Film director Brian de Palma has become an expert in voicing people’s frustration with the shortcomings of the US government. RT caught up with the celebrated Hollywood filmmaker and screenwriter to ask him political and apolitical questions.
Known best for his suspense and crime thriller movies, such as Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible, de Palma has also made a number of films that challenge the political establishment such as Casualties of War.
In his 2007 picture, Redacted, de Palma tells a story of a US soldier in the Iraq War trying to shoot an amateur documentary. Through the eyes of this soldier de Palma exposes what he considers to be the hypocrisy inherent in the US war machine.
“I think our foreign policy is incorrect” the director told RT's Valeria Paikova, “we should have not been in Iraq at all. We have all been lied to by our government.”
The reason behind making Redacted and Casualties of War de Palma claimed was because “these wars make no sense.”
It was profit driven US foreign policy with the largest military spending and export in the world, screewriter argues, that was responsible for the deaths around the globe and even on the domestic front.
“Why do we have guns all over the place? We are slaughtering children and people think-well-oh- maybe we need more policemen in the schoolrooms. It’s crazy but guns are big business. They like to sell guns.”
But on a lighter note, Brian de Palma shared his affection for the opposite sex, “I like women. I have worked with women my whole life,” he said, yet he revealed he was comfortable being in“large groups of women.”
“I love to shoot women. I love to dress them up. I want to make them look beautiful. I want to follow them around with cameras because they’re appealing to my eye,” the director concluded. Source
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