own (or play with onscreen) a gun while supporting reasonable regulations on gun ownership.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Furthermore, the notion that depicting something onscreen is an embrace of that thing is frankly ludicrous. Actors routinely depict evil, unsavory characters -- be they murderers, corrupt cops, gangsters, thugs, terrorists, pimps, drug lords, dark lords, evil sorcerers, wicked wizards, twisted Uruk-hai &amp; ring wraiths, etc. Actors depict persons down on their luck, misguided, fallen and/or in desperate straits -- homeless, runaways, prostitutes, junkies, Smeagol/Gollum, etc. The magic of cinema would quickly diminish if everyone was a Mary Sue with a perfect life. And yet who would declare that an actor who portrays a violent gangster can have no opinion of gangs? That someone who plays a terrorist cannot speak out against terrorism? That Andy Serkis cannot warn of the dangers of the Precious? (Seriously, not even meth compares to <strong>that</strong> addiction...) It's an absurd proposition, and one that does not hold true under even the slightest scrutiny. Actors and actresses routinely address a host of issues, from body image to genocide, particularly as it is relevant to their work. Mentioning guns is not a magic portal into anti-Americanism, where all who cross over loathe the second amendment ever after. Frankly, the idea is beyond absurd.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> In short, if it's not hypocritical to pretend onscreen to be a killer, but oppose killing; to pretend onscreen to deal drugs, while opposing drug traffickers; to pretend onscreen to destroy cities in dragon fire, while not being a dragon; then it isn't hypocritical to oppose guns in the hands of dangerous psychopaths while holding a gun and not being a&nbsp;psychopath. Whatever the right-wing screechosphere might say to the contrary, it is not&nbsp;hypocritical for an actor who plays with guns onscreen, or owns them, to support limitations to gun ownership, so long as his or her actions fall within those parameters. <p>Originally posted at <a href="http://rachelshobbithole.blogspot.com/2014/05/no-its-not-hypocritical-for-actor-who.html">Rachel's Hobbit Hole</a>.</p> rss@dailykos.com (Rachel191) AndySerkis Gun Control Gun Safety GunControl GunSafety Human Rights HumanRights LordoftheRings thePrecious _1297739 Thu, 08 May 2014 14:09:18 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/5/1167586/-The-Daily-Show-Colbert-Report-Late-night-Think-In-12-05-12 <table> <tr> <td><a target="_top" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/index.jhtml"><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2285/keithlesslogo.jpg" border="0" width="150" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a></td> <td>Tonight on TDS, <b>Alan Simpson,</b>; and on TCR, <b>Andy Serkis, a.k.a Gollum</b>. And there's a joke in there somewhere...</td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr> <td><i>I'm ready for SunReturn any day now...</i></td> <td><img alt="sausage grinder of snark" src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv246/tiarachel/Collages/Winterdarknessgrinder1.jpg" width="300" /><br /></td> </tr> </table> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/peter_seeger">peter_seeger</a> to host <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23LeonardPeltier">#LeonardPeltier</a> NYC benefit concert - article in @<a href="https://twitter.com/newsday">newsday</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23FreeLeonard">#FreeLeonard</a>: <a href="http://t.co/NpdgW0UW" title="http://ow.ly/fR34F">ow.ly/fR34F</a></p> — Pete Seeger (@Peter_Seeger) <a href="https://twitter.com/Peter_Seeger/status/276405936510353411" defang_data-datetime="2012-12-05T19:21:25+00:00">December 5, 2012</a></blockquote> <br /> rss@dailykos.com (TiaRachel) AlanSimpson AndySerkis Community Jon Stewart JonStewart SausageGrinderofSnark Series StephenColbert The Colbert Report The Daily Show TheColbertReport TheDailyShow _1167586 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:55:05 +0000