@@MrCeora Equality? Equality already exists. If you have the talent, you appear on the screen. Simple. But as a general rule, equality, as you see it, should not exist in many other places. I wouldn't care if my surgeon is white, black or purple as long as he does the job. Same with an airplane pilot, a driver, whoever they may be. What i have an issue with is the fact that idiots create these rules and create situations in which a purple colored doctor for example, will operate on me, not because he has the skills to do so, but because the hospital has to meet the quotas on colors. Its stupid and its ridiculous. The same would be with the movies, i want to be entertained by the talented people and not be bored and lectured by some idiots just because they have to meet the color quotas. This will backfire so bad on them, they have no clue.
@@pehash oh, so white doctors, for instance, not because of quotas, but because he's white gets a doctors job, malpractices by leaving a instrument in a patient, but that doesn't paint all white doctors as incompetent, but if it was a black doctor, you would have people like yourself claiming black doctors were incompetent.
@@pehash Take a look at Katherine Goble Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson's story chronicled in the movie "Hidden Figures". All of these black ladies brilliance and talent was overlooked and they were discriminated against, but you obviously would have fit in perfectly with those same people, white men and women who didn't want to see them there, and would have called the people who allowed them to be there and change the course of events that would helped spring America forward into space.
Maybe if civics was properly taught in our nations schools from the start our country would not have participated in the enslavement of other human beings.
Always admired Richard Dreyfuss for his acting and intellectual views. This is a great interview with Margaret Hoover of FIRING LINE I just viewed a while ago on PBS TV.
Yep calling out exactly what he l he's told to call out. Did you also notice, he laughed off the rampant pedophilia in Hollywood!? Given his length of time in Hollywood, there's no way he's unaware of it. So he's paid to come on and stir the poop about civics and to hide the truth of the disgusting pedophiles. 🤮🤮😭🙏
No one is legislating art. Just as we have free speech to express his viewpoints, if that speech is harmful or under fire you must also accept the consequences of that speech. Patrick Stewarr did a phenomenal job playing Othello without blackface. We no longer live in a time where painting ones face is acceptable
Agree with teaching Civics in schools again and art is art , you can't do anything without offending someone. If you don't like what someone says or does, simply disagree with them. Everyone should be respected regardless of their opinion, since when is having a different opinion offensive? There are closed minded people on both sides of every issue, people should keep an open mind.
You can’t legislate diversity but I’m not rich, watching Richard Dreyfuss in fucking black face as long as people like Denzel, Washington and Morgan Freeman are alive.
One example of Mr. Dreyfuss being correct is Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama stating that the three branches of the United States government were the Executive, the Senate and the House.
Being against meeting a diversity standard in order to be eligible is one thing... (Just hire the best people for the job, regardless of skin color etc!) But bringing back blackface? If a character is supposed to be a certain skin color, then just hire someone with that skin color. Plenty of amazing actors that can get the job done. Just to illustrate what I mean... I'm not saying you should never hire someone non-white to play, say, Superman, for example... But if you decide that Superman should be asian in your film, then don't hire a white person and make him look asian. Just hire someone asian.
@@christopher399 Hollywood has never been about the most talented and skilled actor. It’s about who’s who in having that connection to Gatekeepers (Studio CEO) and other high level executives who till this day are predominantly Caucasian and men - who pick and decide what films to produce that will make money 💰 and as a bonus stroke their personal ego pride. Fast-Foward to today and those pocket books of the Gatekeepers are filling a pinch 🤏 as a populous of people are releasing the power of their dollar 💵 and saying I am done watching the same-ole-same ole narrative.
My favorite character Richard ever played is Curt in American Graffiti. His scene with Wolfman Jack is one of the most true and profound scenes in American movie history.
i first saw that movie with my dad when i was 5. and then when i was 7 or 8 i saw jaws. then close encounters, and the list goes on. so richard dreyfuss has pretty much always been a part of my life. he's a legend to me.
Very intelligently done. This is what our country needs, intelligent thought out conversation. Civics stopped being taught because there has been a systematic desire by our wealthiest to dumb down the “we” in we the people. Our public schools are in ruins because they don’t want our children fully educated. Why, so that we won’t know that voting is our greatest privilege.
Quit voting for right wing nut jobs that run on platforms to cut the budgets of our schools and everything else. People talk shit about the 70's schools when progressive ideas saved us. Now the same people want a nation of home schooled idiots ready to vote for trump types. Nothing but record profits but no money for anything ever as always.
Public education has been underfunded by Republicans for years. In many of the countries where people are the happiest, they value teachers as much as they doctors. We don’t.
So tell us the excuse for those in Dreyfuss' generation who don't know how things work. There are plenty of people who did have civics classes and didn't learn anything from it.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat..." 😂 Seriously, he's on point. I'm thankful that I participated in Palmetto Boy's State which drilled into my head how and why governance works. I'm thankful that I got to live this exciting when I was 16 years old. One of the most important things I learned was "question everything ".
You can respect a person & simultaneously disagree with them. Just saying. He makes a number of important points. Most likely, we ALL would benefit from more genuine conversations.
The requirements haven't changed. The pedagogical standards drop when the instructors themselves are slanted ideologues. A good teacher is supposed to check his bias at the door, but these days the line between fact and opinion has been so blurred that people often can't tell the difference anymore.
Love this guy. Stands for common sense in today's woke world. He speaks to so many topics eloquently. I, too, grew up a liberal minded individual with what I felt was forward-thinking ideas. But today, I fear speaking my mind for fear of being branded a bad person. Shame on this woke society today that would censor opposing view points.
An excellent interview with one of my favourite actors. Mr. Dreyfuss voiced every thought in my head and I applaud his brilliance, his honesty, and his drive. What a wonderful human being he is.
Once Around and Always..was really fun to watch his performance. All time favorite Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind THANK YOU MrDreyfuss for using your celebrity to teach civics...country is losing her balls
It is a great interview because it reveals his true character. It's not about hurting feelings it's about violence, well documented history, and deplorable practices in this country
This was a fabulous interview. Especially his response to the question about the Academy Award. I'm a Black woman, and it really pisses me off to even imagine the Academy contemplating such a ridiculous idea. Let's get back to awarding excellent work, in every category, without the added stipulations. After all, making movies is an Art!
@@realestatetvsgbhe implied it, moron. The implication is enough. Richard is right about a lot, but not this. Not this time. We can't have whites be blacks, blacks be whites and whites be Indigenous. I want authentic, and objectively great performances. The good old days of cinema were better made films, but the representation was in the toilet. Today, movies are technical displays of lazy, cg and flatly shot garbage. But the representation today is much better. We need a compromise of the two. Not all white films like Top Gun, no blackface or anything similar like what the OP want, and yes to movies made with care in production, script and performances.
@@Francisco_420 what part of here comment said "and black face is okay" I can guarantee you're a liberal aren't you? I can tell because you're suggesting a black woman is racist against herself for disagreeing with you 😵💫😵💫😵💫🤯🤯🤯🤢🤢🤢🤢
Thank you, Richard, for speaking up. Btw, I just finished rewatching Goodbye Girl, one of my favorite films of all time, yet again. No one has ever entertained better with their acting. "Dems MY rules..."
Although Othello has "declined into the vale of years," I think Dreyfuss, at 75, is past a convincing performance of the role. Otherwise, I'd love to see it. If we have black Cleopatra, Achilles, and elves and dwarves in an epic derived from Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian mythology, why not?
@@Caliboyk No they just race swapped the characters. Which is apparently fine if you're race swapping a white character but definitely not if you're doing it to a black character.
@@JS-mg1mk So science fiction character are now biographically factual❔👀 So then it's not about the best skilled and talented either 🤔 interesting. So what happened to 'Art is Art' or it is only for Caucasian to be actors based on your analysis 🤔 Just trying to comprehend this 🥨🧠💭 logic.
I also recommend, "An Empire of Their Own, How the Jews Invented Hollywood" an eye opening book and film. I just finished seeing and listening to Roland's brilliant and point by point analysis of Dreyfuss's comments, and expose his shallow criticisms of diversity. Richard, listen to Roland's thoughtful comments, and "let him help you out"...
When he talks about the guy he was working for not presenting historically factual events but made-up simplified accounts I immediately thought of Jack Nicholson's line from A Few Good Men......"You can't handle the truth!!" I think Directors do that absolutely because more and more we can't handle the truth.....we'd rather have the "fantasy version".
I've never put much stature in any awards competition. Who cares what a bunch of stuffy, elitist critics think? The only audience who matter are the viewing public. Time will tell which films hold up and are revered. That's the true test.
He’s absolutely correct. Soon enough they’ll be banning films like Kubrick’s 2001 because Hal is speaking in an inappropriate voice. It’s getting absurd now. Art is art.
This is such a stupid claim 😭😂 are you comparing black face to Kubrick.. there’s a difference between something Actually is morally wrong to something that doesn’t actually harm anyone.
@@angelmiguelMendoza Apparently, you haven't been following the morality police trend? It's coming my friend. Soon enough, everything will be upsetting this dopey generation. Read Fahrenheit 451 for reference. When a white girl can't wear a Chinese shirt? YOU ARE INSANE.
@@singin8324 I appreciate that info. I never saw Leaving Las Vegas and I like Cage but I have to watch that movie now to see how he could possibly have given a more powerful performance than the one Dreyfuss gave.
She should have asked Richard how he feels about a black man playing a white man in white face. I generally agreed with him but blackface had a history of making black people look foolish and caricaturish . Quite different than Olivier simply putting on black face for a serious role.
Great interview, I love watching an interview or someone speak where I don't agree with everything they say, but I still come away having tremendous respect for them.
The one and only problem with Jaws is the mechanical shark and (spoiler alert) how the shark was killed. I'd like to know if Richard Dreyfuss would be okay with digitally enhancing the original Jaws with a CGI shark that is more realistic.
What a great interview. I agree with what Richard said, about why can't a white man play a black man anymore with out the backlash. It is art, its called acting or have we forgot this.
You left out the practice of “Blackface” for a white man to black a man. But hey if applaud 👏 the bigotry, prejudice and racist history of “Blackface” more power to your art is art .
That was a great interview. The new Oscar requirements is ridiculous because now you'll never know what artists want to be inclusive and who will only do it because it is required. The movie Plane for example came out in January and was a diverse fun action B-Movie that got a surprising amount of praise from critics, that movie is diverse without ever bringing attention to it, and it's even getting a sequel. If that movie were to come out a couple years from now it would appear like they only cast Mike Colter in one of the lead roles because they had to pass some inclusion test. That goes for every movie, if The Little Mermaid came out next year it would seem like they only cast Halle Bailey to play Ariel because they needed to, not because they wanted to. I've also seen videos of actors including Idris Elba and Morgan Freeman who would prefer to be treated like a normal human being, rather than pandered to.
@MarkHaze The old requirements were BS. The irony of a white dude complaining about not being able to adorn blackface as an actor while not recognizing that non-whites have been expressing not being able to get hardly any lead roles in film and television. The entire entertainment industry is still run and controlled by white males. Stop complaining Richard, you had a fantastic career.
This is what happens when people think that unequal outcomes automatically means discrimination - they think artificially tweaking the playing field until all outcomes are equal between groups is a *_GOOD_* thing to do…
Um black people were shut out of Hollywood for decades especially during Jim Crow era. Not to mention underpaid there’s a lot of unequal shit going on in hollywood
@@shalonsmith3653 Genuine question do you believe Cleopatra was black? Diversity is a fantastic tool to bring people together and curb racial biases.. but forced fake diversity (what's happening today) and eliminating merit in favor of oppression or victim status actually has the exact opposite effect and will eventually tear apart the fabric of society.
Great interview! Dreyfus is well spoken and I applaud his efforts in bringing Civics back to the school curriculum. I would like to hear more of what he’d have to say about “wokeness” education and the difference between indoctrination verses learning other points of views and opinions. He didn't agree with banning books in the schools. I would think he would believe there should be limits on children having access to pornographic material in their school’s libraries. (the likes I’ve heard from parents on YT @ school board meetings.) Good subject, short on time.
As a Canadian mother to two teenage boys I'm happy to say they had an in-depth education on the history of Canada before and after the Europeans settled here. Also, a very in-depth civics education on our rights and freedoms and how our government runs. My husband and I have stressed the importance of listening to all perspectives on issues. Canada is also the most educated country on earth and it concerns me to see the breakdown of society, critical thinking, education, the loss of freedoms, the merging of church and state with my neighbors to the south. I think the biggest difference between our two countries are the make up of the first European settlers. In Canada young adventurous fur traders and outdoorsmen from France and the UK on the otherhand the first European settlers in the US were misfit religious extremists with a you can't tell me what to do, judgmental of others, no grey area attitude that has remained with a fair sized segment of the population. Which in the past led to some Americans feeling superior enough to take free people from Africa to become their slaves, Manifest Destiny, and the merging of church and state that we see happening today, a person like Donald Trump being elected once and perhaps again to lead your country. Research the most free countries in the world, the US doesn't even make the top 10 :(
You're bragging about CANADA!!? REALLY!!? Were you on the moon, from 2016---2022 ? CLEARLY, you're in a socio-politically segregated bubble. Clearly, you choose to ignore....or are ignorant to the insidious policies and human rights abuses via: Justin Trudeau, the banks and Big Pharma. But, hey: as long as he's not "big, bad Trump", you can turn a blind eye.🙄
"Reality was so much more interesting than what you created." This is how I felt about Martin Scorcese's GANGS OF NEW YORK - which gave us a sympathetic depiction of the Irish rioters in 1863, when in reality, they tore thru the city in protest to Lincoln's draft, and targeted blacks, murdering them, and even burning down a black orphanage, which was thankfully evacuated in time. Yes, New York's Irish even wanted to kill black kids. To sweep such an atrocity under the carpet and sanitize such an evil - just because the Irish themselves had been ostracized by other white classes across the country, a point, I guess, that seemed ideal to make a statement; a very bogus one.
what sort of award is it when the people in charge manipulate rules and regulations/criteria so your only choice is to give it to the person who passes through all those filters? Its become a participation trophy. Id wager the board doesnt pick their cardiologists based on the same criteria..they will want the best and brightest keeping them alive/going.
Art is not medicine you can’t even compare the two. You can’t legislate diversity, but suggesting that Laurence Olivier played a black man brilliantly, come on. So what he’s angry that roles for black men go to actual black men now?
@@mylokaf oh so for you diversity inclusion and equity is a line drawn somewhere arbitrarily? you are ok with people of color dancing like minstrels but you dont want them working on your heart? you are a racist. change my mind..... as a bonus question are you dating or married to a transgender person? cause if not you might also be transphobic. welcome to the world of modern politics...feels good doesnt it you transphobic racist.
@@mylokaf Actually, my late father, a physician, always said "Medicine is an art, not a science." He read journals constantly, to stay up to date in procedures, but to him medicine was a holistic thing, and you had to treat the whole patient. Medicine is an art, and comparisons are logical.
a staggeringly great episode. Buckley would be proud. However, in my opinion, Aaron Burr’s greatest sin was not the duel with Hamilton, but rather his later treason. He was acquitted because the constitution required two witnesses, and there were not two witnesses.
At 19:38 I think it's too complicated to have mandated numbers for jobs. There may not be enough people from a particular group with the training or backgrounds to consistently fill jobs in certain numbers.
Olivier did not play Othello in "black face". Blackface implies minstrel show mentality, a kind of negativity and characterizing black people. Olivier used dark/black makeup to portray the Moor. There was no judgement or negativity involved. He was creating a character with dark skin, which, as Mr.Dreyfuss says, is his right as an artist.
Quite a few actually. And more than the Oscars. List of 2016 non-black BET Award nominees/winners: Justin Timberlake, Iggy Azalea, Sam Smith List of recent non-black NAACP image award winners: America Ferrera, Sophia Vergara, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Carlos Santana, Bono, Al Gore, Sam Smith (double-dipper!)
I don't think the book question was not honest questions. If people are honest everyone is for banning certain books and material from school. You can't put a collection of Playboy magazines or have hardcore ponography like Hustler or something like that in a grade school library, It would be illegal to do so even though I could go to the corner store and get them (actually I'm not sure if those magazines are still in print but you get the idea). The actual issue is about the rating of the material in a similar way that you would not have an R-rated movie in a grade school library. The actual question is how should specific books be rated. There are parents that have gone to school boards and read sections of specific book and have had their microphone shutdown because the material was deemed too inappropriate for the school board meeting. For the question to be an honest one, we need to concentrate and the specific books that are judged to be inappropriate and see if a logical consensus can be reached for the rating of these books. I have not seen any of the mainstream media really make an effort to get into the specific book passages that are judged problematic, the mainstream media always uses generals never specifics. By using general concept they can avoid the real issue because they know a good amount of people would go to the other side of the argument if specifics were used.
I agree with him on most. But when he talks about not wanting opposing views taught to our children as troublesome in the schools... my daughters schools have pornographic books of boys giving blow jobs to other books pictorially, to the point I believe whoever put those books in the school should be charged with child abuse. I'm not afraid of opposing views - I'm opposed to child abuse.
Since I have seen this now repeated on Twitter a few times what are the names of these books you say are in your daughter library or are you also making this up like has been shown from commenters on Twitter?
@@pirsq314 The 3 offending titles in our district were Gender Queer, This Book is Gay and Jack of Hearts. Look it up in your local library if you don't believe it - public school library catalogs are public.
@agaace What were the ratings on these books? Were these books being taught in elementary schools or in classrooms for older children? Or were they available from school libraries to older children? Details and context matter or the whole topic risks becoming a scaremongering exercise.
Too many people would ban the teaching about the great masterpieces, because those masterpieces show nudes. These fools think nudity is pornography. I think that is worse than banning a books pushing debunked political theories, like Communism or Modern Monetary Theory.
