Troy Duffy doesn’t maintain again. Ever.
We noticed the draw back of that strategy in “In a single day,” the 2003 documentary concerning the “Boondock Saints” director’s sudden rise to fame and subsequent struggles.
An older, extra congenial Duffy joined the Movie Menace podcast this week to speak about extra “Boondock Saints” initiatives. He supplied an interesting glimpse of behind-the-scenes Hollywood within the course of.
Co-host Chris Gore, sensing the director might need sharp views on Hollywood’s woke obsession, pressed him on the matter.
That set Duffy off.
He began by attacking Disney for purchasing the “Star Wars” franchise and, within the minds of many, crashing it into the bottom.
“Might you burn in hell for what you probably did to ‘Star Wars’ and proceed to [do]… that was sacrilegious, man,” Duffy mentioned.
That’s half of a bigger critique of woke storytelling, the place the message and agenda too typically lap the inventive course of.
“You don’t say, ‘I’m gonna make a golf film as a result of golf is sizzling,’” the director mentioned. “You don’t say you’re gonna make an LGBTQ character as a result of that’s what’s happening on the market proper now and that’s what individuals wanna see.”
“[That mindset] begins leaking in on administrators and writers that you just’re selecting. These causes don’t have anything to do with artwork or creativity by any means. It’s apparent why [woke] sucks. It’s apparent why it’s failing,” he mentioned.
“It’s taking the longest time to kill this factor,” he added, saying even established stars like Sean Penn are lastly talking out concerning the cultural scourge.
“These guys are popping out and saying among the biggest motion pictures we’ve ever made couldn’t be made now,” Duffy mentioned, like his favourite comedy of all time, “Blazing Saddles.”
“Even a man like Mel Brooks would by no means be allowed [to make it] as we speak,” he mentioned. “We’re taking pictures ourselves within the foot within the leisure enterprise, and it has to cease.”